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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Georgia. Absolutely no price whatever was 
offered for them, and to get rid of them the 
steamships loaded great quantities on lighters, 
which were towed out to sea* where wholesome 
food for thousands was dumped into the 
waves. There were hundreds of poor people 
eager to take the goods away; but to permit 
this would be to ruin the market for the deal¬ 
ers who had already bought stocks, and the 
depression would last all the longer. Some 
steamers that arrived later landed only a 
small proportion of their cargoes, taking the 
rest to sea on their return trip, so that they 
could get rid of the stufT at least expense. Of 
course,they lost the freight on all these goods, 
but the shippers lost everything. The rail¬ 
roads were better off than the steamers, for 
on telegraphic news of the glut, the Southern 
agents refused to receive vegetables for ship¬ 
ment. It is calculated that Southern truck 
farmers have lost thousands, if not tens of 
thousands, of dollars by this misfortune. To 
overstock even the largest market with per¬ 
ishable goods is temporarily to ruin trade, to 
the loss alike of shippers, carriers and con¬ 
signees; but especially of the first. Cannot 
some means be devised for preventing or min¬ 
imizing such a disaster?. 
...D. W. Makeen, of Fryburg, Me., has been 
elected to the State Board of Agriculture to fill 
a vacancy caused by the death of Afa Pike... 
.... There are a great many horses sick in 
Toledo, O., with typhoid pneumonia. It had 
about disappeared^ but a week ago seemed to 
startup at once, and there are at present a 
great many cases of it.The exports of 
wheat from South Australia were more than 
1% million bushels during March, which was 
the largest movement on record for one 
month.The reports from the growing 
crop of sugar beets are unfavorable. The late 
sowing has been followed by drought, which 
has injured the young plants, and it is possible 
that the recent estimates as to the size of the 
crop may need to be largely reduced. 
In five years sheep have increased eight per 
cent, in number in Utah, 11 per cent, in Cali¬ 
fornia, and 90 per cent, in Oregon..Aus¬ 
tralia is now credited with a grand total of 
86,352,020 sheep.The Government Orni¬ 
thologist at Washington estimates that the 
surplus in the United States Treasury would 
not suffice to pay the bounty for exterminat¬ 
ing the English sparrows in New York State! 
....A special meeting of the Pennsylvania 
State Board of Agriculture, in connection 
with a General Farmers’ Convention, will be 
held at the Court House, Warren, Pa., June 
12, 13 and 14. A very interesting programme 
has been prepared.A ring of aristocrat¬ 
ic landed proprietors at Vienna, Austria, has 
created a ‘ ‘corner” in Austro-Hungarian maize. 
Some of them had to mortgage their estates 
in order to procure the necessary cash, about 
12,000,000 florins in all. The price of maize is 
rising rapidly, but the general opinion is that 
the scheme will prove a failure . The 
trotting-bred stock owned by Commodore 
Kittson, deceased, will be sold at auction about 
June 18. This collection of horses embraces 
the stallions Blackwood Jr., 2:22%, Revenue, 
2:32%, and Von Arnim, 2:19%. Among the 
lots are the following mares which are now 
breeding: Gem, pacer, 2:13%: Fannie Wither¬ 
spoon, 2:16%; So, So, 2:17%; Minnie R., pac¬ 
ing, 2:16%, and trotting, 2:19; Lady Rolfe, 
2:22%; Astoria, 2:29%; Lady Groesbeck, 2:25% 
Sanuie G.,2:27; and Lady Logan 2:30.. 
The French Government has decided that all 
imported beef shall be carefully inspected, 
and will render a decree making it oligatory 
for all carcasses of cattle and hogs to be ac¬ 
companied by the heart, lungs and liver, that 
the inspectors may the more easily declare on 
the healthfulness of the food. All parts 
of Illinois report an improvement in the con¬ 
dition of meadows and pastures, and a result¬ 
ing improvement in live stock.The Vir¬ 
ginia Tobacco Exposition is to open at Rich¬ 
mond, October 3 and close November 21,1888. 
It will be held under the auspices of the Vir¬ 
ginia Agricultural and Mechanical Society. 
The exhibits will include arts, manufactures 
and products of the soil and mine. Commun¬ 
ications in regard to this exposition should be 
addressed to Henry C, Jones, Director-Gener¬ 
al, Richmond, Va. 
A Dairy Conference, under the auspices of 
the New York State Dairymen’s Association, 
will be held at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. 
Y., on Monday, June 20 inst., at 11 A. M., to 
illustrate Butter-Making. It will treat on breeds 
of cows, foods, methods of milking, strain¬ 
ing and setting of milk; skimming, prepara¬ 
tion of cream, churning, washing, salting, 
packing and marketing. All interested in 
butter-making are cordially invited to attend. 
.The Canadian Department of Agri¬ 
culture has decided to allow cars laden with 
neat cattle at Sherbrooke or anywhere in the 
County of Stanstead, and sealed and locked, 
to be taken through to the State of Vermont 
as far as Newport and brought again into 
Canada to Sutton Junction without being sub¬ 
jected to the usual quarantine, provided that 
the seals attached to the cars be found in¬ 
tact on their arrival at the Junction. 
« 
week has affected crops favorably, except in 
some sections of South Carolina, where the 
cool, wet weather was unfavorable to cotton. 
Reports from New England indicate that the 
temperature and rainfall for the week are 
below the average.” 
Recent rains have greatly improved the 
condition of wheat in the Red River Country 
of the great Northwest. The general outlook 
for small grains is very favorable. The St. 
Paul Pioneer Press says that in no part of 
Minnesota or Dakota has farm work been 
suspended except for a day or two. There is 
now little to be done except finishing up 
seeding corn and oats. Reports from all the 
stations on the line are of the most favorable 
character. The reports from stations on the 
Northern Pacific road are also favorable. 
From the Minnesota Valley there are com¬ 
plaints that the seed-wheat is rotting in the 
ground. In southern Minnesota seeding is 
about completed. The outlook is much more 
favorable than it was two weeks ago. It is 
expected that in southern Minnesota, with 
continued favorable weather, the output will 
be better than m any year of the last three. 
In southern Dakota wheat is up and doing 
well. Near Yankton oats and wheat are four 
inches high. At Pierre, Mitchell, Watertown 
and Huron the rain the past few days has done 
very great good. 
The Board of Directors of the Baltimore 
Fruit and Produce Exchange are perfecting 
plans for the coming season. The members 
from Maryland peach-growing sections report 
that the prospects for a full crop are good, 
and predict that Baltimore will receive more 
peaches this year than ever before. 
The latest reports on the wheat crop in Ohio 
are to the effect that the rains have greatly 
helped such wheat as had not been killed, but 
that the severity of the winter weather and 
the dryness of April have killed it in many 
places. The harvest will be about two weeks 
later than usual. 
It is estimated that there are about 28,000,- 
000 bushels of old corn now in the hands of 
producers in Illinois, against an average of 51,- 
800,000 bushels for the last nine years at the 
same season. The amount of old wheat on 
hand is estimated at 21,900,000 bushels, against 
an average of 32,275,000 bushels at the same 
date for the last nine years. 
The May receipts of flour by lake at Buffalo 
are 570,000 barrels, which is the largest May 
movement on record, making an average of 
of 23,750 barrels for each day the lake has 
been open. The receipts of grain for the 
month were 11,200,000 bushels and the ship¬ 
ments of anthracite ccal aggregated 403,900 
tons, which is the largest movement for May 
on record, that for last May having been 340,- 
000 tons. 
Condensation from this morning’s Bread- 
street’s: Cash wheat has declined since Friday 
last from 97%c. to 92%c., corn from 66c. to 
63c. to 63%c., and oats %c. to %c. Flour 
has declined 10c. to 15c. per barrel. Lard is 
21 points lower and dull. With the decline in 
the price of cash wheat the export demand 
has improved. Trading in “futures” this 
week has aggregated more than 40,000,000 
bushels of wheat at New York alone, at irre¬ 
gular prices. Exports from eight Atlantic 
ports (none reported from Pacific coast) are 
equal, flour and wheat, to 1,102,733 bushels 
of wheat, as against 1,473,575 bushels 
the preceding week (including exports from 
Pacific coast). Total exports wheat and flour, 
both coasts, July 1 to date, eleven months, ag¬ 
gregate 114,656,000 bushels. The outlook for the 
total of the year’s exports to July 1 next (wheat 
flour) is about 120,000,000 bushels. 
There is no change in the situation of wool 
at Boston, or indeed anywhere else. Prices 
are low and weak, and no large amounts of 
the staple can be moved save under conces¬ 
sions. Fine fleeces are about steady, with 
some weakness in delaines. Territory wool is 
for the most part quiet. There is a moderate 
movement of pulled stock in the lower grades. 
Carpet wool is quiet, with prices generally sus¬ 
tained. Current quotations are as follows, in 
comparison with last year and the year before: 
June 4, 
Ohio& Penn. X.29031 
Ohio & Penn. XX.81@32 
Ohio & Penn XX and above.32@33 
Michigan X.27@28 
Pine uhio delaine.30@32 
No. 1 combing.34085 
Texas spring, 12 months... .’19023 
June 3, 
1887. 
32 
33 3 84 
34(335 
81 
36® 87 
37@89 
20023 
June 1. 
1888. 
28 
29 
29@80 
2634@27 
31@32 
85 
17@22 
At Philadelphia wool is exceedingly dull, 
and prices are weak and unsettled. Stocks 
are light and very little new wool is coming 
forward, as dealers are unwilling to operate 
in the new clip districts except at lower prices 
than those now generally asked by growers. 
In Algeria the first week in May, 1888, some 
of the earlier crops of barley were being har¬ 
vested, and by the middle of May were expect¬ 
ed to be general. The cereal crops gave good 
promise. 
The cereal crops in Morocco at the end of 
April had good promise. 
Koumania had in 1887 2,200,000 acres of 
wheat, average yield 28 bushels and aggregate 
61,000,000 bushels. It was harvested m excel¬ 
lent condition, some weighing 66% pounds 
per bushel. The acerage of rye was 490,000 
acres, giving an aggregate yield of 13,500,- 
000 bushels. The barley crop aggregated 106,- 
000,000 from 1.741,000 acres, or 60 bushels per 
acre. 
Saturday, June 2. 1888. 
The Signal Service Report for last week, 
issued last Monday, says: “The weather for the 
week has been generally favorable in the 
States in the Mississippi Valley, resulting in 
general improvement of the crop conditions. 
Local storms have caused some damage in 
Arkansas and Louisiana, rendering it neces¬ 
sary to replant cotton in some sections. The 
In Buenos Ayres, March, themaise harvest 
was in progress with weather warm and dry. 
I he estimate that one-third of the crop was 
lost seems to be confirmed. The yield is un¬ 
equal as one to five, and the aggregate is diffi 
cult to estimate. 
La Plata maize is reported as no failure, 
but not so large a crop as in 1887, but fine 
and well conditioned. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
deficiency of rainfall in Mississippi is reported 
as having unfavorably affected crops in that 
section. The continued rains during the past 
week have retarded farm work in the middle 
Atlantic States, but the conditions of wheat, 
rye, oats, and grass have been improved; 
light injury is reported from frost in New 
sersey, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. In the 
South Atlantic States the weather during th 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, June 2, 1888. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Hay and Straw.— Hav—Choice Timothy per 100 it 
90c; good do 80085c: medium, 70@75c; shipping, 65c 
Clover, mixed 65070c. Straw.—No. 1 rye Si 00®S1 OS 
short do, 65@75e; oat. 40®50c. 
Hops.— In a jobbing way the movement Is fair, bu 
brewers show no disposition to take large lots. 
N. Y. State crop of 1887, best, 13@—c: do medium, 
10® 12c: do common, 9® 10c, do State old 4@6c; Pa¬ 
cific Coast, crop 1887, common to choice. 8® 12c; do 1886, 
common to good, 4@6c. Germans, crop of 1887, 10®22c. 
Cotton.—T he quotations, according to the American 
classification, are as follows: 
New Orleans. 
Uplands. and Gulf. 
Ordinary.734 7% 
Strict Ordinary. ~t% 
Good Ordinary.8 11-16 8 13-16 
Strict Good Ordinary.. 9 8-16 9 5-16 
Low Middling. 9 9-16 9 11 16 
Strict Low Middling... 9 13-16 9 15-16 
Middling.10 1034 
Good Middling.1034 1094 
Strict Good Middling.. 10 9-16 10 11-16 
Middling Pair.10 15-16 11 1-16 
Fair. 11 9-16 11 11-16 
STAINED. 
Good Ordinary.7 3-16 I Low Middling 
StrictGoodOrd.7% | Middling. 
Texas. 
8 13-16 
9 % 
Poultry.—Live,— Fowls, Jersey, State, and Penn, 
per ft, —@9c; fowls, Western, per n>, 8®9c roost¬ 
ers, old, per n>, 50534c; turkeys, per ft 7®10c, 
ducks, western per pair, 40 0 70c; geese, western, 
per pair, 90c@l 15; chickens; spring, per lb, 13030c. 
Poultry.—Dressed,— Turkeys, per ft, 7®llc; Fowls, 
Philadelphia, 11®—c; do western, 901134c: squabs, 
white, per doz, 82 75(33; do dark, per fioz, $—02 00; 
chickens. Philadelphia spring, 40045c: do Baltimore 
do 28®3Ue; do western do 25085c; ducks, spring, per 
lb, 23@3ic; do, 80llc. 
Game.— English snipe, per doz, $1 75; golden plo¬ 
ver, $1 50; grass do, $1. 
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKETS, 
Fruits. —Fresh.— Apples.—Inferior, per bbl *2 00® 
2 25; do Russet, per bbl, 82 50®3 75: strawberries, Nor¬ 
folk, per crate 25®6 1 25c; do Maryland, per quart, 
3®7c; huckleberries per quart 5®7c. 
Fruits Dried— Apples.—Evaporated,Choice to fancy 
7340S34C; do common to prime, evaporated 53407c; 
do sliced, new, 534®7c; do chopped, 2340294c; do cores 
and skins,—®lc; Cherries-pitted, 17@21c; Raspber 
ries—evaporated, new, 26027c: do sun-dried. 25® 
26c; Blackberries, 794@8c; Huckleberries new, 9@10c; 
Peaches, sun-dried, peeled, 16320c; Plums State, 10® 
11c. 
Nuts.— Peanuts are steady. Fancy hand picked are 
quoted at 494®434e and farmers’ grades at 30334c. 
Vegetables.— The quotations are for: Potatoes.— 
State Burbank, 82 00®2 25; Scotch, Magnum, per sack, 
81 90 32 00; English magnum per sack $1 75® 1 90; Ber¬ 
muda, best, $4®5 00. Savannah, per bbl, $2 00 to 3 00: 
New Orleans, $2®2 50; Charleston, new, $2®8, Onions, 
Bermuda, per crate, $1 50. do New Orleans, per bbl. 
4 3; do Egyptian, per bag. 83; Cabbages, Norfolk, per 
bbl. 35<obUc: do Nortn Caroliua, 40®75c; do Charleston, 
percrate, 40c® .‘1 00; Beets, perorate, 75c®$l 00; string 
beans, Savannah, per crate, 50@75c; Charleston, 50c® 
$1_; North Caroliua, 75cto $2 25. tomatoes, per crate 50 
®75c; do per box, 15@20c asparagus, per doz bunches, 
$12542 25:do do common, <:c®*l; Pease green, -per 
bbl. $1 75®2 50. do do per crate, 60c to *1. Squash, per 
crate, 50 to 75c; cucumbers per crate 4Uc®$i 00 
Philadelphia, Pa.—Potatoes.—White Potatoes- 
Scotch Magnums per 168 ft saok.SJ 00®2 10; do Regents 
$1 70® 1 80; do Champions $1 G0®170;Peuusylvauia and 
New York Early Rose, choice, White per bush, 
—®60c; do fair to good, 50@55c; do do Burbanks and 
White Stars, choice, 75®78c; dodo fair to good, 
63 to 73c: Hebrons, choice. I0®65c do fair to good, 5ti to 
55c: mammoth pearl choice -®75c; do fair to good 68 
to 1 3c. Florida new potatoes, prime per bbl, $3 38 50 ; 
do do medium, $2 25 to 2 75; do new poiatoes,culls per 
bbl, $1 to 1 75. 
Boston.— Potatoes.—Aroostook rose, 75®30c, hebron, 
75c; proliflcs, 75c: burbanks, 75c; Provincial barrel 
$1 75@2; Scotch champions. 4U(S5Uc; magnums, 6()®70; 
ebeuangoes, 70c; new Southern potatoes $5. Beets, 
7ac@$l per bu; Elorldado, $1 75 per crate; carrots, *1 
per bu. onions, Spanish, 20234c per lb; Bermudas $2 
per crate; natives nominal, bunch onions 2c per 
bunch; Squash, marrow, *4® 4 50 per bbl; Southern 
summer «i®l 50 per crate; turnips, $t 25 per bu; new 
3c per bunch: white French and St. Andrew $1 75®2 
per bbl: radish, Sucper doz; parsnips, $1 75 to 2; let¬ 
tuce, 60c per doz: dandelions, 35 to 4uc per bu; spinach 
25 to 35c per bu, asparagus, 7ic to $1 per doz; cucum¬ 
bers, natives, §6 per i00; Southern. $3 per crate; toma¬ 
toes, hot house, 50 to 60 c per lb; Florida, SI to 2 per 
crate; riiubarb, 2 to 4c per lb; green peas, $2 to 2 25 
per 34'bbl crate; southern cabbage, $1 50 per crate; 
southern string beans, SI 50 to 2 per crate, southern 
kale, SI per bbl; cauliflower, 33 to 40c each. 
PROVISION MARKETS. 
New York.—Provisions.—PORK.-M ess, quoted at 
$14 00 to 14 50 one year old; New mess, 15 25® 15 50, 
short clear, $16®18, Extra Prime mess, $13: primo 
do, $15@15 50, family mess, $15 50®16 50. beef— 
Extra India Mess, in tierces, *12 00,017 00; Extra 
Mess, In barrels. $7@7 50; Packet, $8® 8 50; per bbl, 
and $H@11 50 In tierces; Plate, $7 25®7 50.; Family at 
$9 50. Bhef Hams.— Quoted at *15 50016 here and $15 
at the West. Out Meats.- Pickled Hams, ilw®iiWc. 
pickled Shoulders 734 to 794c; Smoked shoulders at 
8340: do Hams 12 to i234c. Dressed Hogs.—City heavy 
to light, 734 to 7 9-16c; pigs, 7940794c. Lard. — Western 
steam spot quoted 8.60c; City steam, 8.15c; refined 
quoted at 3.40c; Continent 9.75c; So American June, 
8 55c- July. 8.52 to 8.58c; August, 8.53 to 8.58c; Septem¬ 
ber 8.60®to 8.62c; October, at 8.59®8.60c. 
Philadelphia, Pa.— Provisions.—Beef.— City fam¬ 
ily, per bbl, $8 5039; do packets, $7 50®8; Smoked beef, 
12013c; Beef hams, $16 00®17 00. Pork.— Mess, $ 16 @ 
do prime mess, new, $14 50; do, do, family, $16@ 
17 50. Hams—smoked, 1134@18c; do S.P. cured in tea,1034 
@1134c; sides, clear ribbed In salt,834®9c; do smoked 
934010c; shoulders in dry salt, fully cured, 694c; 
do smoked, 7340734c; shoulders, pickle cured,7340791c; 
do smoked, 834®9e; bellies in pickle, 83409c; do break¬ 
fast bacon, 10c. Lard.— Firm. City Refined, $9 00 
@9 50; do, Steam, $8.75@9 00; butcher’s loose $8 2508 50. 
Chicago.—Mess Pork.— $14 00 to 14 05 per bbl. Lard. 
-Per 100 lbs. $8 40. Short Rib sides (loose). $8 50; dry 
salted shoulders, boxed, $6 0006 25; short clear sides, 
boxed $8 1008 15. 
DAIRY AND EGG MARKETS. 
VACOUiClJ.-CA.IJ 
1801834c; State, best, 1834@19t4c; Western, b( 
18e; do prime, 17c; do good, 1534 to 1634c; do poor, 1 - 
015c, State dairy—Half-tirklns, tubs, best 1S34@1! 
do do prime, 1701734c; do, do, fine, 16016}- 
Welsh tubs, fine, 1701734c; do good, 1534@16c; Weste 
—Imitation creamery, best, 15015c; do. fine, 14®143i 
Western dairy, fine, 1501534c; do, fair, 18340 1 - 
do do poor, 1234018c; do, factory, best, 14®14*4c; ■ 
do good, 1301334c do, poor, 1201234c. 
Cheese.— New factory full cream, white, 8J4c; do do 
colored. S34c; do fair and good,734 to 8c do skims, 
light, 494 to 6J4 c; do skims 2 to 4c; Pennsylvania skims, 
1 to l}4c Ohio fiat, 80834c. 
Eggs.—N ear-by, fresh, 1594@l6c; Canadian do, per 
doz. 1594® 16c; Western do, 1534c; duck, 18 to 20c; goose 
24 to 25c. 
Philadelphia, Pa.— Butter.— Pennsylvania cream 
ery, extra, 18®19c; western do do, 18019c; B. C. and N" 
Y. creamery extra, 18@—c; western factory, l4015c : 
packing buuer, 12015c. Eggs—Easier. Penn, firsts,1594 
to 16c, western firsts, 1594 to 16c. Cheese—Quiet, de, 
maud fair. N. Y. full cream, 9}4@34c; Ohio flats 
choice, 9c; do fair to prime, 8340894 c. 
Chicago, Ill —Butter.— Creamery, 14®17c, dairy 
15®16c. Eggs.—F irm at 1334014c. per doz. 
Boston.—B utter.—Fine fresh creamery,22023c; extra 
firsts, fresh creamery, 2 u® 21 e; best imitation cream¬ 
ery, 16C; ladle packed, 15018c; northern best new 
dairy, 20023c. Cheese.—Some demand for new cheese 
at 834 to 934c and old has dropped off so that very good 
old cheese hus been bought as low as 10c. Eggs.—East¬ 
ern and Northern, fresh, 150l5!*c; fancy, nearby 
and cape, 16®l7c; Southern and Western, 14 to 14}4c; 
provincial, 14c. 
GRAIN MARKETS. 
New York—Wheat.-No. 1 Hard at 9134 to 9234c; Un¬ 
graded Red at 8994®94c; No. 2 red 9109134c; Instore 
and elevator; 92® 9294c delivered; 923439234c f. o. b.; 
No. 2 red May, 91 to 92, do June 90 15-160 92c; do for 
July, 91J439234C; do for August, 91%@92%c: do for 
September 9234 0 9334c; do for December, 94 13-lbe; do 
May, 1889 99®$1 0034- Corn. -Ungraded Mixed, 6234 
063 34 c; steamer, 6234c; No. 2. 6236c elevator; 63 to 6834c 
delivered; No. 2 May, 63 to 6494c; do June, 619406234c 
do for July, 61 to 6234c; do for August. 619436234 c. 
do for September, 62 to 6294 c; do for October. B2c; 
Oats. —No. 3 8734c: do white, 43(g«34c; No. 2 38089c- 
do white 4394 to 4434c. No. 1 white 434 c; Mixed West; 
ern, 36040c: white do 42 to 47c: No. 2 June 3734088c: 
do July 8836@3S}4e: do August. 3334 to 34c; do Sep¬ 
tember, 3334 to 38}4c; No 2 white June 43c; do July 
at 43c. 
Philadelphia, Pa.— Wheat.—No 2 Red. for May 
9734098c; do for June. 949409534c; do for July 91)4@ 
92c; do August 90J4to 91c. Corn— Ungraded I 11 grain 
depot 62c; Steamer No. 2 mixed In grain depot 6234c; 
No. 2 mixed and yellow In grain depot 64e; No. 2 
mixed dead storage in 20th-st. elevator 6306334c; do 
regular In 20th-st elevator 6394c offered in export ele¬ 
vator at 63c; No 1 2 mixed for MAy 62 to63c. do June 
6234 to 6334c, do July 63 0 6334c. do for August 6894 ® 
6434c. Oats.— Ungraded white, 4334c; No. 2 mixed 
4034c: No. 8 white 42c; No. 2 white 4334c; do on track 
at 4394c, 
Chicago, Ills.—No, 2 spring wheat at 8336®84c: No 
3 do nominal; No. 2 red nominal; No. 2 corn, 5134c. 
No. 2 oats, 3703734c; No. 2 Rye, 65c; No. 2 Barley, 690 
6934c. 
Buffalo. N. Y.—Wheat.-No. 1 Hard6c over Chi¬ 
cago July; Winter wheat lower, No.2 red at 923409894c; 
No. 1 White Michigan $1 00 asked. Corn—No. 2 yellow 
60c No. 8 yellow 59c; No, 3 5834c. Oats.—No. 2 white, 
413404194c; No 3 white 41c; No. 2 mixed 39c. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
New York, Saturday, June 2, 1888. 
Beeves.- Chicago steers 1292 ft average, at $5 25 per 
100 lb: do 1345 ft at $5 20; do H28 lb at $5 10; do 1185 lb. 
at $4 95; do 1188 ft, at $4 90; do 1154 lb at $4 8U; Chica¬ 
go bulls 1085 lb at $2 75: do 1307 ft at 83 20; do 1230 
ft, at $3: do 115501960 1 b at S3 15®3 6234: Kentucky 
steers 1855 lb at $4 90; Oxen, 1630 lb at $4 75: Chicago 
steers do. 1256 lb at $5 20; do 1855 lb at $5 15; do 1260 
lb at $5 1234; do 1260 at $5 05; stags, 1290 lb at $4 25; bulls 
110001350 lb at $308 25; Lancaster County, Pennsyl¬ 
vania Steers, 1337 lb at *5 15. do 1150 lb at 84 70; Penn¬ 
sylvania Dry Cows. 926 lb at $3 15; do 9701b at $3 25; 
Chicago steers 1338 lb at $5 20; do 1162 lb at $4 90; Ohio 
steers 1333 tb. at $5 25: State do It 57 ft at $4 70: do 
Oxen, 1670 lb at $4 80; Ohio do 1955 at $4 25; Lancaster 
County, Pennsylvania steers, 1180 Id at $4 90; 
Chicago steers. 1362 lb at $5 80; do 1329 lb $5 25: do 
1222 lb 1b at $5 05: do 1814 lb at $5; do 1242 lb at $4 95; 
Western do from Pittsburg 1222 lb at $5. 
Calves.— Buttermilk calves 108 lb average at 834c 
per lb; do - 102 ft lb at 394 c: veals 115 1b at 5c; do 123 
lb at 6c; do 140 lb at 634c; Buttermilk calves. 124 lb at 
834c: do 134 1 b at'4c; veals 108 ft at 5e; do 129 lb at 634 c: 
do 125 lb at 53*c; do 135 lb at 6c; Buttermilk calves. 120 
lb at 4c veals 134 lb at 6c: Veals, 127 lb at 594 c: do 122 lb 
at 634c: Mixed calves 188 lb at 434c; veals 143 lb at 6c; 
do 148 lb at 634c; Buttermilk calves 113 lb at 4c per lb; 
do do 118 lb at 334 c; veals, 148 lb at 534c; Pennsylvania 
veals 138 lb at 534 c. 
Sheep and Lambs.— Texas sheep 7034 lb average at 
334 c per lb: Virginia lambs 56 lb at 534c: Tennessee 
ewes 91 lb at $3 60; Kentucky sheep 101 lb at $4 20c; 
do 105 lb at $4 50; Ohio do 77 lb at $4 50; do 85 lb at 
$4 85; Kentucky Lambs 56 lb at 5}4c per lb: do 5834 lb 
at 634 c; Tennessee do 61 at 534 c; Kentucky lambs 63 ft 
at6J4c: do 70 U> at 7c: Ohio Sheep. 88 lb #5 40 per 11 0 lb; 
do 95 lb at $5 25; Kentucky lambs 59 lb at 634 c per lb; 
Virginia do 53 lb at 534c: do 56 lb at 594 c: do 58 lb at 6c; 
do 57 lb at 634c, do 67 lb at 7c; do culls at SI 25 per 
head Maryland lambs 57 lb at 634c; Virginia do extra 
74 lbat 734c; Kentucky lambs 66 lb average at 7c per lb 
Hogs.— None for sale alive. Nominally steady at 
594 to 6c for fair to good hogs. 
Chicago.—Cattle.— Market strong. Beeves $4 00® 
4 50: stockers and feeders, $2 50®4 10; Cows, bulls 
and mixed *1 9503 60; Texas steers. $2 90 to 4 60. Hogs 
—Mixed $5 250 5 45; Heavy, $5 35®5 55; Light, $5 2005 40; 
Pigs and culls, $4 C0®5 05. SHKKP.-Natives shorn 
$2 75®5 25; Texan $2 123404 75: Heavy Western shorn 
$4 75. 
St. Louis, Mo.— Cattle.— Market active and 10c 
per cwt higher than yesterday. Hogs.—C hoice Heavy 
and butchers’ selections, 85 4005 50; packing medium 
to* prime *5 256<«5 45, light grades ordinary to best 
$510 to 5 35. Sheep.—Market firm. Fair to choice 
$3 80 to 4 60. 
Communications Received for the Week Ending 
June 2, 1888. 
T. J. Hughes, thank you—J. T. C—H. S.—W. R. W. 
H. I. B.—C. A. Z.-W. F. N.-F, N. W.-F. B B. Jr.-T. 
H. H.—E. H—C. E. L.—I. N. S.—J. H.—W. B.—J L. W. 
—T. S. D., thank you.- J. L. B.—Mrs. I. D. G., thanks. 
-J. H.-W.C. R.-S K. D.-W. L. H.-W. E.—W. L. B. 
—A. C. B.—W. B. A.—F. A. H., thanks.—D. B. C.—J. O. 
B.-J. W. S.-A. L. R.-C. H. A.-L. H. R. -J. C.—C. T.- 
Kay, thanks-C. H. H.-W. C. D., thauks.-R. B.-B, 
H. K.— 
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