Evening star., 1921-12-03
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

Potatoes. new, $50 pounds, 275a
s.25; No. ,. 1.50a1.75; 100 pounds. 1.50
a2.00; No. 2, 75a1.00; sweets and yams,
barrel, 3.50a4.60; No. 2. 2.0oa2.50;
per-. 2.ooa3.5o; .beets. bunch. 3ha4h
broccoli, bushel, 25a35; brussels, quart.
10a18; cabbage. ton. ao.00a5o.00: car
rots. bunch, 3a5; caulifower. barrel.
3.50a5.00; celery, dozen, 50as0; cucum-
bers, crate, 2.50a5.00; eggplants, crate.
2.00a3.00; horseradish, bushel, 4.00a
500.
Lettuce, basket, 1.00a3. 90; onions,
100 pounds, 2.00a6.00; oysterplants.
bunch. Sat; parsnips. bushei. 75aS0;
peas, hamper. 4.00a5.00; peppers. crate,
7.00aS.00; pumpkins. each. sails;
savery cabbage. bushel. 40a60; spin
| ach, bnshel. 50a65: kale, bushel. 30a
40; squash, crate. 3.50a4.00; tomatoes,
crate, 4.ooa70o; turnips, bushel. s5a
Apples. packed, barrel. 5.o0as.00:
No. g. 4.00a5.00: bushel stock, 1.00a
2.25; box apples, 2.25a3.75; loose. 100
pounds: 2.0oa2.50: cranberries. barrel
20.00a25.o0; grapefruit. box. 2.50a4.00;
oranges, box. 3.00a4.50.
Closins Prices at Noon.
Wheat-No. red winter spot, no
quotations.; No. 2 red winter spot
| Lisa: No. 2 red winter garlicky. spot,
l;l6h; December. 1.16h; January, lis
sales-Bought of No. red winter
garltcky at 1.12h per bushel.
Corn-Cob corn, old, yellow, quoted
at 2.7oa2.75 per barrel. Contract corn,
spot, 5sh; track corn. yellow. No. 2
or better. old, domestic. 70.
sales-2.154 bushels Of No. 3 yellow
| at 58h per bushel.
oats-White, No. 2, A per bushel
| No: 3, II 1ha42h per bushel.
| Rye-Nearby, 80a90 per bushel; No
z, western export. spot. 81 per bushel
No. s, no quotation.
Hay-Receipts. So tons; range from
demand for fair to good quality OF
timothy and mixed hay.
=, Straw-No. l straight rye, nominal
NO. straight rye. nominal: No.
wheat, 1900; No. 1 oat, 14.50a15.o0.
| CHICAGO. December s.-Wheat
started from 4 to a cent lower on the
Chicago Board of Trade today, main
ly because of reports of beneficial
| SHOWS and rains over some of the dry
| wheat belt: Opening prices were: De-
! cember, 1.13 to 1.13k; May, 1.16A to
| 1.16h: July. 1.0SA to 1.0sh.
Later there was a Strengthening
| tendency in December on word from
the seaboard that export demand
| showed signs Of reviving. but the de-
ferred options continued weak and at
the end of the first hour May was
1.16h and July 1.07H.
| Corn was fairly strong despite the
| port demand being the chief factor.
First prices were unchanged to u
lover. with December 4sh and May
541 to 54A.
Oats opened unchanged to y higher.
| December being offered at 32N and
| m a
! Provisions were dull with the pack
| ing house strike in prospect. In lard.
January and May started 2Is higher
| at $50 and S.92, respectively. but
quickly lost points. May ribs show
ed 7:75. a decline of 2h early in the
session.
] Potatoes-Receipts. 40 cars: total
| U. s. shipments, 1850: slightly strong
| er; Wisconsin round whites, sacked.
1.Soa1.s0: bulk. 1.70a1.so; Minnesota
Red river. 1.5oa1.60: sand land early
Ohios. sacked. 1.50a1.75; Idaho rus
sets, sacked. Zone carr, 2.10.
| CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET.
| CHICAGO. December 3 (U. s. Bu-
1000 head. Compared with week
ago. beef steers strong, mostly rs to
SO higher, with good to best little
changed; fat she stock, rs to SO
higher: Gamers. strong to Is higher
bulls. about steady; veal calves, So
to IS higher, with desirable stock
mostly Is higher and others little
i changed.
Hogs-Receipts, 5000 head Fairly
active and steady to 10 higher than
yesterdays average; holdover light;
top. 7.25 for 140-pound averages;
practical top. 700; bulk. 6.60a69 90;
pigs, steady to 10 higher; bulk. de-
sirables. 7.10a7.15.
| Sheep-Receipts. 1000 head. Com
pared with week ago. fat lambs and
sheep mostly soc higher: yearlings
and feeder lambs, so to IS higher.