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 Live- .^tocJc Marlce fs — C ou ti n ued . 



Articles. 



Prices. 



Saitst Louis— Continued. 



Horses, plug per head. 



plain do 



Htreet-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 



$40 00 to $75 00 



80 00 to 110 00 



75.00 to 125 CO 



130 00 to 170 00 



loo 00 to 150 00 



!l75 00 to 180 00 



75 00 to 120 00 



120 00 to 180 00 



175 00 to 200 00 



Articles. 



Prices. 



NE%Y ORLEANS. 



Cattle, Texas heeves, choice, per 



head 



first quality per head 



second quality do.. . 



western beeves.. per cental 



milch-cov/s per head 



calves do 



Sheep, first quality do... 



second quality do 



Swine do 



$40 00 to $46 00 



30 00 to 35 00 



20 00 to 25 00 



3 00 to 7 50 



35 00 to 100 00 



7 00 to 9 00 



6 00 to 7 CO 



3 00 to 4 00 



5 00 to 6 00 



FOREIGN MARKETS. 



The first half of March in the United Kingdom was all that could 

 be desired for field-work, but the spring was considered backward, so 

 far as vegetation was concerned. Everywhere warmth was greatly 

 wanted for grain and meadows, but the growth had nowhere been af- 

 fected by frost to an extent injurious to subsequent growth. The coun- 

 try markets were from Is. to 2s. per quarter for wheat ahead of the 

 London market, which showed considerable indecision in regard to 

 further advances. In London it is observed that the sales of English 

 wheat amounted to only a third of the arrivals. During the last week 

 in March the sales amounted to 29,873 quarters in excess of those of the 

 corresponding week of 1874, while prices averaged 19s. per quarter less. 

 The financial necessities of farmers compel them to accept such prices. 

 The Paris market was dwll but steady, the provinces showing more buoy- 

 ancy. Belgium, Holland, and Germany show a firmer hold on ijrices 

 already obtained, a tendency also observable in Denmark and Hungary. 

 Egypt was doing little in the way of export to weaken prices, while in 

 New York there was an advance of 2s. Gd. per quarter. The large 

 amount of cargoes bound for British ports — one and a half million quar- 

 ters — will only safiice to bring up the aggregate receipts to last year's 

 figures. If it could all be retained it would furnish six weeks' consump- 

 tion, but a large i^ortion will be reshipped to other countries. More 

 than half the British crop has been marketed, and prices have evidently 

 touched their lowest point. The increasing demand for a higher stand- 

 ard of living among the poorer classes of the English people causes an 

 increased demand for wheat diet and counteracts the downward tendency 

 of the market. The deficiencies of two short crops are not to be over- 

 come by a single good one, and hence the late decline of prices is con- 

 sidered not as a permanent tendency but as a temporary reaction which 

 has already reached its limits. 



The sales of English wheat in the United Kingdom during the last 

 week in March amounted to G7,153 quarters, at 41s. 9d, against 37,280 

 quarters at COs. 9(7. in 1874. This fact is very significant "to American 

 wheat-farmers who look to the British Islands for a market for their pro- 

 ducts. These destructive variations in prices result from temporary and 

 abnormal conditions, and hence can form no basis for a steady, remu- 

 nerative demand. The London averages were 43s. Wd. on 1,955 quarters. 

 The imports of the previous week into the United Kingdom amounted 

 to 313,898 cwts. After March 19, sixteen cargoes of foreign wheat are 

 noted, of which fifteen cargoes were disposed of at the foliowiug rates, 



