The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-05-25
WEEKLY
MARKETGRAM.
g. s. Bureau of Markets
. For Week Ended May 10.

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Receipts continue very light. Prices
huctuating With local demand. Few
shipping orders being received by
dealers in distributing markets. In
creased loadings at country points re-
ported in central West. No. l TIM
othy quoted May Is, New York
| $3.50. Cincinnati $22, Chicago So,
Minneapolis $1s, Memphis $25: No.
alfalfa. Omaha $50. Kansas City $23,
Memphis $3.50; No. l prairie, Min
neapolis $1550, Chicago SIS, Kansas
City $3.50.
! Feed.
Wheat mill feeds steady 'on light
! production. Demand remains limited.
| Cottenseed meal about 81 higher
Other feeds duh at prices practical
~ unchanged from last week. Spring
bran quoted May IS, Philadelphia
s25.25, Minneapolis Sic. Chicago $19;
hard winter bran, Kansas City $11.5O:
soft winter bran. Cincinnati S23;
standard spring middlings about 81
below spring bran; cottonseed meal.
Memphis $29.25, Atlanta $3.50, Chi
cago $3.50, Cincinnati 1929; lin
seed meal minneapolis $2S, New
York s3e: gluten feed, Chicago $3.50.
Philadelphia $31.71: hominy feed.
Cincinnati $26, Philadelphia $29; al
falfa meal Kansas City $3.50.
Grain.
Prices fluctua.ed within narrow
limits during the greater part of the
week. There We're numerous upturns
due to unfavorable crop news but re-
factions invariably followed. Only real
strength for week shown on 18th ac-
count bad crop reports and large en-
port business. On the 18th wheat
went to 34c over July but high points
subsequently lost on reports rain in
Kansas and Nebraska and weakness
in coarse grains. Heavy undertone to
corn market. Country offerings to ar
rive more liberal and show signs OF
increasing as corn planting nearing
completion. In Chicago cash market
No. red winter wheat $1.5S; No.
hard S1.6O; No. 3 mixed corn 5Sc;
No. 8 yellow corn oSc; No. white
oats 3Sc. For the week Chicago
wheat up h 3-4c at sl.53; May corn
down 1sc at soc. Chicago July wheat
I'D 3-4c at $1.20; July corn down
? 3-Sc at 60 5-Sc Minneapolis July
wheat up 4 Lie at $1.25 Ia; Kansas
City J,-.y sc at $1.13; Winnipeg July
1ac al $50.
Fruits and vegetables.
Northern sacked round white po-
tatoes up 10c per 100 lbs. at shipping
points. closing so to 9C,. Chicago
carlot market steady at 81 to s1.10.
South Carolina No. l Irish Cobblers
SIS to SS per cloth top slat barrel
to jobbers New York. Texas sacked
Bliss Triumphs down so to 75c per
100 Is. Chicago and Kansas City
at $3.50 to 81.
New York cold storage A 3 Z Bald
win apples selling at slightly wider
range in eastern markets; $50 TO IS
Baltimore; $3.50 to ST New York: S,
to $3.50 Pittsburgs: $3.50 TO $6.13
Philadelphia. Medium size Extra
Fancy Northwestern Winesaps steady
Chicago at SO to $3.50; small sizes
1926 to s2.75.
Texas yellow Bermuda onions
$40 10 50 per standard crate COM
mercial pack in consuming markets;
prices steady at shipping points
around 81 for sales on wire orders,
carloads f. o. b. shipping point ac-
ceptance.
Maryland and Virginia klondike
strawberries 30 TO 25c per quart New
York, Tennessee Aromas $3.50 TO
$3.50 per 24-quart crate Chicago.
Florida watermelons, average
weight % to 25 lbs, SO to 60c each
to jobbers Pittsburgh. Crop in Cen
trail and Northern Florida will be
materially increased account recent
to s inch rain. Crop yield in south
ern Florida has suffered SO to 20 per
cent reduction account drouth.
Dairy Products.
Under influence Of increasing pro-
duction and quality hardly such as to
warrant heavy storage butter stocks
have accumulated and prices declin-
ed &c at eastern markets the past
week. Buyers are buying little as
prices continue downward. Closing
prices. % score: New York rs h@c;
Boston 29c; Philadelphia % 1ac; Chi
caGo 2Sc.
Cheese markets have held weak,
and trading is little better at present
although prices in Wisconsin range
13 Ste to 1412c;; at Chicago IA lac
to 15 1-4c: in eastern markets l6c
to lie. 1t seems to be case OF
dulness with no active factors TO give
life to market.
Live Stock and Meats.
Chicago hog prices declined lac 70
20c per 100 lbs. the past week. Beet
steers, feeder steers and butcher
COWS and heifers practically un-
changed Veal calves up 13c. Eat
lambs practically unchanged. Year
lings up soc TO $1.25 fat ewes soc
to 75c. May ~, Chicago prices:
Hogs. bulk Of sales. $50 tc $50;
medium and good beef steers $50 to
50; butcher COWS and heifers 500 to
50: feeder steers ST to $50; light
| and medium weight veal calves 50 20
1915: fat lambs $3.50 to $12; feed
ing lambs =: yearlings SS TO $lO.12;
fat ewes 81 to $50