The Delta independent., 1921-09-23
WEEKLY MARkETGRAM

Livestock and Meats-Chicago hog
prices ranged from steady to Csc
lower the past week, light weights
declining most and packing sows
showing the smallest fluctuations,
Choice light and medium weight
steers mostly Csc to 40c higher, plain
heavy kinds generally 25c lower.
Stockers up 15c to Csc; feeders
steady. Fat lambs gained 75c; fat
sheep and yearlings 25c to soc; feed.
ing lambs steady to firm. September
II Chicago prices: Hogs, top, $3.50;
bulk of sales, s6.75 to ss.4o; medium
and good beef steers, $685. to $40;
butcher COWS and heifers, $3.50 to 50;
feeder steers, IS to $7.25; light and
medium weight veal calves, SO to $14;
fat lambs, $3.50 to s10.35; feeding
lambs, $575 to $3.50; yearlings, S5.25
to So; fat ewes, SO to IS. Stocker
and feeder shipnents from II i'm
portant markets during the week end
ing September 9 were: Cattle and
calves. 55,422; hogs, 1926; sheep,
123,042.
Dairy Products-Butter markets
firm throughout week, but barely
steady at close. Today's prices about
&c higher than week ago. Continued
light receipts, especially OF fancy
grades, and good consumptive de-
mand principal supports Of market.
Preliminary storage report released
September ~, covering entire United
States, shows September 1, total hold
ings 93,946,000 pounds compared with
115,558,000 pounds year ago, and
with five-year average Of 110,326,000
pounds. Closing prices, 80 score:
New York, 44c; Chicago, Acc; Phila
delphia, 44kc; Boston, 44c.
Cheese-Markets steady to firm;
greater activity at primary markets
in the country. Fancy grades moving
we'll; undergrades dull. Prices at
Wisconsin primary markets Septem-
ber 16: Twins, 19c; Daisies, 19kc;
Double Daisies, 19Ac; Young Amerf
cas- and Longhorns, zoe.
Grain-Prices trended lower during
the week. Z There was a temporary
advance on the 18th, influenced by
revival of export demand, but prices
again turned downward on the 14th.
Principal factors causing declines
were weakness in foreign exchange;
rains in Argentina. and slow milling
and export demand. Sentiment now
more bearish than of late. Corn offer
| ings light on account of recent rains
and slow eastern demand. For the
week Chicago December wheat drop
ped 6Ac, closing at $1.26; December
corn down 2kc. closing at 52kc.
Minneapolis December wheat down
1%c at s1.39A; Kansas City Decem.
ber wheat down 6hc at $117; Winni-
peg December wheat down INC at
$1.34 Closing prices in Chicago cash
markets: No. red winter wheat,
s1.26; No hard winter wheat, $1.24;
No. 2 mixed corn, 53c; No. yellow
corn, 53c; No. 3 white oats, 36c. Chi
cago September wheat closed at
$123k; September corn. 52Hc: Min
neapolis September wheat, $1.44H;
Kansas City September wheat, s1.14:
Winnipeg October wheat, $159h
Fruits and Vegetables-Potato mar
kets we'll supplied. Demand slow;
prices weaker Maine Irish cobblers
down 20c to 40c in consuming mar
kets at $3.50 to $2.75; in Pittsburgh,
$295 to So per hundred pounds sack
ed. Idaho rurals steady at $1.50 to
s1.75 I. o. b. cash track: down Csc to
35c in Chicago and st. Louis at $2.70
to $3.50. Northern round whites. $2.25
to $2.45 in Chicago.
Cabbage-Markets irregular. New
York domestic stock up SO in Gin
cinnati at $50 per ton, bulk; steady
in New York and Philadelphia at $45
to $50; weak in Pittsburgh at $35 to
$37. Northern domestic down $40 to
s12 in Chicago at $3s to $40 per ton.
Supplies light to moderate; demand
and movement slow.
Annlas-Dnmand for annles slnW 70