Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-21
WEEKLY
MARKETGRAM
FOR THE WEEK ENDING
MARCH Il
A new service furnished by
he y. S. Bureau of Markets.

Fruits and Vegetables.
Potatoes down 10 to SOC per 100
pounds, northern shipping stations,
closing csc to $1.OO. Bulk stock
down 10 to 15c New York, at $1.40
to $1.50.
Cold storage Baldwin apples
steady around S. per barrel. f. O. b
western New York stations. Bald
wins steady in city wholesale mar
kets, So to Sc. Northwestern Extra
Fancy Winesaps mostly SO to 81 per
box IN consuming centers.
New York Danish type cabbage
down So to SIS per ton consuming
markets, ranging So to SIS bulk;
steady f. 0. b. around So.
Florida celery steady, $2.75 to
$50 per crate in city markets;
$l.75 to $1.85 f. o. b. California
celery $4.75 to $3.50 per crate in
mlddleWestern markets.
Louisiana Klondike Strawberries
in 24-pt. crate % to 25c per pt. New
York; 20 to 23c Boston; $3.50 per
crate f. o. b.
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Coast indicate damage by recent
heaYy rains to tomato crop will av,
erage possibly 40 percent loss.
Livestock and Meats.
Prices of practically all classes of
livestock at Chicago declined the
past week. Hogs down so to 7Oc:I
beef and butcher cattle, Csc to 5Oc;I
feeder steers steady to Csc lower.
March IL Chicago prices: Hogs, bulk
OF sales, 1925 to $10.75; mediums
and good beef steers S8.4O to S1O;
butcher cows and heifers SIS to
1925; feeder steers SITS to $3.50;
light and medium weight veal calves
1913 to SIP; fat lambs $3.50 to
S1O.25; feeding lambs 1925 to
1925; yearlings 81 to $3.50; fat
ewes $4.75 to Sc.
Eastern wholesale fresh meat
prices showed irregular changes
compared with a week ago, although
the tendency was downward. Beef
down SOC to 1 veal 81 to So. Nut
ton generally 81 lower; pork loins
practically steady; lamb up 81 to 50
higher per 100 pounds. March l8
prices good grade meats: Beef SIG
to $3.50; veal $40 to $40; lamb
SIS to 1923; tuition 81 to Is; light
pork loins $22 to $25; heavy loins
SIT to $21.
Hay.
Quoted-No. l timothy S27 Mem.
phis, $24.50 Cincinnati, $24 Chicago;
No. 2 timothy $24 Memphis, S22.50
Cincinnati, $1,000 Chicago; No, l al.
talta, S28 Memphis, $23 Cincinnati;
No. z alfalfa, $20.50 Memphis; No.
clover mixed $3.50 Cincinnati.
Feed.
Bran quoted 81 lower in practi-
cally all markets; other wheat feeds
easier. Quoted-spring and hard
bran-$27.5O, soft $28, Cincinnati.
spring bran $25.25, middiings s24
Chicago, linseed meal SAP Toledo,
S4l Buffalo SO percent cottonseed
meal $50 Memphis, white hominy
feed $24 Chicago, $23 st. Louis, No.
! alfalfa meal $3.50 Kansas City,
$20.50 st. Louis, gluten feed $37
Chicago, flour middlings $28, reddog
$34.50 Chicago.
Grain.
ReIlecting stock market declines
and the general economic and indus.
trial situation, grain prices dropped
steadily until the 18th when reports
OF green bug damage in southwest
and export sales of five million bu
shells wheat started reaction that
continued until the 18th. But buy-
ing power then gave out and with
sentiment favorable to selling side
the market slumped. For the week
Chicago May wheat lost 8 38 at
$l,45 IA, May corn / ga cents at
81 1-2c.
/ Cotton.
The average price of Middling
spot cotton in the 10 designated mar.
kets advanced about 2 points during
the week, closing around 11.O6c DER
pound. New York March futures
unchanged at 11.10d
Dairy Products.
Butter markets for most part weak
and unsettled the past week although
a somewhat firmer tone prevailed at
the close. March Is prices 90 score
2 to &c lower than a week ago. New
York "A lie; Chicago IA lac; Phil
adelDhIa and ROStop 4En