THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
DEC §0 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS 
New York. Saturday, December 13,1884. 
Breadstuff? and Provisions.—a? compared with 
cash orlce* obp week ago, Vo. 2 Northern Wheat Is 
2c.Mgher Vo l do. l* 4 V 6 r. higher: Ungraded Winter 
Ke<) l*4j<- higher: No. Vo 2 Red Is *( 40 . lower: No. 
i Hed I* unchanged: ‘■late White U «c. lower. Corn 
U ngraded Mix d l*2e. hlaher: No. 318 214c. higher; 
Steamer Mixed i* 2 ! 4 c. higher. 
Grais— Wheat—So. 2 Northern a; 8236c. afloat No. 
I Northern; M^r. afloat and for delivery In all tills 
month; Ungraded Winter Keo. to n*'>t*c No 2 Red, 
sjW'SKic delivered-No. : Red, >*e : Staie White 8 <'ao. 
in elevator: Ungraded White. 81c No. 2 Red for Jan¬ 
uary. •u>j'A8ntv'. closing at sut*o: do. February. *246 
(i - 'lc do. for March '■T.U'w R-.7#e: do. for April, 81% 
.Asriic! do. for Mav. *T44<tgUr. RTX-Wcstcrn; Suit 
A me; Canada, 66 <, file. State. 96»WC. Barley Un¬ 
graded Canada at ir«-. Coutt Ungraded mixed at 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS 
Saturday, December 13. 
J. W. Potts & Son, .Jacksonville, Ill., have 
sent nine fat cattle und Ifi fat slieep to the 
World’s Exposition at New Orleans. Four of 
the cattle are three-year olds, and one a four- 
year old. These live averaged, wheu they 
left Illinois, 2.150 pounds .Hon. D. W. 
Smith, President of the National Cattle 
Growers’ Association of America, is taking 
the necessary step* to secure a large delegation 
of swine breeders as well as cattlemen at Wash¬ 
ington in January next.The Department 
of Agriculture says that the average price of 
wheat, on the farm, in Kansas, is 45 cents per 
bushel; 42 cents In Nebraska; 40 cents in Da 
kota; 50 cents in Minnesota; 55 cents in Iowa; 
02 cents in Missouri, rising in other States as 
the seaboard is approached. Even at these 
average figures, the prices lu the States men¬ 
tioned must be very considerably lower at 
points distant from mills and railroads; hut 
the figures are considerably higher than those 
given by local authorities; for instance, a 
committee from Kansas, that visited Chicago 
the other day, said the average price of wheat 
on the farm in their State was only 85 cents 
per bushel; and prices have been falling ever 
since.The Department puts the average 
price of corn at 18 cents a bushel in Nebraska; 
22 cents in Kansas, and 23 cent* in Iowa; but 
here again local authorities mention consider¬ 
ably lower figures. The average price of oats 
for the whole country, the Department puts 
at 28 cents per bushel, which is the lowest re¬ 
ported by the Department. In Nebraska, it is 
only 11) cents!.The latest advices from 
the leadiug fat stock markets may be con¬ 
densed into the following brief summary: 
Cattle are active, for good stock, at New 
York, steady at Chicago and Buffalo, and 
weak at Kt. Louis, Kansas City, Baltimore 
and Philadelphia. Low-grade cattle are slow 
and bard to sell everywhere, but prices shown 
weakening tendency, Sheep are. steady every¬ 
where, but show no activity, and are practic¬ 
ally no better than they have been all along. 
The low price of corn in most parts of the 
country is inducing farmers to feed their hogs 
to a heavy weight, thus holding them Imek; 
but any considerable advance in price owing 
to a short supply, produces at once such a 
rush to market, that prices instantly fall. It 
is not improbable that when the fattened hogs 
are marketed later on, prices will be consider¬ 
ably lower than they are now, as packers are 
sure to take advantage of the large supply. 
_A new Order in Council relating to foot- 
aud-mouth disease in Knglaud, Wales, and 
Scotland has been published, It provides 
that no person (except the owner or person in 
charge of the animal) shall enter any cow¬ 
shed. field, or other place situate within a 
foot-and-mouth-disease-Infected place in 
which an animalaifected with foot-and-mouth 
disease is kept, except with the permission of 
the local authority, and the owner is to in¬ 
form the local authority of the name of the 
person whom he desires to send to the affected 
animal or animals. These attendants are to 
be provided by the authority with overall 
clothes, which are to he put on upon entering 
the affected place, aud taken off *on leaving, 
it being further laid down that such persons 
are to thoroughly wash their hands with soap 
and water and their boots with a solution of 
carbolic acid on leaving the infected places... 
At a meeting recently held in Indianapolis, 
Ind,, the following dates were fixed upon for 
the following conventions to be held in that 
city: Jersey Breedersuud Dairymen. Jail. 20 
to noon of 21st. Cane Growers, afternoon of 
21st till noon of 22ud. Bee keepers, afternoon 
of 22 nd and 23rd. The Short horn Broaden 
meet, Tuesday, Jan, 27th, aud continue till 
noon of 2Nt,h. Wool Growers till noon 20th. 
Swiue Breeders begin and continue through 
30th. 
Cheese. Quotations- fancy white. 12 * 40 . fancy 
colored, rifljc'for selections fob lots to I2*<fiiil3c.): 
llfclifcc. fo» fine pr i , jlirlOlfct fair lots. 9a 
vQc. light skims at *a)0c- skims at r.a.c- Ohio 
flat*. K'ailQc. for best 836 *'03«C for fair to prime, 
and v»«o, for common; Pennsylvania *klm« 4:i43ic. 
for prime S,'«tS36c. for good, and IsilHc. for common . 
Koo<v The quotation* are: State. 2°c- Canadian 
8V*2*c: Western. 27 -.v2«i~ held fresh lots. 22<a24e. 
Limed at 2!c. for State- 2H<*.3>!+<\ for Canadian, 
and 3dc. for W«t, rn; Imported. i8*il9r. 
At the Mercantile Exchange the following tele¬ 
gram* were received: From Boston.—Market dull: 
quoted at 24c*29c. From Philadelphia— Market easier: 
quoted nt 2Sa2836c.: receipts 100. From Chicago— 
Market firm at 23424c. 
I,iva Poultry Chickens, near by * ft 9»ll)C! do. 
Southern and West rn, BstlOe: fowls. Jrrsey. State 
and Pennsylvania, per lb, lie- do Western, malic; 
rooster*, old * »-e- turkey*, per lb .MF*'lC.r ducks, 
Jersey, New York and Penn , * pulr, tlX*®#!.#): do. 
Western, per pair, ®V«48e: geese Jersey, New York 
aud Pennsylvania, per pair. »?<*2 25- do, Western, 
per pair *i.42ni.i7: pigeons, per pair, 30*85c. 
Dressed Poultry.—T urkeys. Philadelphia, ]8415c: 
State an-l Wr-n-m, r*i2e: chicken*. Philadelphia 
spring, selected, large, ’Be: do, Jersey and Bucks 
County, dry picked. -4e; do, stale. Pennsylvania 
and Western, dry picked. luA'2o: fowl*. Philadel¬ 
phia, prime, lisi tc; do, state •lid Western, dry pick¬ 
ed, -.<j9v- spring ducks, Philadelphia, per lh, I.C-rUc, 
do. Long teland, per lb. !3«i tc do. State and West¬ 
ern per lb, I16tl2c: SVcdeni. Inferior. ll«H2c squabs, 
w bite, per dor,#2.50*2.75: do. dark, per do*. #1.7542. 
Game Partridges, prime, per pair, 90c«*i: grouse, 
prime pt-r pair. 9ucr«fi wild duck*. Western mal 
lard, per pair, 3ft.tFie: do, teal, ner pair Sb»5Clc: do 
wood, per pair. 25 ' 80c quail at *1 25 per dozen for 
sound aud 2 C<A#!.00 for poor to fair: wild ducks, can 
vn* hack. Havre de Grace, per pair, #!C»2,25 dri, can¬ 
vas. Western per pal -, #V « 2 25 • do, redhead, Havre 
de Grace, per pair, #1 do, redhead, per pair, 7.'C«#1: 
venison Western saddles, per lb, i3*#I5c: whole deer, 
per lb, 8*l0c: rabbits, per pair, 3l>.@3 c. 
Cotton.—T be quotations according to the Ameri¬ 
can classification are as follows: 
New 
Orleans Texas 
Uplands and Gull. 
ordinary. 846 
Strict Ordinary. 9 l-l« 9 5-16 8 5-16 
Bond ordinary.. 9t6 1036 10Hi 
Strict Good Ordinary... . 103* 1036 
Low Middling.... 10 9-16 10 13 16 10 13-16 
Strict Low Middling. 10K H U 
Middling.. 10?6 1134 1IJ6 
Bood Middling. 11 1-16 11 5-16 10_ 5-16 
Btrlot Good Middling.... lit! 1136 1134 
Middling Fair.............. 1196 1176 11J6 
Fair.... . I2M 1236 12« 
ST AIMED. 
Bood Ordinary-.. 8W I bow Middling. 9« 
Strict Good (Jrd.. y 15 16 i Middling. .1076 
Fresh Fruits, Apple* -Snow, northern, per bbL: 
#3-a# 3 50 ; Baldwin, Jersey, per double headed bbl, 
$1.50*1,75; Greening*. *1.50.«tl.75c; Grapes-Catawba, 
9.aide, per lb, InabelL at 3*6c. Cranberries-Cape 
Cod,choice. per crate, #4 75 a 5; do. per bbl,$i6- Jersey, 
choice, per crate, #4.M>»#475: Jersey, poor, per crate. 
#3.W©4. 
Dried vrcit*. Th- following are the quotations 
for Fancy evaporated apple*, 8c; choice do, ><•' good 
do., fancy North ■ srollna sun dried apples, 
sliced, 5w 576‘'-: choice do., le.; prime do.. 3M.3HC; 
common do. 3a3wr Virginia fancy. sjSIac- south - 
ern, Tennessee eo*r«:cut, %314C: Kentucky 
quarter*, 4 i4wc: peeled peaches, s>*374c. for best 
Georgia aud 77t a7%C- for choice Peeled peaches- 
X. fancy. 94*c; extra rancy. I04tl07*c: choice.*764 
slue, unpi-eled halves, new. i*i676c. quarters, n4576c: 
plum*, lk*976c. for Damsons- huckleberries. 14c; 
blackberries. He cherries, 12*1276: evaporated rasp- 
bi-rrle*. 21!sii*2iC- sun-dried do, 20R26C. 
Pkasi:-i* Hi- qnot.fttlon.-* are al 176 > »H'c- lor extra 
and fancy hand picked ; r.u nicr*' grades at 3x4c. 
Hay aml> -*traw. The quotations are as follows: 
Choice timothy sic good do, •i*«.85o; medium, do, 
7 * ,*0c shipping hay lue: clovi-.r mixed, 6V«. vc; clov 
er at 3.V«'kV. t ong rye -draw at short rye straw 
THE FARMER IN POLITICS, 
Before Election. 
LIVB STOCK MARKRTS 
New York. Saturday. December 13, 1884. 
Beeves.— Sales: Ohio steers (fancy), 1,625 a, at *7.5o 
per 107116: do, 1,625 16, at $7,2,6: do. 1.325 ft, $6.50: do, 
1,660 ft,$6.50: do, 1,145 ft, $6.25; oxen, 1,835 ft, #6 50: 
do, 1,640 ft, $6.16: do, 1,360 ft, 976c. 55 ft; HUnols steers, 
1U41 ft. Stic, 55 ft- do, 1,166 ft, 914 c: do, 1,330 ft, 9?<c. 
5 t; ft; do. 1.260 ft, 1074C! do. 1.821 ft-, 1076c- State steers, 
1.182 ft. 1274c, 5b ft; mixed Western, do, 1,161 ft, 11c; 
do, 1,136 ft, 1074c- do, 1,342 ft, 1074c; do. 1,175 ft.9?4c; 
do. 1.144 ft. toe. 55 ft less $1 per bead; do, 1,119 ft, 
$ 5 2». Kentucky do, 1,322 tt,104jc, 56 ft; do, 1,405 ft, 
1176C: do. 1,852 ft, #5.70-do, 1 s45 ft. #5.90; do, 1,456 ft, 
#fl,2t) do, 1,555 ft. #6.90; Michigan oxen, 1,201 ft, 4c, Uve 
weight: heifers, 54) ft, SThc; Western dry cows,927 ft, 
87ic: oxen. 1,554 ft. 9B,c, 55 ft- do, 1 660 ft. 9c- do, 1,528 
ft, R74c; native ••*llllers,c 1,250 ft, #5.90- eorn-fed na¬ 
tives, 1,153 ft, PTsC, 55 ft, and $1 per head- Indiana do, 
1.356 ft, 11c. 56 ft. and #1 per head; oxen, 1.259 ft, $4.60; 
Pennsylvania steers, 1,265 ft, 10c. ?0 ft; do, 1,028 ft, 
8V6C-, 55 n - do. U$ui ft, $5 per MO ft, and 50c per head; 
IlUn Is steers, 1,193 ft, #5.40; do, 1.279 ft, V 7ic, 56 ft; 
dp, 1,133 ft, 974 c; Kentucky steers, 1,276 lb, #5,70. 
Calves city Dressed Veals sold at 941276c., aud 
dressed grassers at 4)^ it576c. 
Surer a*u Lambs -Tidal receipts for six days 
21,783 head, against 36.034 bead for the corresponding 
time last week Ordinary to prime lambs ranged 
from $ 1 60 to $5 577 Sales-SLste sheep, 88 lb, 474c; 
do, M lb. 4c, do. 85 lb, #4.0674. Ohio sheep and 
lambs. 64 lb. Si to: Ohio lambs,(pari sheep)8 rf lb. 574 c; 
Indlaua sheep, 8; lb. #4.20. Kentucky sheep, 102 lb. 
jHic: 175 do, 104 lb, •5‘4e: Indiana do, 100 lb, 474e; 
Westi-rn do, 93 II., S'-ftc: Ohio lambs, 79 lb, 576C. 
Indiana sheep, 80 lb, #4.184»; State sheep 79 lb,376c; 
do, 79 lb, #3,9(1. 
HOGS—Total receipts for six days 46,711 head 
against 4,0153 head for the correspoudlns time last 
week. Country dressed continue to arrive freely 
and the demand to-day was light and prices lower. 
Heavy sold at 3T6@5c; Medium at 576@594C; and Light 
at 6@6T6c. 
After Election. 
mon to fair extra#2.(15Q8.95: fair to good. #3,3 (k*) ,5U: 
good to very choice, $4.55<<tl.9n: psteDt winter wheat 
extra, $4.0wi».B0: city null extra for West Indies, 
#4.250,4.4(1 South A merle •. #4 856*4.80. Sotthebn 
Flocu—C omuton iokooh extra, #S.W).«.890e good to 
choice do.. #8 «5u.-.. 40 . Rye flour Run rflne, # 3.40 
iaS.75, mainly #8.flu<ti>3,6fl for good to choice. Buck¬ 
wheat Flour—S elling at #J.W*2.111. supply fair, 
demand ujodej-ate. Fetp— Ouotcd for bi to 10 lb* at 
fISia. 16, to arrive an-’ lit tufll: 30 lbs. at #13<«.H.50; 
100lbs at #13 50 itu shurps ut *184*20. Rye feed «t 
#15®15.50. Corn Mkal Dull; Yellow Western #3.00 
0,5 SO: brandy wine, quoted at #3.30<o3.10, 
Beams.—T he quotations are: .Marrows, #1,65. 
for new: mediums at #1.45. for new pea at 
#1.55 ror new: red kidney. #2,5U for best new: 
turtle soup nt $2 50; w hit.-Kidney at #2.50, 
Peas-G reen at #1.25 for new. 
Provisions— Pork Quotations- $12.50<@13 for new 
mess; family- me** at 412 7 (#18; clear back, #l5.50.<s 
17: extra prime al $11. Dressed Hogs Sales at 
546c. for bacon to 54jc for light averages, and 6c. 
for pigs. Cut Meats City pickled shoulder* quoted 
at 546c. smoked shoulders at t>J 40 : pickled hams 9*4 
<gdf>c. smoked hams ut lOWjtlic, Middles Long and 
short dear, had and half, tor December an'Janu¬ 
ary deliveries quoted at 5 7un5.?5e, Beke—Q uoted: 
Extra India mess ut #23(#24; exira mess at *li,50<(& 
12 : packet at #13 for barrets, and #d«0 lu tierces; 
plate beef al *12v»t;' family, #i3iui#lL Beef Hams 
—Quoted at #'9. LARD-Wt-sb-m steam for prompt 
delivery, at 7.15c; December closed at 6.45,0.694; Janu¬ 
ary option sales at 7.(r3c. down to 6.99c; February 
option sales at 7,lue. down to 7.u:e: March option sales 
at 7 15e. down to 7.12c- April ojmon sales at 7.15c: 
option closed at 7.25,<7.27e yesterday- City steam, 
6.9i>e - No. 1 city sale at 6J5U. Refined quoted at 
7.3774c fur Conilurut for December and January- 
Brown’s Krom-hlal Troches for 
Coughs and Colds: “1 think them tbeoest and 
most oonveniont relief extaut.”— liev. C. M. 
Humphrey, Urantz, Ky. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH 
Saturday, December 13. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, “regular” wheat is l^c. lower; 
No, 2Chicago Spring, 1 l 4c. lower; No. 2 Red 
Wiuter, I'i'c. lower. Corn. lc. higher: oats, 
%c. lower. Pork, (52 % c. lower. Cattle, a 
trifle higher. Hogs, somewhat lower. Sheep, 
poor grades, lower; best grades higher. 
Wheat.— “Regular'’: December, 714t<«7276c; Janu¬ 
ary. 72vfl734sc. February, (2{>v (iTSQe May, <*797tc: 
No. 2 Chicago Spring, 7iA 4 ci,72V6c: No. 3 do, 56.4 
57Qc No. 2 Red 7.3c No, 8 (10, OORS—Qtllet 
buiflrnti cash, I7?4''*3sc all tie year. 3?»»i«t3SQc: Jan 
nary, 374*«.367je; May, a,:?;V. oats. Firm: cash, 
and Decetiibt-r. 21c: January, 24 *2476c, February, 2i« 
2476C; May, .’SaNiy,. RYE—Firm, at 52c. Bakixv- 
Dull, at SBC, Pork -In fair demand: January, 
#loc,vahJ-kiV February.#t»»IU27* March, #u.it7s 
@.#ll,'#', Cattle — Market dull; Christina* cattle 
nominally. $6.508:7.2v. exnort grades, #;='.75<«,6.25- good 
to choice shipping, $5,256(5.60: Texans, .$3<«,4. Hogs.— 
Market slow: Rough packing, $3.95(tf4.20; packing 
South American quoted at 7.70c. 
Butter —The quotations are: Creamery, Elgin. 29® 
30c: do. Western, best, at 2T®28c: do. State fail, best. 
26c; do. prime at 24@25c: do, good at 20a22c: do. 
do, fair at 18®20c; do, Western, held at 19@20c: State 
dairy, half firkins, tubs and palls, best, at 25<226c; 
