The St. Mary banner., 1921-02-12
The Markets

Latest weekly market reports, issued
ington, D. c.:
Hay and Feed.-Minneapolis reports
Twin Cities markets flooded with low
grade hays; musty and unsound stock
selling at Sc to $S. Chicago hay re-.
ceipts very light, but demand is of a
| hand to mouth character. AS buyers
| appear not to be alarmed about light
| receipts, receivers are unable to work
prices higher. Good No l timothy
would sell at about $19 Minneapolis
$25 Chicago. Demand limited fol
Southwestern prairie In Chicago; TOP
grade would bring about $40. Demand
in general is light; receipts ample. Al
falfa weak and lower in Cincinnati
market where ia cars are reported in
terminals. Quoted: No. l timothy
$3.50 Atlanta, $26 Cincinnati; No. 2
timothy $31 Atlanta, SIT Minneapolis,
s23 Cincinnati; No. alfalfa $345O At
lanta, $21 Omaha, $23 Cincinnati; No.
alfalfa $2S Atlanta, $l4 Omaha, $22
Cincinnati; No. l prairie S14 Mime
apolis, S11 Omaha, SIS Kansas City;
No. 2 prairie $1150 Minneapolis, SO
Omaha. No change in fee dmarket
conditions. Demand remains quiet
and prices generally lower than last
week Gluten feed reduced another
IS making decline $13 per ton within
past two weeks. Hominy steadily SELL
ing off; bran down $3.50 Season bran
offered by Minneapolis jobbers at $40
St Louis feed manufacturers report
having contracted No l alfalfa meal
at around $22 delivered Linseed meal
steady; cotton-seed meal weak. Good
demand for 36 per cent cottonseed
meal reported in Southeast. Quoted:
Bran $25, middlings, $21, flour mid
dllngs $25, reddog $31, Minneapolis;
llnseed meal, $40, Buffalo; $39, Min
neapolls; 36 per cent cottonseed meal.
S27.5O Memphis, Gluten feed $35 Chi
cago; white hominy feed $30.5O North
eastern markets; No. l alfalfa meal
S22 Kansas City
Cotton.-The average price of mid
ding spot cotton in the ten designated
markets declined about 95 points dur
ing the week, closing around 13.1Oc. |
March future contracts in New York |
down 154 points, closing at 13.18c, a |
new low point for season.
Fruits and eeetables-Potatoes de- |
cllned about 10c per 100 lbs at north
ern shipping stations, reaching 750 !
9Oc sacked. Chicago carlot market |
down 10c at $1@1.1O. Round whites
lO to l5c low f. 0. b. New York ship |
ping points, closing $1@1OS New
York markets down 15c, reaching 81 go |
to $165 bulk.
Yellow onions down about 1Oc per
100 lbs. t. o. b., closing around 75c. |
Eastern consuming markets lost an
additional 10 to 25c, reaching zoe to
III. .25; middlewestern cerEers slightly
weaker at 75c to SIPS.
Florida golden self blanching celery
steady f. 0. b. at S175 per crate; large
lots In Eastern city markets down
about 25c at $2.50@s3; middlewestern
markets steady; $275 to 1926.
Carlot shipments week ended Feb
ruary 2: Potatoes 2910 cars; boxed
apples 416, barreled apples 1,O61, cab.
bage 375, celery AIS, lettuce $40. on.
ions 4S6, sweet potatoes 353. Ship
ments week ended Jan. 26: Potatoes
2Sl4 cars, boxed apples 304, barreled
apples o74, cabbage 462, celery 329, let
:uce 399, onions 4O3, sweet potatoes
}41.
Livestock and Meats.-Compared
Win a week ago, Chicago hog prices
'anged zoe to soc higher, beef steers
averaged nearly 81 lower; butcher
cattle down 35c to ST. Feeder steers
ost SOC per 100 lbs; veal calves 81
o $1.50. The sheep and lamb mar.
get slumped badly, ranging S1.75 to
700 under week ago. Fat ewes
lown 5Oc@$1; fat lambs s1.4O01.75.
February 3 Chicago prices: Hogs, bulk
II sales $9.30@1O; medium and good
'eef sters $500 to $3.50; butcher
ows and heifers s425@$S; feeder
teers $5.85@S; light and medium
weight veal calves, $95O@12.5O; fat
ambs, s7@9.75; feeding lambs, s725
1S.5O; yearlings, $5.25@775; fat
ives, s3.25@475.
Eastern wholesale fresh meat prices
5ere invariably lower than a week
go. Beef declined 81 to $3.50; veal
ork and mutton, 81 to So; lamb. 81
D 50 per 100 lbs. February 8 prices {
ood grade meats: Beef, $13.5O@15.5O:
cal s2O@22; lamb, s17021; mutton,
1O@14; light pork loins, s2O@22:
eavy pork loins $15@19.
Grain-Prices opened higher but t
absequently declined as result of de- 6
ressing economic and financial re.
orts. The declines continued until $
he End when oversold condition was
9vealed and this together with. ad.
ance OF &c from low point in Buenos
yres wheat caused general buying {
nd an advance in American prices on t
le 3rd, however, the markets suffered
relapse and Chicago May wheat fell r
$1.42R, new low price on crop. I
xport demand rather slow, but on b
'eak some wheat sold via gulf. Flour 3
emand generally reported slow. Chi Il