Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-15

at Az. e. ~ M q W. 70.
e Q. Thompson ...... 40 - $50 -
g. $. Lowell ......... Il s
A. A. Foss .......... l 1OS -
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Howard Gorges ...... 40 so 10
+ & e. H Gissk :'........ 20 AZ 3
At N. q. D. M. & W. Co.
Cotton & seavey 49,. IS - 800 -
J. A. Clark ....... 81 - a. -
]. w. Brooks ........ % So 2
5. e e. a clars a. '''. 10 - -
The aggregate Of live stock RECEIVED
and tho local slaughter houses:
This week: Cattle 1s49. sheep and
lambs $3.50, calves $3.50, hogs 74l6.
Last week: Cattle 1895. sheep and
lambs 4466, calXes $3.50, hogs 1900.
One year ago. Cattle 14S2, sheep and
lambs 56SS. calves 44S0, hogs 1928.
TOTAL MAINE SHIPMENT
Cattle 1871, sheep and lambs is,
calves $40. hogs 81.
TONE OF THE MARKET
Beef cattle were in light supply,
owing to another Jewish holiday.
which will curtail the weeks killing.
The market was firm at a lie adj
vance, with sales closed promptly.
Fancy steers and oxen were in very
limited supply. selling at 500 lie,
with good steers and oxen 7QSc,
coarse and thin oxen or young
steers at ) IL % 6 1-2c. There was
a good demand for fancy cows and
heifers, the average sales closing at
606 1-2c. The bulk of the cow
sales closed at q 1-2c. Gamers
and slippery cows were in light sup
ply. selling steady at IL q 3 1-2c.
Bulls sold at 4 q s 3-4c for average
offerings.
The veal calf market continues
weak, with supplies too heavy in the
light weight calves. These sold as
low as $3.50 per head and with sc,
the average top for light calves. I'm.
der pressure of the liberal offerings
the dressed veal market is clearing
up poorly and buyers were 10th to
pay above Sc for average mixed lots,
while choice lots of heavy calves
sold at 10411c. with fancy individu-
al Gales at l. q lac. Prices OF hogs
held within the same range as a
week ago. Western arrivals showed
decrease. but those from New Eng
Land were about the same as in re-
cent weekly shipments. Fancy hogs,
live, sold at IL % IL 1-2c, rough L.
@ IL 3-4c, boats 1-2 @ 5 1-2c,
dressed hogs to the packers at 10 IL
q tic.
A few scattering small lots out
side OF the usual western shipment
came in from New England. The
market 10 firm, with sheep at 5 @
8 1-2c h., lambs 100 tic. Genuine
spring lambs, dressed, sold at ESQ
&c. in jobber's lots.
The mich cow trade was dull but
steady, with offerings liberal. Fancy
and graded cows sold at $125 q 100.
good to choice SIS q 125, poor to
ordinary $50 Q65.
The live poultry market was high
er. Fowl. large. BOO Sac, light 29c.
roosters 16Q1Sc.
FRIDAY SALES
Beef Cattle-W. p. Colburn sold
2 extra fancy cows. weighing around
1900 lbs each at 8 1-2c: J. w. Brooks
sold 1 pr fancy steers, 276O lbs at
&C., and u cows at > 10 &c. r. ID.
Pickett sold pr working oxen, 5000
lbs for $235. and choice cows av
1000 lbs at &c. d. F. Donovan sold
1 pr short horn heifers, extra, $3.50
lbs at lie, raised by Dudley Lea
Witt. Meridith, N. H. T. d. keenan,
sold 2 cows, 1900 lbs at &c: . bulls
av 1900 lbs at 8 1-4c; 1 lot of cows
av 070 lbs at 4 1-2c; 1 lot of cows
av 900 lbs at 3 1-2c. f. P. Prindle
sold IL COWS at 1-4c; bull at A.
lie; 3 cows at 3 1-2c: cows At
3 1-4c: 3 cows at &c: 2 cows at 1-4c.
J. A. Clark sold 4 cows, 1850 lbs at
&c: / cow 74O lbs at &c; 1 fancy cow
100 lbs at 6 1-2c: 2 cows 1T lbs at
3 1-2c: l cow 1880 lbs and 1 bull
1890 lbs at 4 IL; 2 cows, 1880 lbs at
3 lie, and 20 cattle. 14.160 lbs at
3 3-4c. Otis H. Forbush sold ] COW
at 3 1-2c: and / cow at SC. Howard
Gorges sold a pr of steers. POO lbs
at Sc: 1 bull 060 lbs at 5cff A bulls,
av 1000 lbs at lie: slippery cows
av 700 lbs at &c, and slippery cows
av 800 lbs at 3 3-4c.
Veal Calves-J. A. Clark sold 43
calves at DC % lie. Z. p. Pindle sold
10 calves at &c and 8 calves at $3.50
each. 7. d. Keenan, sold 40 N. Y.
calves at &c. p. Simon sold IA
calves 1860 lbs at 1-2c. f. M. Dana
sold 4S calves at 7@1O 90 calves
at 406c. A. C. Warner & Sons sold
q calves at 6@9c. John Fuller &
Son sold A calves at &c Csc.
Hogs-Howard Gorges sold 10
hogs at Is 1-2c. p. Simon sold 5 hogs
400 lbs at 13 1-4c.
Sleepy. M. Dana sold 1 sheep,
$50 lbs at &c.
HORSE MARKET
Boston, April 14.--The horse mar
ket held up well under heavier sup
plies, with the demand active and
prices in nearly all classes fully as
high as in the previous weeks trad
ing, which showed improvement.
The one exception to brisk selling
was in the heaviest weight in draft
tiers, and these sold slowly, but with
no material change in values. The
best demand was on good weight
wagon horses and farm chunks, the
latter being called for both in fresh
horses and seconds of the better
types. Outside of the commercial
horses most dealers had from 20 to
so head of saddle horses which were
offered at wide range Of prices,
from $75 paid for used horses taken
for summer schools up to high pric-
ed animals. the best of which sold
at $500 @ 5000 each. Nearly all deal
ers, too, had from one to two car
loads of wood horses returned for