, 1921-04-07
MARKETS
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Dairy Products.
Butter markets unsettled during the
week. A tendency to recover was fol-
lowed by sharp breaks, and while there
Is momentarily somewhat firm feeling
and prices have advanced again, there
is no assurance that market will hold.
Closing prices. 80 score: New York,
46c; chicago. 44hc; Philadelphia, 47hc;
Supply OF domestic barely taking
care of demand. but arrivals of Danish
LIBERAL, and II this butter were thrown
on open markets weakness would like
ly follow.
Hay receipts light. Buyers not
alarmed and buying sparingly. Market
grades weak. Bulk of hay shipped
south and southeast from Kansas City
three weeks at destinations refused.
Choice hay with tagged weights at
premium in Cincinnati. Straw up So
that market; Chicago reports stocks
good; $50 offered for clover mixed.
southwest prairie at $3.50; Southeast
ern markets dull; supplies ample. ship
ping demand generally light. quoted;
cage; S27. Memphis; $40, Minneapolis;
$25. Philadelphia; s31, New York. No.
2 timothy. $22. Cincinnati; $20.50. Chi
s24. Philadelphia; $3.50. New York.
No. l alfalfa, S21, Cincinnati; S27.
Memphis; S21, Minneapolis; 500. Kansas
City. No. l prairie. $3.50. Minneapolis;
Sl4, Kansas City.
Feed.
Prices lower. particularly for wheat
feeds, though fewer distress sales
noted. and western offerings less heavy.
Market duh and irregular; demand
very moderate. Trade not showing any
interest in future shipment offerings,
concessions to move transit stuff being
freely made in Cincinnati and other
markets. Limited exports and scattered
domestic demand for cotton seed and
linseed meal held prices lower. Hominy
feed in ample supply and weaker. .Glu-
ten feed steady; transactions small.
Alfalfa meal firm; quoted slightly
higher. Beet pulp dull. Flour mid
dlings for April-May shipments offered
at $40, delivered northeastern markets.
flour middlings, s26, Chicago. Thirty
six per cent cotton seed meal: SEA.
Memphis; s2s.50. C%incinnati; 43 per
No. ! alfalfa meal. s22, st. Louis; white
hominy feed. SEA. st. Louis. Linseed
meal. $40. Buffalo,; $3.50. Minneapolis.
Bran, SIS, Minneapolis.
Grain.
Market unsettled and prices fluctu-
ated rapidly within a narrow range the
past week.
Sentiment mostly bearish, but there
was buying on the breaks. Favorable
crop reports. lack of export demand
reports of damage to growing crops by
freezing weather and pit conditions
were the principal factors influencing
prices.
Offerings of corn to arrive showed
fair increase. Corn products industries
out of cash market.
Wheat crop reports favorable and In
dicate little or no damage by recen
freeze on the Goth. six hundred thou
sand bushels wheat sold for export a
Gulf, but generally demand slow, ant
Italy out of market for season.
In Chicago cash market No. z re-
winter wheat ~ to Las oyer Eh1
No. 3 mixed corn, 5Ac to &C under May
No; 3 yellow. &C to s1sc under; a.
For the week Shisago May wnes
61%c.
Fruits and Vegetables.
Potatoes. Toe to 15c up per 100 lbs
northern skipping stations. closing 80
1oc. at s1.10q1.2O. New York roun'
whites held at $1.40G1.50. bulk. New
York cold storage Baldwin apples dow
about use per Dbl. city wholesale mar
kets. at S4.75d5.75. northwestern ex
ira fancy Winesaps mostly So $50 pc
box in consuming %centers.
Middle western yellow onions SLOW
and dull in city markets., SOC a 81 pc
100 lbs. Texas yellow Bermuda onions
commercial pack. mixed; Nos; and :
burg: New York around $3.50; Chicago
$3.50. shipping points range $l.500l lie
Florida celery down 25c per crate
consuming markets, at s2q3. Lo9isi
ana Klondyke strawberries firm. New
YORK. around zOc per pint Consumlhl
markets range mostly $3.50 a 100 pc
24-pint crates. Louisiana +. o. b. mar
kets $2.75@2.S5. Carlot shipment
week ended March 20: Potatoes. ZIG
cars; boxed apples. 2s5. barreled apples
555; cabbage. 694; celery. 1923; lettuce
al; onions. 231; sweet potatoes. 25O
strawberries. 257.
Live stock md Meats
Prices of practically all classes o
live stock at Chicago declined the pas
week. Hogs ranged from soc to as
lower: beef steers lost 25c to 40c
butcher cows and heifers generally Csc
feeder steers, soc to 60c: veal calvei
soc per 100 pounds: fat lambs. soc I
81: feeding lambs steady to a shad
higher; fat ewes up 2bc.
Eastern wholesale fresh meat mar
kets: Beef. weak; veal. 81 lower. Bos
ton, weak elsewhere; lamb steady
Boston. weak to 81 lower her,
mutton steady: pork 81 lower. Ne'
York: weak elsewhere.