The St. Mary banner., 1921-03-26
The Markets


Bureau OF Markets, U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Washington, d. c..
Hay-Receipts light, top grades find
Ing ready sale in nearly all markets.
Country demand improving. Country
Ioadings light. Road conditions poor.
Light receipts clover and alfalfa Kan
sas City. Omaha reports prairie IN
good request; receipts light. NO ac-
cumulations in evidence. but north
eastern markets we'll supplied. Quoted:
No. / timothy: $40 Kansas City, s24
Chicago, $40 Minneapolis, $24.5O Gin
cinnati No timothy: $3.50 Cincin-
natl, SIS Kansas City, 500 Chicago,
$3.50 Minneapolis. No. alfalfa:
$20.50 Kansas City, $24.50 Cincinnati.
No. / clover mixed: $21 Chicago, SIG
Minneapolis, SIT Kansas City, S22 Gin
cinnati No. l prairie: SIG Minneap-
oils, S1450 kansa. City.
Market generally easier. Lin
seed meal strong but price unchanged,
Corn feeds unchanged. Hominy feed
quoted about soc lower in many mar
kets. Cotton seed meal weaker; AZ
per cent offered $32 Chicago market.
Beet pulp and alfalfa meal in poor
request Season bran offered around
$22 Minneapolis Linseed meal may
be obtained from jobbers for April
May shipment at below mill prices.
Production most feeds, while not
heavy, is ample, demand remains be-
low normal Quoted: Bran S2250.
middlings $22. Minneapolis. Linseed
meal, $4150 Buffalo, SAL Minneapolis,
$3.50 Chicago; SO per cent cotton
seed meal $25 Memphis. white hominy
feed $23 ST. Louis; No l alfalfa meal
$3.50 Kansas City, gluten feed S31
Chicago; beet pulp s32 +. 0. b. New
York.
Fruit and Vegetables - Potatoes
down 10G15 per 100 lbs. northern
shipping stations, closing c4Sl.lO.
Chicago carlot market lost 1O@l5c ad-
vance of previous week, closing $l.2O
nl.30 sacked. Round whites at west
ern New York stations also lost last
weeks gains, closing $1.03@ LOG sack
ed. Bulk stock steady New York $l.5O
also Cold storage baldwin apples
steady around S. per bbl. t. o. D. west
ern New York stations. Baldwins
steady in city wholesale markets, 80
m6. Northwestern extra fancy Wine
saps mostly $3M4 per box consuming
centers. All grades New York bald
wins in Liverpool $6S4@1075 per bbl.
during week ended March IA. Yellow
onions 75cG$125 per 100 lbs. consum-
ing markets Prices down 5@l5c west
ern New York shipping points, closing
5Om60c. Sales Texas bermuda onions
future delivery st. Louis, quoted $1G
1.50 per crate. Serious damage from
thrips in lower Rio Grande valley
Florida celery steady $2.75@3.25 per
crate city markets; $1.75@1.S5 (. o. b
California celery $4.506650 per crate
middle-western markets. Louisiana
klondike Strawberries in 24-pint crates
| 22@25c per pint New York, 2OG23t
Boston. Carlot shipments week ended
| March 16: Potatoes 3S09 cars, boxed
apples 1862, barreled apples 500, cab
bage $40, celery 456, lettuce 497, onions
4l2, sweet potatoes 2SS. Shipments
week ended March 8: Potatoes 35OS
cars, boxed apples 400, barreled ap
pies S32, cabbage COL, celery 46O, let
tuce 449, onions $40, sweet potatoe:
331. Cold storage holdings barrelet
and boxed apples expressed as barrel
ed: 3,612,333 bbls March l, 1921, com
pared with 100000 bbls. March l
1920, and with 1,772,333 bbls. March
l, 1919.
Grain-Under adverse financial ant
economic conditions prices declined
the early part of the week, but on th'
18th sales five million bushels whea
to Europe caused sharp upturn. Con
tinued export business and reports o
green bug damage In southwest car
ried prices still higher the followin,
day. But on the 18th, after sligh
advance, the market slumped due t.
lack of support and sentiment favor
able to selling side. In Chicago casl
market No. 2 red winter wheat 19G
20c over Chicago May; No. 2 hard L
| 613c over: No. mixed corn 6@6A
under May: No. 2 yellow 5A @5A
under. For the week Chicago Ma.
wheat down 91ac at s14S1/S; Ma.
corn 2Ac at 6SAc. Minneapolis Ma.
wheat down 7%c at $1.42 3/S; Kan
sas City May 9A at s141A; Winnipel
May &c at s17S& Chicago Marcl
wheat s1571/S Minneapolis report
very good flour inquiry with fair sales
Kansas City milling demand good ear
| ly but weakened later: export deman
| dull No hard lie over Kansas Cit
May.
cotton-The average price of mid
ding spot cotton in the 10 designate
markets declined about 2 points dun
ing the week. closing around Sl1.10
per lb New York March futures up
| points at 1850.
Dairy Products-Butter markets cor
tinue weak and unsettled. Heavy de
ol;nes have occurred in all markets
although feeling has been much bel
ter at Chicago than in eastern mai
kets until the 18th, when prices brok
sharply. Ninety-two score butter