The St. Mary banner., 1921-02-19
The Markets


dull, only top grades in demand
Lower grades selling at heavy dis
counts. Receipts generally light but
equal to the limited demand. Cincin-
natl market congested with poor hay
Large quantity Idaho hay reported en-
| route to Kansas City; lower prices
! expected. Quoted Feb. g: No timo-
5ly New York $32, Chicago $24.5O,
| Memphis $28, Cincinnati $25, Mime
apolis $40; No 2, So to So lower.
No. l alfalfa Kansas City $22, Omaha
$21, Memphis s29 Some grades sell
ing as low as s11 per ton. No prairie
Omaha SO, Kansas City SIS, Mime
apolis SIS.
| Feed market continues dull Coun-
try dealers are not showing any in
clination to buy except when in urgent
need. Western offerings Of wheat
feeds, especially from mills are heav-
ier both for prompt and deferred ship
ment. Canadian mills offering bran
and middlings in northeastern terri
tory at prices lower than domestic
| SOttoHSStu lllCdi
slowly and meeting with little inquiry.
Hominy feed offerings small; price
steadier Beet pulp and alfalfa meal
quiet Linseed meal weak and obtain
able at $3.50 Chicago. Forty-one per
cent cottonseed meal quoted $34; 43
per cent meal $35. Kansas City re-
ports sales No. alfalfa meal at $40.
| Quoted Feb. 9th: Bran $50, middlings
$19, flour middlings s23, linseed meal
$37, Minneapolis; No. l alfalfa meal
$2o5O, hard wheat bran s2050, corn
bran S22, oat feed $3.50, St. Louis;
So per cent cottonseed meal $26.50.
winter wheat bran $25, Memphis;
white hominy feed $21, St. Louis;
gluten feed s35, red dog $3.50, rye
middlings, $3.50, Chicago
Fruits and vegetabIes-Potatoes re-
covered 5@10c per 100 pounds at
northern f. o. b. shipping stations,
closing S5695c. Chicago carlot mar
ket up 15c, reaching $1.15G1.25 sack
ed. Round whites down about 1Oc at
western New York shipping stations,
reaching low points of 90c to 81. New
York market steady $1.60G165 bulk.
Sacked yellow onions slow and dull
in wholesale consuming markets at 7oc
to $125 per 100 pounds
Florida celery steady in city mar
kets at S250@3.25, except New York
81 per crate higher at $3.50@3.75.
Shipping points quote around s1.75.
California golden hearts $525 to 81
per crate in consuming centers; Los
Angeles steady f. o. b. 30@35c per
dozen punches.
Carlot shipments week ended Feb.
9; potatoes 2765 cars; boxed apples
451, barreled apples 1893; cabbage
429: celery 361; lettuce 391; onions
351: sweet potatoes $50. Shipments
week ended Feb. 2: Potatoes 2910
cars; boxed apples 416, barreled ap-
Piles 1861; cabbage 375; celery Ais;
lettuce go; onions 4O6; sweet pota-
toes 353.
Livestock and Meats-Prices of most
classes of cattle at Chicago showed
advances compared with week ago.
Hogs down soc to 75c; beef steers up
65@9Oc; feeder steers 15@50c. Fat
lambs practically unchanged with feed
ing lambs 25@50c lower. Yearlings
averaged about steady with fat ewes
Csc higher. Feb. 10 Chicago prices:
Hogs. bulk of sales $8.65 09.25; me-
dunn and good beef steers S775@9.25;
butcher cows and heifers $4@8.50;
feeder steers s6@S.50; light and me-
dunn weight veal calves $9.50@12.25;
fat lambs $769.90; feeding lambs 81
@750; fat ewes $3.50@5.
Eastern wholesale fresh meat mar
kets were almost invariably lower
than a week ago. Veal and mutton
down $1@3 per 100 pounds, lamb and
pork loins generally 81 lower; beef
50c@s1.50 lower. Feb. 10 prices on
good grade meats: Beef $13@14.50;
veal S17@21; lamb $16@20; mutton
S9611; light pork loins $19921;
heavy pork loins $14@1S.
Grain-Prices advanced considera-
bly during the week, the largest gains
being recorded on the 10th when Chi
cago March wheat advanced SIC.
Influenced by strength in cash grains
sentiment is much more favorable to
buying side. On the 9th one hundred
thousand barrels flour sold for export.
Czecho- Slovak in market for 400,00o
barrels flour. Country offerings very
light although price advances on the
10th brought out a little wheat IN
Kansas; reports that further advance
of or 1Oc will bring out considerably
more. Trade in coarse grains not
large but sentiment more favorable TO
buving side with country offerlh9s