Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1906 — THE MARKETS [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS

Chicago. Feb. 22. It being Washington's birthday the Chicago Board of Trade was closed and no quotations were given out. Chicago Live Stock. Hogs--Estimated receipts for the day, 21,099. Sales ranged at $6,156/ 6.25 for choice to prime heavy, s6.lo@> (5.15 for medium to good heavy, $6.10 @6.15 for good to choice heavy mixed, $6.07*46/6.15 medium mixed packing, $5.50(0 5.90 for poor to prime pigs. Cattle—Estimated receipts for the day, 6,500. Quotations ranged at $5.75 @6.30 for prime steers, $3,656/4.65 good to choice cows, [email protected] prime heifers. $3,506/4,35 good to choice bulls. $7,256/ 7.50 good to choice calves, $4 .106/4.65 good to choice feeders, $3,756/4.00 medium to good feeders. Sheep—Estimated receipts for the day. 15,000. Quotations ranged at $5.80 @6.00 for good to choice wethers. $5.25 @5.50 good to prinif ewes, $4,006/ 5.00 common to fair mutton ewes, $5.50616.25 fair to prime yearlings, $6.50@ 7.10 good to choice lambs.' Live poultry—Turkeys, per lb, 13@ 15c; chickens, fowls, 12c: geese. 7%c; springs, 12c per lb: ducks, 13c; geese, $6.00@9 00 per doz. East Buffalo I.ive Stock. East Buffalo. N. Y., Feb. 22. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle —Receipts, 4 cars; market steady; export Bteers, [email protected]; shipping steers, [email protected]; best fat cows, [email protected]; fair to good, $3.206/3.50; l»est heifers. [email protected]; 700 to 1.000 pound steers, [email protected]. Hogs—Receipts, 20 cars; all grades, [email protected]. Sheep and Lambs —Receipts, 30 earn; market lower; native lambs. [email protected]; western!, [email protected]; handy yearlings, $6,40@ 6.50; heavy, [email protected]; ewes, $5.25@ 5.50. Veals—Market slow; best, $8.25 @8.75.