The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-02-12
The Markets

Hay and Feed.-Minneapolis reports
Twin Cities markets flooded with low
grade hays; musty and unsound stock
selling at Sc to IS. Chicago hay re-
eeipts very light, but demand is of a
hand to mouth character. AS buyers
appear not to be alarmed about light
receipts, receivers are unable to work
prices higher. Good No / timothy
would sell at about $19 Minneapolis,
$25 Chicago. Demand limited for
Southwestern prairie in Chicago: top
grade would bring about $40. Demand
in general is light; receipts ample. AL.
falfa weak and lower in Cincinnati
market where ia cars are reported In
terminals. Quoted: No 1 timothy
$3.50 Atlanta, $26 CINCINNATI No
timothy s3l Atlanta, SIT Minneapolis,
$23 Cincinnati; No. l alfalfa S34.50 At
lanta. $21 Omaha, $23 Cincinnati; No.
2 alfalfa $2S Atlanta. $14 Omaha, $22
Cincinnati; No. l prairie $14 Mime
apolis, $11 Omaha, SIS Kansas City;
No. 2 prairie $11.50 Minneapolis, SO
Omaha. No change in fee dmarket
conditions. Demand remains quiet
and prices generally lower than last
week. Gluten feed reduced another
SIS making decline $13 per ton within
past two weeks. Hominy steadily sell.
ing off; bran down $3.50. Season bran
offered by Minneapolis jobbers at 500.
st. Louis feed manufacturers report
having contracted No 1 alfalfa meal
at around $22 delivered. Linseed meal
steady; cotton-seed meal weak Good
demand for Sc per cent cottonseed
meal reported in Southeast. Quoted:
Bran $25. middlings, S21, flour mid
dlings $25, reddog $31, Minneapolis;
linseed meal, $40, Buffalo, 500, Min
neapolis; Sc per cent cottonseed meal,
$3.50 Memphis. Gluten feed $35 Chi
cago; white hominy feed $1,000 North
eastern markets; No. / alfalfa meal
$22 Kansas City.
Cotton.-The average price of mid.
ding spot cotton in the ten designated
markets declined about 95 points dur
ing the week, closing around 1890.
March future contracts in New York
down 154 points, closing at 1876, a
new low point for season.
Fruits and vegetabies.-Potat de-
clined about 10c per 100 lbs at north
ern shipping stations, reaching 750
90c sacked Chicago carlot market
down 10c at s1@1.10. Round whites
10 to 15c low I. o. b. New York ship
ping points, closing $1@10S. New
York markets down 15c, reaching 81 so
to $1.65 bulk.
Yellow onions down about 10c per
100 lbs. I. o. b., closing around 75c.
Eastern consuming markets lost an
additional 10 to Csc, reaching zoe to
$1.25; middlewestern centers slightly
weaker at 75c to $1.25.
Florida golden self blanching celery
steady f. o. b. at $175 per crate; large
lots in Eastern city markets down
about Csc at $25O@$3; middlewestern
markets steady; $2.75 to 1925.
Carlot shipments week ended Feb
ruary 2: Potatoes 2910 cars; boxed
apples 416, barreled apples 1861, cab
bage 375, celery Ais, lettuce 670, on
ions 1856, sweet potatoes 1853. Ship
ments week ended Jan. rs: Potatoes
2814 cars. boxed apples 304, barreled
apples 874, cabbage 462, celery 329, let
tuce 1893, onions 403, sweet potatoes
BAL.
Livestock and Meats.-Compared
with a week ago, Chicago hog prices
ranged zoe to SOC higher, beef steers
averaged nearly 81 lower; butcher
cattle down CSC to 81. Feeder steers
lost soc per 100 lbs; veal calves 81
to $3.50. The sheep and lamb mar.
ket slumped badly, ranging $1.75 to
$3.50 under a week ago. Fat ewes
down 50c@$1; fat lambs $1.40@175.
February 3 Chicago prices: Hogs, bulk
of sales $4,000; medium and good
beef sters $3.50 to $3.50; butcher
cows and heifers $4.25@$S; feeder
steers $5.85@8; light and medium
weight veal calves, $9.50012.5O; fat
lambs, $709.75; feeding lambs, $725
08.50; yearlings, $5.2507.75; fat
ewes, $3.250475.
Eastern wholesale fresh meat prices
we're invariably lower than q week
ago. Beef declined 81 to $3.50; veal
pork and mutton, 81 to 81: lamb, 81
to SO per 100 lbs. February prices
good grade meats: Beef, $13.50@15.5O;
veal $20@22; lamb, $17@21; mutton,
$10@14; light pork loins, $20022;
heavy pork loins $15@19.
Grain.-Prices opened higher but
subsequently declined as result of de-
pressing economic and financial re.
ports The declines continued until
the End when oversold condition was
revealed and this together with adj
vance Of SC from low point In Buenos
Ayres wheat caused general buying
and an advance In American prices on
the Bird, however, the markets suffered
a relapse and Chicago May wheat fell
to $1.42h, new low price on crop
Export demand rather slow, but on
break some wheat sold via gulf. Flour
demand generally reported slow. Chi
cago board of trade has discontinued
posting Argentine grain prices account
effect on American markets. Seaboard
reported Holland took $1,000 bushels
corn on the 3rd. In Chicago cash mar.
ket No. 2 hard, 4 to &c over Chicago;
March, new No. 3 mixed corn SIC
under May, yellow, enc under. Mime
apolis reports light flour trade; wheat
demand somewhat improved. Kansas
City milling and export demand dull,
cash No. dark hard winter wheat
SIC over Kansas City March. For the
week Chicago March wheat down
12kc at $1.52 1/S; May corn 3%c at
SO $3.50; Minneapolis March wheat
down 14Kc at $1.40A; Kansas City
March 12%c at $1.46; Winnipeg May
IA 7/S at $1.63 3/S. Chicago May wheat
$1.43 1/8.
Dairy Products.-Butter markets
have failed to recover strength and
feeling has been unsettled through