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12.5 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
the increased depression, which, in the instance of 
hog products, was extreme and embarrassing to many 
operators, influenced mainly by the discouraging reports 
from the Chicago market, where the enormous receipts 
told decidedly against the interests of sellers. At the 
materially reduced figures, extensive transactions were 
noted, particularly in Lard and Bacon, in good part for 
export. Butter, Cheese, and Eggs, closed generally weak 
as to price, on a restricted business—Hops have been 
fairly active, mostly for shipment, at about former rates. 
_Wool has been very moderately sought after, and at 
the close quoted easier and irregular, on freer offerings. 
... .Tobacco has been in comparatively slack demand, yet 
has varied little as to values....A much livelier home 
and export inquiry has been noted for Clover Seed, which 
advanced sharply, closing strong; abetter demand also 
for Timothy, which left oft’ more firmly. Other Seeds in¬ 
active and unsettled_Hay and straw have been in 
moderate demand within the previous range... .Ocean 
freights have been fairly active, but at a further material 
declining in rates, leaving off heavily. ..Grain rates 
by steam to Liverpool closed March 12th at 7d. ; to 
Glasgow, 814@9(L; to London, 7)4(1. ; to Bristol, 8fa> 
S;id .; to Hull, 9@9 %d .; to the Continent. S l A©9)4d ; 
to Liverpool, by sail, 6%@7 d .; London, by sail, 7@. 
7/4^-. T? bush. Flour to Liverpool, by steam, 3-s.@As. 
3d., and by sail at 2s. 1 )4d.\ London, by sail, 2s.1)4 d„ and 
by steam, 3s. 3d. ; Bristol, by steam, 3s. 3d. . and sail, 2s.(a) 
2s. 3d. per bbl. Provisions by steam to Liverpool, 30s.@. 
37s. 6 d. per ton. Cotton by sail 1 / 32 @,%d., and steam at 
7 /sa@&d. lb. Grain, by sail, for Cork and orders, at 
5s. 3d., and to Continental ports, 5s. 6e?.@6s.; Italian ports, 
5s. 3d.@5s. 7 'Ad. per quarter; to Lisbon, in ship’s bags, 
15 )4 cts. per bushel, and from Philadelphia, in shippers’ 
bags, 15@15)£ cts. per bushel. 
i>'evr York Buve-Slock IYK:arkcts. 
RECEIPTS. 
were ending Reeves 
Feb. 18.10,525 
Feb. 25 9,433 
Mar. 4. 9,483 
Mar.lt . 6.S01 
Total for 4 Weeks. .36,242 
do. for prev. 4 lFeefc«35,566 
Reeves. Cows. Calves. Sheep. Swine. 
Average per Week .9,060 
do. do. last .1 ronth .. 8,891 
do. do. prev’s Me 
The prices for the past four weeks were as follows: 
Cows. 
Calves. 
Sheep. 
Swine. 
90 
826 
21,747 
37.350 
88 
783 
23,862 
36,509 
152 
958 
21,273 
35,952 
197 
1,044 
19,836 
29,863 
527 
3,611 
86,718 
139,674 
440 
3,361 
86,279 
143.786 
9,060 
132 
903 
21,679 
84,918 
8,S91 
110 
840 
21,570 
35,946 
8,410 
77 
954 
2 i ,201 
38,935 
'VKKK ENDING 
Range. 
Large Sales. 
Aver. 
Fill. 18. 
. 73f@!ip,c. 
8^10 c. 
9!4c. 
Kel>. 25. 
. 7M9S11 c. 
8 \i@ 9!<c. 
9 c. 
Mar. 4. 
. 7 ©Ifljfc. 
8A® 914c. 
854c. 
Mar. 11. 
. 7 @!03fc. 
SJ4® 9J4C. 
854c. 
Soluble Pacific Guano, 19 ton... 45.00 
Excelsior Fertilizer Works, Fine Ground ltaw Bone,. .55.00 
Mapes’ Complete Manure (Ville formula) p. 1,000 lbs 26.14 
<lo. Spring Wheat Manure, $ 1,000 lbs., 25.00 
do. Fruit and Vine Manure, do. 17.50 
do. Bone, strictly pure, meal .per ton. 42.00 
do. do. do. extra fine_ do. 40.00 
do. do. do. fine. do. 38.00 
do. do. do. medium. do. 36.00 
do. Lawn Top Dressing. do. 60.00 
do. Potato Manure, (Ville Formula).. do. 51.94 
Stockbridge Corn Manure, per acre. 20.00 
“ Potato do do 10.00 
“ Tobacco do do 50.00 
“ Rye do do 10.00 
“ Wheat do do 15.00 
Bowker’s Hill and Drill Fertilizer, per ton. 45.00 
Sulphate of Magnesia (55 to 60 per cent), per ton. 22.50 
Gypsum, Nova Scotia, ground, per ton. 8.00 
Nitrate of Potash (95 per cent.), per lb. 9^c. 
Sulphate of Potash (actual potasii 41 per cent) per lb_4 c. 
do. do. (actual potash 27K per cent) per lb 2 c. 
German Potash Salts (actual potash 12 to 15 p. c. p. ton$lS.OO 
Muriate of Potash (actual potash 50 per cent), per lb...2>4C. 
Nitrate of Soda, per lb. i'Ac.® 4>4c. 
Sulphate of Ammonia (25 percent.), per lb_ 45fc.@ 5>^c. 
Dried Blood or Dried Meat (ammonia 14 per cent) p. ton $55 
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Beeves. —The market has been weak and declining 
steadily through the month, as may be seen by our quo¬ 
tations. The shipment of 1,000 head the first week, only 
helped to arrest the decline temporarily, and various 
causes, which could not be overcome, finally weighed 
down the market, and resulted in reducing it to the low¬ 
est condition knqwn for many years. Exporters have 
operated largely at the decline, and this safely valve of 
the foreign shipments has done much to strengthen the 
market. The final recovery and hopeful outlook for the 
future which marked the close was due to this cause 
alone. The highest price of the closing business was 
10%c. T? ft 1 for 56-lb extra cattle; the lowest was 7c. for 
some common natives of 55 lb to the cwt. City dressed 
beef sold for 6c. to 8c. $ lb. One of the heaviest steers 
ever sold in this market came from Long Island, dress¬ 
ing 1,925 lbs., netting 8}fc. $ ft,or. $163 for the carcass.. . 
Cows.— A limited demand has made a dull market for 
cows, and prices are lower. Very few cows reach to $70 
per head, the bulk of t,he sales for good ones being about 
$60. Ordinary have sold for $45, and poor as low as $35. 
.. .Calves,— For good veals tbe market has been steady, 
closing at 6c.@7Xe. $ lb., live weight. Half-fed sold at 
4c.@6c. $ 1b alive. Hog-dressed are not plenty, but a 
quiet, market held them down to S®9c. $ 1b for the best, 
6 @Sc. $ ft for good, and 5c. for poor ones .. Sbeep 
and Lambs,- After a dull market, enlivened by only 
one spurt, when receipts happened to be light, the closing 
business was somewhat better, but not enough to ad¬ 
vance prices. The closing prices were $5.20®$6.50 per 
head for sheep, $5@$5.75 for ewes, and 0@7Jfc. ft for 
lambs. City-dressed mutton sold at 6)4@S)4c. <g 1b for 
fair to prime... Swine.— Prices have fallen to a lower 
point than at any time since 1S60 for dressed pork; 4M@, 
4%c. $ 1b is probably the lowest mark that will be made 
this season, and Ibis point was reached at the close. 
Live hogs were quotable at. 3%®4c. $ 1b, with no buyers 
for them. Jersey-dressed pigs sold for 4y 2 @3/ 2 c. ft ft. 
Prices of Feed. 
Bran, per ton. 
Middlings, per ton. 
Ground Feed, per ton. 
Unseed-oil-cake. western, per tom 
Cotton-seed-cake, per ton. 
Chandler’s Scraps, per !b. 
$18.00® $20.00 
. 19.00® 21.00 
. 15.00® 21.00 
. 44.00® 47.00 
. 25.50® 40.00 
3® 4 
Prices of Fertilizers. 
No.l. Pernv. Guano 10 p. ct. ammonia, standard, 19 tom.$56. 
do. do. Lobos, do. do. do. 47 
do. do. guaranteed, 19 ton, cargo F 5H. 
do. do. rectified, per ton, 9.70 p. c.. 69. 
do. do. do. do. 3.40 p. c. 51. 
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R B <>plsrs asa«l Cot$o«»woo«ls are so 
common, that one would suppose that botanists knew all 
about them. Prof. Serono Watson, of Cambridge, Mass., 
in writing up the genus in a recent article for the “Am. 
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Importsiiice <»4* llie Fish Siitercst. 
—A comparatively few individuals are enthusiastically 
engaged in trying to awaken public interest in the value 
of onr fish interest. They claim, and justly, that our in¬ 
land waters may, at comparatively little expense, be made 
to yield many millions of dollar’s worth of excellent 
food. By persistent effort they get, now and then, from 
State Legislatures and Congress, appropriations of a few 
hundreds of dollars, which ought to be as many thous¬ 
ands, tftdevelopc this interest.—At the Convention of 
the American Fish Cultural Association, held in New 
York City during the last days of February. Mr. G. 
Brown Goode, of the Smithsonian Institution, who is 
thoroughly acquainted with this subject, gave the follow¬ 
ing statistics of the present consumption of fish in the 
United States : codfish, 214,322,000 lbs , value $4,825,540. 
1,500 vessels are engaged in this trade in the United 
States. Our whale fisheries yield $2,841,000 annually. 
Of salmon, 30,000,030 lbs. are canned on the Columbia 
River of Oregon alone. Of mackerel, 49,000.000 are caught 
annually, and of menhaden 462,000,000 lbs., used chiefly 
for oil and fertilizers. In 1876, there were, caught in the 
U. S., 1,294,038,OOO lbs. of fish of ail kinds, valued 
