The Delta independent., 1921-04-15
WEEKLY MARkETGRAM
U. S. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Week ending April 9. 1872

only fair Three hundred 1l1ty thou-
sand bushels wheat sold Germany
and Belgium; Pacific coast reports .
200 900 bushels sold Japan on the /
9th. There was some buying OF July |
wheat on the 9Th on forecast of freez !
ing temperatures and reports OF one
half TO one inch ice in parts or Ne
braska and Iowa over night. Coarse
grains firm and steady. In Chicago
cash market No red winter wheat
SIC over Chicago May; No hard
7-9c over; No mixed corn ohs-4c
under Chicago May; No yellow 3-4c
under. For the week Chicago May
wheat down 6 lac at s1.33 7-S, May
corn unchanged at 60c. Minneapolis
MAY wheat down 34c at s1-2sEa;
Kansas City May 4 Lac at s1.24 "a
Winnipeg May 11ec at s166 Il.
Minneapolis flour demand dull. Kan
sas City milling demand fair; export
demand slow; No 2 hard 13c over
Kansas City May.
HAY-Most markets depressed;
low grades hard to move. Receipts
increasing. Mimphis market very
quiet scarcely anything doing. Coun-
try loadings light in west, heavier
in east. Southeastern markets report
light arrivals. poor demand. Receipts
in Cincinnati large. in Chicago and
Kansas City sufficiently heavy to
cause break in prices. Demand gen.
orally continues below normal. Quo
ted No / timothy s22 Cincinnati
s245O Chicago, s27 Memphis, $3.50
New York: No. timothy 1880 Gin
cinnati s21 Chicago, s25 Memphis,
s27.5o New York; No 1 alfalfa s17
Cincinnati, s27 Memphis, SIT Mime
apolis; No l prairie s14 Kansas City,
SIS Minneapolis.
FEED-Wheat feeds again on the
decline and bran and middlings quo
ted at SIG and Is respectively in
Minneapolis market. Hominy feed al
sc easier. quoted s2o.5o st. Louis for
white, 500 yellow. No l alfalfa meal
quiet but fairly steady. Linseed meal
81 lower Lake and Rail bran offer
ed in northeastern territory at 81 per
ton less than all rail. Cottonseed
meal in light request. Many Texas
mills shutting down for the season.
most of them with the intention of
not making any cleanup later on
Stocks and receipts good. Demand
light. Quoted: Gray shorts $3.50,
brown shorts $3.50 Kansas City;
thirty six per cent cottonseed meal
s21.5O Memphis. s31 Northeastern
markets: Linseed meal $3.50 Mime
apolis. s39 Buffalo: No l alfalfa meal
s21 st. Louis; winter wheat bran s1'
Kansas City. s2I Memphis.
DAIRY PRODUCTS - Increasing
supplies and very unsettled feeling
in butter market during the week has
resulted in a sharp decline of three
cents in most markets. although
prices were little steadier on the
Sth and 9th. Some dealers believe
weakness temporary but much will
depend upon weather conditions the
next few days Closing prices 90
score: Philadelphia soc; Boston soc:
New York 49c: Chicago 46 Lac.
Cheese markets dull and inactive
with tendency downward. Sales at
Wisconsin primary markets during
the week have been at margins very
close to costs and in some instances
below costs Prices now average;
Twins 10 SAC: daisies and double
daisies 81: longhorns and young
americas 22c Weak feeling in dis
ributing markets also.
COTTON-Spot cotton prices down
% points during the week, closing at
10S4c per lb The lowest price Of the
season was reached on the 9th at
10.S2c. New York May future up 4
points at 11.75c.
LIVE STOCK AND MEATS
Prices OF practically all classes and
grades of livestock at Chicago de
clined the past week. Hogs broke &c
to 35c per 100 lbs. medium and light
weights losing most. Reef steers
down sc to SIC; butcher cows and
heifers Ga to soc. Fat lambs decli 1ed
25c; feeding lambs soc per 100 bs.
Yearlings and fat ewes practically
steady. April Chicago prices; hogs.
bulk OF sales sS40-9.50; medium and
good beef steers S7.T5.s9: butcher
cows and heifers $3.50 TO 80; feeder
steers $7-$S50: Light and medium
weight veal calves $3.50 to $3.50; rat
lambs $7.75.s1025; feeding lambs So
sS.25: yearlings s7,25-s9; fat ewes 20
to 1915. The trend OF eastern whole
sale fresh meat prices was upward.
Beef advanced soc to $3.50: veal 81
to 81: pork 81 to 50 per 100 'os'
Lamb and mutton practically m
changed. April prices good grade
meats: Beef SIG to $3.50; Veal SIG
to $40; Lamb S17 to $21; Mu.toa 81:
to SIC: light pork loins $s5 TO WE;
heavy loins $1S-s2S.