The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1921-06-09
EXPORT DEMAND SLOW
Market Unsettled After Sharp
Price Upturn.
Narrow Fluctuations In Wheat and
corn--Llvestock Prices Continue
Upward Trend.
l.. s. Bureau of Markets, Washington, D.
c., for week ended Tune 3, 1921.

C., for week ended June 3, 1921.
DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter mar
kets steady during the week under fair
ly active storing demand with prices
about - to 1c higher than week ago.
Closing prices 90 score: New York
2915c; Chicago 29c.
Cheese markets are not active but
feeling is better and tone Of markets
irmer. Twins lac; Daisies 15Ac;
Double Daisies 15c; Longhorns and
Young Americas 151Rc.
HAY: Receipts at principal West
ern markets increasing but both local
and shipping demands limited. Quote:
No. l timothy, Minneapolis $40; No. I
prairie, Minneapolis SIG.
FEED: Markets dull. Prices I'M
changed but tending downward. Stocks
good. Movement light. Quoted: Bran
SIS, Middlings SIS, -four middlings $40,
Minneapolis; linseed meal $3.50 Min
neapoIis; 36% c%ottonseed meal $4,000
Memphis. White hominy feed $24 Chi
cago; gluten feed $27 Chicago.
GRAIN: Trading in July wheat re-
stricted during first half of week ac-
count nervous and erratic fluctuations
in May futures. May wheat closed the
31st at $1.S7, the highest point of the
season. Good export demand devel.
oped during latter half of week; with
bullish crop reports and estimates by
private experts, and removal of uncer'
tainty in May future July prices up
turned sharply. On the 3rd prices
reached a new high but market later
became unsettled. Export demand now
slow. Receipts cash cor liberal:
country offerings continue small and
expected to fall off greatly within next
ten days. In Chicago cash market No.
2 red winter wheat $160; No. 2 hard
1854; No. 3 mixed corn Csc: No. 3 vel.
low corn Csc; No. 3 white oats Acc.
For the week Chicago July wheat IN
9asc at $1.37B; July cor 1c at 65&c.
Minneapolis July wheat up lie at
S1.36%; Kansas City July Size at
$1.30%.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES:
Sacked round white potatoes slightly
lower at Minnesota Shipping points
closing around soc per 100 lbs. Chi
cago carlot market up 20 to Csc from
seasons low point closing at Is to S5c.
Texas yellow Bermuda onions slight
ly lower in consuming markets at 81
to SIZE per standard crate.
Georgia Dixie Queen peaches In six
basket carriers and bushel baskets
1925 to S2.75 in Eastern markets.
Delaware and Maryland strawber'
ries, various varieties II to &c per
quart in Eastern markets.
LIVE STOCK AND MEATS: The
trend of Chicago live stock prices was
upward the past week. Hogs ranged
Is to 25c higher; beef steers gained
10 to Csc per 100 lbs. Butcher cows
and heifers steady to 25c higher; veal
calves up 75c to 81; feeder steers
down 25 to SOC. Fat lambs up 75c to
81; yearlings and fat ewes 25 to soc.
June Bird Chicago prices: Hogs, bulk
of sales $7.65 to So; medium and good
beef steers $3.50 to SOS; butcher cows
and heifers $3.50 to S.75; feeder steers
$3.50 to So; light and medium weight
veal calves SITS to $40; fat lambs
sS.75 to 1880; yearlings 1915 to 1850;
fat ewes 1925 to AIS.
With the exception Of mutton, prices
of most classes and grades of fresh
meat advanced in Eastern wholesale
markets. Beef and veal up 81 to So;
lamb and pork loins steady to 81
higher; mutton down 50 to 81 per 100
lbs. June 3rd prices good grade meats:
Beef $14.25 to IT; veal SIG to IS; lamb
s26 to 81; mutton 50 to 10; light pork
loins SIS to "a; heavy loins SIS to 10.