Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-03-26
WEEKLY MARKETGRAM
(U. S. Bureau of Markets.

rFuits ana NeSetabies. - POTATOES
down Is a soc per 100 lbs northern
shipping stations, closing 95e q 81. Chi
cago car-lot market down l0@ 15c at
Sl.2o 100 sacked. Round whites at
western New York stations also lost
last week 5 gains, closing around 81
sacked. Bulk stock down 10 loo New
York at Sl40g I.50.
Cold storage Baldwin apples steady
around 50 per biol, l. o. b. western New
York stations. BaIdwins steady in city
Wholesale markets 50 q 9. Northwestern
extra fancy Winesaps mostly So per
box in consuming centers. Nearly l.
100000 bols. OF boxed and barreled
stock combined moved out OF storage
during February, leaving total apples
IN coid storage 5,bl2,33S barrels March
l as compared with 3,162.O00 barrels
match ,a2U, and I,372,S53 barrels
March /, 1919.
New 1orK Danish type cabbage down
SIG > per ton consuming markets, rang
SIS,
Florida celery steady, s2.7583.25 per
crate in city markets; Sl75@l,S5 +. o. b.
California celery $40 a $50 per crate
IN midG-A western markets.
Louisiana Klondike' strawberries in
"a pint crates % zoe per pint New
York; 20q 2Sc Boston; $3.50 per crate
T.. o. b.
Hay. Receipts in Kansas City
heavier; clearance prairie hay good at
lower prices. Alfalfa in poor demand,
timothy well cleared up. Spring work
and soft roads checking movement.
Chicago receipts have decreased sutfl-
GENTLY to Eve market slightly better
tone. Good Chicago demand for No.
timothy; fair demand for alfalfa; south
west prairie demand limited. 1nsuffi-
cient receipts good grade hay Cincin-
natl to supply requirements but any
material increase. would stop present
shipping inquiry. Memphis, market duh
but not quotably lower because of very
light receipts. Quoted No. l timothy
$27 Memphis, $2450 Cincinnati, S24
Chicago; No. 2 timothy $24 Memphis,
$225 so Cincinnati, 5000 Chicago; No. l
alfalfa s2S Memphis. 1923 Cincinnati; No.
2 Alfalfa S2050 Memphis; No. l clover
mixed $3.50 Cincinnati
Feed.-7Brap quoted 81 lower in prac-
tically all markets; other wheat feeds
easier. Bids of 50 cents below prevail
ing prices being accepted by several
mills for April delivery. Little interest
shown by buyers in deferred shipment:
Hominy feed, cottonseed meal, ground
barley 50cQS1 lower: all other feeds
weak and in ample supply Linseed
meal also displaying weak tendency in
Toledo under good receipts and stocks.
Good demand for linseed meal Chicago
from dairy sections; jobbers have ad-
vanced quot. lions in line with mill
prices. Demand from country trade re-
mains light. Quoted: Spring and hard
bran $3.50, soft $2S cincinnati; spring
bran $25.2 middlings $24 Chicago; lin
seed meal S42 Toledo, $41 Buffalo, SO
per cent cOttOnSeeQ zeal 9z0 MeIHpHlS,
white hominy feed S24 Chicago. S23 st.
Louis. No. l alfalfa meal $3.50 Kansas
City, $20.50 st, Louis, gluten feed $S7
. Chicago, flour middlings $2S, reddog
S34.50 Chicago
Live stock and Ments.--Prices of
practically all classes of live stock at
Chicago declined the past week Hogs
down 500 zoe; beef and butcher cattle,
and fat ewes 25Q soc; fat lambs 75cQ
$3.50; yearling wethers 5O@75c; feeder
steers steady to 25c lower. March 18th
Chicago prices Hogs. bulk of sales,
1925 q 1915; medium and good beef
steers $4,000; butcher cows and
heifers $5@9.25 feeder steers $7.75 "a
$50; light and medium weight veal
calves $9.75912; fat lambs $500 1925
feeding lambs $7.25 @9.25; yearlings 81
4S.5O; fat ewes $4.T5M6.
Eastern wholesale fresh meat prices
showed irregular changes compared
with week ago, although the ten
@S1; veal s1@2. Mutton generally 81
lower; pork loins practically steady;
lamb up S1@2 higher. per 100 lbs.
March s prices good grade meats: Beef
$16@17.50; veal 5000; lamb $3.50 %;
mutton $11 OILS; light pork loins $22Q
rs; heavy loins $i7@2l.
Grnin.-ReflectiRg stock market de-
clnes and the general economic and
Industrial situation.' grain prices drop
ped steadily until the 18th, when re-
ports of green bug damage in south
west and export sales of five million
bushels WHEAT SldTttu Il TtdctioH luot
continued until the nth But buying
power then gave out and with senti-
ment favorable to selling side the mar
ket slumped. Export demand now slow.
Talk of liberal movement from Canada
to America. on opening navigation.
Crop reports favorable. In Chicago cash
market No. 2 red winter wheat Is II q
20kc over Chicago May; No. mixed
corn ~ q &C under May; No. yellow
5m6c under. For the week Chicago
May wheat lost S3sc at s1.45A May
wheat down Csc at s1.39%, Kansas
City May &c at $1.33, Winnipeg May &c
at $1.77A. Chicago March wheat $1.54 rs
Minneapolis flour trade good; wheat
demand strong, Kansas City milling
and export demand dull with No. 2
hard 12c over Kansas City May.
Dairy PrOducts.-Butter markets for
most part weak and unsettled the past
week, although "A somewhat firmer
tone prevailed AT the close. March, 18th
prices 92 score 2-3c lower than a week
Philadelphia and Boston 45c, Supplies
domestic =. esh short but liberal arrfv-
ais Danish have made support of this
nature ineffective. good many deal
ers are centering interest. on eggs;
speculative interest somewhat tagging.
Domestic production increasing; quail
ty fairly good.
Weakness which has developed at
Wisconsin primary cheese markets is
being felt In distributing eenters, and
tone is less steady than a week ago.
average: Twins 25c Daisies 26Ac;
Double Daisies 25Ac. Longorns eco
26hc; Young Americas % l4c.