The Delta independent., 1921-06-03
WEEKLY MARkETGRAM OF
v. S. BUREAU OF MARKETS

| dry weather in winter wheat belt but
| advance terminated on the 26th on
much needed rains in southwest. Ex-
| port demand for wheat and corn
good at times. On the 2Sth prices
held within comparatively narrow
limits on evening up for double hol-
iday. Crop reports now more fav-
| orable. In Chicago cash market No.
2 red winter wheat $1.6S; No. 2 hard
s16S; No. mixed corn 64c; No.
yellow 64c; No. white oats SO 1-2c;
For the week Chicago May wheat
up &c at s1.69 1-2c; May corn 1-2c
at SO 3-4c Chicago July wheat down
3-Sc at S1.29 Is. July corn up 3-S
at Csc Minneapolis July wheat
down 1-2c at s1.26; Kansas City
July unchanged at s1.21 "a; Winni-
peg July down l 3-4c at $1.64 IA.
| Hay-Receipts exceedingly light in
central west but demand eually linn
tied. Prices steady Trading very
narrow Eastern and southern mar
kets inactive Quoted May 9th No.
timothy New York $3.50; Cincin-
natl $22; Atlanta s31; Memphis s25;
Chicago $22; No. l alfalfa, Memphis
S27; Atlanta S33; No. 1 prairie Kan
sas City SIS; Memphis SIC.
Feed-Higher wheat prices caused
increase in flour buying and trade
looks for lower wheat feed prices on
prospects of increased milling. Feed
market generally dull but not quot
ably lower. Cottonseed meal quoted
lower in Cincinnati and few other
l vv1or demand drnnnQd
off; stocks in country dealers hands
heavy. Linseed meal steady with
brokers offering about so cents per
ton under mill prices Alfalfa meal
neglected; offerings and demand
light. Corn feeds in poor demand.
Stocks of most feeds remain larger
| than usual for this season OF year.
Rain has improved pasturage in prin-
| cipal feeding sections and feed sales
| are light. Quoted bran $3.50; mid
dlings SIS. Minneapolis No. l alfal-
ia meal s24; Chicago s22; st Louis
Gluten feed s265O Chicago; white
1 hominy feed s22 St. Louis; S24 Chill
cago; Linseed meal $3.50 Chicago;
II Sc percent cottonseed meal $50 At
lanta; SO Cincinnati.
Fruits and vegetables-Northern
4 round white potatoes down 15-2Oc at
shipping points ranging 60-70c sacked
per 100 lbs. Chicago car lot market
dropped 40-50c poatoes there now
selling for so to Csc per 100 pounds.
This is the lowest price of season.
South Carolina No. l Irish Cobblers
down 1915 New York closing 1915
laf har 30
Chicago at $3.50 Texas sacked
Bliss Triumphs about steady at
s275-3.25 Kansas City and st. Louis.
Last official apple report OF the sea-
son quotes New York A Pig Baldwin
apples at $S to $6.25 per barrel Bal
timore and Pittsburgh. Middle wes-
tern extra fancy winesaps medium to
large sizes $3.50s4 Kansas City.
Texas yellow Bermuda onions slight
" weaker in consuming markets sell
ling mostly $1.40s1.15. Chicago down
i0c at 81 to s1.1o
Missouri aroma strawberries down
SO fob shipping points at sS.25-$3.5O
per "a qt crate; s350s4 in middle
western wholesale markets; 10 and
lie per quart New York. Florida
watermelons 30 to 26 pound average
weight firm at shipping points rang
ing s325 to $3.50 bulk per car fob.
In New York market 90 to 80 pound
melons steady at $500 to $1,000. Unit
basis Chicago 6Oc to Sl.15.
Livestock and meats-Prfces Of
all classes and grades of livestock at
Chicago showed substantial declines
the past week. Hogs down 81 to
Sl15 per 100 pounds. Beef steers
generally soc lower; butcher cows
and hcifers 75c: veal calve 75c to 81.
Aged lambs and yearlings lost soc
to s1.25: springers s1,75 to $3.50 per
100 pounds. May 2Sth Chicago prices:
Hogs, bulk of sales $3.50 to $3.50;
medium and good beef steers sl.25
to $3.50: butcher cows and heifers
$3.50 to $3.50: feeder steers 81 to
SS25; light and medium weight veal
calves 81 to 50: fat lambs IS ii S11;
so: yearlings $3.50 to SO: fat ewes
s275to SIS. Stocker and feeder ship
mentS from II important markets
during the week ending May 90
we're: Cattle and calves 3S.345; hogs
1894; sheep 11.o49. With the excep-
/ ton of lamb, which remained pract'
cally unchanged prices in eastern
Wholesale fresh meat markets de-
clined Beef down 25 to so cents:
veal and pork loins 81 to So; NUT
ton 81 to 81 per 100 pounds: May %
prices good grade meats: Beef $3.50
TO s15 veal SIS to SIG; lamb $50 to
s27: mutton s11 to SIC; light pork
loins $40 to s2S; heavy loins SIS to
SIS,
Dairy products - Butter market
fairly firm at existing prices espec