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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 9,1888. 
.... Senate bill to increase the endowment (by 
a grant of 25,000 acres of public land in Lou¬ 
isiana) of the Louisiana State University and 
Agricultural College has been passed in the 
House. Since the recent increase in the 
French tariff on wheat and floar, the consump¬ 
tion of rye in France has largely increased, 
while the consumption of wheat has decreased 
to the same extent... Grain rates by the lakes 
from Chicago to Buffalo have gone down to two 
cents on wheat and 1 % on corn. From St. Louis 
to this city rates are being cut from three to 
five cents by some roads.The quantity 
of wheat and flour now in transit to Europe, 
with the visible supply of wheat in the United 
States and Canada, is equivalent to 50,289,- 
420 bushels of wheat, against 61,170,871 bush¬ 
els one year ago, and of corn 13,114,452 bush¬ 
els, against 16,213,312.Late advices 
from Chili state that the granaries in the 
South are full of wheat that must come for¬ 
ward sooner or later, but unfortunately a 
large proportion has been impaired by bad 
weather, and therefore will not grade as stand¬ 
ard No. 1.It is estimated that the con¬ 
sumption of flour and wheat in the United 
Kingdom for the last week exceeded the far 
jners 7 deliveries of native wheat and the im¬ 
portation of foreign wheat and flour by a 
quantity equivalent to 140,744 bushels of 
wheat.A few Baltimore packers have 
made a price on early June peas of $1.25, but 
the others are still holding them at $1.50. 
... Exports of wheat and flour from Atlantic 
ports week before last amounted to 1,111,000 
bushels of wheat, against 3,242,000 bushels in 
the same week last year.Massachusetts 
has appropriated $81,421.75 for agricultural 
purposes this year. Of this amount $19,200 
are for bounties for agricultural societies; 
$10,000, agricultural college scholarships; 
$10,000 for the State Experiment Station; 
$7,000 for the Cattle Commissioners, and the 
rest for minor expenses. 
... At Springfield, Ill. Tuesday, thirty- 
seven millers organized the Central Illinois 
Millers’ Association, D. S. Shellabarger, of 
Decatur, President, to protect the milling in 
West in the territory south of Peoria and 
north of Alton...... Cut-worms are reported 
by Professor Forbes, State Entomologist of 
Illinois, to be more numerous in that State 
this year than for many years, and he also re¬ 
ports the root web-worm to be doing an im¬ 
mense amount of damage in certain sections 
of the State.Louis Huller has purchased 
5,000,000 acres of land in the States of Chiapas 
and Chihuahua, Mexico, for colonization pur¬ 
poses.. The exports of wheat from the 
Atlantic coast thus far this week exceed those 
of the same day last week by 141,931 bushels 
.The Omaha Railroad has reduced 
rates 2% cents on flour from Minneapolis and 
other northwestern points to New York, Bos¬ 
ton and other Atlantic ports. It is said that 
the Chicago, Burlington and Northern Rail¬ 
road will make a like reduction. 
The government crop report for June, to be is¬ 
sued to-day, is generally expected to show a 
more favorable condition of the crops than the 
May report..The cotton crop of upper 
Egypt is reported to be forward and in ex¬ 
cellent condition. In some of the Delta prov¬ 
inces it is backward but healthy. The sea¬ 
son is cold and water abundant. 
... .The Texas spring clip of wool, it is esti¬ 
mated, will aggregate 35,000,000 pounds. It 
is being stored away at the various wool cen¬ 
ters to await buyers, at better prices than 
those now offered. 
A dairy conference under the auspices of 
the New York State Dairymen’s Association 
will be held at the factory of Frank Blandiug, 
at Hubbardsville, Madison Co., Friday, Juno 
29th, 1888, from 8 A. m. until 4 p. M. to illus¬ 
trate cheese making by actual process. All 
persons interested in butter making are in¬ 
vited to the conference. 
The report has been going the rounds of the 
press that the farm mortgages of Iowa amount 
to $857,000,000, and the farm mortgages of 
other Western States in like proportion. Gov¬ 
ernor Larrabee of Iowa has been investigat¬ 
ing this question in his own State, and while 
it is impossible to tell just what the amount 
of mortgages is, he is sure that it will not ex¬ 
ceed $70,000,000. The press estimate is more 
than the entire valuation of farm property in 
the State.The Mississippi River is still 
rising and there is no telling how wide-spread 
the disaster to the farmers whose lands are 
overflowed may prove...... 
....The National Butchers’ Protective Asso¬ 
ciation used some very plain language at their 
late meeting, as the following paragraph from 
the committee’s report will indicate: 
“We think, also, that the worst combina¬ 
tion in the country is the pork and adulterated 
lard packers. They have no equal in the 
Standard Oil trust, the sugar trust, the cop¬ 
per trust or any other trust. They have had 
a powerful influence over our business for 
years. The prices of cattle to the producer 
have gone down 50 per cent, and the price to 
the consumer has increased and every 
single dollar of the difference has gone into 
the pocket of the combination.”. 
Crops & IBarlifts. 
Saturday, June 9. 1888. 
The Mark Lane Express in its review of the 
English grain trade during the past week 
says: The values of native wheats are in fa¬ 
vor of buyers. The sales of English wheat 
during the past week were 45,874 quarters of 
eight bushels each at 32s, against 38,856 quar¬ 
ters at 35s, during the corresponding week last 
year. Flour is depressed and sells at about 
the lowest price ever known. Foreign wheat 
is weak. At Liverpool prices are dowu Id. 
(2cts) percental (100 pounds.) Corn, under in¬ 
creased supplies, declined 4d per cental. 
The indicated packing in the West for the 
week is 205,000 hogs, against 215,000 the pre¬ 
ceding week and 230,000 for corresponding 
time last year,according to the Cincinnati Price 
Current. The total for March 1 is about 2,- 
190,000 hogs, against 2,205,000 a year ago. At 
Chicago the receipts since March 1 have been 
135,000 greater than for corresponding time 
last year, and the shipments 145,000 to 150,000 
greater than last year. Prices of hogs receded 
moderately during the week, closing with a 
recovery of the decline, some markets being a 
little higher than a week ago. The average 
price at Chicago is about 70 cents per 100 
pounds higher than a year ago, although the 
top figure is but 55 cents higher than then, the 
range being within smaller limits. 
Condensations from this morning’s Brad- 
street’s to which we are also indebted for 
much other information given here, are as 
follows:— 
Its regular monthly report of stocks of 
wheat in the United States and Canada, out 
of farmers’ hands, June 2, gives a total of 
46,800,000 bushels, both coasts, or 45,000,000 
bushels less than we held January 1, as com¬ 
pared with but 46,000,000 bushels’ reduction 
during six months of 1887. East of the Rocky 
mountains wheat stocks aggregate 39,000,000 
bushels, 34,800,000 bushels less than five months 
ago. The visible supply July 1 will probably 
equal 30,000,000 bushels, the smallest total for 
four years. Spring wheat, in Northwestern 
interior elevators aggregated 8,000,000 bushels 
Juno 2, 1888, against over 9,000,000 bushels 
July 1, 1887. Flour is 10c. lower;cash wheat, 
2}4'c. higher; No. 2 mixed corn, 2%c. lower, 
and oats, J^c. lower. Cattle and hogs at St. 
Louis and Kansas City are in excellent sale 
for all but the lowest grades, and values are 
firm with advancing tendency. At Omaha 
hogs are declining. 
Leaf tobacco is firmer and higher at Louis¬ 
ville for nearly all grades, especially burleys. 
Kentucky tobacco-crop reports are unfavora¬ 
ble; poor seed, cut worm, indifferent planting 
weather and bad-growing season combining 
to lower prospects. 
Wool prices throughout the interior are, as 
usual at this season, above the seaboard level. 
Increasing activity appears at San Antonio and 
other points in Texas, where considerable 
quantities of eight-months’ wool have been 
sold at 16c. to 16)£c. per pound. A more 
liberal movement is under way in California, 
with the range of prices from 11c. to 17c. per 
pound. In Utah something has been done at 
12Xc. to 15c. Shearing is in full progress in 
Ohio, and is beginning in Michigan, Moutana, 
and Wyoming. Prices are not yet generally 
established in the States named. In the North¬ 
west buyers are not operating. 
Prices at London are one-half to one cent 
per pound higher than at the close of the last 
series of sales. 
While there is no tendency to an advance, 
it is generally thought that the bottom has 
been reached, at least for the present. If the 
Mills Bill passes it is thought there may be a 
further small decline, though the chances for 
legislation have been discounted to a consider 
able extent. Holders are letting go of their 
old stocks of California and Texas wool. Cur¬ 
rent quotations at Boston are as follows, with 
comparisons: 
June 11, June 10, June 8. 
1886. 1887. 1883. 
Ohio & Penn. X.80®81 82 28 
Ohio & Penn. XX.31@S2 33®84 29 
Ohio & Penn XX and above.32®83 34@85 29@80 
MlchiKan X.27®28 Sl@32 26®27 
Fine Ohio delaine.80@82 3«@S7 31@32 
No. 1 combing.85@S4 37® 39 35 
Texas spring, 12 mouths_2(j®23 20@28 17@22 
The sales of the week at Boston have amount¬ 
ed to 2,719,500 pounds, as compared with 
1,253,000 pounds last week, and 2,100,000 in 
the same week last year. 
English reports from the hop plantations 
are very unsatisfactory. The vine generally 
has come away very weak, and is exceeding¬ 
ly backward in many districts. Flies have 
attacked the plant so severely that in some 
gardens the leaves are completely eaten up, 
and the growth of the plant checked. With 
regard to the cultivation, it never was worse. 
In some gardens nothing has been done beyond 
sticking the poles up, and the hop gardens 
generally are becoming strangers to manure 
of any description. The low price of the last 
three seasons is killing the hop industry very 
rapidly. It is estimated that a further decrease 
of about 8,000 acres will be shown this year, 
while many acres, although not grubbed, have 
been sown with corn. All present appearances 
point to a short crop. With regard to the 
market, it may be quoted firm at the extremely 
low prices now ruling. Borne consumers are 
covering themselves against a shortage this 
season. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, June 9, 1888. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Beans.—M arrows, 2 8002 85,medium,choice $2 50; pea 
$2 80@2 85; red kidneys, $2 00; white kidneys 
choice, *2 10@2 15; foreign, mediums, #1 65@2 10; do 
small, $2 20; California Lima, $2 90; green peas, new, 
82 00. 
Cotton.—T he quotations, according to the American 
classification, are as follows: 
New Orleans. 
Uplands. and Gulf. Texas. 
Ordinary.7)4 7% . 
Strict Ordinary. 7)14 7% . 
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 18-16 9 15-16 . 
Middling.10 10 % . 
Good Middling.10)4 1U : >6 . 
Strict Good Middling. .10 9-16 10 11-16 . 
Middling Fair.10 15-16 11 1-16 . 
Fair.11 9-16 11 11-16 . 
STAINED. 
Good Ordinary.7 3-16 I Low Middling ... 8 13-16 
Strict Good Ord.7% | Middling. 956 
Poultry.—Live,— Fowls, Jersey, State, and Penn, 
per lb, 10)6®Uc; fowls, Western, per n>, lU)6c- roost¬ 
ers, old, per lb, —®6c; turkeys, per lb 7®10c, 
ducks, western per pair, 40®60c; geese, western, 
per pair, 80e@l 00; chickens; spring, per lb, 16®25c. 
Poultry.—Dressed,—T urkeys, per !b,6®l0c; Fowls, 
Philadelphia, 11® 12c; do western, 8@lle: squabs, 
white, per doz, 83 25®—; do dark, per doz, 8—®2 0O; 
chickens, Philadelphia spring, 35@40c; do Baltimore 
do 25 a)28c; do western do 23®30c; ducks, spring, per 
lb, 20®21c; do, 5@10c. 
Game.— English snipe, per doz, $1 75; golden plo¬ 
ver, $1 00®1 25; grass do, 75c. 
Hay and Straw.— A fair business is passing from 
day to day at previous quotations: Hay—Cnoice Tlm- 
otny per 100 lb, 9l)@95c: No. 1 do 80ej85c; No 2 do, 75® 
89c; Clover, mixed 70«.80c; clover 65 ®7Ue; shipping. 65 
@70c. Straw.—Long rye $l 05381 10; short do, 75c; 
oat, 45®50c. 
Hops.—S elling in small lots at previous figures. N. 
Y. State crop of 1837, best, I2®13c, do medium, 
10®12c; do common, 9 310c, 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 1387, 16®22c. 
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKETS. 
Fruits. —Fresh.—A pples.—Inferior, per bbi 82 00® 
2 25; do Russet, per bbi, 82 50®3 50 strawberries, Jer¬ 
sey, per quart 6®l0c; do Maryland, per quart, 
3®8e; huckleberries per quart 4i«oli)e; gooseberries per 
quart, 5 «6; Peaches, per crate, 8100®4 09; cherries, per 
lb, 6®12c. 
Fruits Dried -Apples.—Evaporated,Choice to fancy 
7)4®8)6c; do common to prime, evaporated 5)6®7c; 
do sliced, new, 5)6 *7c; do chopped, 2)6(»254c; do cores 
and skins, —@lc; Cherries -pitted, I7®21c; Raspber 
ries—evaporated, new, 20®27o: do sun-dried. 25® 
26c; Blackberries, 7J4@3c,- Huckleberries new. 9 iilUc, 
Peaches, sun-dried, peeled, 16®20c; Plums State, 1U@ 
lie. 
Nuts.—P eanuts are quiet. Fancy hand picked are 
quoted at 446®4)6c and farmers’ grades at3®3)6c. 
Vegetables.—'T he quotations are for: Potatoes.— 
Old 75c®8'2 00; old, per sack. 7oC®$2 00; Bermuda, best, 
84 ®5 00, Savannah, per bbi, 83 50 to 4 00; Charleston, 
new, 83 50®4 25, Onions, Bermuda, per crate. $1 75; 
do New Orleans, per bbi. »8 25®3 75; do Egyptian, 
per case, 82 00 to 2 25; Cabbages, Norfolk, per 
bbi. 75c®$l 00; do Nortn Carolina, 75e®$l (X); 
Beets, per 100 bunohes, 83OO^T;)0; string 
beans, Savannah, per crate, 81® 1 75; Charleston, 81 50® 
2; North Carolina, 81 25 to 250. tomatoes, per crate 60c 
®$175; do per box, 15®25c. asparagus, per doz bunches, 
81 25@2 09; do do common, 7r.c®81; Pease green, per 
bbi, 83 UU®4 50; do do per crate, 81 to 2 00. Squash, per 
crate, 50 to 75c; cucumbers per crate 50c®81 00 
Philadelphia, Pa.—Potatoes.—White Potatoes- 
Scotch Magnums per 168 lb -iack,81 80®1 90; do Regents 
81 70® 1 80; do Champions $160®170;Peuusylvauia and 
New York Early Rose, choice, White per bush, 
—«50c; do fair to good, 40®45c; do do Burbanks and 
White Stars, choice, —®70c; do do fair to good, 
65 to 68c: Hebrons, choice. —(& 50c do fair to good, 40 to 
45c; mammoth pearl choice - ®70c, do fair to good 65 
to 68c. Florida new potatoes, prime per bbi, $3®0 50; 
do do medium, 82 25 to 3 0q do uew potatoes,culls,per 
bbi, 81 to 1 50. 
Boston.—F ruit.—Apples, $2®4 per bbi; strawberries, 
7@10c per quart; blueberries, 12®15c; gooseberries, 
8® 10c. Vegetables.—Cucumbers,natives. $5®7 per tOO; 
carrots, 5( c per bunch; old §1 per bu, cauliilower, *3 
per doz;.cabbage, 82 0O per bbi; Beets, new, 82 per doz 
bunches; old 8i per bu;-string beans, SI 50 per crate, 
artichokes Si 50 per bu; asparagus, 81 12 per doz; 
cress, 35c: dandelions, 35c per bu; egg plant, 81 50 per 
doz: garlic 81 ; horse radish, 8® tUc per lb; kale, 33c 
per bu: leek 81 perdoz; lettuce, 35 to 50e perdoz; mush¬ 
room 50c per lb: green peas, $2 per bu: parsnips, 
$1 50 per bu: parsley 2 50; radish 25c per doz; rhubarb, 
lc per 1b: sorrel 75c per pk; spinach 20c per bu, old 
Squash, 83 50 per cwt; Florida, tomatoes, $150@2 50 
per crate; hot house do, 40c per lb; turnips, SI per 
bush. 
PROVISION MARKETS. 
New York.—Provisions.—Pork.— Mess, quoted at 
814 00 to 14 50 one year old; New mess, 15 25® 15 50, 
short clear, $16@18. Extra Prime mess, $13: prime 
do, $15@15 50, family mess, $15 25®15 50. beef— 
Extra India Mess, in tierces, 812 00®17 00; Extra 
Mess, in barrels. 87®7 50; Packet. $8®8 50; per bbi, 
and $11@11 50 in tierces; Plate, 87 25®7 50.; Family at 
89 50. Beef Hams.- Quoted at *15 50® 16 here and §15 
at the West. Cut Meats.- Pickled Bellies 12 lb aver¬ 
age. Loose bellies, 756c bid; 1U lb average at 7J4e bid; 
Pickled Hams, ll)4'a;ll)6c pickled Shoulders 7)6 to 
756c; Smoked shoulders at 8)6c: do Hams 12 to I2)4e. 
Dressed Hogs—City heavy to light, 75s to 756c; pigs, 
756®754u- Laud. - Western steam spot quoted 8.82)6 
®8.85c; City steam, 8.15e; refined quoted at 8 55c; 
Continent and 9.75c; So. American June, 8.83c' July. 
8.86c; August, 8.91c; September 8.91®8.93c; October, at 
8.89c. 
Philadelphia, Pa.— Provisions.—Beef.— City fam¬ 
ily, per bbi, 88 50®9; do packets, 87 50®8; Smoked beef, 
12® 13c; Beef hams, $16 00®17 00. Pork.— Mess, 816® 
do prime mess, new, $14 50; do, do, family, $16® 
16 50. Hams—smoked,ll)6®13c; do S.P. cured in tes, 10)4 
@ll)4c; sides, clear ribbed in salt,8)6®9c; do smoked 
9)6®10c; shoulders in dry salt, fully cured, 654 c; 
do smoked, 7)6®754c; shoulders, pickle cured,7)4®754c; 
do smoked, 8)6@9e; bellies in pickle, 8)6@9c; do break¬ 
fast bacon, 10c. Lard.— Firm. City Refined, 89 00 
®9 50; do, Steam, $8.75@9.00; butcher’s loose $8 25®8 50. 
Chicago.—Mess Pork.— $ 14 05 to 1410 per bbi. Lard. 
—Per 100 lbs, $8 60. Short Rib sides (loose), $7 62)6: dry 
salted shoulders, boxed, $6 00®6 25; short clear sides, 
boxed $3 10®8 15. 
DAIRY AND EGG MARKETS. 
New York.—Butter— Creamery.—Elgin extra, 
19®19)6c: State, best, 19®20c; Western, best 
I9c; do prime, 18c; do good, 16)6 to 17)6c; do poor. 15 
@16c. State dairy—Half-lirkius, tubs, best —®19c; 
do do prime, 17)6®18c: do, do, fine, 16@17c: 
Welsh tubs, flne,17®17)6c; do good,15)6®16)6c; Western 
—Imitation creamery, best, 16®16J4e: do fine. 14®15c; 
Western dairy, fine, 15®15)6c; do, fair, 18)6® 14c; 
do do poor, 12)6®18c; do, factory, best, —@15c; do 
do good, 13®14e do, poor, 12@12)6c. 
Cheese.— New factory full cream, white, 8)4®856c; 
dodo colored. 8)4®856c; do fair and good,7)4 to 8c: 
do skims, light, 454 to 6)6c: do skims 2 to 4c; Pennsyl¬ 
vania skims, 1 to l)4c Ohio flat, 8@8)6c. 
Eggs.—N ear-by, fresh, 16)4®l6)6c; Canadian do, per 
doz.—®16)4c; Western do, fancy, l5J4c; do loss off, 1554 
to I6)4c. 
Philadelphia, Pa.— Butter.— Pennsylvania cream 
ery, extra, —®19c; western do do. 18®-c; li. C. and N- 
Y. creamery extra, I8@—c; western factory, 14®15c: 
packing butter, 12®15c. Eggs—Steady. Penn, firsts, 
15c; western firsts, 16e. Cheese—Quiet, steady, de¬ 
mand fair. N. Y. full cream, 8%®9)4c; Oldo flats 
choice, 8)6c; do fair to prime, 8@8)4c. 
Chicago, Ill —Butter.—C reamery, ll)6@18c, dairy 
12@16c. Eggs.—F irm at 13)6®14c. per doz. 
GRAIN MARKETS. 
New York.—Wheat.— No. lHard at 9256c; No. 2 Chi¬ 
cago 88 c delivered; Ungraded Red at 89)4® 9454c; No. 2 
red 92)4@93c; in store; 94)4®94)6c afloat 92)..( <! ,93)4c f. 
o. b.; No. 2 red Contract June 9!54®92)6c; do for 
July, 92)4®937-16c; do for August, 931 16®94)4c' do for 
September 93)6®9156c; do for December, 9b®97)6c; do 
May, 1889 1 0056®$101)6. Corn. -Ungraded Mixed, 60 
®82)6c: steamer, 69 to 61c; No. 2.60540 elevator; 61)4 to 
62c delivered; No.2 June, 60 l-16®60)6e; do for July, 
69)6 to 61)6c; do for August, 61 1-I6®6256c. do for 
September, 6154 to 62)6c; do for October, 6154®62)6e; 
do 5 for November, 6lj4®02)6c. Oats.— No. 3 37c; do 
white, 45)6c; No. 2 37)6®S8l6e; do white 10)6c. No. 1 
white 48c; Mixed Western, 36®40c; white do 15 to 46c; 
No. 2 Juno 3654®37)4c; do July 3754®3356c; do August, 
3376 to 34J4c; do September, 33c; No 2 white July 
at 4254c. 
Philadelphia, Pa.— Wheat.—No. 2 Red in export 
elevator 97c; No 2 Red, for June, 95® 96c; do for 
July 92)6®9256c; do August 91)4 to 91)6c; do for Sep ¬ 
tember, 91)6®92)6c. Corn— No. 2 yellow in grain 
depot 6 'ic; Steamer t>l®02c; No- 2 mixed for June 
60)6 to 61)4c, do July 6154®62)4c. do for August 62)6® 
63)4c;do September, 68®64c. oats.— Rejected white, 
40c; No. 8 white 44c; No- 2 white 45e. 
Buffalo, N. Y.—Wheat.—No. 1 Hard 91c asked. 
No. 1 Northern 4c over Chicago August; Winter wheat 
—No.2 red at 93)6c; No. 1 White Michigan 99c. Corn- 
No. 2 yellow 58)6c- No. 3 yellow 5?54®53c; No, 3 
5654@57c. Oats.—No. 2 white, 4154®42c; No. 2 mixed 
38)6c. 
Chicago, Ills.—No, 2 spring wheat at 8454®85)6c; No 
3 do nominal; No. 2 red 86 c; No. 2 corn, 53)6c. 
No. 2 oats, —®33)4c; No. 2 Rye, 63c; No. 2 Barley, 67® 
68c. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
New York, Saturday, June 9, 1888. 
Beeves.— Texans 973 m average, at *4 75 per 100 lb; 
St. Louissteers 1500 lb, at $ 6 ; do 1263 lb at 85 75; do 
1166 lb, at $5 70; do 11.13 lb at $5 65; do 1155 lb at 
$5 55; do 1251 lb at *5 50; Lancaster County, Penn¬ 
sylvania Steers, 1457 lb at §5 90; do 1257 lb at #5 75; do 
1231 lb ut $5 45: do 1250 lb at $5 40; do I2K0 lb at $5 20; 
do 1091 lb at $5 15; Texans, 1,85 lb at $1 42)6; do 1105 
lb at *4 25; Chicago steers 1555 $ 6 ; do. 1474 lb, at $5 70; 
do 1228 lb at 85 40; do lvl 6 lb at $5 35; bulls 1840 lb at 
$4 25; do 1528 tb at $3 50; Chicago steers 1103 lb at 
$4 70; do 1057 lb at $4 65; Texans. 825 lb at $4: Lan¬ 
caster County, Pennsylvania steers, 1171 lb at 
at $5 55; stags, 1480 lb. at $4 60; Lancaster County 
Pennsylvania steers 1364 tt, average at $5 65 per 100 
lb; still bulls 1567 lb at $4 10; do 1356 lb at$l 40- 
Calves.— Veals 143 lb at 6 c per lb; do 146 lb at 
6 ) 6 c; Buttermilk calves.123 lb at *3 55 per 100 lb; do 130 
lb at $3 62)6; do 116 lb at $8 65: do 140 lb at $4; Mixed 
calves 99 lb at $4 53; Veals, 155 lb at $ 6 ; do 145 lb at 
$6 25; do 147 lb at $6 59; Buttermilk calves 133 lb at 
3?4c; do 113 lb at 3)6c; do ISO lb an 4c; veals 140 lb at 
5c; do 151 lb at 6 ) 6 c; do 156 1b at 6 %c; Buttermilk 
calves, 137 lb at 396e; veals 150 lb at 6)4c per lb. 
Sheep and Lambs.— Kansas sheep 81 lb at $4 50 per 
100 lb; Kentucky do 92)6 lb at *5; Ohio do 80 lb at 
85 25; do 80 lb at $5 35: do 83 $5 50: Virginia lambs 65 
lb at 6 ) 6 e per lb; do 57 lb at 7e; West Virginia do 66 
lb at 7)4c. Ohio Sheep, S3 lb at 5->6c p'-r lb; do 82)6 lb at 
:>) 6 c; Tennessee Lambs 57)6 lb at 6 ) 6 e; Kentucky do 
57)4 lb at 6)4c do 63)6 lb at 6)4c: Virginia lambs 57 1b 
at 6 c per lb; Virginia lambs 57 lb at 6)4e per lb; West¬ 
ern sheep 67 lb at 4%c; Kentucky lambs 66i6at7^c. 
Hogs.—N one for sale alive. 
5J4 to 6 c for fair to good hogs. 
Nominally steady at 
Chicago.—Cattle.— Market active. Beeves 84 50® 
6 00: Stockers and feeders, $2 50®4 15; Cows, bulls 
and mixed 8 —®—; Texas cattle,$2 00 to 4 so. Hogs 
—Mixed $5 45®5 75; Heavy, $5 60®5 85; Light. $5 40®5 70; 
Pigs and culls, $4 (J0®5 30. SHKEP.-Marketsteady. 
Natives mutton, $ 4®.5 50; feeders $3® 3 50; Texan $2 00 
®3 90; Spring lambs 81 to 1 45. 
St. Louis, Mo.— Cattle. —Market higher; Choice 
heavy native steers $4 70 to 5 50; Fair to good native 
steers $4 30 to 4 80, Butchers’ steers medium to choice 
$3 30 to 4 40; Stockers and feeders, fair to good; $2 80 to 
3 6:> ; rangers common to good, $2 35 to 4 35. Hogs.— 
Market higher; HeavyCholct aud butchers’ selections 
$■> 65®5 i5; packing medium to prime *5 45®5 70. light 
grades ordinary to best $5 30 to 5 55. Sheep.—Market 
strong. Fair to choice $3 60 to 5 00. 
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Communications Received for the Wkkk Ending 
June 2, 1888. 
Hull, thank you—we regret you used no potash. Can’t 
you give the plot a sprinkling of kaluet?-J. W. Malts, 
we wish you hadusod a complete fertilizer Instead of 
a “phosphate”—thank you for suggestion-VV. C. D.— 
J. P. H.—W. B. G. S —T. E. W.—H. A. W.-T. J. M.— T. 
N, S.—II. R. O.—H. S.—W. D. G.—A. F. W.—W. C —C. 
E. L.-W. R.—T. B. T.—G. W. T.-M. M.-J. H.-H. S.— 
W. O. F.-A. L. J,-W. H. B.-T. E. B.-A. P. S.-H. S. 
Walton—we shall be glad to hear from you-J. L. B.— 
W. H.-thanks—W. B. R.—H. A. W.—R. G.—H. P. A.— 
C.S. P.-A. J. C.-T. T. L.-P. M. A. A.-P. C.-J. G. R. 
—G. P.—R. B. S.—F. C—J. C.—M. A. L.—A. M.—L. M. L. 
—E. M. S. -W. C. R.—L. D. B. 
E. & O. WARD, 
PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 
for Circular giving important advice about ship¬ 
ping produce. Also containing recipe for pre¬ 
serving Eggs. Established 1845. 
No. 279 Washington St., New York City. 
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