The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-03-09
WEEKLY
MARKETGRAM.
L. =. Bureau of Markets For
For Week Ended Mich, 3.
Fruits and Vegetables,

last week recovery, closing about
soc above the seasons low point at
$l.25 10 $l.35. Round Whites up Is
10 20c at western New York stations
closing around $l.lO sacked. New
York higher at $1.25 to $40 bulk.
Cold storage Baldwin apples firm
TO soc per bbl. higher western New
York +. o. b. stations, at $4.75. Bald
wins firm to soc higher in city mar
kets also, ranging mostly SIS to $3.50.
Northwestern Extra Fancy Winesaps
steady, New York 1925 to $3.50 per
box; Boston SO TO $3.50; middlewes-
tern markets 50 TO S4. For week
ended February 2S New York Bald,
wins $G.77 to 1871 per bbI in Liver
pool; Washington Winesaps $2.71 to
$2.S1 per box.
Florida celery slightly weaker in
city markets, ranging mostly $3.50 to
So per crate; up 10 to 15c f. o. b. at
$l.75 to $l.S5. California ctlery $3.50
to $3.50 per crate.
Yellow onions down 5 to 10c per
100 pounds t. o. b. western New York
shipping points. Consuming markets
generally slow and dull at 75c to 81.
Carlot shipments week ended
March 2: Potatoes 2,S43 cars: boxed
apples GIG, barreled apples 322; cab
bage 716; celery 457; lettuce 305;
onions 379; sweet potatoes 357. Ship
ments week ended February %; Po-
tatoes 2,198 cars; boxed apples 4S4;
barreled apples go; cabbage sos;
celery 43O; lettuce 274; onions $50;
sweet potatoes 324.
Hay.
Light receipts caused principally
by bad roads anu unsatisfactory
prices to producers and shippers have
resulted in higher prices in several
markets. Receipts exceed demand at
Cincinnati and Memphis where tim
othy and alfalfa prices have declined
81 to So. No Idaho hay reported at
Kansas City: some on tracks Chi
cago, unsold. Prairie higher at Kan.
sas City: receipts light. Quoted, Feb
ruary 2-No l timothy, New York
s3O.50; Philadelphia, $24.50; Cincin-
natl $22; Chicago. s25: Minneapolis
$21a Memphis, $27. No. alfalfa,
! KANSAS City $40, Omaha $3.50,
Memphis s26, Minneapolis s21. No.
l prairie, Kansas City SIS, Omaha
$40. minneapolis $3.50.
Feed.
Prices holding fairly steady though
bran and middlings quoted 81 lower
Minneapolis. March shipment wheat
feeds quoted 81 lower than prompt.
Interior dealers not buying heavily
| as stocks in general are in excess of
demand and only slowly disposed of.
Diminished jobbers demand causing
easier feeling. Transit shipments re-
ported accumulating; receipts fairly
heavy. Offerings gluten feed good f:
| of hominy, liberal. Cottonseed and
| linseed meal in light request; prices
| slightly lower; linseed meal offered
| by resellers for March. April ship
ment $4l Buffao. Alfalfa meal and
| beet pulp dull.
| Quoted: Bran s22, middlings
$3.50 Minneapolis. SO per cent cot
| tonseed meal $3.50 Memphis, $35
northeastern markets. No. 1 alfalfa
meal $l9 Kansas City, $3.50 Chi
cago; gluten feed S37 Chicago; white
hominv feed S2T Cincinnati, $3.50
st. Louis; beet pulp $33 New York.
| Grain.
| Prices advanced during the week
| although the market was easily af-
fected and somewhat uncertain. Prin-
cipal factors: renewal of export de-
mand. foreign political situation, and
green bug and hessian fly reports.
Omaha reports good mill demand for
cash wheat; flour demand somewhat
improved. Hessian fly infestation
rather general in soft wheat states.
In Chicago cash market No. mixed
corn and No. 8 Yellow 5 to SIC un-
der Chicago May. Minneapolis -four
demand somewhat better; wheat de-
mand slow. For the week Chicago
May wheat up sc at $1.G1 3-4; May
corn &c at II 1-4c. MINNEAPOLIS
May wheat up 4kc at $1.56 Is; Kan
sas City May 4 1ac at $1.56 Is; Win
nipeg May 3Ec at $1.S7.
Cotton.
Spot cotton prices down about 1c
fper pound the past week, closing at
.11.34. March futures down 1O7
points at 11.2O.
Dairy Products.
Butter markets firm the early part
Of week but developing signs of
weakness. Prices down to 1kc in
eastern markets en- the 3rd. Closing
prices, go score: New York, Chi
cago and Boston 53c; Philadelphia
'4c. These prices are &c higher than
week ago. Trading is now quiet as
dealers are fairly well supplied with
| goods.
Cheese markets easy at close. Trad
ing less active than a week ago and
tone Of markets less firm. Early in
week, however. prices in distribute
ing markets advanced and these
gains have been maintained. Wiscon-
sin primary markets now trifie lower
than week ago, sales being made
at: Twins 26 Y; Daisies 81; Double
Daisies 26 6ia; Longhorns 25A. High
in some eastern cheese finding its way
to Chicago market which heretofore
has been depending largely on Wis