Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1921-06-08
EXPORT DEMAND SLOW
Market Unsettled After Sharp
Price ypturn.
Narrow Fluctuations in Wheat and
corn-livestock Prices Continue
Upward Trend.

U. s. Bureau of Markets, WASHINGTON. d.
c., for week ended June 3, 1921.
DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter mar.
kets steady during the week under fair.
ly active storing demand with prices
about II to 1c higher than week ago.
Closing prices 80 score: New York
29kc; Chicago 29c
Cheese markets are not active but
feeling is better and tone of markets
firmer Twins lac; Daisies 15Ac;
Double Daisies 15c; Longhorns and
Young Americas 1870.
HAY: Receipts ~at principal West
ern markets increasing but both local
and shipping demands limited. Quote:
NO. l timothy, Minneapolis $40; No.
prairie, Minneapolis SIG.
: FEED: MARKETS. dull Prices I'M
changed but tending downward Stocks
good. Movement light. Quoted: Bran
SIS, Middlings SIS, -four middlings $40,
Minneapolis; linseed meal $29.50 Min
neapolis; $3.50 cottonseed meal $4,000
Memphis. White hominy feed $24 Chi
cago; gluten feed $27 Chicago.
GRAIN: Trading in July wheat re-
stricted during first half of week &C.
count nervous and erratfc fluctuations
in May futures. May wheat closed the
31st at $1S7, the highest point of the
season. Good export demand devela
oped during latter half Of week; with
bullish crop reports and estimates by
private experts, and removal Of uncer.
tainty in May future July prices up
turned sharply. On the 3rd prices
reached new high but market later
became unsettled. Export demand now
slow. Receipts cash corn liberal;
country offerings continue small and
expected to fall off greatly within next
ten days. In Chicago cash market No.
2 red winter wheat $1.6O; No. hard
1854; No. 3 mixed corn Csc; No. 3 yell
low corn Csc; No. 3 white oats 40c
For the week Chicago July wheat up
csc at s1.37h; July corn 1c at 65%c.
Minneapolis July wheat up lie at
$1.36A; Kansas City July Shc at
$1.3O%.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES:
Sacked round white potatoes slightly
lower at Minnesota shipping points
closing around 60c per 100 lbs. Chi
cago carlot market up 20 to Csc from
seasons low point closing at IS to 85c.
Texas yellow Bermuda onions slight
ly lower in consuming markets at 81
to SITS per standard crate.
Georgia Dixie Queen peaches in six
basket carriers and bushel baskets
1925 to $2.75 in Eastern markets.
Delaware and Maryland strawber-
RES, various varieties ~ to 22c per
quart in Eastern markets.
LIVE STOCK AND MEATS: The
trend of Chicago live stock prices was
upward the past week. Hogs ranged
Is to Csc higher; beef steers gained
10 to Csc per 100 lbs. Butcher cows
and heifers steady to Csc higher; veal
calves up 75c to 81; feeder steers
down Is to SOC. Fat lambs up 75c to
81; yearlings and fat ewes Is to SOC.
June 3rd Chicago prices: Hogs, bulk
Of sales s7.65 to So; medium and good
beef steers $3.50 to S.65: butcher COWS
and heifers $3.50 to S.75; feeder steers
$3.50 to ST. light and medium weight
veal calves SITS to $40; fat lambs
$S.75 to 1850; yearlings $6.75 to 1880;
fat ewes 1926 to ATS.
With the exception of mutton, prices
of most classes and grades Of fresh
meat advanced in Eastern wholesale
markets. Beef and veal up 81 to ST.;
lamb and pork loins steady to 81
higher; mutton down 81 to 81 per 100
lbs. June 3rd prices good grade meats ::
Beef $1425 to II; veal SIG to 10; lamb
$26 to IT. mutton SO to 49,; light pork
loins $1S to "a; heavy loins SIS to 10.