The Holly chieftain., 1921-10-13
LATEST MARKET
QUOTATIONS
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Washington DC.
Western Newspaper uniou Ns., serle..)

Grain.
Markets sagged all week. Export
speculative seiiing OF wheat pronounced
on most days. Corn prices stayed
within narrow limits but worked low
sr: closing at new low point. Husk-
appointing. Domestic demand was
somewhat improved. Closing prices in
Chicago cash market: No. 2 red win
s1.13: No. mixed corn. 47c; No. yell
low. 47c: No. 3 white oats. 33c. For
the week Chicago December wheat lost
lost 1hc. closing at 4sSc; Minneapolis
December wheat lost 12hc. closing at
$1.22h; Kansas City December wheat
lost 9Ac, closing at 31.03%: Winnipeg
$1.13S. Chicago May wheat closed at
$1.16h: May corn at 5iss; Minneapolis
May wheat at $l.22A: Kansas City May
at s11sh. Estimates Of world wheat
crop. excluding Russia and some minor
countries. total 2.7s7,000.000 bushels.
compared with 2.614.OO0.0O0 last year
average. Russia and India, which were
pre-war exporters. are importing wheat
this year. Supplies now remaining in
United States equal only to pre-war
normal domestic requirements.
Live stock and Meats.
Compared with a week ago the trend
of the Chicago live stock prices was
upward. The more desirable grades of
beef steers and butcher heifers led this
movement with net advances ranging
from CSC to 15c per 100 lbs. Feeder
steers were 26c higher and butcher
cows steady: hogs ranged from 15c to
35c higher. Practically all grades Of
sheep and lambs ranged from strong
to higher. In each class the most de-
sirable lots averaged about csc higher.
October Chicago PRICES: Hogs. top.
dium and good beef steers, $6.15@ 1910:
butcher cows and heifers. $3.50G9.50;
feeder steers. s4.s5 9s;s5; light and me-
fat lambs. s7.s5 gs.25; feeding lambs,
s6.00g $50; yearlings. $1,000 700; fat
ewes. ss.Oo@5.Oo
Stocker and feeder shipments from
eleven important markets during the
week ending Sept. 80 were: Cattle and
126s22.
In contrast with live stock eastern
orally lower than a week ago. Lamb
was 81 to So lower. with mutton and
fresh pork loins ranging from steady
er and veal steady to 81 lower. octo-
Der s prices good grade meats: Beef
s13o0V15.0o: veal. s1S.0O@ 1000; lamb,
light light pork iolns. sss6oassoo; heavy rsiSc
loins $4,000 20.00.
kets. Prices steady but demand limited
mostly to local needs. Shipping de-
mand continued light. Quoted October
s: No. l timothy. New York. s30,5O;
Chicago. s24; Minneapolis Sic No. i
alfalfa, Memphis. s22.50; minneapolis.
s2l: Kansas city, $4,000. No. ] prairie,
Chicago. $17; Minneapolis, SIS: Kansas
City. $13.
Fruits and Vegetables.
Northern round white potatoes
strengthened in Chicago, gaining 25c at
s2.20 per 100 lbs. sacked. Eastern
round whites lost 15c in Philadelphia
Round whites firm at s1.75 1.95. fob.
northern shipping points; weak at $1.SO
at New York points, Maine Green
Mountains weak at s1.16@141 per 100
lbs. bulk. fob. and weak and dull at
$1.65 q 1855 in New York.
Demand for cabbage slow to moder-
ate: markets well supplies. New York
domestic weakened in Philadelphia,
closing .$5,00g7.00 lower at S25028 per
ton bulk. New York Danish about
steady in Cincinnati at $500 % 40. 90;
weak at shipping points at $50, fob.
Northern Danish gained So at $4,000
27O0. fob: firm in Chicago at $40, and
up $40 in st. Louis at S45.
Dairy Products.
Butter markets were firm. the sup
ply of fancy butter being short of the
demand. Undergrades were slow. Clos
Ing prices of 81 score: New York. 45c;
Chicago. 44lsc; Philadelphia. 461Sc;
Boston, Acc.
Spot cotton declined 121 points dur
Ing the week, closing at l9.7Sc per Id.
New York October futures lost l56
points. closing at l9.48c