The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-27
GOVERNMENT MARKET REPORT
Quotations Of Prevailing Prices Of
Farm Products at Various centers
b. Federal Bureau.

7s Washington, D. C. for week ended
the Bufesn s aft Is Of the niteS
states Department Of Agriculture and Is
compiled from telegraphic reports from
All sections OF the country
Hay and Feed.
Hay receipts continue light Eastern
markets very dull Western markets
to 81 lower. Colder weather expecfed
to stimulate demand but no advance in
price anticipated Quote No 1 timothy.
natl $3.50; Pittsburgh, s2s; Jackson
vile, S34. No 1 alfalfa, St Louis. s27;
atlanta Al "a SIS. No 1 prairie. St Louis.
Cottonseed meal strong and quoted 81
higher by mill agents and brokers' De
mand not considered heavy but mills
not pressing for sale Hominy feed
weak due to larger offerings and quoted
ply, wheat feeds more literally offered
ALTA meal duh and quoted at lower
mand for only small lots for immediate
shipment Stocks in dealers hands re-
main above normal; receipts and move
dIings. $3.50; flour middlings .S26. so;
Minneapolis; IS per cent cottonseed
meal, $3.50 Memphis: lnseed meal $50.
Minneapolis; $40. Buffalo; beet pulp
heavy at S43 northeastern markets. No
l alfaifa meal. $3.50 No. afa lhe
Chicago; white hominy, $3.50. St
Louis; yellow hOminy offered at $26 St
Louis
Grain.
Large export sales, improved flour de-
mand in southwest and good demand for
cash wheat combined TO strengthen
grain trading and by the 18Th chicago
March wheat sold at s1-S41z. the high
Prices then began to fall. however. Chi
cago March wheat closed at $1-735s on
the 18th On the 18th there was a
strong undertone to the market in
duced in part by heavy export demand
and confirmation that seventy million
bushels OF wheat in hands of grain cor
on July / Wheat prices advanced, fol-
lowed By gains in coarse grain prices
thousand bushels of corn sold for ex-
port since the 18th to Denmark Hol-
market number two red winter wheat,
1Sc TO 23c over March; No hard win
ter. Sc to Sc over: new No 8 mixed
corn, SIC to &c under May; yellow, SIG
to sc under. Kansas City reports good
milling demand; export demand fair
No. . hard winter wheat. &C to &c over
Kansas City March. For the week Chi
cago March wheat about unchanged at
s1.761s; May corn down SIC at Use
S1-7O1z; Kansas City March sc at
SL10A; Winnipeg May unchanged at
$1.927s- Chicago May wheat, s1-e9Ss-
Livestock and Meats.
Practically all grades Of hogs at Chi
cago gained an average Of loo the past
week Beef and butcher cattle lost
Veal calves lost 25c to s1-25; feeder
steers advanced 25c TO Soc Fat lambs
and yearlings declined sharply; feeding
lambs up 25c to Soc January II Chi
cago prices Hogs. bulk Of sales, 1910
to 1855; medium and good beef steers,
$3.50 to $1,000: butcher COWS and heif-
ers, $3.50 to Se.75: feeder steers. 500
to So 25; light and medium weight veal
calves 1915 to $1,000; fat lambs. sS.75
to S11-25: feeding lambs. SS-25 to $3.50:
yearlings. $500 to S9-25; fat ewes. $500
to $500
Eastern wholesale fresh meat mar
kets were invariably lower Pork lOins
declined $500 to $500 per 100 lbs veal,
81 90 to 400: lambs, S1-O0 to $500; NUT
ton, S1-O0; beef, sc to S1-OO- January
II prices good grade meats Beef. SIS so
to $500: veal, 5000 to $500; lamb.
$1,000 10 $500; mutton, s13.o0 TO $500;
light pork Ioins. S24-0O to s2T-00; heavy
loins, $500 TO S21-OO-