Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-12-13
MARKETS.
VINDICAToR OFFICE

INDICATOR OFFlCE. I
| STAUNTON, VA, Dec. T.
| The weather While favorable for baling
hay, is not the kind of weather to make a de-
mand for it, consequently it remains dull with
no disposition on the part of buyers to do bus
| mess.
The market for wheat continues without an
| imation and there seems to be no pressure on
| the part of farmers to sell. The few lots Of
| fering are mostly of inferior quality and out
of condition The dizziness of the flour trade
checks the business of millers, while the stag
nation in foreign markets has knocked out
| shippers.
| New corn is finding purchasers at So to 40
cents per bushel, which is a fair price COM
pared to other grain, and especially SO in
| view of the fact that in the Northwest the
| price is so low that farmers are using it for
| fuel, as corn there is cheaper than coal.
| The Philadelphia Records review of the
markets for the week ending Saturday says !:
| ''The price of wheat has declined q of a cent
per bushel in Chicago, and in New York it
has advanced Il of cent per bushel. The
probability of decreasing movement from
| the West to the seaboard, now that lake nav
! igation has closed for the winter, is the rea-
|
| There has been a little more inquiry for eX-
| port but clearances of both wheat and flour
| have continued small, and there has not been
sufficient improvement in demand to stimulate
| the markets. The movement of wheat in the
| Northwest has fallen off a little, and the
| receipts of winter wheat have continued very
small. The tendency of corn prices in the
West was also downward until yesterday,
when the Chicago market recovered to about
last weeks level, owing to damp weather
and the prospect of poorer grading OF the
new corn The fear that seaboard arrivals
may not grade up to the standard in sufficient
| volume to deliver on December contracts has
stimulated buying on speculative account,
| and New York prices have advanced Is of
cent per bushel. A large amount of corn has
been sold for export during the next three
months, and the demand for January and Feb
ruary cargoes continues active. Corn is NOV
ing more freely from interior points, and the
shipments from Nebraska, Kansas and West
ern Iowa are generally of good quality; but
considerable soft corn is arriving at CONNER
cial centres from points in Eastern Iowa and
| Missouri. Provision packing operations in
the West have been in excess of those of the
corresponding period last year; but the weeks
receipts of hogs were smaller than for the
preceding week. The Chicago market is IN
to 10 cents per 100 pounds higher for ribs and
lard and 22H cents per barrel higher for
pork. Exports of hog products continue to
exceed those of last year.
Dun & Co. s review of the grain market for
the week ending Saturday, says: 1.-The spec
ulative markets forproducts have been strong,
but not very active. Wheat is half cent
higher, with sales of $4,000, 900 bushels, and
corn as much higher, with sales of 5000, 900
bushels. Oats are a shade higher; pork pro-
ducts steady, and cotton unchanged. Coffee
has dropped a half cent with greater conf
dence in Brazilian peace, and oil two cents,
with small trading"
GRAIN MARKETS.
| BALTIMORE, Dec. 1l.-Flour dull and unchang-
ed. Wheat-southern firm; Fultz, 73aS3: Long
berry, 74aS4; Western firm; No. 2 winter red,
spot, 791aa7934c. Corn-Southern steady, but
dull; white, 35a42c; yellow, 35a3Sc; Western firm.
| CHICAGO, Dec. 11-Wheat-Decembe Der delivery,
| 1873; January, 1915; May, S314 Corn-December,
323s; January, 3114; May, 335s.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
| BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, Dec. 5.-Price
| of Beef Cattle this week ranged as follows:
1925 3712
Generally rated first quality...... 400 a 1925
Medium or good fair quality. $50 a 400
Ordinary thin Steers, Oxen and
COWS Z.uU d oUU
The market is quite slow this week, buyers not
taking hold very actively.
RICHMOND Dec. 9.-Receipts: 403 head of cat
tie, 939 hogs Sales: $50 head of cattle, S95 hogs
Prices-[ All gross except hogs which are net
Cattle-Best, 33laI14c, medium to good, 3a3Ac,
common to fair, 119a21ac. Hogs-5a512c net Bulls
-11@a21ac.
BALTIMORE, Hog MARKET, Dec. 9-There is
a fair demand with finn market, at last weeks
prices. We quote rough Hogs (Sows and Stags)
at 419a4A cents, and the better grades at 5a514
cents, most sales at 51sa514 cents per lb net Re
ceipts OF Hogs this week 9,3SS head.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 9.-Receipts of Sheep LOGS
head, with sales at $3.50a$5.00 per 100 lbs, and
Lon I,S 70