Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-14

live, sold at 11@11.65c. rough 8 "a
% 10 3-4c; boars 40 sc. Dressed
hogs Is II q Is 3-4c.
The sheep and lamb market was
strong, rejecting to degree the
advance in the dressed market.
Western arrivals were increased but
at the yards arrivals of n. E. stock
were limited to small amount.
Sheep sold at 1900 1-2c; and
lamb 100 15c.
There was a very moderate ship
ment of mich cows. The demand
was quiet with prices, steady. Fancy
and graded cows sold at $125 @ $3.50;
fair to good cows $50 a SIPS: poor to
ordinary cows at $40 q $50.
The live poultry was higher.
Fancy fowl 2S@ SOC: light, goa DC;
roasting chickens 20Q SOC; chickens
20 q &c ;roosters 1601Sc.
TUESDAY SALES
Beef Cattle-J. Higgins sold 4 ex-
ira fancy Hereford steers $50 lbs
at 10 1-2c, raised by the Canterbury
Shakers, Canterbury. n. H. This lot
was as fine as any ogered at the
yards for a long time. j. Higgins
also sold 2 steers 1870 lbs at &c. l
COW at 5 1-2c, & cows at &c, cows
at &c, 3 cows at 2 1-2c. r. D.Fick-
EFT sold Hereford and 2 Durham
steers, all fancy, at 10c; l pr. weigh
ed 347O lbs, 1 pr. 1910 lbs and l pr.
2060 lbs. and raised by George Wes-
ton, Fryeburg, Me. Howard Gorges
sold 3 cows, av 800 lbs, at &c; >
bologna cows at 2 1-2c and 1 bull.
1850 lbs, at 4 1-2c. T. D. keenan,
sold 125 cows at v lac and 6 bulls
at 1-4c. L. Stetson sold II cows.
II, $50 lbs, at 5 lac and l bull, 1850
lbs, at 1-2c.
Veal Calves-J. Higgins sold 16
calves at 10c. A. c. Warner & Sons
sold 30 calves at 900 1-2c. John
Fuller & Son sold 20 calves at &c. p.
Simon sold Is calves, 12SO lbs, at
8 lie.
Hogs-Howard Gorges sold q
choice hogs at 11.65c.
HORSE MARKET
Boston, Jan. ia larger num-
Der of horses were on the market
this past week than at any time
since in the early fall. The horses
had been widely advertised and
brought out the buyers, but the larg-
err part of them were dealers from
outside the state. buying to ship
home for reselling. The demand
was more active under this stimulus
and while the horses sold better than
at recent sales, prices We're not as
good as hoped for. when consider
ing the class offered, and profits to
the consigner were on a very close
margin. There is not at present any
large wholesale orders filled, and the
local trading consists in buying in
cheap seconds to replace wagon
horses that have given out. The
milk companies take large number
Of these. A small number of horses
are taken for the woods, but this de-
mand is irregular, and poorer horses
are being bought than formerly.
Good quality heavy green draft
ers, 100 to 1000 lbs, sold at $500 a
$50 per head. with drafters of 1850
to 100 lbs at 500 q 275: wagon
horses, farm chunks and general
purpose horses. 1900 to 400 lbs, sold
at $125 G 200, including both western
and local seconds. Good acclimated
horses are as easily sold as any type
offered. and horses from 1900 to 1900
lbs sell at $50 q 225. when sound
and fresh from short service Blem-
tsHtu SeCoHuS SOFA at % w.
j. c. Keith sold at his Brighton
stables six carloads of western
horses. the top price, for singles was
S2S5.5O and $3.50 for the best pairs.
There was also about so head of poor
seconds auctioned off at low figures.
The horses were taken by Vermont,
New Hampshire and Maine buyers,
with moderate local demand.
Brighton stables load of Indiana
horses weighing from 1900 to 100
lbs, "a head of saddle horses, and
lOO head Of fairly good conditioned
seconds. Sales moved slowly at the
previous range. This week there
will be 2S Iniana horses, 10 head of
teaming horses offered at a special
auction on Friday, and IS head of
seconds.