Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13
DAILY KENNEBEc JOURNAL WEDNESDAY JANUARY 49, 1926

fat cows and heifers sold at 8 ga q
6 lie, fair to medium cows at Ia
90 5 1-2c. Due to heavier supplies
Gamer cows sold less readily than
a week ago, averaging 1-4c lower.
Sales made at 2 ga @ 3 1-2c and
3 IL @ &c for slippery cows.
The calf market was strong, re-
sponsive to better .eal market.
Fancy lots sold 13@15c with choice
lots at 100 13c: average mixed lots
at 10 @ IL lie. Small calves under
30 lbs. at 5 @ LIE.
There was no change in the hog
market, prices holding steady at last
weeks range. New England offer
ings were light and cleaned up
quickly. Fancy lots, live, sold at
@13c, rough 10 3-4 % IL 3-4c, boars
6@7c. Dressed weight lag 15c.
The dressed sheep and lamb mar
ket was stronger. but the few lots
offered live weight, sold at much the
same range, few fancy lots being Of
fered. Sheep sold 5@Sc, lambs 10
@15c. Western arrivals at the N.
e. ID. M. and w. Co. aggregated 6542
head.
The dairy COW market has man.
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weeks. Buyers are not urgent in
their demand for the poorer grades
and these are selling at about So per
head lower. Fancy cows continue to
sell readily at $135 @175, with good
to choice cows $75 OPS, poor to fair
cows 5000. Young stock bulls $2U
060.
Live poultry sold higher. Jobbing,
lots, fowl 30 q &c. chickens $50 soc.
TUESDAY SALES
Beef Cattles-Robert Connors sold
pr fancy cattle 3S40 lbs at lie: ]. C.
Cohen sold l pr Heirford steers,
1880 lbs at 10c; extra Hereford
heifer 1850 lbs at &c; cows ay HOO
lbs at a lac, and Gamers, av 700
lbs at 3 1-2c. e. p. Prindle sold 1
bull at 1-2c; % Gamers and sIfp-
perry cows at 8 3-4c. Howard Gorges
sold 2 cows at DC, and 13 slippery
cows, av 800 lbs at &c. j. Higgins
sold Z Gamer cows at lac. Otis
H. Forbush sold COW at 1-pc; /
cow at &c; 2 cows at 4 lac, and
Gamer at 3 lac. r. D. Pickett sold 1
fancy COW 100 lbs at Sc and / COW,
1880 lbs at 6 1-2c. r. d. Keenan, sold
6 choice cows av 1900 lbs at 1-2c;
6 bulls at lie; 40 cows at 8 lac:
as cows at 1-2c. J. w. Brooks sold
4 fancy steers fed by William Nc
Clasky, East Sandwich. N. H.; 6
steers, S170 lbs at lac, and 26
cows at sos 1-2c. ]. A. Clark sold 1
cow, 1850 lbs at 6cffi heifers, 2270
lbs at SC: bulls, 1920 lbs at 1-2c:
l COW, $50 lbs at Lee: 1 cow $50
lbs at lac. c. F. Gage sold 4 steers,
1920 lbs at s S-4cg and 4 Gamers at
2 3-4c. A. It. Putnam sold 1 pr cattle
1920 lbs at Lee.
Veal Calves-J. Cohen sold !
Yorker calf 200 lbs at 22c, and %
calves av 140'lbs at 15c. E. P. Prin-
die sold II calves at 10c. Otis H.
Forbush sold 2 calves at IS lac. and
2 young calves for $11 form the pair.
r. D. Pickett sold % calves at 13c:
and 10 calves at &c. E. F. Gage sold
Fl calves in two lots at Sc-11c. G. s..
Lowell sold Is calves av 100 lbs at
lie. T. D. keenan, sold 1877 VT. calves
at 9@14c, and 1s6 N. Y. calves at g
@13c. A. f. Warner and Sons sold
25 calves at S@12c. John Fuller and
Son sold % calves at 8@12c.
Hogs-E. p. Prindle sold hogs at
12c. G. s. Lowell sold hogs av 100
lbs at 12c.
HORSE MARKET
Boston, Jan. 12-The largest
amount of business was transacted
at the sale stables in many past
months. j. C. Keiths large sale o.
500 head of horses was well attended
and buyers bought generously n the
heivier weights of horses. and tie
seconds also We're bid in quickly.
Prices were good considering the
amount of the offerings. especially
when taking into consideration the
general dullness that has been, the
ruling feature of the market until
the last two weeks when the demand
increased. Buyers from outsid @ the
state were on the market ana bought
in several carloads, mostly for New
Hampshire and Maine.
The poorest demand was in farm
chunks, for which bids ran lower in
proportion to value than in any other
class of horses offered.
Good quality heavy drafters 400
to 1900 lbs sold at $300@350, with
drafters of 1850 to 100 TBS at S225I
275; wagon horses, both in western
and seconds, at $150@S200; farm
chunks at 100000 for horses of
400 to 1909 Tbs. Seconds were bid in
any NnSIS 1Ioiii 9lVW ~, dCSOlNlIl5 "
age and condition.
J. c. Keith sold at his brighton
stables 500 head of horses, : car
loads of which were western horses
from well known raisers, coming
mostly from Ohio and Iowa. One
choce pair of 300 Tbs sold at $3.50.
A 200 ID horse was bid in at 1895
carloads were taken by a New
Hampshire buyer and another cars
were shipped to Maine. The local
trade was good both at retail and at
the auction. This week there will be
on sale express carloads of western
horses and the usual entry of sec
onds.
Mckinney Bros. reported a better
trade than the week before. l car
load of fresh horses were on sale,
selling at $2506325 for heavywaights.
Seconds and good acclimated horses
sold at $40@$250. This week the
firm will sell so horses at auction for
the Libby & French Trucking Com
pany. l carload of fresh Indiana
horses, and about rs to 100 head of
seconds