Taiban Valley news., 1921-10-14
LATEST MARKET
QUOTATIONS
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Washington DC.

| tWestern Newspaper Union News SeIvice)
Grain.
| Markets sagged all week Export
sales of wheat lighter Hedging and
speculative selling of wheat pronounced
| on most days Corn prices stayed
within narrow limits but worked low
er, closing at new low point. Husk-
| ing returns from corn belt reported dis
| appointing. Domestic demand was
| somewhat improved. Closing prices in
Chicago cash market: No. 2 red win
| ter wheat, silly; No. 2 hard winter
$l.l3; No. mixed corn. 47c; No. 2 yell
low, 47c; No. white oats, SSc. For
the week Chicago December wheat lost
9Ac, closing at $1.114s; December corn
lost hc, closing at S9sc; Minneapolis
December wheat lost 121Ac, closing at
$l.222; Kansas City December wheat
lost 9%c, closing at $1.03 2s Winnipeg
December wheat lost 15c, closing at
$1.139s. Chicago May wheat closed at
$1.161s; May corn at 54Ss Minneapolis
May wheat at $1.22h Kansas City May
wheat at $1.0SB Winnipeg May wheat
at $1.19s. Estimates of world wheat
crop, excluding Russia and some minor
countries, total 2,787 100000 bushels.
compared with 2,614,000,000 last year
and 2,791, 100000 the pre-war five year
average. Russia and India which were
pre-war exporters, are importing wheat
this year. Supplies now remaining in
United states equal only to pre-War
normal domestic requirements.
iANC NuCutA
Compared with a week ago the trend
of the Chicago live stock prices was
upward. The more desirable grades of
beef steers and butcher heifers led this
movement with net advances ranging
from 25c to 75c per 100 lbs Feeder
cows steady; hogs ranged from 15c to
35c higher. Practically all grades of
sheep and lambs ranged from strong
to higher. In each class the most de-
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October Chicago prices: Hogs, top,
$3.50; bulk of sales, $6.75@8.50; me-
dium and good beef steers, $6-15 a 1910;
butcher cows and heifers, $3.50 $50;
feeder steers, $4.S5 a 6.S5; light and me-
dunn weight veal calves. $500 11.50;
fat lambs, $7.25 9.25; feeding lambs
$6.0Oq7. 7.50; yearlings, $5.00Q7.00; fat
ewes, $3.00M500
Stocl1er and feeder shipments from
eleven important markets during the
week ending Sept. 80 were: Cattle and
calves, 101,677; hogs, $40; sheep,
126.822.
In contrast with live stock eastern
wholesale fresh meat prices were gem
orally lower than a week ago. Lamb
was 81 to 81 lower, with mutton and
fresh pork loins ranging from steady
to 81 lower. Beef was 81 to $1.50 low
er and veal steady to 81 lower Octo-
Der prices good grade meats: Beef,
$1,000 a 1900; veal $500 $4,000; lamb
$l5.00q 1S.003 mutton, $11.00@13.00;
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loins, $4,000 20.00.
Hay.
Receipts light in practically all mar
kets. Prices steady but demand limited
mostly to local needs. Shipping de-
mand continued light. Quoted October
8: No. l timothy. New York, $S0.50;
Chicago, $24; Minneapolis, sic. No. /
alfalfa Memphis $22.50; Minneapolis
$21; Kansas City, $4,000. No. prairie.
Chicago, S17; Minneapolis, SIS; Kansas
City, S1S.
Fruits and Vegetables.
Northern round white potatoes
strengthened in Chicago, gaining 25c at
$2.20 per 100 lbs. sacked. Eastern
round whites lost 15c in Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh, closing at $2.15 a S2.2 25.
Round whites firm at S1750195 fob
northern shipping points; weak at 81. so
at New York points. Maine Green
Mountains weak at $1.16@1.41 per 100
lbs. bulk, fob. and weak and dull at
$1.65 a 1.S5 in New York.
Demand for cabbage slow to moder-
ate; markets well supplies. New York
domestic weakened in Philadelphia,
closing $5.00W7.00 lower at $2502S per
ton bulk. New York Danish about
steady in Cincinnati at $500 a 40. 90;
weak at shipping points at $50, fob.
Northern Danish gained SO at $4,000
27.O0. fob; firm in Chicago at $40, and
up $40 in st. Louis at $45.
Dairy Products.
Butter markets were firm, the sup
ply of fancy butter being short of the
demand. Undergrades were slow Clos
ing prices of 80 score: New York 45c;
Chicago, 44ac; Philadelphia, 461sc;
Boston, Acc
Cotton.
Spot cotton declined 121 points dur
ing the week, closing at 1870 per lb.
New York October futures lost 156
points, closing at 19.48c