Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-04-08
WEEKLY MAREETGRAM
~. 5. Bureau Of Markets)

washington, D. C.-For week ended
April 2, 1871
Hny.-Receipts light. little inquiry.
prices steady. Chicago buyers snow
better interest in prairie hay. Receipts
Cincinnati liberal; prices easing OH.
Market moderately active at the de-
cline. Shipping Inquiries few because
OF excellent pasturage in many Sec
better quality well taken. Markets
generally in good condition to ABSORB
Increased offerings. Quoted: NO;
timothy SIS Memphis $24 Chicago, $zS
Cincinnati; No. 2 timothy $50. 30 en-
cinnati, $20.5O Chicago, S24 Memphis;
No. l alfalfa $3.50 Memphis. $50 Gin
cinnati; No. 1 prairie $3.50 Minneapolis,
$14 Kansas City.
Feed--An recent low levels for wheat
feeds were shattered when bran broke
to SIT Minneapolis with other wheat
feeds showing proportionate declines.
All markets weak and unsettled; de-
mand unimproved. Offerings continue
good; difficulty experienced in obtain
ing shipping instructions for wheat
feeds Transit stuff in liberal supply;
selling slightly lower than shipment Of
ferings. Gluten feed steady; masket
narrow Hominy feed declining in
harmony with lower corn quotations.
Linseed meal fairly firm, cottonseed
meal weak. Southeastern markets very
quiet, most prices unchanged but un-
steady. Beet pulp easier, tendency
downward. Quoted: 36 per cent cotton
seed meal $22 Memphis, bran $I7, mid
d1tngs SIS Minneapolis, flour middllngs
SIS. reddog $40 Chicago; linseed meal
$40 Buffalo and Minneapolis; No. / AL
falfa meal S21 st. Louis; white and yell
low hominy feed $21.50 st. Louis; rye
middlings SIC Minneapolis, SIG Chicago;
dried brewers grains SIS Milwaukee,
$3.50 Philadelphia.
Dairy PrOducts.-Week opened with
butter market unsettled but consider
able strength developed and markets
ha at- 4.
today's prices averaging three cents
above week ago. Prices 80 score: New
York 492c; Chicago 47c; Philadelphia
50hc; Boston soc. Buyers caught with
low stock when advances began and
| domestic receipts have barely taken
care of demand. Danish butter in lib
eral quantities New York market. but
held at firm prices.
prices at about low point in December.
Trading slow and lower prices were
generally anticipated. Some cheese
shipped on consignment from Wiscon-
sin points during week. Southern de-
mand very light, due to discouraging
business conditions as we'll as to de-
clining prices. At Wisconsin primary
markets: Twins 20hc; Daisies 22A c.;
| and Longhorns 22hc.
traits and VegetabIes.-Potato mar
kets firm at northern shipping stations,
closing S5cQ S1.05. Chicago car-lot mar
round whites held at $1.4O01.5O bulk.
New York cold storage Baldwin APP
pies down about Csc per Dbl. city
wholesale markets at $4.75 @5.75 north
weaker Chicago S2.25@3.25 per box;
steady Kansas City $3.50@4.
Middle western yellow onions slow
and dull In city markets, 40c@$1 per
100 lbs. Texas yellow Bermuda onions,
commercial pack mixed No. / and 3,
1925 @ 80 per standard crate New
York. April l prices ranged 1925 % ESQ
per crate Chicago; $1.15@1.3O f. Q. b.
Texas early flat type cabbage slow
st. Louis and Chicago at $4,000 per
ton bulk. April /, South Carolina
Wakefields $2Q2,25 per 100 lbs. New
Louisiana Klondike strawberries firm
New York at goo Csc per pint. Prices
Csc per crate higher in middlewestern
markets at 7s4Q4. per "a pint crate:
Sl.25 per crate higher (. o. b. around
s5Q5.50.
Live stock and Meats.-Chieago hog
prices declined 50c0 81 per 100 lbs the
butcher cattle, also feeder steers Csc
lower. cows practically steady. Veal
calves down $1@1.25, fat lambs down
5OQ75c; sheep steady to Csc higher
April Chicago prices: Hogs, bulk of
sales $S.75 9.75; medium and good beef
steers $3.50 9.65; butcher cows and
heifers SIS QS.25; feeder steers $7.50m9;
light and medium weight veal calves
SIG 9.50i fat lambs $7.5O@l0: feeding
lambs S7.50@S.75; yearlings S709: fat
ewes $5@6.75. With the exception of
pork, eastern wholesale fresh meat
prices declined rather sharply. Veal
declined $2@4 lamb Sf02; beef 5OcO
$3.50 per 100 lbs; mutton practically
unchanged; pork loins up S1m2. April
1 prices good grade meats. Beef $3.50
OH; veal s1501S; lamb S1702I; mutt
ton S12@15; light pork 1oins S240 26:
heavy loins $1S622.
Grain.-Price trend for the week
downward. Freezing weather on the
! 2Sth caused considerable apprehension
OF damage to growing crop and resulted
IN the only upturn of the week On the
thirtieth liquidation in coarse grains
/ Tor country account started a decline
| that cea1!nued to the close on April
| z. July wheat sold for export at Chi
| cago and st. Louis. Heavy export sales
OF cash wheat also reported In Chicago
| cash market, No. red Winter wheat N
| loo over Chicago May and No hard
/ 1OMllc over. No. mixed corn 4M5c
under Chicago May corn and No. veil
low = a be under For Che week Chi
/ cago May wheat down exc at ~ 27h
May corn 4%c at 59Ac MINNEAPOLIS
May wheat down Sc at $13OH; Kansas
| City May 6sc at S1.29h Winnipeg Nav
12ac at $I.67A. Minneapolis flour de-
mand light and good export inquiry.