The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1921-01-01
The Markets

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Hay and FeeG.---Ha- market genel-
ally easier. Receints continues light
but in most markets are in excess OF
the linn ID holiday demand. Prices de-
clined 81 to 81 per ton Eastern mar
kets; soc to So Western markets. Chi
cago showed greatest decline Eec2use
of increased receipts. Quote: No. l
timothy, New York $3.50, Chicag,'
s2T, Cincinnati $27. Atlanta y35, Kan
sas City $3.50. 30 l olfalla KansT $
City s22, Chicago S2s, A.lanta $3.50.
No. / prairie Kansas City rs, Chica-
go $23.
Unusually light demand carse1 fur
Their breaks In feed prices. Feeders
reported buying lightly; country deal
ers have heavier stocks than usual at
this season of year. Restricted export
demand produced sharp decliI.e o. 81
to $3.50 per ton in linseed Ind cotton
seed meal. Hominy easier; gluten
feed quiet at unchanged prices. Heavy
wheat feeds reported difficult tc sci.
at material reductions. Quoted: 3 per
cent cottonseeG meal $34, beet pulp
SIS, bran $35, Philadelphia; No. l al
falfa meal $26, Kansas City; linseed
meal $3.50, Buffalo; gluten feed $53,
Northeastern markets; hominy S35.43,
per cent cottonseed meat $37, Chica-
go; reddog, $3.50; flour middlings,
| S2a.50, Minneapolis.
Fruits and egetables.-Eorthern
round white potatoes lost to loo per
| 100 lbs. at shipping points, reaching
| S1.15 to $3.50. Chicago carlot mar
ket up to 10c closing at S1.35 to $1.45,
| sacked. JoBbing range slightly lower
in other middleWestern markets at
$3.50 to S1S5. Round whites down Is
to 20c f. 0. b. Western New York ship
ping points at $3.50. New York mar
ket, round whites $195 to $40; Green
Mountain $40 to 1920.
Yellow globe onions down 10 to 25c
per 100 lbs, f. o. b. Western New York
shipping points, closing around 81. Con-
Stunning markets slightly lower, job |
bing 75c to $3.50.
Big Boston lettuce down 25 to Acc |
per " bushel hamper in a slow dull |
market at Florida shipping points, |
reaching a new low price f. o. b. at so |
to 75c. Consuming markets slightly !
lower at $3.50 to $3.50. California |
Iceberg lettuce strengthened soc per
crate, closing $3.50 to 81
CarlOt movement of Is fruit and |
vegetables 1891 cars week ended Dec.
IS compared with 102S1 preceding
week and 6,6S2 corresponding week a
year ago.
Livestock and Meats.-Chicago hog
prices established new low record on
Dec. Is but recovered later in the
week and closed at net declines of 15c
to soc since Dec. 49, Cattle prices
down Csc to soc. Sheep and lambs
scored a rather sensational decline, fat
ewes dropping 1925; fat lambs $3.50
and feeding lambs 1925 per 100 lbs
Dec. 20, Chicago prices: Bulk of hogs
1896 to 1910; medium and good beef
steers $3.50 to SETS; butcher cows
and heifers $4.25 to $1025; light and
medium weight veal calves $3.50 to
$3.50; feeder steers 1925 to So; fat
lambs SO to s10.75; feeding lambs $3.50
to $40! yearlings 1925 to $50; fat
ewes to $3.50.
Under fairly liberal supplies and a
slow demand dressed meat prices
were weak to lower. Beef, veal and
lamb down 81 To- So per 100 lbs, NUT
ton steady to 81 lower; pork loins gen.
orally 81 lower. Dec. 20 prices good
grade meats: Beef SIS to $19, veal SIG
to $40, lamb S22 to sgt, mutton 81 to
SIG, light pork loins $19 to s22, heavy
loins SIS to SIT.
Grain.-There has been heavy ex
port sales of wheat during the week
and great difficulty in securing cash
wheat to fill old sales. On the 18th
Great Britain bought in the United
States 100000 bushels wheat; Italy
bought 100000 bushels; Spain 100000
bushels. The markets have shown a
distinctly firmer undertone since the
18th. Flour trade continues dull and
milling demand for wheat slow. There
mas been heavy buying of corn by Chi t
,ago elevator interests the past few
lays. Nos. 1 and soft winter cash
wheat in Chicago selling IS to 361sc
over Chicago hard winter 5 TO cents
over. New No. 4 mixed corn &c under ;
December. No. 2 yellow corn &c over r
No. 3 yellow 4Ac over No. yellow
to 1Ac over No. 4 white &c over In
No. 1 dark Northern I
wheat 10 to Ice over Minneapolis b
March No. dark Northern to 10c
'ver. Kansas City reports steady de-
nand cash wheat for export. For the
week Chicago March wheat gained
1ac closing at $1.64 3-S; May, corn E
5S at 70 7-Sc. Minneapolis March y
Wheat up 3-Sc at s1.62; Kansas City :,
12c at $1.601a; Winnipeg May 7-8 at Il
1.76 3-S, Chicago December wheat
losed $1701a, December corn 69Ac;
lay wheat $161 1-S.
Cotton.-Spot cotton reached a new
wv level on the goth at 1460c decline le
f about Is points for the week New y
-ork December futures down 5 points, p
losing at IA 90c.. a