Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-01-28
MARKETS STILL WEAK
Reported Big Belgium Loan May Have
Tendency to Stimulate Grains. "
y. S. Bureau Of Markets.


Washington, D. c. for week ended
January oath; 1921.
HAY AND FEED:-Iiay< market very
weak. Prices declining: receipts not
markets. Demand mostly local but SOME SOME
shipping orders being received. Good
grades alfalfa isteady. Prairie weak with
Weather still " bearish fae1er' ouote siH
Timothy Chicago s23. st. Louis ST. No.
/ alfalfa Kansas r. city s2::5o, omaha: 81,
ST h %ans ss' c SG !5s 6aha 5S
Chicago SIS. -: = ':..,
Feed market weak. Stocks, generally
larger than normal: demand remains
ported feeds quoted in seaboard markets
Bran ss5.5o: midS Hag P sss ouT 09 miS
pne cent Neal ss Msn%eapo
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. round white
potatoes down 15c per 100 lbs. FOB. &,
to 15c, reaching s1.15 to sl.25.
%: Potatoes S,ois cars; barreled apples
595: boxed Ss apples p1 $29 old s ssd 49,
potatoes $7s: SHIPMENTS previous week:
Potatoes 2s1 sars barrfs ap t9a s
cabbage IA: Old celery 40i, new celery
42$; onions go: sweet potatoes 432;
LIVE STOCK AND MEATs:-Practl-
go showed declines for the week. Beet
and butcher cattle ranged 75c to 81 lower,
better grades Showing greatest d.:slin<'.:
and feeding lambs practically steady. Fat
ewes unchanged. Bulk Of hog sales down
&c to es with few light WsGh 3. %
pces Megs bulk Of sSleS s. to
$3.50; medium and good beef steers s7.75
to $3.50; butcher cows and heifers $4.lG
to SO; feeder steers $3.50 to $S.75; light
linn SYt,f 1p vvVn0 tn,
S12:5o: tat t. lambs b. g to sll:2s: &fesding
ss;s5; fat ewes s. TO- Sc. .4
weak and unsettled. Price. declines have
continued and January Gath prices aver
age 21Hc to Sc lower than a week ago.
Volume Of business lighter, but there IS
confidence in trading: Little export busi-
ness as prices offered by buyers were too
low to attract any real selling Interest 5M;se
Cheese Exchange show an adjustment OF
values on some styles which have been
relatively high for the past few weeks:
les 2315c Young Americas, $50: Long
horns 2Gc
GRAIN:-Grain prices dropped. steadily
had obtained loan Of twenty millions dol
lars from the United States and good ex-
port business induced covering by shorts
and the markets Responded With tn net let a. a.
Department of Agriculture shows that
based on this years crop and average
pre-war consumption the wheat and rye
import needs of Euro;ean countries were
for ESQ. 100000 bus. more; than total sur
plus of exporting countries. SentimeEt
now appears more friendly to buying and
advances were recorded. on the GATH.
Wheat receipts smaller. Despite heavy
receipts on the oath corn showed firm un-
dertone; fair export demand In Chicago
cash market No. 2 red WRITER wheat 16 to
PIC over March: No. hard to &c over;
New No. 3 mixed corn s to 6@c under
May; yellow 81 to 6Ac under: Minneapo,,
lis reports best flour demand in several
weeks with cash wheat in good demand
at higher premiums. No. 2 dark northern
wheat Z to 15c over Minneapolis March.
Kansas City reports good milling and eN
port demand with No. 2 dark hard casa
wheat to SC ever kansas rs ss city yo March 'cs;
SIC. closing at $1.7ON; May corn 2Hc
at 69Hc. Minneapolis March wheat down
SIC at $1.611s: Kansas City March Sac
Chicago May wheat $1.61A.