The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1921-06-02
U. S. Bureau Of Markets

prices at Chicago trended downward
the past week. Hogs broke 10000
per 100 pounds. Beef steers dowr
25@5Oc; butcher cows and heifers
50@75c; veal calves, 75c@$1. Fa
lambs declined SOC, yearlings, 75c@
$3.50 and fat ewes $2@2.75 per 10t
pounds. May 26 Chicago prices
Hogs, bulk of sales, $7S0@S.10;
medium and good beef steers, $7.2t
GS.50; butcher cows and heifers
| $4.75@S.50; feeder steers, $7@S.25i
light and medium weight veals, $7@
@; fat lambs, $s@11.50; yearlings
$6.50@10; fat ewes, 1905.
Stocker and feeder shipments from
IL important markets during the
week ending May 20 were: Cattle
and calves, 33,345; hogs, 5,264, and
sheet, 11,O49.
With the exception of lambs the
Eastern wholesale fresh meat prices
declined. Beef down 75c@$1; veal,
s1@2; pork loins, 81; mutton, $1@
$50 per 100 pounds. Lambs steady
to 81 higher. May 26 prices goor
grade meats: Beef, $13.25M15.00;
veal, $14@16; lamb, $25@26; NUT
ton, $11.5O@16; light pork loins,
$20625; heavy loins, $15@1S.
Hay-Light receipts cause more
firmness in hay market Demand also
slightly improved. Dry weather in
West curtailing shipments to Kansas
City. Other Western markets also re-
port light movement. Not much of a
change in prices. Quoted May 26: No.
l timothy, New York, $29.50; Chi
cago, 500; Cincinnati, $22.50; At
lanta, $35; Memphis, S25; No. ! al
falfa, Kansas City, $22; No. l new
alfalfa, Memphis, $27; No. l prairie
Kansas City, $14.5O; Minneapolis,
SIG.
Feed-Markets continue quiet with
stocks of wheat feeds accumulating
at lake ports. Dealers supplies, es-
pecially of high protein feeds, good.
Unusually heavy supplies of beet
pulp for this time of the wear are
available. Production of alfalfa meal
light. but ample to supply the de-
mand. Offerings of gluten feed good:
independent mills quoting lower
prices than those asked by principal
manufa cturers. White hominy feed
in good supply. Imported Argentine
middlings offere dat $1S, f. o. b..
Philadelphia. Cottonseed meal de-
mand light. price steady though
wavering. Quoted: Bran. $3.50.
middlings, S15. MINNEAPOLIS; 80 per
cent linseed meal, s34.20, delivered.
Philadelphia, rate points: 80 per
cent cottonseed meal. $50 Atlanta.
sa0.5O Memnhis; white hominv feed
500. st. Louis: gluten feeds, S2f.5n
Chicago: No. l alfalfa meal, 500
Kansas City.
"-"in-Prices rose sharply durinp
the week. Nav wheat reached 81 S5
on the 25th. the highest price of the
season. July wheat sold at a new
high of S1.35 on the oath. Unfavor-
able crop reports from Southwest
generally and hot dry weather in the
winter wheat belt were the only fac
tors influencing advance. On the
26th wheat weaker and lower on sell
ing credited to seaboard exporters
Highly beneficial rains in Southwest:
more rain forecast. Good export bus
mess new wheat at Gulf on the 25th,
with sales 100000 bushels. Cash
corn bushels dnrino week largest
Of some time. Tn CHICAGO cash mar
ket No. . winter wheat. 81 68: No. .
hard s1.S5; No. 3 mixed corn. 60c'
No. 3 yellow corn, 60c: No. 3 whit
oats. doe. For the week Chicago Ma
wheat M 15c at S1.6S: Nav corn
/ Sac at 60 3-4c CHICAGO Jul
wheat un Sc. at s197 "a: July corr
20. at so 3-4c. MinnannHIe Julv
wheat m 2-4c at 81 40: Karsas
Citv Julv S1-4c at 1.21 IA; Win
nipeg July Sc, at $1.63 IA.
Dairy Products-Butter market is
fairly firm at existing prices, espe-
cially on butter qualities. Consump-
tion holding up well and lin ted
quant't; ties moving into storage Clos
ing prices, 02 score, Chicago. 28c:
New York, 29c; Boston, 20 1-2c;
Philadelphia. 30c. Cheese market
more active with prices at Wisconsin
points ranging 13 3-4@14 3-4c
Some purchasing for storage. Under
grades selling slowly at lower prices.