The Yale expositor., 1921-03-24
MARKETS
U. S. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington, D. c.

Hay
Receipts light. Top grades finding
ready sale I'm nearly all markets. Coun~
Try demand improving. Country loadings
light. Road conditions poor. Light re-
ceipts clover and alfalfa Kansas city.
Omaha reports prairie in good request;
receipts light No Accommodations in evil
dence but northeastern markets well
supplied.
Quoted: No. l timothy $50 Kansas
city $24 Chicago, $40 Minneapolis, $24,5O
Cincinnat; No timothy $22 80 Cincin-
natl. SIS Kansas City. $50 Chicago $3.50
Minneapolis; No alfalfa 5000 Kansas
cd S2l Chicago. SIG Minneapolis, $l7
Kansas city, $22 Cincimat; No. l prai-
RE SIG Minneapolis $1i.5I Kansas City.
Feed
Market generally ease. Llnseed meal
strong but price unchanged. Corn feeds
unchanged Hominy feed quoted about
5Oc lower i'm many mar't cts Beet pulp
and alfalfa meal i'm poor request. Sea-
son bran offered around $22 Minneapolis
Production most feeds, while not heavy,
is ample; demand remains below normal
Quoted: bran $22. so, middlngs 500.
Minneapolis; No. | alfalfa meal $3.50
beet pulp $50 +. 0. b. New York,
Fruits and Vegetables
Potatoes down l0Ml5c per 100 lbs.
northern shipping stations closing 95cu
Sl.lO. Chicago carlot market lost lOQlbc
advance OF previous week. closing $l,20
New York station also lost last weeks
gains, closing $l9$m l'O6 sacked Bulk
Cold storage baldwin apples steady
around S. per barrel f. o. b. western
Ntw York stations. Baldwins steady in
city wholesale markets, $500 North
western extra fancy Winesaps mostly So
al per box consuming centers
Yellow onions 75c@ 20 per 100 lbs.
consuming markets. Prices down 5@l0c
western New York shipping points clos
inc 50M60c.
t,arlut shipments week ended March
1G: potatoes, 5000 cars; boxed apples
celery 45G; lettuce 497; onions Az; sweet
potatoes 2SS.
Grain
Under adverse financial and economic
conditions prices declined the early part
Of the week but on the 18TH sales five
million bushels wheat to Europe caused
a. sharp upturn Continued export buSl-
ness and reports Of green bug damage
i'm southwest carried prices stu higher
the following day. But on the llth att"r
"a slight advance the market slumped due
10 lack of support and sentiment favor
able 10 selling side.
For the week Chicago May wheat down
. lac at $l.4S Is; May corn lac at
GS lie Minneapolis May wheat down
Z 3-4c at S1.42 3-S; Kansas city May
9 Sic ut $1.4l 81; Winnipeg May 90 at
81. Is "a. Chicago March wheat $l.57 is.
Minneapolis reports very good flour IN
quiry with fair sales, Kansas city mill
ing demand GOOD carry nut Ntdktiltu
later; export demand dull; No, hard lie
over Kansas City May.
Dairy Products
Butter markets continue weak and Un-
settled. Heavy declines have occurred
in al markets although feeling has been
much better at Chicago than in eastern
markets until the 18th. when prices
b oke sharply.
Ninety two score butter Is now 3Nr4c
lower than week ago, closing: New York
A 1-2c; Chicago - Lee; Boston i5c
Philadelphia 44c.
Danish butter has arrived AZ New York
in fairly large quantities; several addl-
;ional cargoes Of importance due. Do
nestle production increasing. Weakness
which has developed at Wisconsin pri-
mary cheese markets is being felt in dis e
tribution centers and tone IL less steady
than week ago.
Live Stock and Meats
Chicago hog prices declined sharply
the past week. losing 95cM$1.S5 per 100
lbs. Eccf ana butcher cattle down 25t
soc, Feeder steers up 25c. Fat lambs
down 50cM % %: feeding lambs about
March II Chicago prices: hogs, bulk
Of sales, $S.75d10 80; medium and good
beef steers $4,000; butcher cows and
heifers $5m925; feeder steers $7.750D9. so;
light and medium weight veal calves
S9.75M1225; fat lambs S7.50M 1850: feed
ing lambs $7.25m9.40; yearlings $79S.75;
fat ewes $4.75@6.35.
irregular, advances and declines prac-
tically balancing each other.
March II prices good grade meats:
beef S1650n1S; veal $1Sq22: lamb S1S0
%: mutton S11M15; light pork loins $22
6l26; heavy loins $1S@22.