Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-08-19
WHEAT SELLING : SLOW
Corn Prices Steady Under Good
Foreign Demand. ~
Wheat Registers Slight Gain for Week
While Corn Holds own-Hoos
Show Decline ever Previous
Week-1utter Firm.
u. 8. Bureau Of Markets, Washington D.
c.. for week ended Aug. Is, 1921.

c., for week ended Aug. Is, 1921.
GRAIN: Wheat prices advanced
first two days Of week under bullish
news and good milling and export
demand but slumped later under SELL
ing pressure only to regain losses and
close strong. Strength in cash mar
kets shown. Country offerings were
small. Visible supply now 39,514.000
bu., an increase of 4,947,000 for week.
Corn prices remained fairly steady
under good export demand. Visible
supply placed at 12,529,000 bu. de.
crease Of 1,140.000 for week. In Chi
cago cash market No. 2 red winter
wheat closed at 1926; No. 2 hard at
1928; No. mixed corn at SEC; No.
3 yellow at SIC: No. white oats at
&c. For the week. Chicago Septem.
Der wheat gained 211c, closing at
$1.2455; September corn lost xc, clos
ing at 56%c. Minneapolis September
wheat gained SIC. closing at $l.a277s.
Kansas City gained SIC, closing at
$1.15. Chicago December wheat closed
at s1.267s; December corn at $3.50.
Minneapolis December wheat closed
at $1.91%. Kansas City December
wheat closed at $1.17%.
HAY: Receipts of timothy in
creased during week but prices held
strong for good grades in central west
ern markets. Eastern markets easier
and slightly lower. Higher quotations
In southern markets restricted buying.
Relatively heavy receipts in Pacific
cost markets were in excess of linn
tied demand. Quoted August 18th:
No. timothy Chicago $26, Kansas City
1880. No. l alfalfa Kansas City $780,
No. prairie, Kansas City $A, Chi
cago SIS. ..
FEED: Trade quiet and prices for
most feeds slightly lower than last
week. Bran weak under heavy Offer
ings from the southwest. Middlings
strong and in fairly good demand.
Gluten feed fairly active. Hominy feed
dull and lower, cottonseed meal lower
because Of nearness of new crop.
Stocks of old crop meal light and
selling slowly. Linseed meal easier.
Export demand for high protein feeds
poor causing weak undertone for
these feeds. Stocks of most feeds
ample. Alfalfa meal steady. Quoted
August 18th: Bran $13.75, middlings
$14.50, Minneapolis; $3.50 cottonseed
meal $36.75 Memphis, $50 Atlanta;
white hominy feed $24 St. Louis, SIS
Chicago; gluten feed $1,000 Chicago;
No. l alfalfa meal SO Kansas City;
linseed meal $50 Minneapolis.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES: Mid.
dlewestern potato markets continued
to advance. Kansas Early Ohios
strengthened Use to a range Of 1895
in Chicago and Kansas City, Nebraska
stock firm at 1915. ..a,xrs
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS: >Chica.
go livestock: Compared with a week
ago Chicago hog prices showed de-
clines ranging from 45c-70c per 100
lbs. Beef steers and heifers were
practically unchanged, but COWS de-
clined 25-50c. Fat lambs were weak
to quarter lower, feeding lambs adj
vanced 25-50c per 100 lbs. Yearlings
and fat ewes steady to'25c higher.
August 18th, Chicago prices: Hogs,
top, $11.15 Zone load out of line) bulk
of sales $8.65-11; medium and good |
beef steers $3.50; butcher COWS and
heifers $500; feeder steers $5-7.75;
light and medium weight veal calves
$7.50-9.25; fat lambs $S.25-10.75; feed
ing lambs $6.75-S.25; yearlings $685.
$50; fat ewes $685..
Stocker and feeder shipments from
II important markets during the week
ending August 5th, were: Cattle and
calves 48,740; hogs 1918; Sheep &c.
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showed mixed movements compared
with those Of a week ago. Good beef
strong to 81 higher while medium and
lower grades were weak to 81 lower
per 100 lbs. Veal was generally 81
higher with lamb ranging from 81
alkheT & Some e; markets t. s. lower
at others Mutton weak to 81 lower,
light pork loins were firm to 81 higher
with heavy loins weak and all the way
from 81 to So lower. August 18th
prices, good grade meats: Beef $3.50"
s1725; veal $15-16; lamb $22-25; NUT
ton $12-15; light pork loins $3.50;
heavy loins $15-22.
DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter mar
kets unsettled during week but firm
at close. One factor lending support
was the storage report released Aug
ust 10th, covering total United States
holdings which indicated shortage
of some 100000 lbs. under last
year. Ninety-two score prices August
18th: New York 44c; Chicago 41c:
Philadelphia and Boston z4473c.
Cheese markets unsettled during
week. Wisconsin primary markets
average: Twins 100; Daisies 19Ac;
Double Daisies 100; Longhorns and
vonn1 Americas 21C