The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-05
LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS
United press ASSOCIATIONS City
Leased Wrs
! Sheep receipts 5000; market
steady. Lambs, ss.0o@s.so: ewes
| $6.7507.50; wethers, $5.25@s.5o.

/ Sheep receipts 5000; market
steady. Lambs, s900@9.6O ewes
/ $6.75@7.5O; wethers, $5.25@s.5O.
Omaha Live Stock.
OMAHA, March 5.-Cattle RECENT.
400; market steady. Steers, $3.50
$50; COWS and heifers, s5.75@7Oo:
stockers and feeders. $7.OO6750.
calves, $7OO@1O.0O; bulls and stays
! $4.75@6.25.
Hog receipts 5000; market 1oc hieh.
or. Bulk, $6.50@6.55; top, $6.57B.
Sheep receipts $50: market steady.
Yearlings, $S.50@S.75; wethers, $3.50
| OTIS; lambs, s9.25@9.6O; ewes,
$7.25@7!50.
Chicago Produce.
CHICAGO, March 5.-Butter-Ex.
tras, 291ac; firsts. 25@26hc; dairy
extras, 27hc; dairy firsts, 23@24hc.
Eggs-Firsts, 19c; ordinary firsts,
18@1S1sc.
Cheese-Twins. 1914 @15kc; Young
Americas, 15A @151sc.
Live poultry 15c ducks
12@16c; geese, S@12c; spring chick
ems, 16c; turkeys, 13c.
J Potatoes-Receipts, IL cars; Wis
cousin whites, 35@42c; red, 35@40c;
Michigan whites, 35@42c; red, 35G
40c.
New York Produce.
NEW YORK, March 5.-Flour mar
ket quiet, unsettled.
Pork market dull. Mess, $19.5O9
1000.
| Lard market steady. Middle ives.
spot, $9.70@9.S0.
{. Sugar, raw, market. firm. Centrifu.
gal test, SAT-: Muscavado SO test
$500.
Il Sugar, refined, market quiet. Cut
loaf, Sc. 65; crushed. $685.; powdered
II $5!S5@S.10;s graduated, $5.75060S.e~
X Coffee Rio No. Z on spot, sc.
Tallow market firm. City, 6S6
I611c: country, 61a@SMc; special, 10
i Hay market frmer. Prime, s1lo;
No. 3, 90@921kc: clover, S5c@s10o
i Dressed poultry market quiet
Chickens, 15s@22c: turkeys. 12@24c;
fowls, 1874 01Sc;- ducks, 12@19c.
/ Love poultry market steady. Geese,
13@14o; ducks. zoe; fowls, 1Sc; tur
keys. 15017c: ROSTERS, 11@13c;'
chickens, 15h @17c.
| Cheese market firmer. State milk
common to special, 13@17Ac; full
skins, 3@8ci skins common to sps
Tcials, 9@14Ac.
Butter market unsettled. Receipts
6,643. Creamery extras, sic; dairy
tubs, 20@2SAc; imitation creamer
firsts, 22@23e.
i Egg market easier. Receipts IS,
23S Nearby. white fancy, 23GAc;-
NEARBY mixed fancy. 20@21c; fresh
I 19k@22c.
St Louis Hay.
ST. LOUIS. Mo-, March 4.-Hay-
Market strong: receipts at st. Louis
Is cars; at East st. Louis, % cars
iChoice timothy, $22; No. / timothy |
1918. 50@21 so; No. 2 timothy, sl6g
/ @1S.0O; No. 3 timothy, $13. 00@15@ |
Horse and Mule Market.
| ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 4.-Horses-
Eastern buyers gave what life there
was to the market They were cali
Ing for all grades OF quality kinds Of
,chunks and drafters. and prices were
STEADY. While southern traders were
lonly in moderate attendance, they
took fair supplies. They were calling
for their usual types of small farm
mares and prices were steady.
4 War horse trade figured largely u
the days business. These buyers wels
seeking their customary types of gooo
Equality animals, capable of going "
1.-THE battlefelds OF Europe.
Southern horses ...........s 6Oqli.
Eastern horses .,............ 125gl"
Extra good heavy eastern
drafters NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1S5g.a..
Army horses .............. IloWi'e
Mules-Buyers who are taking
few each day are calling for the yer.
best. They want good big quaLs
mules, 10 hands high and over. ln'
bigger and better they are the beue
Sellers under existing conditi0n
Quality is an absolute essential, anu
shippers should bear this in mlna
when buying their supplies in h
lcountry. =,
Cotton mules, 14h hands,. l0o9i''
Good ordinary, Is hand ,..
muieS loVv
Good quality mules, 151s ,sa
hands .-.....--.=4..-,... 1oou'9
Extra good quality, well a,.,
built mules .....'.......... 1So9-s
Great Help to Wheat. mi,
/ TOPEKA, Kans., March va VII.
wheat at the present price, j. Q. W. wa
Ter, secretary Of agriculture. estinla a,sr
the heavy blanket of snow cov covers
Kansas is worth ten million ao'''
to the farmers
Not one report of wheat dying
being winter-killed has been recep