Live-stock marJcets — Continued, 



Articles. 



February. 



March. 



Chicago — Continued. 



Cattle, medium, 1,100 to 1,250 



pounds per cental 



inferior do 



Texans do 



Sheep do 



Swine do 



SAINT LOUIS. 



Cattle, iair to choice native steers. per cental 



common to fair natives do 



inferior to common do 



Cattle, Texans, fair to choice do 



Sheep , do 



Swine do ... . 



Horses, plugs jierhead. 



plain do 



street-car do.... 



heavy draught do 



good drivers ....do 



extra do 



Mules, 14 to 15 hands high do 



15 to 16 hands high do 



extra do 



NEW ORLEANS. 



Cattle, Texas beeves, choice per head. 



first quality do 



second quality do 



western beeves per cental 



milch-cows per head 



calves do 



Sheep, first quality do 



second quality do 



Swine per cental 



FOREIGN MARKETS. 



Wheat. — Janiiarj^ iu Eugland, was warm" and damp, but February 

 closed with heavy storms of snow and sleet, with severe frosts. This 

 closing type of winter prevailed over Northern Europe generally. In 

 some regions the absence of snow was regarded with apprehension as 

 exposing the winter-grain to injury from frost. Spring planting was con- 

 sequently delayed, and many of the lowland districts were helplessly 

 swamped. The season, thus far, has baffled the calculations of the most 

 experienced and weather-wise, but British farmers were hopeful that 

 this rough opening of the vegetative season would be succeeded by 

 more genial growing weather in March and April. 



An adv^ance in the wheat and flour market was noticeable in Western 

 Europe, though the rise has not generally been of much moment. Bel- 

 gium and Holland had passed their ebb-tide, while iu Germany prices 

 had improved. In Hungary, copious snow-fall protected the wheat- 

 crop. The weekly transactions in England had increased over those of 



