Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-01

Fancy lots of heavy veal sold at IL q
1s1-2c, averaged mixed lots a 10
Lee, drinkers and grassers q &c,
calves 20 lbs. and under 5 q SC.
The hog market was fine at IA
cent advance above last weeks prices.
Yard offerings were about the same
amount as in recent shipments, with
the demand active at the advance.
western shipments to the packers
were light Fancy lots. live. sold at
q 81 a 10 SAC, rough, 3 IL a 91-oc,
bears 3 q &c, dressed hogs II IL q
I3c
sheen and lambs from New Eng
land states are being marketed-more
freely, with a specially large number
for the week from Maine. The mar
ket is steady, with sheep at 3 q Sc
and lambs 9 q lsc.
Mich cow arrivals at the Brigh-
ton pards continue heavy as is usual
in the fall. Prices are firm on all
good grade mixers at SIS % $165 per
head. with poor or ordinary cows at
$40 q SOS.
Live poultry sold steady. fowl at
% a o6c. roasters &c q rs. chick
ems 20 a o4c and roosters .16 q lSc.
TUESDAY SALES
Beef CATTLE. w. Brooks sold 90
steers and oxen. at 6 1908 lie. J.
a. clark sold . steers. 2lA0 lbs at
&c: 1 COW, 1140 at &c: l COW, 1000
lbs at 4c. Otis H. ForhSsh sold l COW
at 3 3-4c and l cowfat " lie. II.
Gorges sold 4 bologpa cows at &c.
T. D. Keenan, sold ] bull, 1900 lbs
at &c: 1 bull, 1000 Lbs 1T &c; A cows
at o359. u cows al , 1-2c., and 80
cows at &c.
Neal Calves-J. A. Clark sold 4.
calves at Sc and 3calves. 200 lbs at
&c. A. c. Warner and Sons sold ~
calyes,at &c mS1sc. John Fuller and
Son sold 81 CAVES at Ic@9c,
Hogs-Howar Gorges sold ) pigs
at Zoe.
HORSE MARKET
Roston. Sepfember 30.-The horse
trade was Irregular. At the auction
sales bids csme in slowly, mostly
from the local demand. there being
few country buyers on the market.
Prices at these sales averaged as low
as I'm the previous week. and lost
money to the shipper of western
horses. At retail however the de-
mand wss more active than at any
time this fall. and wagon horses and
heavy horses were taken readily up
to $3.50. There was also a specially
good demand for acclimated horses.
that were young and sound. and on
these good prices ruled. In the large
entries of neabry seconds prices ran
very low on the poorest offerings. At
nearly all the stables the number
of fresh country horses offered show
~ a decrease, owing to the slack
dem!nd of the previous week.
Good quality heavy green drafters.
1850 to 1900 lbs sold at $500 a $3.50
u head. with n few extras SO higher.
Green drafters. 1850 to 1850 lbs at
500 1925; wagon horses and gen.
eral purpose horses 1900 to 1900 lbs,
both green and seconds sold at S12a
q 500: good class acclimated
horses. 1900 TO 1880 lbs at $125G
$o75; blemished seconds. SO m S75.
J. c. Keith sold at his Brighton
stables one express carload of Ohio
horses and one of Illinois horses, to-
eether with 70 head of good accli-
mated and nearby seconds. Some
good sales were reported on wagon
and heavy drafters at retail, but the
auctions were poorly attended, and
bids averaged low. This week there
will he one express carload of ives
tern horses and % to 100 acclimated
and seconds.
AT the other sales nearly all deal
crs confined their, offerings to accli-
mated and second hand horses. and
reported a quiet market with prices
easy.