, 1921-05-12
MARKETS
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Western Newspaper Union News serrics.b
Dairy Products.

butter markets unsettled. Price ten
dency mostly during week..
but there was a slight Improvement
the past few days. Trading not nor
NAL; otherwise tone of market would
be firmer. as there has been temporary
shortage some grades. Declines due
to desire of trade to keep stocks NOV
ing in anticipation Of us isl increased
spring production. Closing prices. %
score: New York. 37hc; Chicago. 32c:
Philadelphia and Boston. 3Sc. Cheese
markets slow and business not up to
expectations following Monday decline
on Plymouth, Wis, cheese e~xcnange.
Prices on most styles about 1c lower
kets somewhat unsettled. although
there is more general feeling that
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 &c timothy quoted $50. New York;
lanta; $3.50, Memphis. No. 1 alfalfa,
$23. Kansas City; $3.50. Memphis: $33,
Atlanta: No; / prairie. $3.50. Minneap-
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
tonseed meal held firmly at higher
prices. Alfalfa meal and ominy feed
weak; spring bran quoted $24:5O. Phil
a%delphia; s1s. Chicago; SIC. Minneap-
phia; SIS, Chicago; SIS. Minneapolis.
Linseed meal, S29, Minneapolis: S37.
New York; $31. Kansas City. Gluten
natl: $34.12, New York. Cottonseed
meal, SCI, Memphis; $3.50. Atlanta.
Livestock and Meats.
The trend of Chicago live stock
advanced zoe to 45c; beef steers, csc
to 65c; butcher cows, heifers and feed
er steers generally, 25c per 100 lbs.
Sheep and lambs generally steady. May
4 Chicago prices: Hogs, bulk of sales,
$3.50 500 medium and good beef
steers. $7.50@s.75; butcher cows and
heifers, 50 feeder steers, $6.750
SIS; light and medium weight veal
calves, sS.25 q 1880; fat lambs, $3.50
i1.25; feeding lambs, $7.OOQS.50; year
lings. SS.OOQ $50; fat ewes. S5.5OQ7.25;
stocker and feeder shipments from
eleven important markets during the
week ending April 29 We're: Cattle and
AT eastern wholesale fresh meat mar
kets beef down soc to 81. light pork
loins, 81; heavy loins; steady. Veal
steady; mutton up 81 per hundred
pounds. May 4 prices good grade
meats; Beef sl6gl7; veal $17@2o:
pork loins, s23Q26; heavy lOins. ,179
Fruits and vegetables.
Sacked round white potatoes down
shipping points. closing coo zoe. Chi
point of 7OQs5c. Florida No. i spaHi-
reis' c tiGee Sp at It's $3.50 ps5 S SS95;e up sei S SsTy
York. at S7.75 S.OO;- up SLIPS Q1.5O.
shipping points, around 81 +. o. b.
Q1.26 per hundred lbs. Kansas city,
at s4.00@4.25: st. Louis. s4.25. Cold
storage Baldwin apples firm in city
stock mostly y6 N n Dpr harrel North
western extra fancy Winesaps nearly
steady Chicago. Medium to large sizes,
Sacked yellow onions slow and steady
in eastern city wholesale markets, at
75c Sl;25 per 100 lbs. Texas yellow
s1.5O LIS per standard crate No. / and
2 stock, commercial pack.
Grim.
Prices tended upward the past week.
due principally to good export demand.
and small stocks of wheat Chicago
available delivery on May contracts
with price level too low to attract
May wheat advanced Sc on the Sd as
result congestion long holdings as
hedges by seaboard interests which
could moi get cash grain to fill export
sales, Chicago May dropped 4Lc on
the 9Th, and July wheat exc 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,
$l.4S; No. 2 hard. S1.52. No. 3 mixed
corn. 5Sc; No. 3 yellow corn, soc. No.
3 white oats. 80 &c for the week. Chi
cago May wheat up 12hc. at S1.3SM;
May corn down Nc, at 5S%c; July
wheat up 415c. at $1.09%; July corn
down nc. at 61Ac; Minneapolis July
wheat up 4&c, at s1.16; Kansas city
July, &c, at s1.02he; Winnipeg July.
sac. at s1.42&.
Cotton.
Spot cotton prices advanced about 33
points the past week, closing around