Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-25

good prices for picked lots. which
brought from l. a H. with extras
up to lac. and single fancy up TO
16c. Average mixed lots sold at
95a a IL &c, with light calves at
g a sac
. The local hog market is tirm. with
buyers inclined to pay good prices
for the few choice lots of fancy hogs
and pigs, especially pigs. T'fTcs west
ern market has shown no material
change in the past three weeks.
Western arrivals here are heavy. and
are bought at II a IL &c. live. Here
fancy lots, live hogs. sold at the
Brighton yards at 1873 a .13c. with
fancy pigs 131a % IA G. rough hogs
liz a 12Hc, boars Ga, a ~ C.
Dressed hogs to the packers-14 q
1Jc.
There was hardly enough sheen
and lambs from \. T.. at the yard:,
and slaughter houses to constitute
a market, but the few scattering lots
offered sold at % &c for sheep and
IL a LOG for lambs,
The mich COW market was In
moderate supply. The demand was
active for a holiday week, and prices
held steady. Fancy and graded
cows sold at %35 to S1757. good to
choice cows a. $50 a $50, poor to
fair cows at $50 q $50.
The live poultry market was high
er. Heavy fowl, jobbins lots, sold
at &c % 26c, light Is q PC, large
chickens % % PC, light 20, a &c.
Leghorns 20 a DC.
TUESDAY SALES
Beef Cattle-R. d. Fichett sold
pr fancy steers, 2910 lbs at loo. 4
fat cows at &c, / COW at 3Ac. and /
Gamer at 21ac. Howard Gorger sold
8 fat cows. av. $50 lbs, at &c: 1 bull,
1910 lbs, at 5kc; l bull, $50 lbs. at
&c; 8 slippery cows, 24O0 lbs, at &c;
l Gamer, $50 lbs, at 2Ac. f. d.
Keenan, sold cows at &c. 6 cows at
&c, 80 cows at 4c, Is cows at 3hc,
and 80 Gamers at 2.60c. Otis H.
Forbush sold ] COW at 5kc, l cow
at &c. and 81, COW at &c, 1 COW at
SIC, COW at 31ac, and 81, I COW
at &c, and COW at 2s4c Robert
Connors sold 10 cows at 6.S5c. J. w.
Brooks sold % cows at % 4c. C. F..
Gage sold cows at 2 q SIC. r. L..
Wormen sold 2 bologna cows at
2Ac.
Veal Calves-C. r. Gage sold 40
calves in two lots, veal 1Okc and
light calves at SIC. Otis H. Forbush
sold i extra fancy veal at Ice. r. L..
Wormell sold SO calves at 10c. A. c..
Warner & Sons sold 25 calves at &c.
John Fuller & Son sold 35 calves at
7c-10c. F. D. Keenan, sold 11S YER
mont calves at 7c-9bc. r. D. Pickett
sold % calves at Toe.
Hogs-Otis H. Forbush sold 8
heavy hogs at 121kc.
HORSE MARKET
Boston, November 24.-There was
an improvement in the demand for
hor ses at the sales stables about the
city, and supplies which We're more
numerous were cleaned up better
than In many past recent weeks.
With the improvement in the demand
prices advanced slightly although the
extreme range showed no change.
The larger part of the demand came
from New Hampshire dealers bulk
ing horses from 1900 to 1900 lbs for
reselling to the lumber camps. Maine
agents also took a number of horses
Tor immediate use in the woods. The
rest OF weeks trading was in the
local exchange Of seconds and in re-
tail sales OF the best horses, Few
green horses were offered, but there
was larger supply than usual of
acclimated horses from Ohio and Ill
inois.
God quality drafters, 1900 to 1900
lbs, sold mostly in matched pairs at
$575 @ s675 per pair, with pairs of
1880 to lO0 lbs at $500 "a $3.50.
Wagon horses of all description, in
Guiding some special sales of good
horses from the ice companies. sold
at $150 q 225; ordinary seconds at
$50 q 135. with blemished seconds
down to the price of their hide.
J. c. Keith sold at his Brighton
stables two carloads of western hors
es, acclimated, and so head of near
by seconds. The demand was active
WITH prices averaging up higher than