Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Eastern Iowa—dark Western lots
generally ranging at 1@2c per lb. less.
Coarse and dingy tub 25@30
Good medium tub 31@34
Unwashed bucks’ fleeces 14@15
Fine unwashed heavy fleeces 18@22
Fine light unwashed heavy fleeces 22@23
Coarse unwashed fleeces 21@22
Low medium unwashed fleeces 24@25
Fine medium unwashed fleeces 26@27
Fine washed fleeces 32@33
Coarse washed fleeces 26@28
Low medium washed fleeces 30@32
Fine medium washed fleeces 34@35
Colorado and Territory wools range as follows:
Lowest grades 14@16
Low medium 18@22
Medium 22@26
Fine 16@24
Wools from New Mexico:
Lowest grades 14@16
Part improved 16@17
Best improved 19@23
Burry from 2c to 10c off; black 2c to 5c off.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
The total receipts and shipments for last week were as follows:
Received. Shipped.
Cattle 37,991 19,093
Calves 405 102
Hogs 114,732 38,855
Sheep 19,746 14,806
CATTLE.—The receipts have been large for a few days, and prices have
declined about 25 cents per hundred since Thursday of last week. The
grade has been far from first-class, but few of them weighing over
1,400 lbs. The export demand for really choice stock was greater than
the supply. Common to choice lots sold to shippers at $5@6 70, with some
sales as low as $4 75.
Quotations closed as follows:
Fancy heavy fat cattle Nominal.
Choice to prime steers $ 6 70@ 7 15
Good to choice steers 6 25@ 6 65
Fair to good shipping steers 5 65@ 6 20
Common to medium steers 4 75@ 5 00
Butcher’s steers 4 65@ 5 10
Cows, common to good 3 25@ 4 70
Common canning cattle 2 25@ 3 20
Stockers 3 80@ 4 50
Feeders 4 50@ 5 10
Milch cows, per head 25 00@55 00
Veal calves, per 100 lbs. 4 00@ 7 50
HOGS.—Most of the packing houses are closed, yet there are a few
packers competing with the shippers. Prices are now about 30 cents lower
than last year at this time. Receipts were about 16,000 head on Sunday
and Monday. The number of hogs left over last night was very small. The
market, however, was rather weak, except for choice, well-fattened hogs.
Sales of rough packing hogs were made at $5 50@5 95; good to choice
heavy, $6@6 55; light, $5 40@6; skipps and culls, $3 75@5 35.
Note.—All sales of hogs are made subject to a shrinkage of 40 lbs for
piggy sows and 80 lbs for stags. Dead hogs sell for 1½c per lb for
weights of 200 and over and [Transcriber’s Note: blank in the original]
for weights of less than 100 lbs.
SHEEP.—The supply was good, yesterday, and also on Sunday, there being
7,500 head, against 3,400 for the same days a week ago. The average
grade was poor. Sales ranged from $3 05 to $6 for common to prime.
Common lots suffered a decline.
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J. H. WHITE & CO.,
PRODUCE COMMISSION
106 S. Water St., Chicago.
Refers to this paper.
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DAIRY SUPPLIES, ETC.
THE CHICAGO CREAMERY.
The 1st claim of the Chicago Creamery and Rectangular Can is, that the
can has from 250 to 332 more of cooling surface than any round can in
use.
2d. It will cool milk to temperature of water surrounding it in ONE
HOUR.
3d. It will raise ALL THE CREAM in ten hours with the water 50 to 55
degrees; no round can can do this in ten hours with ice.
4th. No round or square can containing 4½ gallons of milk, or over,
will give as much cream from 100 pounds of milk as this Rectangular.
With the use of ice all the cream is raised in from one to two hours.
WE WARRANT all this, and will test the same before any chemist in
Chicago, paying all expenses of the test, if any competing Creamery can
show as good results.
OUR TERMS
Are reasonable. We solicit the attention of all butter-makers, confident
that we can aid them in getting more profit from their cows than they
are now doing.
SPERBECK & STOUT,
_21 W. RANDOLPH ST., CHICAGO._
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PIG EXTRICATOR
To aid animals in giving birth. Send for free circular to WM. DULIN,
Avoca, Pottawattamie Co., Ia.
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SEWING SILK.
CORTICELLI SEWING SILK,
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LADIES, TRY IT!
THE BEST SEWING SILK MADE.
EVERY SPOOL WARRANTED.
FULL LENGTH, SMOOTH AND STRONG.
Ask your storekeeper for Corticelli Silk.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
FARMERS
Do you want to change your run-out seed-wheat for something fresh and
vigorous? Then try the
SASKATCHAWAN FIFE
An improved variety of the old Scotch Fife, a spring wheat grown from
seed brought down from the Saskatchawan Valley in Manitoba. It is
enormously productive. Everywhere it has been exhibited it has taken the
highest premium for excellence as a pure, hard milling wheat. The Hon.
C. A. Pillsbury, at the head of the great Pillsbury Flouring Mills,
Minneapolis, says of it:
“I consider it the best and purest Fife Wheat to-day in the Northwest.
No such milling wheat has been received at our mills since we have been
in the milling business.”
Write to
W. J. ABERNETHY & CO.,
MINNEAPOLIS,
Originators and Proprietors, for their 16-page pamphlet, giving its
history and prices.
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TRY DREER’S GARDEN SEEDS
which have been planted by some growers for 45 years.
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The quality is the first consideration secured by the most careful
selection. The prices, the lowest consistent with sterling merit.
DREER’S GARDEN CALENDAR FOR 1884, offering Vegetable, Flower and Field
Seeds, Plants, Bulbs, and everything for the garden, mailed FREE.
HENRY A. DREER, 714 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
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PEACH TREES
A LARGE STOCK OF LEADING VARIETIES—CHEAP.
First, second and third sizes all splendidly rooted. The two smaller
sizes well adapted for distant shipments. Also a FULL ASSORTMENT of
NURSERY STOCK, including GREENHOUSE PLANTS, FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS
Catalogue FREE; send for one. Correspondence solicited. 30th Year. 500
Acres. 21 Greenhouses.
THE STORRS & HARRISON CO.
PAINESVILLE, LAKE COUNTY, OHIO.
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FOREST TREE SEEDS!
I offer a large stock of Walnuts, Butternuts, Ash, and Box Elder Seeds,
suitable for planting. All the growth of 1883. I control the entire
stock of the
SALOME APPLE,
a valuable, new, hardy variety. Also a general assortment of Nursery
stock. Send for catalogue, circular, and price lists. Address
BRYANT’S NURSERY, Princeton, Ill.
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IT WILL PAY TO GET our 1884 catalogue of SMALL FRUITS, all kinds. FORD’S
EARLY SWEET CORN, sweetest best. Early Colton Apple, best quality, hardy
in Wisconsin.
OUR NEW POTATO
Lee’s Favorite, extremely early, best quality, most productive, 265 lbs.
grown from one. Catalogue free.
Address, FRANK FORD & SON Ravenna, Ohio
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FARMERS AND HOUSEKEEPERS
Send $1 for a new SPANISH recipe for preserving eggs, guaranteed to keep
them two to three years. Address BOX 326, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
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DEITZ SEED CORN
Early Mammoth double-eared yellow FIELD CORN, the BEST of 20 years’
selection. 3 lbs by mail, paid, $1; one peek here, $1; 1 bus. $3; 5 bus.
$10; 100 bus. $150. Sample 10c.
G. A. DEITZ, Chambersburg, Pa.
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SPECIALTY FOR 1884.
200 bush. Onion sets, 20,000 Asparagus roots, Raspberry and Strawberry
roots, and Champion Potatoes. Italian Bees a specialty. Send for price
list for 1884.
SEND EARLY TO A. J. NORRIS, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
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LANG’S LIVE SEEDS.
NORTHERN GROWN, THOROUGHLY TESTED. Flower Vegetable and Field. 20,000
Catalogues free. Send names of your friends.
FRED. N. LANG, Baraboo, Wis.
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MARLBORO RED RASPBERRY
Send to the originators for history and terms. A. S. Caywood & Son,
Marlboro, N. Y.
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COCOONS AND RARE INSECTS bought.
Write to K. H. SCHURICHT, 112 Monroe St., Chicago.