1871.1 
AMERICAN AG-RICULTURIST. 
165 
Commercial Matters—Market Prices. 
Gold has been depressed In price, having receded to 
110!s. The closing quotation, April 14th, was 11014 
There has been a fairly active business in Breadstuffs 
since our last, but at variable prices. The export demand 
has been good for Wheat and Corn. The home trade in¬ 
quiry lias 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 selfers, 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 15,1371, and for the corresponding month last year. 
1. TUANS ACTIONS AT THE NEW-YORK MARKETS. 
Receipts. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Tine. Barley. Oats. 
26 days this m'tli.361,000 473,000 827,000 13,000 121.000 293,000 
24 days last m’tli.234,000 307,000 416,000 13,450 111,000 267,000 
Sat.es. Four. Wheat. Corn. Bye. Barley. Oats. 
26 days flu's m’th.283,0001.413,000 1,336,000 25,000 297,000 705,000 
24 days last m’tli.317,000 1,305,000 1,107,000 49,000 206,000 908,000 
U. Comparison with same period at this time last year. 
Receipts. , Four. Wheat. Corn. Bye. Barley. Oats. 
26 days 1871... .261,000 473,000 827,000 13.000 121,000 293,000 
27 clays 1870_ 224,500 478,000 153,000 2,630 313,000 217,000 
Sai.es. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Bye. Barley. Oats. 
26 days 4871. .283,000 1,413,000 1.336.000 23,000 292,000 793,000 
27 days 1870 ..210,000 1,1S5,000 897,000 18.5C0 321,000 659,000 
3. Exports from Few York, Jan. 1 to April 13. 
Flour. Wheat. Corn. Bye. Barley. Oats. 
1871.559,351 2,662,210 1,071,519 -- 39,005 12,929 
1870 .391,329 2,336.354 87,593 6,709 - 5,818 
1869.252,219 2,114,6-24 78S.278 - 31,934 
136S..-.205,215 815,889 2,303,946 158,822 - 21,407 
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Stock of grain in store at Few York. 
1871. 
Wheat, 
bnsli. 
April 10. 811,871 
March 13. ...1,323.785 
Feb. 13.2.203.677 
Jan. 10.3,685,116 
1870. 
Dec. 15.3,060,762 
Nov. 9.2,092.900 
Oct. 10.1.809,921 
Sept 12.1 ,S87.487 
Aug. S.1,138,876 
.Tulyll.1,281.913 
.Tune 7. 706.178 
May 10.1.158,052 
April 11.1,845,186 
March 7.2,509,603 
Corn, Bye, Barley, Oats, Malt, 
bush, bush, bush. bush. bush. 
180,947 159.951 161,393 709,363 171 897 
201,388 150,514 329.319 1,133,897 218,231 
311.171 148,49.8 481,863 1,109,995 215,124 
272,618 157,730 531,191 1,736,936 216,304 
231,129 
Current Wholesale Prices. 
March 16. 
Price of Gold. 
Flour—S uper to Extra State 
Sillier to Extra Southern_ 
Extra Westcrn . 
Extra Genesee. 
Superfine Western.. 
Rye Flour.. 
Corn-Meal. . 
Wheat—A ll kinds of White.. 
All kinds of Red and Amber. 
Corn— yellow .. 
Mixed. 
Oats—W estern.. 
State. 
Rye. . 
Barley.. 
Hay—B ale P 100 lbs. 
Straw, p 100 Its. 
Cotton— Middlings, ill n>. .. 
Hops—C rop of 1S70. i? lb. 
Feathers—L ive Geese, lb. 
Seep—C lover, P lb . 
Timothy, P bushel..... 
Flax, P bushel. 
Sugar—B rown, p lb. 
Molasses. Cuba. P gal. 
Coffee—R io, (Cold," in bond) 
Tobacco. Ken lucky, &c.,PIb. 
Seed Leaf, P lb . 
Wool—D o mestic Fleece,p lb. 
Domestic, pulled. P lb. 
California, unwashed,. 
Tallow, P lb . 
Oil-Cake— p toil. 
Pork—M ess, p barrel. 
Prime. P barrel. 
Beef—P lain mess. 
Lard, in trcs. & barrels. P lb. 
Butter—S tate, P lb. 
Western, p lb. 
Cheese . 
Beans— P bushel. 
Peas—C anada, free, P bu_ 
Eggs—F resh. P dozen. 
Poultry—D ressed Fowls_ 
Turkeys, dressed, pib. 
Geese, P ft. 
Ducks P pair. 
Potatoes, P bbl. 
Sweet Potatoes, P bbl. 
Turnips—P bbl. 
Cabbages—P 100. 
Onions—P bbl..... . 
Cranberries— 73 bbl. 
Broom-corn—P lb. 
Apples—P barrel. 
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ITew-Vorlc JLive-Sloclt: Markets. 
WEEK ENDING. 
Beeves. 
Cows 
. Calves. 
. Sheep. 
Swine. 
. Tot'l. 
. 4,545 
97 
1,247 
13,928 
12,504 
32,321 
. 7.023 
68 
1,386 
29,201 
13.592 
51,270 
. 7,123 
74 
1,917 
18,957 
16,039 
41,110 
. 6,307 
107 
2,479 
15,876 
9,773 
31,542 
.24,998 
346 
7,059 
77,962 
51,908 
162,273 
S 23,311 
276 
3,662 
80,280 
49,026 
156,685 
Beeves. Cows. Calves. Sheep. 
Average per Week . 
86 
1,765 
19,490 
do. do. last Month. 
...5,813 
69 
915 
20,070 
do. do. prev’s Month. 
...,5,902 
61 
849 
27,393 
Average perWeek, 1870. 
6,847 
97 
2,210 
28,151 
Average per Week, 1809. 
6,275 
92 
1,752 
28.S36 
do. do. do. 1868. 
5,733 
105 
1,588 
27.182 
do. do. do. 1867. 
5,544 
64 
1,320 
22,151 
do. do. do. 1866. 
5,74S 
91 
1,200 
20,000 
do. do. do. 1S65. 
5,255 
118 
1,500 
16,091 
Total in 1S69. 
.326,280 
4.827 
91,033 
1,499,509 
Total ill 1SCS. 
.298,128 
5.160 
8-2,571 
1,413,479 
672,000 
573,190 
660,277 
12,977 
12,256 
14,115 
17,108 
15,318 
18.809 
20,605 
13,000 
11,023 
798,199 
978,061 
Total in 1867!..:;:.293,832 3,369 69,911 1,174.154 1,102,613 
Total ill 1S6G. 298,880 4.8S5 62,120 1,040,000 .. 
Total ill 1865 . 270,271 6,101 71,991 S36.7S3 
Total In 1861. 267,609 7,603 75,621 782,162 
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 ft. advance, every thing 
selling off early, and drovers making money. The re¬ 
ceipts were much larger the following week, and the 
market showed less firmness. 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 y 2 c.@,%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¬ 
serted. 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 P2J4c.@13c. per lb., net weight. 
Below we give the range of prices, average price, and 
figures at which large lots were sold : 
Mar. 20th,ranged 11 @16 c. At. 133fe. Large sales 13 @15 
do. 27th, do. 11 ©16 c. do. 14 c. do. do. 13 @15 
April 3d, do. 10X©15Xc. do. 13XC. do. do. 13 ©UJZ 
do. 10th, do. 10 @15 c. do. 13XC. do. do. 12X@14 
Blilcli 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 trade 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 arc quoted at $-15@$55 each; 
medium to good, $65@$75, with a few prime at $85@$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 at Oc.iffiSc., while the 
best hog-dressed rarely go above 13c. Load after load of 
small calves has been sold at 4c.@6c. per ft. A pen of 
120 ft. State calves was just weighed off at 7c. We call 
thin live calves worth 4c.@Gc., with fair to prime at 7c.@ 
914 c_Sliecp.—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 points 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 lSc.@20c. per ft., some of the finest 
reaching 22c., but they will rapidly decline. Thin lots 
of wool sheep sell at5}4c.@6c. ; medium at 6l4c.@6?£c., 
with prime to extra 100@130 ft. sheep at 7y,c.hvSc. 
Clipped sheep range from 5c.©7c., 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 G%c.@ 
6%c., aud the latter at 8%c.@8%c. 
BSow to Fatten Slogs.—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,” lie 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 lip to 
250 lbs.”—Ope trouble is, that they do not feed enough 
corn. It seems hardly possible tliaJ, 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, bub a disposition to feed liberally every¬ 
day during the pig’s life. 
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Mr. Judd’s BSesiilcEScc.— 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 laud has become too valuable for mere 
cultivation. He has therefore sold out most of his 
real estate, and “pulled up stakes,” surrendering his 
residence for a Female Seminary, to which it seemed 
specially adapted, no 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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Mil^c=voosns. — “ W.,” Germantown, 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 be abandons it as useless. In 
Eastern Pennsylvania wc often have our milk-rooms or 
vaults in tbe cellars of our bouses, instead of spring- 
houses, and ventilation secures good results with us. t 
built one in my cellar; which was every way satisfactory. 
It had two windows in it, hut depended, as I believed, 
for its success, on having a flue brought down from the 
kitchen chimney to the floor of the room. The flue gives 
a current from the lower part of the room, and keeps the 
air always sweet.” 
