The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1921-06-16
WHEAT MARKETSTRONG
Demand for Cash Wheat Contin.
ues-0fferings Light.
HOG Prices Advancing With Beef Mar
ket Remaining Flrm-Liquidation
in Corn Continues.

u. S. Bureau of Markets, Washington, D..
D. c., for week ended June 10, 1921,
GRAIN: July wheat sold at the
highest point of the season on the 3rd
influenced by bullish crop reports and
estimates and large export business,
but weakness developed later in ses-
sion with considerable change in senti-
ment. Lower prices prevailed until the
eighth when excessive rains with floods
in Kansas caused an upturn that con-
tinued until the close on the 10th.
Cash wheat in good demand with coun-
try offerings to arrive light. Liquida-
ton on in corn by houses with eastern
connections. In Chicago cash market
No. 2 red winter wheat $1.60; No. 2
hard 1854; No. 3 mixed corn Gle: No.
3 yellow corn 61c; No. 3 white oats 36c.
For the week Chicago July wheat down
1c at $1.36B July corn down SAC at
62c. Minneapolis July wheat unchanged
at $1.37; Kansas City July down &c at
$1.27A; Winnipeg July down 1%c at
$1.76A. Chicago September wheat
$1.18%; September corn 61R.
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS: Hog
prices at Chicago advanced 25c-50c per
100 lbs. the past week. Beef steers
were steady; butcher cows and heifers
and feeder steers generally 25c lower.
Veal calves up Csc. Aged lambs de-
clined 75c; spring lambs 81. Yearlfngs
and fat ewes down Csc. June 10 Chi
cage prices: Hogs, bulk of sales $685.
$50; medium and good beef steers
~$7.5O-8.65; butcher cows and heifers
$4.25-S.50; feeder steers $6.25-7.75;
light and medium weight veal calves
$8-10.25; fat lambs $S-11.75; spring
lambs $1O.25-12.25; yearlings %$6.50-10;
fat ewes $3-5.
The trend of eastern wholesale fresh
meat prices was upward. Beef adj
vanced 50c-s1.25 per 100 lbs. Veal
ranged steady to 81 higher, depending
upon the market. Lamb generally 81
higher, mutton steady to 81 higher.
Pork loins irregular.
HAY: Movement light stocks on
farms remain about 100 per cent larger
than last year. Receipts in markets
barely adequate to supply needs but
because of light demand prices are no.
minally unchanged to slightly easier.
Chicago reports good demand for prai-
RE. No. l timothy quoted, $19 Mime
apolis. No. 2 timothy $40 Chicago.
No. l prairie SIS Minneapolis.
FEED: Market dull and weak. Cot
tonseed meal a shade lower. Quoted:
Bran $14.50, middlings $t4.50, Mime
apolis; SO per cent cottonseed meal
$29.5O Memphis; linseed meal $50 Min
neapolis.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES:
North Carolina Irish Cobbler potatoes
down soc per barrel. New York under
increasing receipts, reaching $3.50
3.75; eastern shore of Virginia stock
steady at $4-4.50.
Texas yellow Bermuda onions near
ly steady in consuming markets at
$1.25-1.75 per standard crate.
Florida tomatoes in moderate de-
mand New York City at $5-2.25 per G.
basket carrier.
California Salmon Tint cantaloupes
down 40-50c per crate at shipping
points under heavy haulings, closing
$1.75-1.S5 per standard crate of As
melons; carloads I. o. b. cash track.
Georgia Carman peaches in 6-basket
carriers and bushel baskets slightly
weaker Philadelphia at $2.75-3.15.
DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter mar
kets have been firm all week under ac-
tive storing demand, but today there
was weaker feeling and slight declines
occurred in most markets. The into
storage movement has been heavy, the
preliminary official release for entire
United States for June first showing to-
tai holdings 21,500,000 pounds.
Cheese markets steady to firm.
Prices at Wisconsin primary markets
average: Daisies 14A Double Daisies
IA; Young Americas 14h; Longhorns
14L