The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-03-23
WEEKLY
MARKETGRAM.
u. s. Bureau Of Markets
For Week Ending MCh II.
Fruits and Vegetables.

pounds, northern shipping stations
closing CSC to $1.10. Chicago carlot
market lost 10 to 15c advance of pre-
vious week, closing $1.2O to $1.3O
sacked. Round whites at western
New York stations also lost last
weeks gains. closing $1.O3 to $1.O6
sacked. Bulk stock steady New York
$3.50 to $3.50.
Cold storage Baldwin apples steady
around IS per bbl. f. o. b. western
New York stations. Baldwins steady
In city wholesale markets, SIS to Sc.
Northwestern Extra Fancy Winesaps
mostly SO to $4 per box in consum-
Ing centers. All grades New York
Baldwins In Liverpool $6.S4 to S1O.75
per Dbl. during week ended March IA.
yellow onions 75c to $1.25 per 100
lbs. consuming markets Prices down
b TO 16c western New York ship
ling points. closing so to 6Oc. Sales
Texas Bermuda onions. future deliv-
cry st. Louis. quoted 81 to $3.50 per
crate. Serious damage from thrips
In lower Rio Grande Valley.
Florida celery steady $2.75 to 1926
per crate city markets; $1.75 to $1.85
f. o. b. California celery $3.50 to
$3.50 per crate middlewestern mar
kets.
Louisiana Klondike strawberries in
"a pit. crate 22 to csc per pint New
York: 20 to 23c Boston.
Carlot shipments week ended
March 16: Potatoes 3,S09 cars; box
ed apples 362; barreled apples $50;
cabbage $50; celery 456; lettuce 497;
onions 412; sweet potatoes 28S. Ship
ments week ended March 8: Potatoes
3.50S cars; boxed apples 400. bar
relied apples S32; cabbage COL; celery
$50; lettuce 449: onions $40; sweet
potatoes 331.
Cold storage holdings barreled and
boxed apples expressed as barrels: g.
612,333 barrels March 1, 1921 COM
pared with $4,000 barrels March
/. 1920; and with 1.772.333 barrels
March /. 1919.
Hay.
Receipts light. Top-grades finding
ready sale In nearly all markets.
Country demand improving. Country
loadlngs light. Road conditions poor.
Light receipts clover and alfalfa Kan
sas City. Omaha reports prairie in
rood request; receipt H9ht. 80 az
in evidence but north
eastern markets well supplied. Quot
ed: No. 1 timothy $50 Kansas City.
$24 Chicago. $40 Minneapolis. $24.5O
Cincinnati: No. 3 timothy $225O Gin
cinnati. SIS Kansas City. $40 Chicago.
$3.50 Minneapolis; No. alfalfa
$2O.SO Kansas City. $24.5O Cincinnati:
No. 1 clover mixed $21 Chicago. SIG
SIT Kansas City, s22
No. 1 prairie SIC Mime
apolis, s14.5O Kansas City.
Feed.
Market generally easier. Linseed
meal strong but price unchanged.
Corn feeds unchanged. HOminy feed
quoted about SOC lower in many mar
kets. Cotton seed meal weaker; 43
per cent offered $32 Chicago market.
Beet pulp and alfalfa meal in poor
request. Season bran offered around
$22 Minneapolis. Linseed meal may
be obtained from jobber for April
May shipment at below mill prices.
Production most feeds. while not
heavy. Is ample: demand remains be-
low normal. Quoted, bran $225O,
s22. Minneapolis: linseed
meal $3.50 Buffalo, Sal Minneapolis.
$43.50 Chicago; SO per cent cotton
seed meal s25 Memphis, white homi-
ny feed $23 st. Louis; No. al
falfa meal $3.50 Kansas City. gluten
feed $S7 Chicago; beet pulp $32 f. o.
b. New York.
Grain.
az
nomic conditions prices declined the
early part Of tho week but on the
18th sales five million bushels wheat
to Europe caused a sharp upturn.
export business and re-
ports OF green bug damage in south
west carried prices still higher the
following day. But on the 18th after
slight advance the market slumped
due to lack of support ana sentiment
favorable to selling side. In Chicago
cash market No. red winter wheat
ls to zoe over Chicago May; No 2
hard 10 to 13c over: No. 3 mixed corn
s to 6 lac under May; No. yellow
IA to 5% C under. For the week
Chicago May wheat down 9hc at
Was 1-S: May corn lac at 6S Ia.
Minneapolis May wheat down 7%c at
sl.42 3-S; Kansas City May 9&c at
$l41 "a; Winnipeg May &c at
$l.78 "a. Chicago March wheat
s.b7 Is: Minneapolis reports very
good flour inquiry with fair sales.
Kansas City milling demand good
early but weakened later; export de-
mand dull: No. 2 hard lie over Kan
sas City May.
Cotton.
The average price Of middling spot
cotton in the 10 designated markets
declined about points during the
week. closing around 11.1Oc per III.
New York March futures up points
at 1850.
Dairy PrOduCfS