, 1921-06-02
MARKETS
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Fruits and Vegetables.

Northern sacked round white pota-
toes up SC per 100 lbs. at shipping
carlot market steady. $1@1.15. South
Carolina No. | Irish Cobblers un-
changed, New York. selling to jobbers
at $7.50@7.75 per cloth top slat bar
rel. Texas sacked Bliss Triumphs
down 81 to S1.25 per 100 lbs, st. Louis
and Kansas City. at s2.7593.5O.
Texas Yellow Bermuda onions near
~ steady in consuming markets at
s1.4O@1.9O per standard crate. CONNER
cial pack.
Dairy Product
Under influence of increasing pro-
duction and quality hardly such as to
warrant heavy storage. better stocks
have accumulated and prices continued
to decline at all markets the past week.
Grain.
Wheat market uncertain and fluctu-
ated n~ervously the first half of week.
but made substantial gains the past
few days with May wheat leading the
advance. Bad crop reports and good
export demand We're principal bullsh
factors. Corn developed independent
weakness throughout. Country offer
ings corn much more liberal and re-
ceipts expected to increase materially
in near future. On the goth wheat adj
vanced to new high level on present
upturn, May wheat selling Soc over
July. Good demand for cash hard
wheat. Reported on good authority
that Belgium government control of
wheat imports will cease July /. In
Chicago cash market No: 2 red winter
wheat. $1.62; No. 2 hard, s1.67; No.
mixed corn, SIC; No. 3 white oats, 3Sc.
For the week Chicago May wheat up
l6 C, at $1.59hs May corn down Il C,
at So C. Chicago July wheat up S@sc C,
at $1.24; July corn down &c, at 60 sc.
Minneapolis July wheat up 7Sc, at
SIPS. Kansas City July. &c. at
$l.17h; Winnipeg July. 17&c. at S1.64.
Live Stock and Meat.
Chicago hog nricpS CHANGED Oply
slightly the past week. declines rang
ing sc to 15c per 100 lbs. Beef and
tically steady. Veal calves up csc to
soc. Fat lambs and fat ewes steady
to Csc lower. May 20 Chicago prices:
Hogs. bulk of sales. sS.40QS.S0; me
butcher cows and heifers. S5.25@ 300
feeder steers, S7.25@S.50; light and me-
dunn weight veal calves. $S.O0@9.75;
@10.5O; fat ewes. s4.75@6.75.
Stocker and feeder shipments from
eleven important markets during the
week ending May 10 were: Cattle and
calves. 13.723; hogs. 1913; sheep, 1850
Beef ranged Use to SLIPS lower per
100 lbs. in eastern wholesale markets.
Veal steady to 81 lower; mutton steady
loins generally steady. May 90 prices
good grade meats: Beef, s14 Is; veal,
s14@17: lamb. $25@27; mutton. $40
u; light pork loins. s21@24i heavy
Hny.
Market continues inactive. Receipts
light and prices fluctuate with Local
demand Practically no orders for ship
ment being received in distributing
markets. No. l timothy quoted New
York. s2S; Chicago. s23: Atlanta. $31
Memphis. S25; Cincinnati. S22. No.
alfalfa, Memphis. S2S; Kansas City. S23
Omaha, $40. No. 1 prairie. Minneap'
oils. 1880, Kansas City. $3.50.
Feed.
C~ottonseed meal, Memphis, $29.25
Atlanta, $50; Chicago. s32.50f linseet
meal. Minneapolis. s2S; New York. s36
gluten feed, Chicago. $3.50: Philadel'
phia. $31.71: Cincinnati. $3.50. Alfalfa
meal. Kansas City. $3.50.
Cotton.
Spot cotton prices down 10 point,
during the week. closing at 11.50c PEI
ID. New York futures up l point. al
12.41c.