, 1921-09-22
LATEST MARKET
QUOTATIONS
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US. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington DC.
Western Newspaper Union New. Service,

Fruits ana vegetables.
Potato prices in New York market
advanced during the week: prices i'm
Chicago declined. New Jersey Giants
up lbc to soc ht shipping points. hold
ing at VIE per 100 pounds. sacked.
Gains of Zoe to zoe in eastern city
markets advanced prices to a range
OF s2.15 to s2.65. Idaho round whites
down S5c In Chicago carlot market.
ranging $3.50 to $3.50; down soc in
Kansas city at $3.50; firm in Cincin-
natl and st. Louis firm at says to
$3.50. -
Live stock and Meats.
Chicago hog prices declined the past
week. sheep and lamb prices sharply
igher beef and butcher cattle steady
70 as much as soc higher per 100
pounds. The feature of the market
was an advance of 81 to S1.25 on fat
lambs. 4Oc to Use IN feeding lambs.
and from 25c to soc on fat ewes and
yearlings, Butcher cows and heifers
and feeding steers generally steady;
medium and good beef steers up zoe
to SOC. The hog market declined rather
steadily; net changes for the week
chicago prices: Hogs. top $3.50 Cone
load); bulk of sales. 500 to $40;
medium and good beef steers. $685. to
STU; butcher cows and heifers. $3.50 to
50; feeder steers. IS to s7.25; light and
$1S.75; fat lambs. sS.25 to $1O.25; feed
SIS to $7.75; fat ewes. So to So. StocSer
and feeder shipments from II import
ant markets during the week were:
cattle and calves. BAG: hogs. 1927;
sheep, 1913. 042.
With the exception of fresh pork net
changes in eastern Wholesale fresh
meat prices during the week We're not
material. Beef steady; good veal down
So with medium grades nsin from
steady to SO higher. according to the
market. Lamb prices steady to SO
higher; mutton averaged about steady.
Pork loins weak at declines running
from 81 to 50 per 100 pounds. Sep
tember 18th prices good grade meats:
Beef, $3.50 to $17: veal, SIS to s22;
lamb. SIT to s21; mutton, S11 to $14:
licht pork loins. S24 to $40; heavy
loins. Sl4 to s21.
Dairy Products.
Butter markets firm; price tendency
upward; scarcity of fancy grades Is
supporting factor. Preliminary storage
report released September 18th cover
ing entire United States shows Sep
TENDER 1 total holdings 81. 946.OOO
pounds. compared with 1858. 900
pounds a year ago and with five-year
average OF 100000 600 pounds: Closing
Chicago. 42hc; Philadelphia and
Boston, 44c.
Hay market continues very quiet
generally. Rain curtailing movement
at Minneapolis. Receipts light at Chi
caso and Cincinnati. Southern demand
showing slight Improvement. No. 1
timothy. New York $3.50. Boston SOS.
- ~ 81 thltdEp go Allnle-
apolis $3.50. Cincinnati s19. No. 1 al
falfa, New York s31. Minneapolis 500.
No. l prairie. Minneapolis. s14.5O.
Grain.
Wheat prices advanced during the
first half of the week. Influenced by
fears of drouth damage in Argentina;
reduced estimate in yield for Argen-
tina. and good American export bust
ness. Country offerings small in
northw estern and outhwestern United
states. of foreign exchange
checking Npo business. Closing
prices in Chicago cash market: No. 2
red winter wheat, $3.50; No. 2 hard
winter wheat. s1.29; No. 2 mixed corn,
55c; No. 2 yellow corn. SEC: No. 3 white
oats. 37c. For the week Chicago De-
cember wheat advanced C, closing
at $1.31; December corn down half a
cent, closing at 81 NC. Minneapolis De-
cember wheat up 4 cents at $1.43L F;
Kansas city December wheat down &c
at Sl.2lA; Winnipeg December wheat
down &c at $1.39A. Chicago Septem-
Der wheat closed at s1.2s; September
corn, 54hc; Minneapolis September
wheat, S1.4S; Kansas City September
wheat. S1.1sh Winnipeg October
wheat, $1.45%.
Cotton.
40 points during the week. closing
around 1880 per pound. New York
October futures up 40 points at 1890.