The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-03-11
WEEKLY MARKETGRAM (.

GU. s. Bureau OF Markets)
Washington. d. C.-For week ended
Feb rs, 1921.
Hay-Wintry weather curtailsd ship
ments of hay during the week but
failed to stimulate the demand Bad
roads and unsatisfactory prices also
important factor in light movement.
Buyers interested only in hay for i'm
mediate needs. Demand very dull.
Quote: No. ! timothy New York 1872.
Cincinnati $23, Chicago $3.50, Kansas
City $40, Memphis s27 Atlanta $50.
| No alfalfa Omaha $3.50, Kansas city
$3.50. Memphis s2S. No. l prairie
| Minneapolis $3.50, Omaha $40, Kansas
City s12.
Feed.-Easier tone noticeable in feed
! market. Jobbers contracted heavily
future shipment. Absence of demand
| from country buyers causing many TO
discount western shipment prices TO
some extent In order 10 move part of
| holdings. Transit offerings liberal
| Linseed meal firm and in fair request.
| Cottonseed meal dull and weak. Al
| talfa meal selling slowly; purchases OF
hominy feed and Gluten feed light
Production of feeds in general less
than In former years, but requirements
are unusually small. Favorable weather
ceipts satisfactory. Stocks remain
ample. Quoted Bran s22 middlngs
$22 Minneapolis; linseed meal S42 BUT
falo. $3.50 Minneapolis; 36 per cent |
cottonseed meal S26 Memphis. $SS Chi
cago; white hominy feed $3.50 st. |
Louis, $3.50 Chicago; gluten feed ~
meal $3.50 Kansas City, s21 st. Louis;
beet pulp $40 New York.
Fruits and yegetnbles-Sacked round |
white potatoes up Toe per 100 IDS. az
northern shipping stations, reaching |
STA 1.05. Chicago car-1ot market gam
ed an additional So 0c, closing Slug
at western New York stations, closing
around 81 sacked. New York loo higher
at $125 bulk
Cold storage Baldwin apples firm
western New York +. o. b. stations up
Csc per barrel around $3.50. Baldwins |
firm in city markets also, mostly $40
@5.25 Northwestern extra fancy Vine
saps steady. New York and Boston,
$35Om450; middlewestern markets
mostly 1904 per box.
Yellow onions held around zoe per
100 lbs. f. o. b. western New YORK
points but city wholesale markets were
generally slow and weak, closing most
ly 80cW$1 Bureau OF crop estimates 4
reports acreage of Bermuda onions IN
Texas 10.e63 acres compared with Pr
402 last season; California 1000 acres
compared with $500.
Florida celery steady In wholesale
consuming markets. mostly, szf5IS
per crate. Prices steady Z. o. b. Sl,5O@
IT'S. California celery S4.75q 500 per
crate.
Live stock and Meats.-Prices all
classes live stock at Chicago made ma
terial advances the past week Fat
lambs up 81 a ls50; feedinS lambs 75cg
81; yearlings S1.50@2: ewes $l25 q l;.o;
beef steers 25 a soc; feeder steers 25c;
heifers 75c; cows 65cn$1; veal caves
75c@1.25; hogs 55Q S5c; February 70
$4,000 1925; medium and good beef
steers $8,65 a 1925; butcher cows ana
heifers s5G10; feeder steers $7.254S;
light medium weight veal calves SiVW
1926 fat lambs S9@11.25; feeding
lambs s7.25@s.75 yearlings s7.254s.7biJ
tat ewes s55O@7;25
Fresh meats at eastern wholesale
markets also advanced materially, beer,
veal mutton and pork loins advancing
yi92: lamb up 81; yearlings SECS,
Beef s15.50@17; veal 500 a %; lamb SIS =
D22; mutton s11@16: light pork loins
1923 a &c: heavy loins s17q20-
Grain.-on the Path weakness In
situation started q decline In
yrsan prices. but Subsequent deveiop-
nent better export demand brought
bout some recovery on the 10Th ana ]
18th. Market unsettled on the 2Sth
nut became oversold and with 1urtner
-reen bug reports and removal hedges
gainst 100000 bushels wheat sold for ..
xport prices almost entirely recovered te
" the close. Visible supply wheat de- u
reased $4,000 bushels during the
week. corn 1,343,0O0 bushels. Argentine J st
government reports eXportable surplus Ii
Theat 100000 bushels Corn receipts 81
beral; demand good; country offer b.
ngs to arrive light. In Chicago cash OF
larket No. mixed corn X a &C under u .,
hicago May; No. yellow 5@5%c I'M =
err Kansas City reports milling de- -
land fair. For the week Chicago May o.
heat down sac at s1.56ss; May corn m
9 at 6S%c. Minneapolis May wheat
own 6hc at S1.51 Is; Kansas city May
4 at sl.52; Winnipeg May 4Ac at
1888. r.
Dairy Products. - Butter markets -
ctive during week; all grades moved u
ell. Supply fresh butter low SNIP -
ents Danish reported light, and hlgn
)sts have made stocks on hand hard
move at profit. Higher prices
esh have helped movement storage
ocks Prices 92 score: New York
nc; Chicago 52Ac; Philadelphia
&c; Boston SIC.
Cheese markets firm and active; all
-ades moving quite satisfactorily re-
ardless of advaLces which averaged
over a week ago. Export business
Improved On Plymouth Wisconsin
leese exchange Feb. 2S prices Twins
C: Daisies 26hc; Longhoyns Zoe;
Dung Americas 24c. No Double
aisies offered