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.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
J. H. WHITE & CO.,
PRODUCE COMMISSION
106 S. Water St., Chicago.
Refers to this paper.
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.
PIG EXTRICATOR
To aid animals in giving birth. Send for free circular to Wm. Dulin, Avoca, Pottawattamie Co., Ia.
SEWING SILK.
Corticelli Sewing Silk,
LADIES, TRY IT!
The Best Sewing Silk Made.
Every Spool Warranted.
Full Length, Smooth and Strong.
Ask your Storekeeper for Corticelli Silk.
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.
TRY DREER’S GARDEN SEEDS
which have been planted by some growers for 45 years.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
MARLBORO RED RASPBERRY
Send to the originators for history and terms. A. S. Caywood & Son, Marlboro, N. Y.
COCOONS AND RARE INSECTS bought. Write to K. H. SCHURICHT, 112 Monroe St., Chicago.