1871.1 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
165 
Commercial Matters— Market Prices. 
Gold has been depressed in price, having receded to 
110!b- The closing quotation, April Hth, was 110J4 — 
There has been a fairly active business in Breadstuffs 
since our last, but at variable prices. The export demand 
has been good tor Wheat and Corn. The home trade in- 
quiry has been moderate. Prices of Flour and Wheat 
have been comparatively well supported, on restricted 
offerings of desirable grades. Corn has been in liberal 
supply and much cheaper. Rye, Oats, and Barley, closed 
heavily. . . .Provisions have been generally quoted lower, 
with freer sellers, and a less confident demand from all 
sources. ...Cotton has been less sought after, and prices 
have been irregular. ., .Wool has been held with a fair 
degree of firmness, on a limited supply of choice quali- 
ties, but the demand has been less animated. . . Hay and 
Hops have been in request at comparatively steady fig- 
gures Seeds have "been dull and lower Tobacco 
has been quiet, and tending downward. 
The following condensed, comprehensive tables, care- 
fully prepared specially for the American Agriculturist, 
show at a glance the transactions for the month ending 
April 15, 1871, and for the corresponding month last year. 
1. TRANSACTIONS AT THE NKW-YORK MAUKKTS. 
Rrokipts. Flour, meat. Corn. Ilye. Barley. Oats. 
Mclnyslfcnm't.ll.SBl.OOO 473,000 827,000 13,000 121.000 293.0110 
24 days lust m'tll.284,000 307,000 416.000 15,450 111,000 287,000 
Sales. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Rye. Barley. Outs. 
S6daysf/iisin'tll.2SS,000 1,413.000 1.330.000 25,000 207,0011 7!F),000 
24 days tost tn'tli.317,000 1,305,000 1,107,000 49,000 206,000 908,000 
2. Comparison with same period at this time last year. 
Hrcbipts. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Bye. Barley. Oats. 
26 days 1871... .261.000 473,000 827,000 13.000 121,000 293,000 
27 days 1870... .224,500 478,000 153,000 2,650 313,000 217,000 
Sales. 
26 days 1R71 
27 days 1870 .210;000 
Flour. Wheat. Corn. Rye. Barley. Oats. 
2S3.O00 1,413,000 1.336.000 25.000 292,000 795,000 
~ 1.4S5.000 897,000 18,510 321,000 659,000 
Exports from New York, Jan. 1 to April 13. 
1871. 
1870. 
Flour. Wheat. 
..559,35! 2,662.210 
..391,329 2,336.354 
.252,219 2,114,624 
, .205,245 815,889 
Corn. Rye. Barley. Oats. 
1,071,549 39,065 12,929 
87,593 6,709 5,818 
788,278 34,934 
2,393,946 158,823 24,407 
.Stock of grain in store at New York. 
Wheat, 
1S71. bush. 
April 10 811,871 
March 13. .. 1 .523.785 
Feb. 13 2.203,677 
Jan. 16 3,685,116 
1870. 
Dec. 15 8,060,762 
Nov. 9 2.093,900 
Oct. 10 1,809,921 
Sept 12 1,887,487 
Aug 8 1,438,876 
.Tulyl! 1.231.913 
June 7 706.473 
Mav 10 1.158.052 
April 11 1,815,136 
March 7 2,509,608 
Corn, Rye, 
bush. bush. 
180,947 150,961 
204.38S 150,514 
311.471 148.198 
272,618 157,730 
Barley, Oats, Malt, 
bush. bush. bush. 
164.393 709.363 171 897 
329.319 1,133.897 218.231 
481.863 1,409,995 215,124 
554,491 1,736,936 216,394 
208,319 
3011.000 
176.54 1 
761.894 
589.973 
483.510 
69.845 
110.829 
285.016 
481,176 
143.069 
110.800 
53.391 
50,809 
25.137 
23,816 
21.891 
20,502 
23,249 
39,089 
500,397 2 
400,400 2, 
184,803 1 
107,474 1 
106,101 
98,600 
91.630 
126.043 
187,172 
278,905 1 
.035.137 
125,000 
,679,658 
,053.070 
691. 760 
6.-5.1 »;s 
■188.113 
4 10.517 
756.811 
,105,194 
231,129 
237,453 
130,881 
119,046 
109(178 
1118.775 
83.000 
99.988 
97,139 
CURRENT WnOLESALK PRICES. 
Price of Cold 
Floiik— Super to Kxtra State 
Super to Extra Southern 
Extra Western 
Extra Ccnesee 
Superlliie Western 
liYE Flour 
Corm-Mkal. . . , 
YViievt— All kinds of White.. 
All kinds of Red and Amber. 
Corn— Yellow 
Mixed 
Oats— Western .' 
State 
Itvtc 
Baulky 
Hay— Hale is) 100 ns 
Straw. t< loo tos 
Cotton— Middlings. l» lb ... 
Hops— Crop m 1870. id.ib 
Vv. \ rii i: us —Live Cieese, W B>. 
Seed— Clo ver, Tw lb 
Timothy, i' bushel. . . 
Flax. V bushel 
Suoau— Hrown. ifl lb 
MOLASSKS. Cuba, T'irol. 
Copeick— llin. (Gold, In bond) 
Tobaoco. Kentucky, dec 3ft n>. 
Seed Leaf, V lb 
Wool— Do inf-tii- Fli.rr,7:< it,. 
Domestic, pnlled. V lb 
California, unwashed, 
Tallow, 10 lb 
Oil-Cake— V ton 
Pork— Mess. T9 barrel 
Prime. 1ft barrel 
Berp— Plain mess 
Lard, in trcs. & barrels. 1ft tt>. 
Butter— State, V lb 
Western. ? H> 
CHKKSK . 
BEANS— 13 bushel 
' Pba.8— Canada, free.?) bu.... 
Rons— Fresh, ftt doxon .... 
Poultry— Dressed Fowls 
Tnrkevs. dressed. 'fit lb 
Geese.'tflb 
Ducks 1ft pair 
Potatoes, $) bbl 
SWBBT I'OTATOES, 1ft hbl 
. Turnips— V) bbl 
Cabuages— V loo 
Onions— S 1.1,1 
Cban'bbrkies— 1ft bbl 
Broom-corn— It) it 
Apples— ift barrel 
6-00 
6 25 
6 50 
735 
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HIM 
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(Sill 25 
@10 25 
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4 35 ® 6 35 
3 75 ® 4 75 
1 65 ® 2 00 
1 40 (Si 1 75 
8? @ 90 
84 ® 89 
67 ffi 71 K 
69 ® 71 
1 10 ® 1 20 
1 00 @ 1 20 
1 10 @ 1 45 
85 @ 1 55 
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6 ® 12 
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6 00 @ 6 50 
2 12 '„'■«, 2 25 
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110K 
$ 6 15 a 7 25 
6 00 @11 Oil 
6 50 ®10 00 
7 25 @ 9 00 
6 15 @ 6 55 
4 25 a 6 15 
3 50 @ 4 45 
(31 2 00 
@ 1 70 
1 65 
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78 @ 80 
75 ® 78 
66 ® 71 
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14 
15 
IN'ew-Yorl« Live-SlocU Markers. 
week ending. Beeves. Cows. Calves. Sheep. Swine. Tol'l. 
March 20th 4,545 97 1,247 13.928 12.504 32,321 
March 27th 7.023 68 1,386 29,201 13,592 51,270 
April 3d 7,123 74 1,947 18,957 10,039 44,140 
April 10th 0,307 107 2,479 15,876 9,773 31,542 
Total ill I Weeks.... H,»JS 346 7,059 77.963 51,908 163.273 
do/or prev. i Weeks 83,371 270 3,662 80,280 49,026 ir,o,685 
Beeves. Cows. Calves. Sheep. Swine. 
Average per Week 5v249 86 1,765 19,490 12.977 
do. do. last Month... .5,8-13 69 915 20,070 13.256 
do. do. prev's Month... .5,903 6t 849 27,393 14,115 
Average per Week. 1S70. 6,847 97 2,240 28,151 17,108 
Average per Week, 1869. 6,275 92 1,752 28,836 15,348 
do. do. do. 1S6S 5.733 105 1.583 27.182 1S.S09 
do. do. do. 1367. 5.544 64 1,320 23,154 20,605 
do. do. do. 1S66. 5.74S 94 1,200 20,000 13,000 
do. do do. 1805. 5,255 US 1.500 16,001 11.033 
Total in 1869 326.3S0 4.827 91,083 1,499,500 798,199 
Total in 1S6S 398.12S 5,166 82.571 1,413,479 978,061 
Total in 1867 .293.831 3.369 69,911 1,171.154 1,103.613 
Total in 1866 298.830 4.885 63.120 1.040.000 672.000 
Total in 1865 270,274 6,161 71,991 836,733 573.190 
Total in 1864 267,609 7,603 75,021 732,463 600,277 
Beef Cattle.— Beginning with the close last month, 
and the first general market, with a light supply of cattle, 
ruled strong at nearly lc. per fi>. advance, every thing 
selling off early, and drovers making money. The re- 
ceipts were much larger the following week, and the 
market showed less firmuess. In fact, it nearly amounted 
to a decline. For the next market we find a still larger 
number, and the rates could no longer be sustained, 
holders yielding to a decline of % C -@?4 C -, else they had 
to keep their cattle, but the succeeding was the hardest 
market of all, coming when butchers and nearly every 
body else were participating in, or enjoying, the grand 
German Peace Demonstration, leaving the yards de- 
sorted. Besides, butchers were feeling sore under heavy 
losses caused by the unseasonable hot weather, which 
spoiled abundance of beef and other meat before it could 
be sold. Since then, the few scattering lots are selling 
very slowly, and at even lower rates, fair 7 cwt. steers 
going at. 12'4c.@13c. per lb., net weight. 
Below we give the range of prices, average price, and 
figures at which large lots were sold : 
Mar.20th,rangedll ®16 c. Av. 1?src. Large sales 13 @13 
do. 27th, do. 11 ®16 c. do. 14 c. do. do. 13 @15 
April 3d, do. lOH@15^c. do. 13kc. do. do. 13 @14;..v 
do. 10th, do. 10 @15 c. do. 13JJC. do. do. 12J^@14 
Milch Cows.— As is usually the case at this season 
of the year, more fresh cows have been sent in for sale, 
partly because it is the natural period for cows to come 
in, and partly because there is more demand for them. 
The rrade is unusually dull this spring, and long rows of 
milkers stand in the sale stables day after day awaiting 
purchasers. This city is each year becoming less and 
less a market for cows. Just at present the depressed 
state of the beef trade operates against selling fresh 
milkers. Common cows are quoted at $45@.$55 each ; 
medium to good, $65@,$75, with a few prime at $S5<75 $95. 
Calves. — These have been pouring in rapidly, both 
dead and alive. The former run down very low during 
the heated spell, very many of them selling at 2c.@3c. 
each, while hundreds were taken by the sanitary police, 
entirely spoiled. Nor is there much improvement now, 
live calves selling in large quantities atCc..'28c., while the 
best hog-dressed rarely go above 13c. Load after load of 
small calves has been sold at 4c.@fic. per tb. A pen of 
120 lb. State calves was just weighed off at 7c. We call 
thin live calves worth 4c.@Gc, with fair to prime at 7c.©. 
914c Slieep. — About one-half of the stock arriving 
at present has been sheared. If very thin, the fleeces are 
left to hide their leanness, keep them from freezing, and 
help sell them, the pelts being the most valuable part. 
Prime sheep, except from the North, where the weather 
is too cold, are generally sheared, as more can be got in 
a car, and they show their good poiuts to advantage. 
Trade is dull, and prices unsatisfactory for owners. A 
few spring lambs are arriving, but in such small quanti- 
ties, that they sell at 18c.@30c. per lb., some of the finest 
reaching 22c, but they will rapidly decline. Thin lots 
of wool sheep sell at 5&c.@6c : medium at li : . •> 6 v .. 
with prime to extra 100@130 lb. sheep at 75.4c. (®8c. 
Clipped sheep range from 5c.(S7c, the latter price for 
extra fat lots... Swine.— With only a slight increase 
over the receipts of the previous week, prices have 
steadily declined, and the markets have shown an un- 
usual dullness. The decline in all hog products, both at. 
home and abroad, is the cause of the lower ruling of 
live and dressed hogs. The former are quoted at u^c.® 
6?>c, and the latter at 8Hc@8?^c. 
How to Fatten Blogs.— N. P. Pierce, of 
Iowa, wants to know "the best way to prepare food for 
hogs, which with us in Iowa is principally corn." "I 
think,"' he adds, "there must be some better way to 
raise pork than that practiced about here, which is, to 
feed hogs on dry corn some 18 months to get them up to 
250 lbs."— One trouble is, that they do not feed enough 
corn. It seems hardly possible that any breed of pigs 
that any man of ordinary common sense would tolerate 
on his farm, could have all the corn they would eat for 
IS months, and then only weigh 250 lbs. We presume 
the breed is partly to blame, but the feeder still more. It 
is not the best method of preparing the corn that is so 
much wanted, but a disposition to feed liberally every 
day during the pig's life. 
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Mr. Judd's Residence. — Sixteen years 
ago Mr. Judd, the senior publisher of this journal, set- 
tled in Flushing, L. I., seven miles east of this city, and 
purchased a quantity of land which was then in the out- 
skirts of the village and adapted to cultivation. But the 
rapid growth of the village, from 3,000 or 4,000, to 12,000 
or 15,000, has surrounded him with a large number of 
residences, including about 30 of his own construc- 
tion, and the land lias become too valuable for mere 
cultivation. He has therefore sold out «iost of his 
real estate, and " pulled up stakes," surrendering his 
residence for a Female Seminary, to which it seemed 
specially adapted. He has located temporarily in this 
city while prospecting for a future permanent residence 
at some desirable point within convenient reach of the 
business office. The present railroad facilities in every 
direction make it quite easy for one to live twenty to 
forty or more miles away, and yet come to the city at 
any and all business hours. With such smooth iron 
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railroads, one can read almost as well riding as if sit- 
ting still, so that little time is lost in traveling to and fro. 
MilEi-i-ooins. — "W.," Germnntown, Pa., 
writes: "Say to A. O. Bagley, in addition to the good 
advice already suggested, try ventilation from the floor of 
his milk-room before he abandons it as useless. In 
Eastern Pennsylvania we often have our milk-rooms or 
vaults in the cellars of our houses, instead of spring- 
houses, and ventilation secures good results with us. I 
built one in my cellar, which was every way satisfactory. 
It had two windows in it, but depended, as I believed, 
for its success, on having a flue brought down from the 
kitchen chimney to the floor of the room. The fine gives 
a current from the lower part of the room, and keeps the 
air always sweet." 
