The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-08-26
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS;
GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS


Portland Wheat: Bluestem, $1.01
bushel; fortyfold, csc; club, 93c; red
Fife, 92c: red Russian, 90c.
Oats-No. white feed, $3.50.
Barley = No. feed, s25; brewing,
s2s.
Millfeed = Spot prices: Bran, $27
ton; shorts, $28; rolled barley, $500
80.
Corn-whole, $3s ton; cracked, $39.
Hay-Eastern Oregon timothy, SIG
@17 ton; valley timothy, SIS; alfalfa,
SIP. 50@13. so; cheat, sl0.50@11; oat
and vetch, $11@12.
Vegetables-Cuc Oregon, Is
zoe dozen; artichokes, 90c; tomatoes,
| 25@50c box; cabbage, lie pound; head
lettuce, 81 crate; beans, 2t@4c pound;
green corn, 15@20c dozen; garlic, 10
@12ac pound; peppers, 4@5c; egg
plant, 6@7c; pumpkins, lac.
Green Fruits Cantaloupes, 65M
$1.75 crate; peaches, 30@50c box;
watermelons, 1@1ac pound; plums, SOC
@S1.25 box; new apples, Astrachans,
75c@$1; Gravenstein, s1@1.25; pears,
81 a 1.25; grapes, 81 "a LIS crate;
huckleberries, 6 q &c pound; casabas,
$1.75@2 dozen.
Potatoes = New, L7O a soc sack;
sweets, 3a@4c pound.
i Onions-60@75c sack.
i Eggs-Oregon ranch, buying prices:
No. l, 25c dozen; No. 2, zoe; No. 8,
, tic. Jobbing price: No. l, 27c.
Z Poultry = Hens, Is a lac pound;
springs, 16 q tic; turkeys, 1S@19c;
ducks, 8@12c; geese, 22a@26c-
Butter-City creamery, cubes, ex-
tras, 27c pound; frsts. Csc; seconds,
, 24c; prints and cartons, extra; butter
: fat, No. l, 28c; second grade, &c less;
country creamery cubes, 22a@26c.
D Veal-Fancy, 12@12ic per pound.
s Pork-Block, 9a@10c pound.
8 Hops-1915 contracts, nominal, 800
lac pound; 1914 crop, lac; Odds, 12@
s 13c.
: Hides = Sailed hides, 15dc pound
: sailed kip, Ice; sailed calf, 18c; greer
. hides, lac; green kip, Ice; green calf
: 1Sc; dry hides, 25c; dry calf, 27c.
d Wool-Eastern Oregon, medium, 81
e @28ac; pound; Eastern Oregon, fine
: 18@21ac; valley, 26@30c; mohair, new
:, clip, 3O@3lc-
+ Cascara bark-Old and new, 4c.
:, Pelts-Dry long wooded pelts, SIC
dry short-wooled pelts, 11ac; DIR.
+ shearlings, each, 10 a 15c; salte'
n shearlings, 15@25c; dry goat, lonl
J. hair, tic; dry goat, shearlings, loo
y zoe; sailed long wooded pelts, May, 5
e az.
= Grain bags-In car lots, 7ac; SINAI
lie lots, ic more
5. Cattle = Best steers, $3.50 a CTS
lie good, Sc a 6.25; medium, 1913 a 6
4 choice cows, $5.25@5.35; heifers, 5
IT @5.s5; bulls, $4.5O@5; stays, s5.5
lie @6.
Hogs - Light, s7.5o@7.6o; heavy
h S7.25@7. 40.
Sheep - wethers, $4.75@5; ewe'
p s3@4.50; lambs, s4.75@6.25.
n, A complex local situation is apt
g. make the Portland wheat market Vi
usually dull.
"a The farmers are showing themselv'
totally unwilling to meet in any wi
the prices offered by exporters.
al fact, following telegraph reports tn
or sterling had declined to $4.5S, oil
Al, leading firm of exporters announces
he that they were not in the market, an
:" moreover, did not expect to be in Il
~ near future.
on The grower, generally, is not i
on clined to take below S1.06, the pri
n current a,week ago, prior to the rece
slump.
"And, if he holds for that price,
is apt never to sell his grain, I
!. marked one leading shipper.
els 1.-The farmer is confident that gra
will go up," said another. ''But tn
-, the farmer fails to consider such lit
questions as exchange"
The opinion seemed general tn
he wheat trading locally would be al
arc standstill for some little time,
na water rate of so cents by the car
g making it practically impossible
49,. local mills to buy wheat here and co
pete with flour on Eastern markets.
Exporters asserted that unless
had ships which he was compelled
'e fill, buyer would be unlikely to b
at all, because he might have to fl
W." heavy deficit by the time his COO
L. payment bill became due.
With the farmers firm for wheat
81. O6 and over, and buyers coy III
- the money market is more settl
81 there does not appear much chance
ths heavy sales of Northwest grain.