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Ank ABBOB,TnrBSDAï, Fcb. 4 , 1874. Afples- Green, 40@G0c. BüiiEit- 24@30c. Beef- l'rom wagon, $5.00. Cobn- Old 65@70- New GOe. per bu. Chickesb- Dressea 9@10c. Dbesseo Hons,- $0.50 Eqgs- Command lC@18o. Hay- $15@1C per ton, aceording to quality. Honey- In cap, 25@30c. Labd- The market stands at 8@9c. Onioks- $2.00. Oats- 40@45c. Potatoes- 80@90e. Tunuirs- 30@40e. WHEAT-White il.4u@l.4j; Amber $1.3031.35 TUKKEYS- 10@lle. Detroit ProiluceMarket. Latest quotationa for leading articles of country produce- Feb. 4, are aa followa : Wheat- white, $1.0G@1.55 ; amber 1.30S!l 42 Bableï- $2.50.@3.75per centnl. Eye- CO@75c per bu. Cobn- 60@G5c. Oats- 40@47c. POTATOES- 90c@1.00c Dbessed Hogs- $G-2O@.7.2O. Hay- $14@$22 Bdtteb- 25 32c. Eaos- 18@20c. Labd- 9@10c. Hosey- 17@22c. Wool- 35@41c. per lb. Detroit Live Stock Market. From the Detroit Free Press. Michioan Central Cattle Yabds ) Monday, Feb. 2. In market affairs for the week just closed there was about the same activity as on the previous week. Receipts from the interior were light while those from other States in exeess. Shipments to other points were considerable in quantity and shadows forth a steady revival of f ormer business in this line. Facilities for reaohing Eastern and Southern markets are increased by the addition of the Canada Southern Eailroad, and shippers buy more readily upon a. certainty of reaching certain markets upon market days. Eeceipts for the week and corresponding week last year were as f ollows : Cattle. Hors. Sheep. Week ending Feb. 3, 1873, 492 2,450 3,052 Week ending Feb. 2, 1874, 351 220 6,137 Eeceived from other States: Cattle, G50 against 2,098 of the previous week ; hogs, 1,850 against 1,923 of the previous week. CATTLE. The market was well stocked with. choics qualities. Transactions of the week were mostly confintd to the purchase of shipping lots, the home demand being very light. A choice article of snippers, averaging 1,100 and 1,200 lbs, exchanged hands at $5aó 25 ; medium qualities at $4a4 50 ; light weights were mostly secured by butcbers by the head and at about $3a3 50. Three car loads of extra choice shippers, averaging 1,800 lbs, from Illinois, were bought by Eastern operators at $3 37 1-2, and were the evenest bunch ever seen in the yards, being thirty-six in number. Shippers flnd it easier to select trom State eattle than during the previous years. iioos. Arrivals continue to bo made up of light weights. Packers here get a heavy class of hogs from Chicago, unable to get anything from immediate regions. Quite a contrast is presented in the quantity arriving during the past month and the same period last year, not one-fourth of the amount being received. The same ratio of decrease seems to exist in tho various Western States, as shown by carefully compiled statistios. The prices range correspondingly, $4 35 being paid last year f or qualities that briug $3 50 this year. Light weights are held at ?4 75 and $4 90, and selected lots at ?5 25. The sales of the week were few. SHEKP. Nuinerous car loads continuo to arrive from the interior, and prices moderately buoyant notwithstandiug. Fine qualities, averaging 90 lbs., brought $5 50, and medium $4 50a4 75. Choice qualities continue to proponderate and Michigan sheep begin to receive numerous encomiums. Shipnienta to Eastern points continue unabated. Kino's Cattle Yabds, } Detkoit, Mouday evening, Feb. 2. 5 CATTLE. A better quality ot cattle were oiïered this mornmg than the average, and better prices are paid. For medium cattle pricos remain about as during the month of January. The demand was not heavy, but quick sales were made and a smalL balance held over. The number ofFered was less thau the average. Sales were made under the íóllowing quotations : Choice beeves, young, largo, well fattened, weighing from 1,200 to 1,400 lbs. $4 00 o á 50 Good beeves, well fattened, steers and heifcra, averagiug 1,050 to 1,100 lbs, 3 25 a 3 75 Medium grades, íair steers, averaging 950 to 1,050 lbs., 2 50 2 7 Wurking cattle, well fattened, averaging 1,000 to 1,500 Iba., 3 25 a 3 75 Cows, conimou to choice, A 00 a 4 00 Common stock, medium steers, and fair to extra cows, in decent flesh, 800 to 1,000 lbs., 2 00 a 2 7