The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-11-18
U. S. MARKET REPORT
Marketgram of U. S. Bureau of
Markets and Crop Reports.

Washington. Nov. 5.-For week ending
November 3.-GRAIN-Prices firm first
half of the week, but there were drastic
declines during the latter half Of week
and all grains except May corn dropped
to new low levels at close with Chicago
and Winnipeg December wheat under 81.
immense stocks of Canadian wheat, slow
milling and -four demand with several
Minneapolis mills shut down, and lack
of foreign demand were influences. On
the third Chicago December sold below
u for the first time since October, 1916.
December corn down to new low since
December, 1910. Closing prices in Chi
cago cash market: No. 2 red winter
wheat, $1.l2; No. Q hard winter wheat.
s8c; No. 2 mixed corn, 45c; No. yellow
corn, 45c; No. 3 white oats, 30c. For the
week: Chicago December wheat down TIC
| at 991bc; Chicago December corn down &c
at Aesc; Minneapolis December wheat
down Sc at $1.11N Kansas City December
wheat down nc at 9l%; Winnipeg De-
May wheat closed at $104; May corn 60&c;
Minneapolis May wheat Sl111d; kansas
City May wheat 961sc; Winnipeg May
in Central iowa Vf for H0 pi'se mixed corn
about 801kc; to farmers in central North
Dakota for No. ! dark northern wheat,
$1.O212; to farmers in central Kansas for
No. hard winter wheat. soc.
HAY-Quoted November Q: No. tim
othy. Philadelphia $23. Pittsburgh 81. Gin
cinnati $3.50, Chicago $500, Minneapolis
$500. Atlanta $2T.50; No. / alfalfa, Kan
sas City $500; Memphis $27.50; No. prai-
Chicago $780,
FEED-Quoted November 2: Bran $500.
middlings $500. flour middlings $3.50.
Minneapolis; SO per cent cottonseed meal
my feed $3.50 Chicago, $500 st. Louis;
beet pulp $500 Philadelphia; gluten feed
$26.65 Chicago; linseed meal $3.50 Minne-
apolis; No. ! alfalfa meal $3.50 Kansas
City.
LIVE sTOCK-November Chicago
prices: Hogs, top. $3.50; bulk. $7.5-7.7O;
medium and good beef steers, $6.00-11.25;
butcher cows and heifers, $3.50-950: feeder
steers, $5.00-7.O0; light and medium weight
$40; feeding lambs, $675-S.OO; yearlings,
$55O-Z75; fat ewes, $3.OO-5.25. Stocker and
feeder shipments from twelve important
markets during the week ending October
20 were: Cattle and calves. 1896; hogs,
T,467; sheep, 152, 77S.
DAIRY PRODUCTS Butter markets
unsettled. Closing prices, 80 score: New
York, 461hc; Philadelphia, 47c; Boston, acc;
Chicago, 44c. Cheese markets steady, fol-
lowing slight advances on Wisconsin
cheese board Monday October 81. Prices
at Wisconsin primary markets November
Q: Twins, 1870; Daisies, 22c; Double Dali
sizes, 2119c; Longhorns, &c
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES - Very
heavy supplies of potatoes caused most
markets to assume a slightly weaker tone
during the week. Northern round whites
firm In Chicago early in the week but
closed with a net loss of 10c at 1851. 20.
Minnesota early Ohios down 15c at $l.50-
1.65. Apple markets generally slow and
dull under liberal supplies. Northwestern
extra fancy boxed Jonathans steady In
Boston and Pittsburgh at $225-S00: lower
at auction in Chicago at $2.10-2.60. Onion
markets lower in the East, firm to higher
in West Eastern Yellow Globes No. l
$50 per 100 pounds sacked steady at ship
ping points at $5.25. Middlewestern yell
low stock firm in Chicago at $A.0O-4.26.
California yellow varieties up D0c in Chi
cago at s. 00-5 Is; steady in other middle
Western markets at Ab0-5OO