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Live-stock markets—Continued. 
Articles. Price. Articles. Price. - 
Samnrt Lovuis—Continued. Saint Lovuts—Continued. 
Cattle, light uneven stock steers # Mules, 154 to 16 hands high, per 
500 to 850 pounds, per head 22. seo ga sae see $120 00 to $150 00 
wentall tore kee este? $2 75 to $3 25 OXIA Less ceisse= per head.| —- —to 180 00 
good to choice, corn-fat- 
tened, Cherokees and NEW ORLEANS. 
Texans, per cental...-. 2:50) ‘to 3°75 
inferior to common Tex- Cattle, Texas beeves, choice, per 
ans and Cherokees, per head). 2 :5.lassee cee —— to 5000 
Cental Poaeeeete ee == <- 150 to 200) Texas beeves,first quality, 
Sheep {e222 sob aes percental.| 3 624to 3 65 | per head ao. 28s Se. 35 00 to 45 00 
SWINE) scene cit sacs cni do..-| 375 to 400} Texas beeves,second qual- 
Horses, good driving animals, per ity teSepieass per head.| 20 00 to 28 00 
hesdesceuecct eile cssace 125 00 to0175 00 Western beeves, net, per 
GRUB s\2 225 <!-< per head. |—- — to 225 00 | Cental. ..\s2ens2 6-2 eee 10 00 to 12 50 
heavy draught-horses,per Milch cows, choice, per h’d) 80 00 to 100 00 
(orig (Oe eee Samed 120 00 to185 00 || Sheep, first quality....per head.| 400 to 5 00 
Mules, good heavy animals, per second quality...... do...| 3 00\to 4100 
ego Socket sec ene 120 00 to 150 00 | third quality -...-.- do...| 200 to 300 
OMENA) n1ta<.cleteinie per head.|-— — to180 00 || Swine, gross -..-..-..- per cental.| 600 to 700 
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FOREIGN MARKETS. 
WaueEAt.—The Mark Lane (London) Express states that the British har- 
vest was avery bad one, especially in the north of England and in Scot- 
jand. In many localities the excessive rain-fall, accompanied by storms 
of thunder and wind, not only interfered with the gathering of the crops, 
but also threatened to ruin them in the shock. A large proportion of the 
grain was in danger of sprouting. From extended inquiries, before these 
rains set in, it was estimated that the yield would average three-quarters 
r 24 bushels per acre, which, upon an area of 3,490,392 acres sown in 
wheat, would give an aggregate crop of 10,796,871 quarters or 86,374,968 
bushels, of which a million quarters would be required for seed, leaving 
for consumption 78,374,968 bushels. Taking the population at thirty 
millions and allowing an average consumption of 6 bushels per capita, 
there would be a deficiency of over twelve and a half million quarters, 
or a hundred million bushels, to be met by foreign importation. The 
unpropitious harvest weather aggravated the difficulty by depreciating 
the effectiveness of even the small crop secured. The decrease in the 
English and Scottish wheat area compared with 1872 was 108,565 acres, 
while in Ireland the decline amounted to 56,859 acres. The wheat-crop in 
France was so shortened by unfavorable conditions of growth and gath- 
ering that a deficiency variously estimated from two and a half to five 
mnillion quarters was apprehended. Buyers from France were upon the 
English market all through September, but shipments to that country had 
received a check by the announcement of the Minister of the Interior to 
the effect that six or seven millions of hectoliters, or from seventeen to 
twenty millions of bushels, would meet the French deficiency. This 
official utterance was criticised by the Echo Agricole as injudicious, and 
likely to arrest importations and produce an unnecessary scarcity. Sev- 
eral other European countries, with short crops, will require large im- 
portations of wheat, while nearly all the large wheat-growing regions 
indicate a diminished yield. Early in August the International Corn 
and Seed League, in session at Vienna, estimated that the Austro-Hun- 
garian Empire would export only 800,000 quarters; whereas, in favorable 
seasons, Hungary alone exports three times thatamount. ‘The delegates 
of Germany did not estimate the crop of that empire at any figure higher 
