The Holbrook news., 1921-04-08
MARKETS - Furnished by - U. S. BUREAU OF MARKETS
 Washington, D. c.
westsrn Newspaper Union News Service.

Dairy Products. Butter markets unsettled during the week. A tendency to recover was fol- lowed by sharp breaks and while there is momentarily somewhat firm feeling and prices have advanced agaiE. there is no assurance that market will hold. 46c; Chicago, 44hc; Philadelphia, AT F c; | Boston. 47c.
 Supply of domestic barely taking care of demand, but arrivals of Danish liberal. and if this butter were thrown on open markets weakness would like ly follow.
 Hay receipts light. Buyers not alarmed and buying sparingly. Market l quiet; upper grades selling well, low 1 grades weak. Bulk of hay shipped | south and southeast from Kansas City three weeks at destinations refused. Choice hay with tagged weights at premium in Cincinnati. Straw up S2 that market; Chicago reports stocks good; s2O offered for clover mixed, l free from grasses; fair demand for southwest prairie at $18.50; Southeast ping demand generally light. Quoted No. timothy, SPA. Cincinnati; SPA, Chi ! cago; S27. Memphis; $19. Minneapolis; $25: Philadelphia; sS1 New York. No. cago; $25, Memphis; $17. Minneapolis SPA. Philadelphia; $2S:5O. New York. No; I alfalfa saI S21, Cine CinciHnati; H5S S2'. City. No. l prairie, $15.5O, Minneapolis; $14. Kansas City.
 Prices lower. particularly for wheat feeds though fewer distress sales noted, and western offerings less heavy. Market dull and irregular; demand very moderate. Trade not showing any interest in future shipment offerings, | concessions to move transit stuff being freely made in Cincinnati and other markets. Limited exports and scattered domestic demand for cotton seed and linseed meal held prices lower. Hominy feed in ample supply and weaker. Glu- ten feed steady; transactions small. higher. Beet pulp dull. Flour mid dlings for April-May shipments offered at $50, delivered northeastern markets. flour middlings, s26. Chicago. Thirty six per cent cotton seed meal, S24. Memphis: $2S.5O, Cincinnati; 4S per No. alfalfa meal $22, St. Louis; white hominy feed. S23, St. Louis. Linseed meal $40. Buffalo; $S9.5O. Minneapolis Bran, SIS, Minneapolis.
 Market unsettled and prices fluctu- ated rapidly within narrow range the past week.
 Sentiment mostly bearish, but there was buying on the breaks. Favorable crop reports, lack of export demand reports of damage to growing crops by freezing weather ana pit c0noItlons were the principal factors influencing prices.
 - On the 3Oth all grain had very heavy undertone.
 Offerings of corn to arrive showed fair increase. Corn products industries out of cash market.
 Wheat crop reports favorable and m dicate little or no damage by recent freeze on the .30th. Six hundred thou sand bushels wheat sold for export at Gulf. but generally demand slow and
 In Chicago cash market No. red winter wheat 14hc to 14%c over Chi cago May; No. hard same premium; No. 3 mixed corn, 5Ae to 6c under May; No. yellow. 4c to 51zc under.
 For the week Chicago May wheat down 1hc at $1.3S% May corn. 2ssc, at 612sc.
 Fruits and Vegetables.
 Potatoes 10c to 15c up per 100 lbs. northern shipping stations. closing soc Q$1.OO. Chicago carlot market up SC to whites held at $1.4O@1.50, bulk. New York cold storage Baldwin apples down about 25c per Dbl; city wholesale mar tra fancy Winesaps mostly S3 O $50 per box in consuming centers-
 Middle western yellow onions slow and dull in city markets. 5Oc@s1 per 100 lbs. Texas yellow Bermuda onions, commercial pack. mixed. Nos l and Z. burg; New York around $3.50; Chicago. $2.50. Shipping points range $1-5OQ1. 1.6O per crate f. O. b.
 Florida celery down 25c per crate, consuming markets. at $2@3. Louisi- ana Klondyl1e strawberries firm. New York. around 200 per pint. Consuming markets range mostly $3.5O o 400 per 24-pint crates. Louisiana f. O. b. mar kets $2.75@2.S5. Carlot shipments week ended March 29: Potatoes. 2,167 cars: boxed apples, 2S5. barreled apples, 555; cabbage. 694; celery. 329; lettuce, All: onions. 231; sweet potatoes. 250; strawberries. 257.
 Live Stock and Meats.
 Prices of practically all classes of live stock at Chicago declined the past week Hogs ranged from soc to 75c lower; beef steers lost 25c to 40c; butcher cows and heifers generally 25c; feeder steers. soc to soc; veal calves, soc per 100 pounds; fat lambs. soc to S1: feeding lambs steady to a shade higher; fat ewes up 25c.
 Eastern wholesale fresh meat mar kets: Beef, weak; veal. $1 lower, Bos- ton weak elsewhere; lamb steady. Boston, weak to $1 lower elsewhere; mutton steady; pork $1 lower, New York: weak elsewhere.