The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-12-23
u. S. MARKET REPORT
Weekly Marketgram of Bureau
of Markets and Crops.

Washington, Dec. 12-For the week end
ing December S-GRAIN-The market
trended lower during the week. with
interest in lack of support mainly respon-
sible. Upturns at times during the week
jailed to attract outside buying and prices
invariably declined again on liquidation.
On the closing day the market had q
strong undertone and prices advanced.
Closing prices in Chicago cash market:
No. 2 red winter wheat, $1.15; No. hard
winter wheat, SLIP; No. mixed corn. Dc:
NO. yellow corn, sic; No white oats.
34c. Average price to farmers in central
Iowa for No. mixed corn about 34c; to
farmers in central North Dakota for No.
dark northern wheat $1.01: to farmers
In central Kansas for, No. hard winter
wheat 90c,. For the wee. Chicago May
wheat declined PIC. 'siss at 81 IA; Chi
cago May corn unchans, !. at $3.50; Min i,
Kansas City. May wheat down PIC. at
M9Sh; Winnipeg May wheat down &c. at
HAY--ouoted December Z: No. 1 tim
Pittsburgh, $3.50; Cincinnati, S2l5O; Chi
cago, S23; Minneapolis, $3.50; Atlanta, $27.
No. alfalfa-Kansas City. ST. Omaha.
1850 ~ Memphis l $2S. No; l prairie-Kan-
S. S. o''S' @l'''' Omaha W. Minneapolis
FEED-Markets firm. Quoted December
I; Bran $780, middlings $40: flour mid
81 81 ~. nssed meal ST. Minneapolis MI n
alfalfa meal $3.50, Kansas City.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES-Potat
steady. Michigan s No. sacked elss round Ponnd
whites $l50@165 per 100 lbs; New York
round whites $165Ql.70; Idaho sacked ru-
rails recovered loss of week before, closing
s0@Ssc ; Chicago carlot market firm. at
M60Q1.T5: Shipments tend to increase.
Maine leading: Onions slow; prices
steady. Eastern points mostly $5.25 per
100 lbs City markets generally slow.
stock. California yellow stock slightly
weaker, Chicago and Kansas City at $50
5.25. No. Maine Baldwin apples up Soc
steady to firm elsewhere, at s6675O. Ex-
ira fancy northwestern Jonathans up 10
to 25c per box New York and Pittsburgh,
firm in middlewestern markets. general
saps steady, $2.50@2.75 in Philadelphia,
around s. at northwestern shipping points.
LIVE STOCK-Chicago sheep and lamb
prices made rather sensational advances
during the week. Fat lambs ranged from
aq1.15 net higher, fat ewes 75c higher
and yearlings from 60675c> higher Feed
ing lambs advanced rs to S5c per 100 lbs.
Hog prices were somewhat irregular;
light weights ranged from &c lower to
zoe higher; medium and heavy weights
however, were from to 25c lower. Good
beef steers were weak to 10c lower. while
medium grade steers were quotable from
10 to 40c higher. Butcher cows and heif-
ers were weak to Csc lower, veal calves
rs to 50c lower, while feeder steers were
unchanged. December s Chicago prices:
Hogs top, T.25; bulk of sales, Sc 6006 IS;
medium and good beef steers. s6.25G1O;
butcher cows and heifers $340GS.75: feed
er steers, A.60G6.6O;. light and medium
$1O.25@11.65; feeding lambs, sS.25d9.50:
yearlings, Sc. 75@9.75; fat ewes, $S 1906.
Stocker and feeder shipments from u i'm
portant markets for week ending Deem
hnr NAV a. foil l.
so. 423; hogs. 6.493; sheep, q, 1884,
DAIRY PRODUCTS-Butter markets
have been unsettled during week, but
showed signs of steadiness at close.
Philadelphia, 45kc: Boston, 44c; Chicago.
44c. Cheese markets firm and Wisconsin
prices higher in line with country board
advances of Monday. Prices at Wisconsin
primary markets December z: Twins. zoe;
daisies, zoe; double daises, 1910; long,
horns, 20%c; young Americas. 21c.