THU BUBAL NEW-YOimffL 
dently still expects to get control of Bulgaria. 
Prince Ferdinand, however, refuses not only 
to yield to the Sultan and quit the country, 
but even to receive any official communica¬ 
tion from the Sultan on the matter. He’s 
palpably there to stay unless he is forcibly 
expelled.Europe has had horrible 
weather during the week, and great floods 
are cabled from many countries. The worst 
are in Hungary, where whole Provinces are 
turned into lakes by the overflow of streams 
and rivers. Here are specimen items from 
this morning’s cablegrams: “The dykes at 
Bekes are falling and the town is doomed. 
Fifty more houses have alreadj collapsed. 
Floating ice has destroyed many houses in 
Zempliu. In the adjacent country the stores 
of corn and food have been lost. Terrible 
distress prevails, owing to the floods, but the 
rain has ceased and it is hoped the crisis is 
past” . 
Oporto is the second city in Portugal, on 
the Druro, about three miles from the sea, 
with a population of about 100,000. The Ban¬ 
quet Theatre was the fifth finest building in the 
city which contains some very elegant struc¬ 
tures. Last Tuesday night,while a perform¬ 
ance was in progress, an explosion of gas oc¬ 
curred and the theatre took fire and was de¬ 
stroyed. The house was full and many lives 
were lost; 74 bodies have been identified and 
the charred remains of 46 were too imnerfect 
for identification. Nearly every well-to-do 
family in the city has to mourn for one or 
more relatives .Over 100,000 people per¬ 
ished during the late floods in China and over 
1,000,000 have been rendered homeless ... 
The Knighthood of the Garter made vacant 
by the recent death of the Duke of Rutland, 
has been conferred upon the Marquis of Lon¬ 
donderry, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.... 
A Sudden Change ol Weather will often 
bring on a cough. The irritation which in¬ 
duces coughing is quickly subdued by 
'■'■Brown's Bronchial Troches," a simple and 
effective cure for all throat troubles. Price, 
25 cents per box.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, March 24, 1888. 
... .The Department of State is advised of the 
repeal of the export duty on wool heretofore 
existing in Uruguay. We may therefore 
expect a keener competition from that country 
as there will be greater encouragement to 
sheep raising there.The Manufacturers’ 
Record has compiled the statistics of Southern 
crops in 1870, 1879 and 1887. Comparing the 
yields of 1870 and 1887, it is shown that the 
cotton crop advanced from 3,011,996 bales to 
6,800,000 bales; corn from 249,072,000 bushels 
to 492,415,000 bushels; wheat from 33,841,000 
bushels to 52.384,000 bushels, and oats from 
31,9 3,000 bushels to 81,506,000 bushels—a total 
increase of 3,780,000 bales of cotton and 311,- 
000,000 bushels of grain. The percentage of 
increase in grain production in the South was 
greater than the percentage of grain in the 
rest of the country. The number of farm 
animals in the South in 1870 was 28,154,000, 
and in 1887 the number had risen to 44 830,000. 
Comparing the yields of 1879 and 1887 there 
was an increase of 1,044,000 bales of cotton 
and 195,230,000 bushels of grain; the total 
grain production in the South in 1887 having 
been 626,305,000 bushels against 431,000,000 
bushels in 1879, an increase of 45 percent., 
while in all the rest of the country the increase 
in grain production was only 16.000,000 bush¬ 
els or less than one per cent. The live stock 
in 1887 shows an increase in value over that 
of 1879 of $182,283,296, and agricultural pro¬ 
ductions an increase of $170,968,006 .. 
The new agricultural experiment stations 
will not send their bulletins to people outside 
their respective States. The law says that 
one copy “shall be senf to each newspaper in 
the States or Territories in which they are 
respectively located, and to such individuals 
actually engaged in farming as may request 
the same, aud as far as the means of the sta¬ 
tion will permit.” That’s all. Word 
was received at the Mercantile Exchange yes¬ 
terday that an enormous quantity of eggs will 
soon enter the New York market. Prices 
dropped 20 per cent. The average gross 
weight of hogs received at Cincinnati in the 
past winter was 249.58 pounds, or 15.87 less 
than last year. Tne average yield per head 
of lard was 32.51 pounds, a decrease of 2 55 
pounds. The decrease in the production of 
cut meats was was 4,969.154 pounds. The 
weight is the lightest at that point in 24 years, 
and the yield of lard is the lightest within 
the records of the Chamber of Commerce 
embracing 29 years.A dispatch from 
Utica, New York, says there is no new feat¬ 
ure in the hop market, only a few bales hav¬ 
ing been purchased. A car-load of ’85s was 
bought lately at Waterville for 2% cents, and 
quite a number of bales of ’86s at two cents. 
The range of good hops here was the same, 
eight to 12 cents, only half a dozen odd bales 
being bought in a lot, owing to the blizzard. 
....The exportation of Arabian horses has 
been prohibited by the Sultan of Turkey. .. 
— There’s to be a big fight in the Massachu¬ 
setts Legislature about “oleo.” “Honest men” 
insist that it shouldn’t be colored to resemble 
butter; others insist that it should. New 
Hampshire insists that it should be colored 
pink; that’s the color the Rural has long 
advised, but if Massachusetts wishes to be 
original, “green” or “blue” will do. 
The Senate Committee on Post-offices has 
unanimously recommended a bill to make the 
rate on seeds, plants, etc., four cents per 
pound instead of 16, the present rate. A 
majority of the House Post-office Committee 
favors a bill making the rate eight cents per 
pound, but a minority report advocates four 
cents. Four cents it will be if all interested 
write at once to their Congressmen in favor 
of that rate. The general public will get the 
advantage of the reduction; the seedsmen and 
nurserymen will be, or have to be content with 
an increase of trade... From all reports to this 
city the season everywhere is backward, and 
farmers all over the Northern States are 
forced to be idle out-of-doors, owing to an 
excess of water in the soil. At this date last 
year oat seeding was well under way all over 
^he Northwest, while it was finished in Kan¬ 
sas, and farmers were preparing the ground 
for corn. In Nebraska and Iowa some spring 
wheat had been sown, and the prospects for 
seeding during March were favorable in Min¬ 
nesota and Nebraska. The wheat plants were 
just beginning to green up and making rapid 
growth. To day the grass has not yet started 
up, and it is only in the extreme southern 
portion of the winter wheat belt that the crop 
shows any signs of life at all. The snow 
lingers still in Iowa and Minnesota and por¬ 
tions of Dakota, and the ground is so wet in 
Illinois that no seeding or plowing has yet 
been done. In Missouri and Kansas things 
generally are at a standstill. Reports with 
regard to winter wheat are very complicated, 
but, on the whole, rather fair. 
.... Senator Palmer claims that contagious 
cattle diseases, especially pleuro-pneumonia, 
have not only caused a direct loss to the coun¬ 
try of $50,000,000, but their interference with 
Inter-State commerce and the restrictions they 
have brought upon our export trade in live 
cattle have occasioned a loss of many millions 
more.The “visible supply” of wheat 
is now about 19,000,000 bushels less than a year 
ago . It is estimated that 50,000.000 
gallons of cotton-seed oil were used in this 
country last year in manufacturing “refined 
lard.”.Wyoming has only one milch 
cow to 89 other cattle... .. ..The Province 
of Ontario has 748,321 milch cows, out of a 
total of 1,948,264 cattle of all kinds....... .. 
..Governor Beaver, of Pa., issued a pro¬ 
clamation yesterday, which, after setting 
forth that infectious pleuro pneumonia ex¬ 
isted among cattle in and about Philadelphia, 
declared a quarantine against “that part of 
the Commonwealth within the limits of a 
curved line having a radius of eight miles 
from the new City Hall of Philadelphia,” the 
regulations to go into operation “on and 
after the 9th day of April”. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, March 24, 1888. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Cotton.— The quotations, according to the American 
classification, ary as follows: 
New Orleans. 
Uplands. 
and Gulf. 
Strict Ordinary., 
Strict Low Middling... 
Good Middlin 
Strict Good M 
iftitl 
Fair. 
Good Ordinary.7 1-16 I 
Strict Good Ord.79i | 
7)9 
<94 
m 
8 9-16 
8 11-16 
9 1-16 
9 3-16 
9)4 
994 
9 13-16 
10 15-16 
10 
10)4 
10M 
1094 
10)4 
1094 
10)4 
11 
1B4 
U94 
STAINED. 
Texas. 
Low Middling 8 11-16 
Middling.9 9-16 
Hops -The demand in all directions continues light, 
but values are maintained. N. Y. State, new, best 
12®13c, do new, medium, 10@llc; do common, 8® 
9c, do old, 3«o6c; Pacific coast, new. common to 
choice 8 to 12c: do 1846 common, to good 4®7c. For¬ 
eign—Germans, crop of 1887,15@20c. 
Hay and straw.— Hay—Choice Timothy per 100 lb 
80@85c; good do, ?0®75c; medium, 60®65e; shipping. 55c; 
Clover mixed, 55®>60c Straw.—No. 1 rye 90c®81; short 
do, 65@75c; oat, 40®50c. 
Poultry.—Live.— Fowls, Jersey, State, and Penn¬ 
sylvania, per lb, 12®12)4c; fowls, Western, per 
lb, ll@l2c roosters, old, per n>, 7@llc; turkeys, 
per lb 12®18c; ducks, western pei pair, 65®90o; 
chickens, near-by per lb. —®-c: do, western, per n>, 
—@—c; geese, western, per pair, $1 u0@l 50. 
Poultry.—DRESSKD.-T urkeys, fancy, per pound, at 
13§U4c; do good to choice, ll(§H3c, do common i0 
@llc; fowls, Phlla.’ 12@13c; fowls, western, —®12c- 
Squabs, white, per doz, 83 50®-; Squabs, dark, per 
doz, 83 50®8 75; ducks, fair to fancy per lb, 12@15c; 
do common 6@10c; do State — ®—c; do western, —c- 
Geese, good to choice, per ft., 9@i2c; chickens, Phila¬ 
delphia, broilers, 2d®25c; dodo roasters, —c: do do, 
per lb, 15®20c: do. Jersey, choice, per lb, 15®16c. do 
and fowls, western, per lb, —@—c; do Jersey 
— c. 
Game.— Wild ducks,canvas, per pair, $150@3: do red; 
head,$?5c®l 50; do mallard. 40@60c; do teal, —c 
English Snipe, per doz. 81 50 to 175; grass plover, per 
doz 81 50 to 1 75. 
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKETS. 
Fruits. —Fresh.— Apples.—Greening, 82 75@8 75 ; 
do Baldwins 82 50j*3 75; do inferior, per bbl, 
81 50®2 25; Grapes, per lb, 4®5e: Cranberries, 
Jersey, fair to prime, per bbl, $2 25@8 25; do do do 
per bbl, 8—® —: do Jersey, common, per crate. 81 50 
®2 Oranges, Florida, fancy, per box, 84 00®5 00. do 
do choice *3 50®4 00; do do, fair to good. S3 00®3 25- 
do do common, $2 U0@2 50. strawberries, Florida, good 
to choice, per quart, 25@50e; do do common to fair, 
per quart, I0@20c. 
Fruits.— Dried. -Apples.-Evaporated, Choice to 
fancy, 8)4® 10c; do common to prime, evaporated 614 
(o&8c; do sliced, new, 5^a?c; do chopped, do 
cores and skins, l@114c; Apples, State, quarters,, 594 
®6-94c; Cherries - pitted, 16®22c; Kaspberries-evap- 
orated, new, 25@2ic do sun-dried, 22®24c: Black 
berries, 814®—c; Huckelberries new. 10@llc: Peaches 
sun-dried, peeled. 16®20c Peaches,sun-dried,unpeeled 
—@—c; Plums State, 10@llc. y 
Nuts.— Peanuts are held unchanged. Fancy hand 
picked quoted at —@4)4c and farmers’ grades at 3 
@3J4c; hickory nuts at 82 25@2 50 per bush. 
Vegetables.— Potatoes.- State Burbank, per bbl 
82 25®-; State Hebron, 82 50@2 75; State Peerless,’ 
per bbl. 8-®—; State Rose, 83 i» 3 25; Scotch, Mag¬ 
num, per sack. 81 90@2 10: Maine Rose per bbl, 83 50 
®3 (5; English magnum per sack 81 ?5®2 (JO; sweet, 
Jersey per bbl. 84 00®—: Onions, Connecticut 
red per bbl. 85 00®5 50. do, white, per bbl. 85®6; do 
Bermuda, per crate, 83 do, yellow, per bbl., 85®5 50 ; 
Turnips,per bbl.-c Kale,per bol, 8150®l 75. Cabbages 
per K? ’ ^J3, * * * * 5 L Beet ?’ P*-’ 1- crate. «1@1 25: spinach, 
per bbl. $3@3 50; string beans, per crate, 82 50 to 3 50 
tomatoes, $150®2 50; egg plant, choice, per bbl, 85@7; 
asparagus, per bunch, 30®75c; Pease green, per crate, 
82 00 to 5 00. 
Philadelphia, Pa.—Potatoes.—Pennsylvania and 
New York Early Rose, choice. White per bush. 
95c to 81; do fair to good. 85@90c; do do Burbanks and 
White Stars, choice, 85*90c; do do fair to good 
78 to 83c: Hebrons.choice. 85®90c:do fair to good, 78 to 
83c; Mammoth Pearl Choice, — to —c; do fair to good 
—to —c. 
Boston.— Potatoes—Aroostook rose 81 05®l 10 per bu- 
and other Eastern 85®90c: Northern 75@85c: Scotch 
magnum 80c; other Scotch 69@75c: Provincial barrel 
stock 82 25@8. Beets at 75 d 85c per bu cabbages 82® 
2 50 per bbl; red cabbages 83. carrots 40@45c per bush; 
onions are firmer and keep up prices 84@5: Bermudas 
83@3 50 per crate; marrow squash 8125 per bbl; tur 
ban $1 50®2 per bbl, Hubbard 82®2 25; turnips 40@60c: 
per bu; white. French and St. Andrews at SI 25@1 50 
per bbl; radish 4U®50c; long S 1®1 25 per doz. parsnips 
81®1 25 per bu; lettuce 4j@75e per doz; dandelions 
81 50 per bu; celery at 82®2 25 per doz: spinach 81 50® 
1 75 per bu: artichokes 82 per bu; asparagus si 50 per 
bunch; new beets 50c per doz; cucumbers 82@2 25 per 
doz; hot-house tomatoes 81 per a; rhubarb 15c per a; 
horse radish 15c per a. 
PROVISION MARKETS. 
New York.—Provisions.—Pork.- Mess, quoted at 
$14 75 to 15 one year old; New mess, 15 00® 15 25, 
short clear $16®18, F.xtra Prime mess, 813: prime 
do, nominal, family mess, $15 50®16 50. Beef— City 
Extra India Mess, in tcs., *13 00®16; Extra Mess, in 
barrels, $7@7 50; Packet, $8@— per bbl and $— 
in tcs; Plate, $8@8 25. Family Mess, $8 50®9. Beef 
Hams.— Quoted at $16 50. Cut Meats.— Pickled 
shoulders to arrive 6% and at Chicago green hams 9)4 
for 16 a and 994 c for light average; greou shoulders 
5%c; pickled bellies quoted 7 1-16 to7)4c;Pickled Hams 
9Ji to 10c; pickled Shoulders, 694®7c; Smoked Hams, 
ll)4c; Smoked Shoulders, 794c Dressed Hogs. City 
Heavy to Light, 794®794c; Pigs, 794c. Lard.- Western 
spot and to arrive 7.87)4@i.92)4c; City steam, 7.60c; Re 
fined quoted, 7.80c; Continent 8 60c; South American 
March 7 . 81 c; April, 7.76 to 7.79c; May. 7.78 to7.80c; June 
7 83 to 7.85c. July. 7.88 to7.90c; August, 7.95c. 
Philadelphia, Pa.—Provisions.—Beef.— City fam 
liy, per bbl, $8 5039; do packets, $7 50®8; Smoked beef, 
12@l3c; Beef hams, $17 00@18 00. Pork.— Mess, $16@ 
—; do prime mess, new,$14 50; do, do, family, $16 50 
®—. Hams—smoked, ll)4@12)4c. do S. P.cured in tcs, 
10@llc; sides, clear ribbed in salt,8)4@9c' do smoked 
9)4@10c; shoulders in dry salt, fully cured, 6)4® -c; 
do smoked, @7)4c; shoulders,pickle cured, 7)4@7)4c:do 
smoked, 8)4@8)4c; bellies in pickle, 89i@9J4c; do break¬ 
fast bacon, 10®—c. Lard —Steady City Refined. $8 50, 
do, Steam, $7 87)4 to 8; butcher’s loose $5 50 to 5 75. 
Chicago.— Mess Pork.—$13 80®—. Lard.— Per 100 
lbs, $7 50®—. Short Rib sides (loose), 87 05; dry 
salted shoulders, boxed, $6 00®6 10; short clear sides, 
boxed $7 65®7 60. 
DAIRY AND EGG MARKETS. 
New York.— Butter— Creamery.—Elgin extra, 
31@32c: Pennsylvania, best, —@32c; Western, best, 
— to 30e; do prime, 27 to 29c; do good, 24 to 26c; 
do poor, 20®22e, do held, —®—c; Creamery State fall 
made in tubs, — to —c; do do firkins — to —c; State 
dairy-Half-firkins, tubs, best, 29®30c: do do prime, 
27®28c; do, do, fine, good, 28®26c; Welsh 
tubs, best, —c; do do fine, 26@28c; do do good, 23 to 
25c; firkins and tubs, best, —@—c; do do flue, —®—c; 
do do good, —®—c. do do poor, —@—c; firkins, best, 
—@—c; do fine, —®—c; do good, — to —c; 
Western—Imitation creamery, best, 25@27c; do, 
fine. 21®23c; Western dairy, fine, 22®24c; do, 
fair, 19@20c; do do poor, 17 to 18c; do, factory, 
best, —@25c: do do prime. 22®24c: do do good. 19® 
20c do, poor, 15@18c; rolls, 17®22. Old lots as follows: 
Creamery held 17 to 22c; state dairy tubs prime to 
best 2 to 25c; do do do poor to good 18 to 22c; do do 
firkins and tubs prime to best 22)4 to 24c; do do do do 
good 2U to 22c; do do firkins prime to best 22)4 to 
24c; do do do good 20 to 22c; western dairy and 
factory; 14 to 17. 
Cheese.— Factory, Fancy, white, 12)4®12J4c; do do 
colored, —@12c; choice do, ll) 4 ® 1194 c; do, good, 11@ 
11) 4c: light skims, best. 8@l0c; do common 2@4c; 
Ohio factory, fine, ll94@12c; Skims Pennsylvania, 
1 to 194 c. 
Eggs.— Near-by, fresh 1694®17c; southerns, fresh 
per doz, 16@17ci western fresh lt>94@17c; Ducks, 
30 82c. 
Boston— Butter.—Fine fresh creamery 30 to 81c with 
some extra at 32c; 2d quality fresh creamery 27 to 29c. 
best imitation do 25 to 26c; nortnern best new dairy 
28 to 28c, with fancy at 29c; ordinary winter dairy 18 
to 23c; northern summer 24 to 25c; Cheese—Northern 
and New York extra at 12 to 1294c; Ohio choice 12 to 
12 ) 4 c; eastern and northern fresh 16 to lb) 4 c; western 
15)4 to 16c; cape and near by 17c. 
Philadelphia. Pa. -Butter.— Pennsylvania cream 
ery, extra, — ®81c; western do do, —®30c; li. C. aud N. 
Y. creamery extra. 20®25c; packing butler, ll®l3c. 
Cheese, dull. N. Y. full cream, 12)4@—c; Ohio 
flats, choice, ll94@1194c; do fair to prime, l(J94©U)4c. 
Eggs active and higher. Penn, firsts, 17@—c; Ohio 
and other western firsts, 17@—c. 
St, Louis, Mo,—Butter.—Creamery at 23)4 to 30c; 
dairy, 20 to 26c. 
GRAIN MARKETS. 
New York.—Wheat.—No. 1 hard at 84 3 16c deliver¬ 
ed; Ungraded red 89 to 93c; No. 2 red 89 to 89J4C; in 
store and elevator 90)4 to 91c; delivered 89 to 89)4c f. o. 
b. No. 2 red March 8594 to 8894 c. do April, 89 l-16®89)4c 
do May 89)4 to 8994c, do June 88 5-16®88%c; do for 
July, 8?94'a88Uc; do for August, 87®8794c do for Sep¬ 
tember 8744c; do October 89c; do November 90c, do for 
December, 90 13-16®91)4c. Corn. - Ungraded Mixed. 59 
© 6194 c; steamer, 59 to 60c according to elevator: 60)4c 
deliv: No. 2. 5994 to 10c elevator; 61 to 6i)4e delivered; 
No. 4 quoting at 59c; No. 2 for March, 59)4c; do for 
April, . 9 to ;,9)fcc. do for May, 57 9-16@53 5-16e: do for 
June, 57@5794c: do for July, 57- to 57J4c; do for 
August, 5794(«'58)4c; do for September, 53 to 58)4c: 
do for October 53 to 58)4c; do December 56 to 5694c. 
Oats.— No. 3, 37c; do white 89c; No. 2, 37)4@38c; do 
white, 49J4@40)4c; do delivered 41c; No. 1 white, 43c; 
Mixed Western 37@4(jc; white do 40 to 45c; No 2 
March, 374*, to 3794c: do April, 3694 to 87c; do May, 
3694 40 36)*c; do June 3094c; No. 2 white April 89c; do 
May 3894 to 3894c. 
Buffalo, N.Y.—Wheat.— No. 1 hard 91c asked for 
carloads; No. 1 hard Northern Pacific held at l0)$c 
over Chicago May; Washburn at 9c over; Winter 
wheat—No. 2 Red Michigan 88c; No. 1 White Michigan 
88)4c. Corn-No. 2 yellow 56c; No. 3 yellow 55)4c; No 
2 55)4c No. 3 55c. Oats.—No. 2 white, 3S®33J4c, 
No. 3 white 37®87)4c; No. 2 mixed on track, 35)4c. 
Barley.—No. 1 Canada, 92c; No. 2 Canada, 91c; No 3 ex¬ 
tra, 88c. 
Philadelphia, Pa.— Wheat.—No. 2 Red. March 90 
to 90)4c, do for April, 9094®90%c; do for May, 91@91)4c; 
do for June, 9o94®91)4c. Corn— Ungraded yellow in 
grain depot 57)6c; No. 2 Mixed on track 57)4c, No. 2 
mixed for March 56W®57)4c; do for April 5B%®57)4C 
do May 5794 to 58J4c, «o June 58 to 59c, gats.— Reject¬ 
ed white, 36c. 
Chicago, Ills.— No, 2 spring wheat at 73@7594c; No. 
2 red at 80)4c. No. 2 corn, 4894c. No. 2 oats. 27® 
30c; No. 2 Rye, 58c; No. 2 Barley, 77®81c No. 1 
Flaxseed at 81 45. prime Timothy seed $2 55®2 56. 
- ■■■ - . . 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
New York, Saturday, March 24,1838. 
Beeves.— Indiana steers 1416 lb at $5 25; do 1300 ft at 
$4 85: do 1.312 lb at $4 70: Kentucky do 1604 lb at $5 20; 
do 12 55 lb at $4 80; St. Louis do 1180 lbs at $130; Mich, 
do 11351b at $4 80. bulls and stags 161i)®2080 tb at *4 to 
4 50: Chicago Steers, 1816 lb at$5 15; do 18561b, at $5 10; 
do 1237 lb at $4 90; Western Steers, 1336 $5 20; do 1225 
lb at $4 85: do 1 i22 lb at $4 30; do 1147 lb at $4 45; Chi¬ 
cago do 1136 lb at $4 50: do 1218 lb at $4 50. Pennsyl¬ 
vania stable fed do 1029 lb, $4 35; do 1200 lb at $2 «5, 
Penn steers 1102 tb at $4 55: do 1253 tb at 84 70: do 1334 
lb at $4 72 Chicago steers 1534 lb at $4 50; do 1407 tb 
at $5 20, do 1445 lb, at $5 10; Penn do 1214 lb at $4 70; 
Michigan do 937 lb at $4 12 ) 4 ; Indiana do 1234 lb at $4 75 
Oxen 1610 lb, at at *4 25 do 1480 lb at 83 75: Culls 1366 
lb at *3 50; do 1317 $3 SO: Chicago steers 1274 at $5; do 
1279 lb lb at $4 85; do 1217 lb at $4 75; Buffalo do 1105 
lo at §4 20; western bulls 1410 lb at $3 65. 
Calves.— Western calves 415 lb at 3)4c per lb; 
Veals, 136 lb at 6)4c; do 148 lb at ?)£e, do 121 lb at 594c 
per lb. 
sheep and Lambs.— Ohio sheep, 87 lb at 6%c; Kansas 
74 lb at 5)4. Michigan lambs 74 lb at 7c; state Sheep 
and Lambs, 83 lb at 6Mc, Jersey ewes 112 tb at 5c: state 
do (culls) 62 tb at 494c: spring lambs, at $5 per head; 
Kentucky sheep (ewes and bucks) 102 lb at $5 10, 
State Sheep 86 lb at $6 439$: western do 87 lb 86 50; do 
123 lb at $7 20, western Sheep 99 lb at 86 50; western do 
99 lb at $6 35 less 85; do 96 lb at $6 90; Stale sheep 
(ewes) 92 lb at $6: do 106 lb at $7; do (few lambs) 93 lb 
at $7: Ohio sheep 107 lb at $7; State lambs 82)4 lb at 
$737)4, Michigan do 85 lb at $7 60. 
Hogs.— Nominally firmer at $5 60 to $590per 100 lb. 
Buffalo.— Cattle.— Common to Fair, $—®—. 
Sheep.— Common to Fair, $-®-; Good to choice, 
85 75®6(X); choice to extra $6 to 6 50: good to choice 
lambs S 6 25 to 6 75, extra 86 90@7. Hogs.— Mixed Pigs 
and light Yorkers .*5 50to $5 60; selected, Yorkers, 
$5 65®5 70; Selected medium weights, 85 75@5 85; 
choice heavy $-; Rough $5@5 15; Stags, $4. 
St. Louis, Mo.— Cattle.— Choice Heavy Native 
Steers, 84 40®5 10; Fair to Good, S3 90@4 50; Butchers’ 
Steers, medium to Choice, *3 10@4 25; stockers 
and feeders, fair to good, $2 00® 3 30; Rangers, or¬ 
dinary to good, $2 20®3„80. Hogs.— Choice heavy 
and Butchers’ Selections, $5 40@5 50; packing and 
medium to prime 35 15 to 5 45; light grades fair 
to best $4 90 to 5 25. Sheep.—Market steady. Fair to 
choice $4 to 5 10. 
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PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 
for Circular giving important advice about ship¬ 
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serving Eggs. Established 1845. 
No. 279 Washington St., New York City. 
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