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 Live-stock markets — Continued. 



Articles. 



June. 



Saint Loris— Continued. 



Cattle, good third-grade, 1,050 to 



1,300 pounds lier cental. 



fair butchers' steers, 1,000 



to 1,200 pounds do 



inferior native grades do 



Texans and Cherokees, 



corn-fattened do 



inferior do 



Sheep do 



Swine do 



Horses, plug per head. 



street-car horses do . . . 



good work-horses do . . . 



driving horses do . . . 



heavy draught-horses do . . . 



Mules, 14 to 15 hands high do . . . 



15 to 16 hands high do . . . 



extra do... 



NEW ORLEANS. 



Cattle, Texan 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 . 



$4 50 to $4 75 



75 to $5 00 



4 20 to 

 2 75 to 



4 25 



5 00 



3 75 

 2 75 



4 25 

 4 50 



30 00 



80 00 



85 00 



100 00 



VX> 00 



50 00 



115 00 



175 CO 



40 00 

 35 00 

 20 00 

 10 00 

 35 00 

 7 00 



4 00 

 3 00 



5 00 



4 75 

 .3 50 



6 10 



5 45 



60 00 

 90 00 

 to 100 00 

 to 140 00 

 to 165 00 

 to 100 00 

 to 165 00 

 to 200 00 



to 55 00 



to 40 00 



to 28 00 



to 12 50 



to 100 00 



to 10 00 



to 5 00 



to 4 00 



to 7 50 



4 50 



3 00 



4 25 

 2 00 

 4 00 

 4 80 



to 

 to 



to 

 to 

 to 

 to 

 to 

 to 

 to 

 to 

 to 

 to 

 to 

 to 



4 75 



4 50 



500 



6 00 



5 60 



40 00 to 55 00 



35 00 to 40 00 



20 00 to. 28 00 



to 



35 00 to 100 00 

 7 00 to 10 00 



4 00 to 5 09 

 3 00 to 4 00 



5 00 to 7 50 



FOEEIGN MARKETS. 



Wheat. — The spring in Europe has been, on the whole, favorable to 

 •the wheat crop. An early harvest was confidently anticipated, but the 

 succession of cold days and frosty nights, together with lack of rain, 

 amounting almost to drought in some regions, about the middle of May, 

 destroyed that hope. In France wheat in many places began to turn 

 yellow, and in other localities to show signs of rust. The exhaustion of 

 home stocks of wheat in Europe, caused by two scanty harvests, becomes 

 more painfully apparent as each week develops its results. Although 

 the increased facilities of ocean transport, and the enhanced efficiency 

 of the Suez Canal route, places England in closer relations with the 

 wheat-producing regions of the world, she yet fails to realize any im- 

 portant relief from the terrible pressure of short crops. "With a demand 

 for foreign wheat, absorbing not less than a million quarters per month, 

 she finds her supplies constantly shortening. In the four weeks ending 

 May 9 her actual receipts from abroad were but 595,000 quarters. The 

 stocks in Loudon were but 203,100 quarters, or less than one month's 

 supply for the metropolis alone, with its three and one-third millions of 

 hungry mouths. English wheat is almost entirely exhausted, the small 

 'upplies in first hands being held by large and wealthy farmers, holding 



1 for maximum i:)rices. The facts now show that 1873 was a short 

 eat year throughout the world. The yield of South Australia is esti- 



