The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1921-05-13
MARKETS
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Hairy Products,

Dairy Products.
Butter markets unsettled. Price ten
denCy mostly downward during week
but there was a slight Improvement
NAL: otherwise tone of market would
be firmer. as there has been temporary
shortage some grades. Declines que
to desire OF trade to keep stocks NOV.
ing in anticipation of us i"l increased
spring production. Closing prices, ~
score: New York. 81 &c; Chicago: S2ci
markets slow and business not up to
expectations following Monday decline
on Plymouth. Wis. cheese exchange.
Prices on most styles about lie lower
than a week ago. Undertone of mar
kets somewhat unsettled. aithouGh
there is more general feeling mat
prices are about as low as they Will go
for the present.
Market continues weak with prices
somewhat lower in several markets,
Receipts light; demand very limited.
No: timothy quoted $50. New YORK;
s22, Chicago; $50, Cincinnati: s29. At
lanta: s2S.50, Memphis No. alfalfa,
1923. Kansas City: $3.50, Memphis; $S3,
Atlanta. No. prairie $3.50. Minneap-
oils: sl7, Chicago: slS.75. Kansas City.
Feed.
Spot prices for mill feed firm in
northwestern states. but weak in South
and East. Demand very light. Lin
seed meal and gluten feed lower. cot
lonStsl meal ntli lllullS AT nlEiltl
prices. Alfalfa meal and hominy feed
weak, Spring bran quoted $3.50. Phil
adelphia, sl9. Chicago; SIG. Minneap-
oils. Spring middlings.- $24: Philadel-
Linsccd meal. $40, Minneapolis. s37.
New York: s3l. Kansas City. Gluten
feeds s2G.5O. Chicago: $29So. Cincin-
matt; $S4l2. New York. Cottonsced
meal. s27. Memphis; $2G.5O. Atlanta.
livestock and Meats.
The trend of Chicago live stock
prices was upward the past week. Hogs
advanced zoe to 45c: beef steers, 2Jc
er steers generally. 25c per 100 lbs.
Sheep and lambs generally steady. May
I Chicago prices: Hogs. bulk of sales.
1918 $50: medium and good beef
heifers. S5G9; feeder steers s6.75g
S.15. light and medium weight veal
1928; feeding lambs. s7.O0aS.5O; year
lings. $1,000 $50; fat ewes. $500 1926:
stocker and feeder shipments from
eleven important markets during the
calves, 1865: hogs. 1895; sheep 1l,OS5.
AT eastern wholesale fresh meat mar
kets beef down soc to 81. light pork
steady to 81 lower: lamb average about
pounds. May 4 prices good grade
meats neat ,, Bsef sISglI; yesl sl7@ 20;
pork loins, s23 20; heavy loins, sl79
Fruits and Vegetables.
Sacked round white potatoes down
l0c to l5c per 100 lbs. at northern
caso carlot market at seasons low
point of 7OuS5c. Florida No l Spaul-
ding Rose up 75c per double bar
York, at .775 $500; up si.25 $50,
shipping points. around 81 f. o. b.
Texas sacked Bliss Triumphs down 81
ql'2t per hundred lbs; Kansas City:
at S40OG4.25: st. Louis, S+.25. Cold
storage Baldwin apples firm in city
wholesale markets: New York A2h
stock mostly sGa7 per barrel. North
steady Chicago. Medium to large sizes,
s2.75 small sizes, S2.OO@2.50.
Sacked yellow onions slow and steady
in eastern city wholesale markets. at
Bermudas lower. at s1.25@ 200: mostly
sl.SOMl.75 per standard crate No. / and
stock, commercial pack.
Grain.
Prices tended upward the past week,
due principally to good export demand,
light offerings. strength cash market
and small stocks of wheat Chicago
available delivery on May contracts
shipments from other points Chicago
May wheat advanced Sc on the Sd as
result congestion long holdings as
hedges by seaboard interests which
could not get cash grain to fill export
sales. Chicago May dropped 4Lc on
the 4th, and July wheat 2a c as result
heavy selling cash wheat by Kansas
producers and weakened technical po-
sition caused by recent big advance
Sentiment now somewhat more bear
ish: cash premiums easier. In Chicago
cash market No. 2 winter (red) wheat
sl.4S: No. hard, $l.52. No mixed
corn. SIC; No. yellow corn sec No.
white oats 35 1ac for the week Chi
cago May wheat up l2hc. at sl.3Sh;
May corn down &C, at 5S&c: July
wheat up SIC. at sl.09&; July corn
down NC, at 61Ac; Minneapolis July
wheat up 4Ac. at S1.l6: Kansas City
July, 4c, at s1.O2kc; Winnipeg July,
SIC, at Sl.42A.
Cotton.
Spot cotton prices advanced about 80
points the past week. closing around
!l.43c per pound New York May flu
lures up 3S points. at 12.49c.