Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1921-03-18
MARKET REPORT
FURNISHED BY U. S. BUREAU
OF MARKETS. WASHING
TON, D. c.

Hay.
Hay receipts generally light. Majority
or markets reporting easier tendency.
Omaha market strong alfalfa and prai-
RE quoted about 81 higher because OF
insufficient receipts. Best grades in good
demand. Good inquiry for southwestern
prairie and straw, especially rye straw
/ In Chicago.
Quoted March 81 No. timothy-s20
Minneapolis, $1,000 Memphis, s22 Cincin-
$3.50 Minneapolis, $24 Memphis, $40 Gin
cinnati No. clover mixed SIG: 30 Min
neapolls. 5000 Cincinnati No. l prairie
SIC Minneapolis, $l5 Kansas City. No. !
alfalfa $2l Minneapolis, s27 Memphis. SIS
Omaha, $2S Kansas City No. alfalfa
SIT Minneapolis. $40 Memphis. $40 Omaha.
Feed
Prices fairly steady and stocks ample
but firmly held by jobbers as few new
offerings are made by mills. Offerings
expected shortly to improve. Bulllsh
feeling among jcbbers who anticipate
usual spontaneous purchasing movement
this time of year t. cause higher prices
Transit offerings IN several sections Of
Tered below shipment prices. Cornfeeds
unchanged. Alfalfa meal in poor de-
mand
Quoted: Bran s23. middlings $22 Min
neapolis. No alfalfa meal $40 Omaha
and Kansas City. Glutenfeed S37 Chica-
go, white hominy feed $2S St Louis, $32
Boston. Beet pulp $32 f. o. b. New YORK.
Live Stock and Meats
Compared with a week ago Chicago
cattle prices show slight declines, while
hogs and lambs are generally higher
Beef steers and butcher cattle down loo
G25c Feeder steers firm TO 25c higher.
Fat lambs up 25cm75c; yearlings 25cQ
soc per 100 lbs Fat ewes down 25c. Me-
dunn and light weight hogs up 50cQ60c.
Heavy weights weak to sc lower.
March 10 Chicago prices: Hogs, bulk
Of sales, l010WlI.40, medium and good
beef steers $500 $40 25; butcher cows
and heifers $549.75; feeder steers $500
"A 1iph INN aiNrht
calves $9.50412.75; fat lambs $S.75@1l;
feeding lambs S7.25@9.25; yearlings $7.25
@925; fat ewes $5It650
With the exception of beef, eastern
wholesale fresh meat prices tended down
ward. March 10 prices good grade meats:
beef $l6.50q II. 80; veal $l9q22; lamb SIS
Q2o; mutton $llq Is; light pork loins s2i
q "a; heavy loins S16q19.
Market higher On good export demand
early In the week but prices then de-
clined on favorable reports of crop con-
ditions and bearish construction placed
on government crop report
Chicago May wheat undergoing a net
loss of &c closing at S1.57 5-S. Nay corn
3-4c at 20 Lee.
on the 10th all grain prices declined
ether bullish news. Reported France
took 100000 bus. wheat at seaboard and
sales via gulf exceeded 100000 bus.
France also said TO have bought Argen-
tine wheat cheaper than American. Ok
lahoma weather bureau confirms green
bug reports; high dry winds reported
Kansas.
For the week Minneapolis May wheat
down &c at $3.50 lis; Kansas City May
4 Lee at $1.5l 1-2; Winnipeg May 5-Sc
higher at $l.S7 5-S. Minneapolis flour
and wheat demand little better. Kansas
City milling demand fair.
Fruits and Vegetables
Potatoes up 1OQ15c per 100 lbs. north
ern shipping stations at $1.10Q1.20. Chi
cago carlot market firm; up 10M15c at
81. 40a 45. Round whites at western
New York stations up l0u20c at $1.25@
l. 80 sacked New York up 25c at $1.5C
ri. 90 bulk
Cold storage Baldwin apples at west
ern New York {. o. b. stations advanced
25c per bbl at So. Baldwins slightly
higher city markets $500. Northwestern
extra fancy Winesaps mostly 1904 per
box. Baldwns $7S2M1 10 "a per Dbl. in
Liverpool during week ended March Z,
compared with $I77QS.71 week ended
Feb. 2S;. Winesaps $2740322 per box
compared with $271M2.S1.
Dairy Products
Tendency in butter markets has been
downward during the week. Prices now
average 5M6c under these of a week ago
and markets are now very weak Trad
ing is slow and little, but regular, bust
ness is material2ing. Supply exceeds de-
mand and dealers shading prices i'm some
instances.
Closing prices, ~ score: New York
and Boston 4Sc; Chicago 46 1-2c; Phila-
delphia As 1-2c