The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-18
THE WORLDS MARKETS

calves 4.25@s. 90.
Hog receipts 10000; market 6@la
lower; bulk 5.7006. 15; heavy 6.1a
@s.20; medium 5.s5@6.l5; ligh,
s .5o@6.05.
Sheep receipts 5000; market
steady. 10 lower; lambs 4.5o@5.9o;
ewes 2.2b@3.75; wethers s.a5@S. 90.
4 CHICAGO. Deo. 18,-Butter-Extrss
$40; irsts Csc; dairy extras 31a;;
dairy firsts 2Sc
i Eggs-flrsts 2S@S1c.
\ Cheese-Twins 16A @lS94a; Young
! Americas 14N@15c.
Potatoes. s0@s5c.
Live Poultry-Fowls 1o35@llo;
/. ducks 131@14o; geese 11@111ao:
spring chickens 1o@1oAko; turkeys
14@14ac.
, Nsw York Produce.
J NEW YORK, Dec. 1s.-Butter,
} market strong; receipts 5,01S; cream.
cry extras s6@4sc: imitation creamery
, firsts, 24c.
Eggs Market unsettled: Receipts
2.672; nearby white fancy SOC; near
!. by mixed fancy a5@40o; fresh $50
40.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1s.-F1our dun,
but firm.
Pork Quiet; mesa 17.2B017.7s.
Z Lard-Easy; middle west spot $40
@e.25.
Sugar-Raw, quiet, Centrifugal test
Z 4s7; Muscavado SO test 4s7; refined
dull; cut loaf 6b5; crushed 6.45;
Y powdered 5.sb; graduated $50.
Is Coffee-Rio No. on spot 143h.
Tallow-Steady; city 6A; country
10 5%@6%.
30 Hay Steady; prime 100; No. s5
@1.o5.
20 Dressed poultry-Firm; turkeys IL
~ @24; chickens 5@22; fowls 6@16;
ducks 1o@1s; live poultry puiet. geese
1903; ducks 1903; fowls 1904;
2 turkeys 1904: roosters 81.
Q Cheese-Active and firm.
O.; State milk common to special 800
a 1879; skins common to specials SO
1874: full skins SOS.
4 New York Stocks.
A NEW YORK, Dec. 18.-11 a. m. -
@ After the initial trading, the market
became strong and at the end Of the
4 hour many issues made substantial
gains.
Noon-Prices were toward lower fig
ures IN the late afternoon.
pts sv
nd New York Market.
Wy, NEW YORK, Dec. 18.-Money or
10; call 8 "; six months 4; bar silver Lon
don % 5-16d; bar silver New YorA
xet 54A; demand sterling 4ss.359fS6.4o
nd
ed Government Crop Report.
rs; UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, Dec. tS.-Accordtns
set to the final crop report issued by the
IN, department OF agriculture. the mum
st Der of acres sown to corn IN 1911 wal
105, $685. 900 with total production O
2,51, 4Ss 900 bushels, having an esti
/. mated farm value Of $1,65s, 258.0oo
at The 1910 corn crop was 1855, ,oo'
ex- bushels, farm value S1,3S4 ,S17 900.
Ma In 1911, 29,162,0OO acres were sow
md in winter wheat. producing 4S0,656,0 0'
ed bushels, with farm value OF 1878
SD ISL, 600. The 1910 winter wheat GRO
rs; was 434,142,oo0 Bushels; farm valu
s3S2,3S1.O00.
Idly Spring wheat was sown on 20,2S1. 90
,rs, acres in 1911; producing a crop Q
so 190,ss2,0o0 bushels; valued On tn
5@ farm at s163,912,00o. The 1910 sprtn
wheat crop was 20o,979,0oO bushels
farm value s17S,73S, 900.
dy. The total spring and winter whea
abs crop for 1911, produced on 4s,b4S,00
acres, was 621 $685. bushels, value
at s543, 600 IN 1910 the tots
re-. spring and winter wheat crop wa
er 635, 121 900, value s5e1,051 900. TIL
'ers 1911 cat crop, produced on 37,763oo
5 IS acres was s22,29s,ooo bushels. value
and on the farm at s414,6e3,Ooo Produ'
ton in 1910, 1,1so,513, 900 bushels, va
015 ue on farms s406, 100000 In 1911, Al
o17,00O acres were sown to hay, pr
.ket ducing 47,444,00o tons with a far,
,ers value of ss94,57o.ooO. The 1910 hs
ives crop was 6O,97s,oOo tons valued I
s747, $4,000
The 1911 crop of tobacco grown c
re- 1.o12, 800 acres was 100000 pound
GERS valued at the farm at ,000 II
800 1910 crop was 1,10S,415,000 pounds
100; value S102. $4,000