The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-12-30
LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS
United pre-. Associations Te.prauh City
CHICAGO Produee.

/, Chicago Produces.
! CHICAGO. Dec. 3d. Butter-Extras
34c: nrsts. s2Ils G3oc; dairy extras,
3e,fc; dairy 6rsts. este.
/ Eggs-Firsts. s3G33hc: ordinary
nrsts, s1931Mc.
] Cheese Twins, lax @l41sc; Young
Americas, 14k914Ac.
Potatoes Receipts, II cars; Wis
consin whites, s5@45c: red, 35G4oc;
Michigan whites. s5G45c; red. $50
4oc.
Live poultry Fowls. 11A91.c:
ducks, 13@13hc; geese. 12@12hc:
spring chickens. lie; turkeys. 800
14c.
New York Produce Market.
NEW YORK. Dec. o0.-Flour. quiet:
firm.
Pork Quiet: mess. SIS. 5o@2o. 90.
Lard-Steady: middle west spot.
$40. 6o@1o. 20.
sugar-Raw, frmer: centrifugal
test, $4.0l@4.0s; Muscavado 80 test,
s.. 36G3. 43; refined. firm; out loaf,
So. So: crushed. 1915; powdered, $5.o5
G5.15; graduated, 81. 95@5 .05.
Coffee -Rio No. Z, on spot, ING
T1sc-
Steady: city. 6@ssc: coun-
try, 6Ac; special, sac.
Hay-Quiet: prime, 81 .05; No. 8.
ls5@97hc; clover, 97h @$1.05.
Poultry Quiet: chickens.==12@24c:
turkeys. 12h025c; fowls. 12k
@17c: ducks. 1o017c: live poultry,
firm; geese. 15@16c: ducks, 1910
Tic: fowls. 13@15c; turkeys, 1sc;
ROSTERS. lie; chickens. 12h@13hc.
Cheese Quiet; state milk common
to special. 12@16c; full skins, $40
&C; skins common to specials, 10
131sc.
Butter Strong; receipts. 6.5s7:
creamery extras, 36@361kc: dairy tubs
24@35c; imitation creamery firsta
25@25kc.
Eggs-Firmer; receipts. 5.42o; near
by white fancy, 47@49c; nearby mix
ed fancy, 37@41c; fresh, 37441c.
New York Money Market.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3o.-Money on
call, "a percent
Six months, 3A percent
Mercantile paper, ~ percent.
Bar silver London, 22Ad.
Bar silver New York. 4S7sc.
Demand sterling, $4s5.
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St Louis Hay and Straw.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 29.-Hay-Fresh
receipts reported at IS cars on west
and SO cars on east side Of river.
Values unchanged. Good grades OF
timothy and clover mixed in scant Of
fering and firmly held, yet demand for
same 10 not urgent, while best quail
titles Of prairie and alfalfa are scarce
and in request, and no clover obtain.
able. The market is over supplied
with timothy and clover MIXED OF
medium and common quality (mostly
grassy or or color hay) and weedy
prairie. for which there Is very little
demand, and on such values are weak
and unsettied-buyers and sellers gen.
orally APART thereon as to prices, and
the sales effected were at buyers
terms. Offerings of scant No. / and
lower grades OF alfalfa met fair SAFE
Glover mixed, SIS to SIT; timothy. SIG
] to $18; alfalfa. $11.50 to $3.50.
Straw-Wheat, 81 on track.
Horse and Mule Market.
ST. LOUIS. No., Dec. 29.-Horses-
No southern buyers on hand and the
trade In these kinds ruled dull. East.
ern buyers were also scarce, but few
(! of them were nibbling around and a
light offering OF horses sold. The
trade in the action was not very good.
The trade in war animals was the
trade that displayed It's usual activity.
and all these types capable Of passing
inspection sold on q satisfactory
basis. Buyers Of these animals were
taking all that were offered and ami
mails suitable for this purpose brought
higher prices than II they had been
sold for any other purpose. The type
OF animals being taken by them at
present are good, sound. chunky
horses standing from 1871 to 1873 and
weighing from 1.15O to 1850 pounds.
Prices for these range from $3.50 to
s17o other quotations are nominal.
Mules-Buyers were scarce and To-
cal mule traders claim they have no