The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-06-01
WEEKLY
MARKETGRAM.
Z. s. Bureau Of Markets
For Week Ended May 2G.
Fruits and Vegetables.

20 TO 75c. South Carolina Irisl
Cobbers down $3.50 New York al
$425 to $3.50 per cloth top slat bar
rel; down $l5o to $l.75 at shipping
lpoints, ranging $425 10 $3.50. Texa.
and Louisiana sacked Bliss Triumph>
down $125 to $l50 Chicago, closing
$2S5 to $3.50 per 100 lbs.
New YORK cold storage a I. Bald
win apples down 50 in eastern mar
kets at $3.50 to $3.50 per Dbl. EX-
ira Fancy Northwestern Winesaps
down 25c Chicago. medium sizes
SIS to 1926; small sizes 81 to $3.50
Texas yellow Bermuda onions down
Is to 35c in consuming markets at
1925 to $l65 per standard crate.
Virginia strawberries, various va
rieties, down sc New York at Is TO
! zoe per quart. Kentucky and Ten
nessee Aromas 81 TO $50 per "a
quart crates Chicago.
Florida Watermelons, average
weight % to 27 lbs, $500 to $500
bulk per car in eastern markets, at
shipping points ~ to % lb. melons
$375 to $500.
Hay.
Light receipts cause more frmness
in hay market Demand also slight
ly improved. Dry weather in west
icuriailing shipments TO Kansas City.
Other western markets also report
light movement. Not much change in
prices Quoted May 25. No. l tim
othy, New York $3.50, Chicago $22,
/ Cincinnati $22.50, Atlanta$ 95, Mem
phis s25; No. alfalfa. Kansas City
1872; No. / new alfalfa, Memphis S27
80 prairie, Kansas City S14.50.
Minneapolis SIS.
Feed.
Markets continue quet with stocks
Of wheatfeeds accumulating at Lake
ports. Dealers supplies. especially of
high protein feeds, good. Unusually
heavy supplies of beet pulp for this
time of the year are available. Pro
duction of alfalfa meal light but
ample to supply demand. Offerings
Of gluten feed good; Independent
mills quoting lower prices than those
asked by principal manufacturers,
White hominy feed in good supply.
Imported Argentine middlings offered
at SIS f. o. b. Philadelphia. Cotton
seed meal demand light, price steady
though wavering. Quoted, bran
$3.50, middhngs SIS, Minneapolis; 80
per cent linseed meal $34.20 deliver
ed Philadelphia rate points; SO per
cent cottonseed meal $50 Atlanta.
$1,000 Memphis; white hon:ny feed
s22 st. Louis; gluten feed $3.50 Chi
caeo; No l alfalfa meal S22 Kansas
City.
Live Stock and Meats.
Live stock prices at Chicago trend
ed downward the past week. Hogs
broke 45c to soc per 100 lbs. Beef
steers down CSC to SOC; butcher COWS
and heifers soc 70 75c; veal calves 'ac
to 81. Fat lambs declined o0c: year
nngs 75c to S1.50; tat ewes - to
s2.75 per 100 lbs. May IS Chicago
prices: Hogs, bulk OF sales. $3.50 TO
s8.l0; medium and good beef steers
s7.5 to $3.50 butcher COWS and
heifers s4.75 to $3.50; feeder steers
ST to 1925; light and medium weight
veal calves 81 to 50; fat lambs IS TO
$1l.50: yearlings $3.50 TO $40: tat
ewes 3 to SIS.
Stocker and feeder shipments from
IL important markets during the
week ending May 20 were: Cattle and
calves 33.345; hogs 5.264; sheep H.
l049.
With the exception Of lamb east
ern wholesale fresh meat prices de-
clined. Eeef down 75c to 81; veal ii
to 50; pork loins 81; mutton 81 TO
$3.50 per 100 lbs Lamb steady to 81
higher. May 26 prices good grade
meats: Beef $1325 10 SIS; veal 81
TO SIC; lamb $25 to s26; mutton
sll.50 TO SIS; light pork loins S2o to
s23; heavy loins SIS to SIS.
Grain.
Prices rose sharply during the
week, May wheat reaching sl.S5 on
the 25th, the highest price OF the
season. July wheat sold at new high
of sl.35 on she 24th. Unfavorable
crop reports from southwest ,gener-
ally and hot dry weather in the WIN
ter wheat belt were the only FACTORS
influencing advance. On the 2oth
wheat weaker and lower on selling
credited to seaboard exporters. Hlgh-
| lv beneficial rains in southwest; more
rain forecast Good export business
| new wheat at Gull on the 10Th. with
sales 100000 bushels. Cash corn
| business during week largest Tor some
time. IN Chicago cash market NO
red winter wheat $1.6S: No. hard
$l.GS; No. mixed corn 6Oc; No "
Iyellow corn 60c; No. white oats 4oc
I. For the week Chicago May wheat az
15c at $16S: May corn l 2-4c chi
cago July wheat up sc at ST. "a
July corn &c at 62 &c. Minneapolis
July wheat up 1 34c at sl.5o; Kan
sas City July 8 lie At Sl.2l IA
Winnipeg July Sc at $l.63 IA.
Cotton.
Spot cotton prices advanced point:
during the week. closing at ll'3'
per 10. New York July futures up y
points at l2.S9c
Dairy Products.
puttcr marker fairly firm at eNlst