Commercial

Au Abbok, ÏHCRsnAY.Oot. 2.1, 1873. Appi.es- Green, 25@3!c. Büttf.b- 22@25c. Cobn- Old 50- New 25c. per bn. Chickïns- Dressed 8(óllc. Eo8- Commaud 19c. Hay- $14@16 per ton, according to quality. Honey- In esp, 22@35c. 1,arh- The market stand ut 8(3Wc. Umions- $1.00. t Oats- 30@35c. Potatoec- New 60@76c. Tl-bniph- 30@40c. WHKii-We quote White at 1.30c1.4ll. Detroit 11 udnri'Miii hel . I(atest quotations for leading articlesof country produce- Oct. 23, are as follows : Whkat- white, 130@l .48 : amber, 11.20(81.37. Barlet- $2.O0@2.6flper ceiital. Rïe- 7O@75c per bu. Cohn- 50@52e. (ATa-37@40c. PoTATOES- 60@80e. Dbessed $5.50@$5.7". Hay-16@22. Mütteb- 18ÍSÍ25C. Koos- 18@22c. I,akd- 8(9c. HoNEY-17@22e Wool- 30@45c. per lb. Detroit Live Stock Market. From the Detroit Free Press. Michigan Central Cattle Yards ) Monday, Uct. '20. $ There was scarcely any life at the yards during the week, shipments having dropped off immediately after the close of last week's market, and also operators in quest ot stock. It was perhaps the dullest week since the sumiller season, when quietude is a normal condition of market affairs. Receipts are compared for four week, as follows : STATE. Cattle. Hops. Sheep. Week ending September 29, 434 1,896 2,6.)4 Week ending October 6, 664 2,911 2,033 Week ending October 13, 79 -ï,918 3,960 Week ending October 20, 801 2,300 2,844 Total 2,468 13,728 11,481 VIA CHICAGO. Stock received for transhipment : Cattle. Hogs Week ending September 29, 1,660 2,776 Week endiug üctobfcr 6, 90 2.049 Week ending October 13, 2,187 2,733 Week ending October 20, ."48 2,!t2() Total ''.lili 1.8 CATTLE. The supply was equal to the deroand, which was not, however, very extended. Butchers' stock found sale at close figures, and a fair class of shipping stock at about the eame unremuncrative rates. The feeling was very close, but trausactious moved brisker, nevertheless. The first run on the scales was 22 light but finelyformed steers, which averaged 1,000 lbs., and brought f3.50. Butchers' stock was mostly sold by the head at' about 3.7ó for the choicest.- There was nothing in the transactions by which a reliable ruling could be made, and parties bought aud sold according to circumstances. Shippers were few as the markets in the East have been very unsteady and consequently too much risk attended business. The quality of local shipments was uniformly light, wnile those from adjacent States were just the opposite. HOOS. This department of the market has suffered an unaccountable decline, and the fluctuatious since the panic have operated badly on venturei's. Duriug the panic week hogs declined to$3.50 tor stock and heavy weights. The succeeding week the same qualitie brought ?4.7Oa4.85, and during the next $4a4.10, and this week Ï3.50. Holders, however, were not disposed to accept this ruling till they fouud buyers inexorable, and lots exchanging were by sheer necessity. The market is truly remarkable in its changes. sheeiWere plenty and of fair quality. Transactions showed that buyers, under adv ices from thu Eaet, were not anxious to secure lots unies at a decline. Accordingly, sales were made tor choicest lots, averaging 80 to 10 lbs., for 8.76a4 ; medium, 3.00a3.50 per head for some mixed lots. Culling was also necessary to sell lots. Kino's Cattle Yards, ) Detroit, Monday evening, Oct, 20. ) CATTLE. The offerings were quite liberal this morning at these yards, and last week's prices were barely sustained. The greater portiou of them were merely good butchers' stock, only a few of the best being taken by shippers. Sales were made under the followin'g quotations : Choice beeves, young, lnrge, woll fattened, weighing from 1,200 to 1,400 lbs. 83 75 4 12 Good beeves, well fatteued, steers andheifers, averaging 1,050 to 1,100 lbs, :i u0 " :! " Medium grades, fair steers, averaging 950 to 1,050 lbs., 3 00 3 S6 Working cattle, well fattened, averaging 1,000 to 1,000 lbs., 3 75 a i 00 Cows, common to choice, ■! IHI n .i _n Common stock, medium steers, and fair to extra cows, in decent flesh, 800 to 1,000 lbs., 2 oO a 3 25 Thin cattle, 2 25 a 2 50 MILCH COWS. There were but few offered, bdt sales dragged at $3óa50 for new milch cows and ealf.