The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1921-03-17
MARKETS
v. g. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington, D. C.

Hay
Hay receipts generally light. Majority
OF markets reporting easier tendency,
RE quoted about 81 higher because OF
insufficient receipts. Best grades In good
demand. Good inquiry for southwestern
prairie and straw, especially rye straw
Quoted March o. No. / timothy-s2o
Minneapolis, $3.50 Memphis. s22 Cincin-
sat 10 s216O chieage No ti sao syn
cinnati No. I clover mixed $3.50 Min
neapolis, s2O.50 Cincinnati No. l prairie
Sl6 Minneapolis, $l5 Kansas city. No; !
Alfalfa vi Minneapolis, S27 Memphis, SlS
Omaha. $2S Kansas City No. . alfalfa
SIT Minneapolis, $40 Memphis, $40 Omaha.
Feed
Prices fairly steady and stocks ample
but firmly held by jobbers as few new
offerings are made by mills onerlngs
expected shortly to improve. Bullish
feeling among Jobbers who anticipate
usual spontaneous purchasing movement
THIS time OF year to cause higher prices
Transit offerings IN several sections Of
fered below shipment prices. Cornfeeds
unchanged. Alfalfa meal In poor de-
mand.
Quoted: Bran s23. middlIngs s22 Min
neapolls. No. l alfalfa meal $40 Omaha
and Kansas City. Glutenfeed $37 Chica-
go, white hominy feed $Z3 st. Louis, S32
Boston. Beet pulp S32 +. o. b. New York.
Live Stock and Meats
Compared with a week ago Chicago
cattle prices show slight declines, while
Beef steers and butcher cattle down loo
W25c. Feeder steers fra 10 Csc higher.
Fat lambs up 25c@75c; yearlings z5cQ
soc per 100 lbs. Fat ewes down 25c. Me-
dunn and light weight hogs up 50cq zoe.
Heavy weights weak to &C lower.
March 10 Chicago prices: Hogs bulk
Of sales, $40 Wll4O, medium ana good
beef steers $500 SlO25; butcher cows
and he,fers $5m9.7o; feeder steers $1,000
9.75; light and medium weight veal
calves $9.500 70; fat lambs $S.75@ll;
feeding lambs S25M9.25; yearlings $725
q9.25, fat ewes $5MG.50
With the exception of beef. eastern
wholesale fresh meat prices tended down.
ward. March 10 prices good grade meats:
beef s16.5O0l75O; veal $l9Q22; lamb SIS
a 20; mutton $l14l5; light pork loins S2l
a "a; heavy loins $lGQ19.
Grain
Market higher on good export demand
early in the week but prices then de-
clned on favorable reports of crop con-
ditions and bearish construction placed
on government crop report.
Chicago May wheat undergoing n net
loss OF &c closing at $l.57 5-S, May corn
3-4c at 20 1-2c.
On the 10Th all grain prices declined
despite resumption export business ana
ether bullish news Reported France
took 100000 hu's. wheat al seaboard and
sales via gulf exceeded 100000 blu $.
France also said to have bought Argen
tine wheat cheaper than American, OK
lahoma weather bureau confirms green
bug reports; high dry winds reported
Kansas.
For the week Minneapolis May wheat
down &c at $3.50 lis; Kansas city May
4 &c at Sl.5l 1-2; Winnipeg May b-SC
higher AT $lS7 5-S Minneapolis flour
and wheat demand little better. Kansas
City milling demand fair.
Fruits and Vegetables
Potatoes up 10@15c per 100 lbs. north
ern shipping stations at s1.10Ml.20, Chi
cago carlot market firm; up 10Q16c al
S1.40@l.4 As. Round whites at western
New York stations up 10q20c at 81 ESQ
1.3O sacked. New York up Csc at tl.5C
p1.65 bulk.
Cold storage Baldwin apples at west
ern New York I. %. b. stations advanced
Csc per Dbl. at Sc. Baldwins slightly
higher city markets s5Q6. Northwestern
extra fancy Winesaps mostly saga. pei
box. Baldwins Ss2q10e4 per Dbl, IN
compared with 7TQS71 week ended
Feb. 2S; Winesaps $2.74q322 per box
compared with $27lQ2S1.
Dairy Products
Tendency IN butter markets has been
downward during the week. Prices now
average 506c under these OF a week ago
and markets are now very weak Trad
ing is slow and little, but regular, bust
hess is materialZing. Supply exceeds de-
mand and dealers shading prices In some
instances.
Closing prices, 90 score: New York
and Boston 4Sc; Chicago 40 1-2c; Phila-
delphia AS 1-2c