The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-08-27
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS;
GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS

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Portland-Wheat: Bluestem, ST.
bushel; fortyfold, 95c; club, 93c; re-
Fife, 92c: red Russian, 90c.
0ats-No. white feed, $25. 80.
Barley = No. l feed, $25; brewing
$26.
| Millfeed - Spot prices: Bran, So
ton; shorts, $2s; rolled barley, $3.50
I30.
Corn-Whole, $3S ton; cracked, $39
Hay-Eastern Oregon timothy, $1t
@17 ton; valley timothy, SIS; alfalfa
$12. 50@13. 80; cheat, $40. 5O@11; oat
and vetch, $l1@12.
Vegetables-Cu -Cucumbers, Oregon, II
zoe dozen; artichokes, 90c; tomatoes,
25@50c box; cabbage, 1c pound; heaG
lettuce, 81 crate; beans, 2a@4c pound
green corn, 15@20c dozen; garlic, 1C
Q12ac pound, peppers, 4@5c; egg.
plant, 6@7c; pumpkins, 1Sc.
Green Fruits - Cantaloupes, 65@
$1.75 crate; peaches, 30@50c box;
watermelons, 1@1Ac pound; plums, Soc
@$1.26 box; new apples, Astrachans,
76c@$1; Gravenstein, $1@1.25; pears,
81 a 1.25; grapes, 81 q 1.75 crate;
huckleberries, 6 a &c pound; casabas,
1.75@2 dozen.
Potatoes = New, 70 q S0c sack F.;
sweets, 3a@4c pound.
Onions-60@75c sack.
Eggs-Oregon ranch, buying prices:
No. l, 25c dozen; No. 2, zoe; No. 8,
tic. Jobbing price: No. l, 27c.
Poultry - Hens, ID q 14c pound; j;
springs, 16 q tic; turkeys, 1S@19c;
ducks, S@12c; geese, 22a@26c.
Butter-City creamery, cubes, ex-
tras, 27c pound; firsts, 25c; seconds,
24c; prints and cartons, extra; butter
fat, No. l, 2Sc; second grade, &c less;
country creamery cubes, 22a@26c.
Veal-Fancy, 12@12ac per pound.
Pork-Block, 9s@10c pound.
Hops-1915 contracts, nominal, 100
lac pound; 1914 crop, lac; olds, 800
13c.
Hides - Sailed hides, 15ac pound;
salted kip, Ice; salted calf, 1sc; green
hides, 14c; green kip, Ice, green calf,
1Sc; dry hides, 25c; dry calf, 27c.
Wool--Eastern Oregon, medium, 25
@2sac; pound; Eastern Oregon, fine,
l8@2lAc; valley, 26@30c; mohair, new
clip, 3O@31c.
Cascara bark-Old and new, 4c.
Pelts.-Dry long wooled pelts, SIC;
dry short-wooled pelts, 11ac; dry
each, 10 a 15c; salted
shearlings, 15@25c; dry goat, long
hair, TIC; dry goat, shearlings, 100
zoe; salted long-wooled pelts, May, 81
az.
Grain bags-In car lots, 7ac; small
lots, 3c more.
Cattle - Best steers, $3.50 q 6.75;
good, $6 q 6.25; medium, $5.75 @6;
choice cows, $5.25@5. 35; heifers, $5 |
95.S5; bulls, $4.5O@5; stays, $3.50
96.
Hogs = Light, $7.5o@7.sO; heavy,
b7.25@7.4O.
Sheep - Wethers, $4.75@5; ewes,
S3@4.5O; lambs, $4.75@6.25.
A complex local situation is apt to
make the Portland wheat market un-
usually dull.
The farmers are showing themselves
totally unwilling to meet in any way
he prices offered by exporters. In
'act, following telegraph reports that
sterling had declined to $4.58, one
eading firm of exporters announced
hat they were not in the market, and,
moreover, did not expect to be in the
ear future. '......
The grower, generally, is not in
lined to take below 81. 06, the price
urrent week ago, prior to the recent
lump.
"And, if he holds for that price, he
apt never to sell his grain," re-
larked one leading shipper.
1.-THE farmer is confident that grain
ill go up" said another. "But then
ne farmer fails to consider such little
uestions as exchange"
The opinion seemed general that
heat trading locally would be at a
tandstill for some little time, the
'ater rate Of 80 cents by the canal
laking it practically impossible for
,cal mills to buy wheat here and COM
etc with flour on Eastern markets.
Exporters asserted that unless he
ad ships which he was compelled to
II, buyer would be unlikely to buy
all, because he might have to face
heavy deficit by the time his 60-day
ayment bill became due.
With the farmers firm for wheat at
LOG and over, and buyers coy until
he money market is more settled,
nere does not appear much chance of
eavy sales Of Northwest grain.