Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-05-01
Latest Market Reports
LITTLE VARIATION
SHOWN IN MARKETS

Practically no change is shown in to-
days markets. Hogs are the same as
Saturdays quotations with a drop of
one cent in creamery butter and three
cents in price paid to farmers for eggs
The prices today are:
Hogs-(Furnished daily by Jno Nor
rell & Co.)-120@15o. $3.50: 150@1s0
s14.55; 100000. $l4.9O: 200 and over,
$15.25; packers good Sass: fair s14.15
sheep = Best lambs. $11.5o@ 1880;
choice ewes. $7@S: fair to good ewes, "a
wheat-$1.s5@2.2o: rye. s1.4o@1.so;
oats. 70@75c: corn. $1.45@1.5O.
Hay-$14@16: straw, ton. $6@s.
Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Butter fat quotations-First grade.
44c: second grade, Ale.
'oultry-(T These prices paid to pro.
,ducers.) Straight run hens. 1Skc; old
:, oosters. 10c: ducks, lie: geese, 1oc:
.pring chickens. lie; old toms. "A
@15c; No. I turkeys. 10000: No. 8
14c; guineas 20@25c.
Creamery butter-44@45c.
Eggs-Country, CSC.
Wool and Hides.
Wool = Bright, medium clear. 4oc:
chaffy and slightly bury, 276?sc:
emi-bright. 800 81 bright. medium
bury 25M30c: light. fine. clear, 2sm
3Sc: heavy. fine. clear. 1S@?3c: Angora
goat long. luster. 26M41c.
Hides-No. fully cured. 1sc: No:
green lac; horse hides. No. I: $3.50; NO
Bees wax-eOc: No. I tallow. Sc: No
2 tallow. &c.
THE RETAIL PRICES.
Flour and Feed
Flour and feed Graham flour; per
sack. 75c: corn chops. Der cwt. S4.oo'
shorts. per cwt.. s2ss: bran. per cwt:,
s2.55: corn. Der bu. $40: hav. per cwt:
1855: straw, cwt.. 70M75c: meal
per sack 45c: corn and oat chor. pc,
cwt.: $500: corr chop, 20 lbs, soc; on
meal rer ctw.. 81 go: wheat flour. per
flour 1910.
Butter. Eucs and Poultry.
Creamery butter 47c: country butter
4ONA?c.
Eggs-Fresh country. ssc.
Poultrv-Tnase dressed. 1ST'5c: rnr-
keys dressed. asm 40c: dressed hens 35c.
Fresh and saIt Fish,
Frozen. not fresh caTght-Salmon.
,sc III. halibut. zoe: red snapper 18c
Fresh nsh-Catfish Csc: bass. &c:
trout. ooc: halibut ecc: salmon. zoe:
live Holsters. 75c w.: broiled Holsters.
COO each: white fisF1 eoc n: crabs hard
shell. 15c each: soft shell. soc each:
perch. 12kc: shrimp. zoe ib.: fresh
ma clSerel 40c each: shads. soc each;
sha brock A0c pair: frog legs. CSC pair;
Spanish mackere!. 40c each: fresh ner-
ring, 15c: smelts &c: Blue Point. zoe:
Blre Point oysters In shell zoe doz.;
red snapper H.. 1sc.
Salt hsn-Mackerei. 1o@2Sc: herrirs'
Norway. for CSC: cod. 1o@2nc: lake
fish. nail. zoe: salt mackerel. 1nM25c:
salt white fsh. lnM35c H.: salt cod, 10
125c b.: smoked sturgeon 25c h.: mn.
an haddie. 22hc: Holland herring. kes
s115@125: salt eel. CSC b.: pail ancho-
rites. 1925
Select oysters s5c at: standard oys'
tiers. CSC qt.; count oysters. at Soc.
Sardtnes, 4 for Csc: spiced sardines "
TO- 1oc: box cod 1oMM2oc: fancy
smoked bioa tiers for csc: smoked
homeless herring CSC H.: smoked her
ring. CSC H.: Kippered herring. for
CSC: halibut. CSC III: smoked sturgeon
25c ID.
as Fruits.
Fruits Bananas, ~ Msc ID. lemons
% cents: oranges a0@6oc ner dozen:
apples 5oM75c rk: kumqnats s5@Aoc:
Spanish MALAGA grapes. 30c: Mems
pears. doz. Aoc: grape fruit. 81 ml5c:
tangerines. 45c doz strawberries, pt..
15c: pineapples e5m3oc.
Vegetables.
vegetablcs-Florida cabbage III. 15c'
tomatoes ripe. 15M35c: parsley. 5h Joe:
mushrooms 81 ID: green beans. zoe:
horse radish I5c: beets lb 4hac: lettuce
s5c b.; egg plant. 2o625c: cauliflower,
l0m35c: beats. per bunch. l0c: tur-
nips. 45c PIX: potatoes. PIX. $1@1.25:
bu.. $3.75: carrots and parsnips. ID. &C;
red onions 15c; white onions, 12hc;
Spanish onions. 15c; garlic, Csc: head
lettuce. 1o@l7hc: sweet potatoes. Toe;
Brussels sprouts box :5c: French en-
dive, lb., 55c; green peas. zoe h.;
radishes. SC; green onions, for
l0c: new potatoes. h., Zoe: onion sets.
h.. 17hm22c: new asparagus 2 for csc.
sc: two punches rhubarb. sc.