Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-03-05
WEEKLY MARKETGRAM
~. S. bureau of Markets.

Washington, d. C.-For week ended
February rs, 1921.
Fruits and Vegetables-Sacked round
white potatoes up 10Q zoe per 100 lbs.
reaching s0cV s1.10. Chicago car-lot
market up zoe. closing s1.25 a 1.35
sacked. Round whites weakened slight
ly at western New YorL shipping
points, closing around 95c New York
market weak, down Esq 30c at SLIGO
1925 bulk.
Cold storage Baldwin apples firm
western New York f. 0. b. stations at
s425@4.35 per Dbl. Baldwins steady in
city markets, mostly S4.50Q5. North-
western extra fancy Winesapsssteady,
New York and Boston $3.50 4.50; mid
le-western markets mostly So per
box. - .a1Ns
Danish type cabbage steady I. o. b.
around IS per ton bulk. Eastern city
markets slow and dull, s15@18 per
ton; Florida Wakefields sl.10Q2 per
Florida celery irregular in consums
Ing markets, mostly $2.5093 per crate.
Shipping points s1.60@1.75.
Eastern - sweet potatoes firm III In
hamper.
Hay.-Very light receipts causing
better demand in timothy markets.
Recent congestions and low prices have
discouraged shipments. Good timothy
in small bales at a premium in Chicago.
Shipping restrictions at Cincinnati now
removed. Heavy shipments western
alfalfa causing weak markets In GEN.
timothy New York s32, Cincinnati
$3.50, Chicago S24. Atlanta $50. Mem
phis s29. No. l alfalfa Chicago SIS.
Memphis s27.
Feed.-Demand slow. Prices are
fairly well maintained. Holders asking
higher prices but buyers reported as
unwilling to buy at recent advanced
quotations. Linseed meal and cotton
seed meal firm but unchanged. Hominy
feed, beet pulp and alfalfa meal In
poor demand. Stocks in country deal
ers' hands remain good; receipts and
movement satisfactory. Southe astern
and southwestern markets weak. Ex-
port demand for high protein feeds
light. Quoted: Bran $3.50, middlings
$3.50. Minneapolis; linseed meal $40
Buffalo, $38 Minneapolis; SO per cent
cottonseed meal s26 Memphis, sac
feed $3.50; gluten feed $37 Chicago.
$3.50 northeastern markets; beet pulp
SAG. Philadelphia. No. l alfalfa meal
So Kansas City. $21 st. Louis.
Live stock and Meats.-During the
week at Chicago prices of fat lambs
advanced s1.50 2.25; feeding lambs 81.
YearIings up s2@2.25; ewes 81. Beef
and and feeder o, steers gained sl5925e;
Sa per STICK to- sssi Ts assh cReaso
prices: Hogs: Bulk of sales 5000
10.40 medium and good beef steers
1856 % 1925; butcher cows and heifers
$3.50 O. $50; feeder steers s7.25 o.; light
1925; fat lambs $s@11.25; feeding
lambs $7.25 $3.50; yearlings $3.50 @9.50;
go; mutton $11014; light pork loins
fat ewes $5.5097.25.
kets: Beef up $150@2; pork loins II
@3; mutton 81 o.; veal 50. Lamb lost
all gains made early in the week and
closed unchanged from week ago.
oh nrin 10
Beef SIS @ 1850; veal $3.50 %; lamb SIS
$1,000; heavy loins $16@19.
Grain.-Priees advanced the early
part of week on renewal of export de-
however. weakness in stock market and
general economic conditions caused
change in sentiment and prices drop
ped On the 25th prices dropped &c at
the opening but bullish news developed
and brought abb at a recovery. Four
European countries In market on the
25th. Good milling demand cash wheat
Omaha and Kansas City. Additional
fly reported Missouri. Domestic de-
mand for corn continues light. In
Chicago cash market No. 2 red winter
wheat 10 @12c over Chicago March; No.
under May; No. yellow Az @5c under.
Excepting MINNEAPOLIS March wheat.
which is Sc lower, prices futures un-
changed to fractionally higher for the
WEEK. CLOSING prices, chicago March
wheat $1.67%; May corn roc. Min
neapolis March wheat 1874; Kansas
City March s1.57A: Winnipeg May
$1.S3B. Chicago May wheat s157A.
Minneapolis reports flour sales little
better; wheat receipts smallest for
season.
Dairy Produets.-Further improve
ment prevails in butter market with
trade calling for all the better grades.
Fresh butter somewhat scarce. Sup
port is lent to market by buyers who
anticipate further advances and who
have been buying ahead. Prices 90
score: New York 51hc; Chicago Sic;
Philadelphia 52hc; Boston 81 NC. These
prices are about "a Q4c higher than
week ago.
Cheese markets firm. Advances ON
the 21st at Wisconsin primary markets
have caused slight advances in some
distributing markets and buyers who
look for a general advance to follow
have been buying more freely. Wis
consin primary market prices about.
Twins 27c; Daisies 27Ac, Double
Daisies &c; Young Americas 25c; Long
horns 26Lc