Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-06-03
WHEAT RANGE STEADY
Improved Crop Conditions in
Southwest Check Rise.
Export Demand fair-AIj Classes Of
Live Stock Show Declines
Dairy Market Firm.

U. s. Bureau {cs a Of Markets, Washington; D.
~, LOT week ended May %. 1924
HAY: Receipts exceedingly light in
central west but demand equally limit
ed. Prices steady. Trading very mar
row. Eastern and southern markets
inactive. Quoted May 27-No. timo-
ty, Chicago $22; No. prairie. Kansas
City SIS.
FEED: Higher wheat prices caused
increase in -four buying and trade
looks for lower wheat feed prices on
prospects Of increased milling. Feed
market generally dull bur not quotably
lower. Quoted: bran $3.50, middllings
SIS, Minneapolis; No. alfalfa meal
$24 Chicago: gluten feed $3.50 Chi
cago; white hominy feed $22 st. Louis,
$A Chicago; linseed meal $3.50 Chi
caso: $3.50 coho5seed meal $50 At
lanta. -
GRAIN: Prices advanced sharply
account bad crop reports and hot dry
weather in winter wheat belt. but 'ad-
vance terminated on the 26th on much
needed rains in Southwest. Export de-
mand for wheat and corn good at
times. On the 2Sth prices held within
comparatively narrow limits on 'eves'
ming up for double holiday. Crop re-
ports now more favorable In Chicago
cash market No. 2 red winter wheat
$1.68; No. 2 hard $1.6S: No: mixed
corn &c: No. yellow &C: No. 3
white oats 394c. For the week Chi
cago May wheat up &C at $1:69h; May
corn NC at 63%c. Chicago July wheat
down nc at $1.2Sh; July corn up 3ssc
at Csc. Minneapolis July wheat down
6hc atp$126: Kansas City July I'M
changed at $l.21Ai; Winnipeg July
down Ike at $1.64A. z.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES:
Northern round white potatoes down
Is to zoe at shipping points, ranging 60
to zoe sacked per 100 lbs.
Last official apple report of the sea-
son quoted New York AM Baldwins
at Sc to $6.25 per Dbl. Baltimore and
Pittsburgh.
Texas yellow Bermuda onions slight
ly weaker in consuming markets. sell
ing mostly $40 to $1.75. Chicago
down Acc at 81 to $1.10.
Missouri Aroma strawberries down
50 I. o. b. shipping points at 1925 to
$3.50 per 24-quart crate; $3.50 to 81
in middlewestern wholesale markets.
DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter mar
ket fairly firm at existing prices, espe-
cially on better qualities. Consump-
ton holding up we'll and limited guam
titles moving into storage. Closing
prices, 80 score: Chicago 28hc; New
York 29c; Boston 23hc; Philadelphia
soc.
Cheese market more active with
prices at Wisconsin points ranging
13N to 14Ac.
LIVE STOCK AND MEATS: Prices
of all classes and grades Of live stock
at Chicago showed substantial de-
clines the past week. Hogs down 81
to $1.15 per 100 lbs. Beef steers gen
orally SOC lower; butcher COWS and
heifers Csc; veal calves 75c to 81.
Aged lambs and yearlings lost SOC to
1925; springers $1.75 to $3.50 per 100
lbs. May % Chicago prices: Hogs,
bulk Of sales, $3.50 to $3.50; medium
and good beef steers $7.25 to $3.50:
butcher COWS and heifers $3.50 to
$3.50; feeder steers 81 to 1926; light
and medium weight veal calves 81 to
50; fat lambs IS to $11.50; yearlings
$3.50 to SO; fat ewes $2.75 to SIS.
With the exception of lamb. which
remained practically unchanged, prices
in eastern wholesale fresh meat mar
kets declined. Beef down Csc to SOC;
veal and pork loins 81 to 81; mutton
81 to 81 per 100 lbs.