New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-10-14
LATEST MARKET
QUOTATIONS
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US. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington DC.
Grain.

Grain.
Markets sagged all week. Export
sales of wheat lighter. Hedging and
speculative selling of wheat pronounced
on most days; Corn prices stayed
er, Closing at a new low point. Husk-
ing returns from corn belt reported dis
appointing. Domestic demand was
Somewhat improved, Closing prices in
ter wheat. s1.l7; No. 2 hard winter.
sl.l3: No. 2 mixed corn. Ate; No. 2 yell
low 47c; No. 3 white oats. 33c. For
me week Chicago December wheat lost
lost 1hc. closing at 4SEc: Minneapolis
December wheat lost 12hc, closing at
$l.22h; Kansas City December wheat
lost SIC. closing at sl.osS; Winnipeg
$1.13S. Chicago May wheat closed at
yl.16b; May corn at ES Minneapolis
May wheat at $l.22h; Kansas City May
wheat az $1.QSh; Winnipeg May wheat
at $l.1sh. Estimates of world wheat
crop. excluding Russia and some minor
countries. total 2.7s7. 600. 900 bushels.
with 2.sl4.000. 900 last year
and 2.7sl. 900. 900 the pre-war five year
average. Russia and India. which were
pre-war exporters. are importing wheat
this year. Supplies now remaining in
United States equal only to pre-war
normal domestic requirements.
Live stock aad Meats.
Compared with 4 week & the trend
or the Chicago live stock prices was
upward. The more desirable grades of
beef steers n butcher heifers led this
movement with net advances ranging
from csc to 75c per 100 lbs, Feeder
cows steady; hogs ranged from Ice to
35c higher. Practically all grades of
sheep and lambs ranged from strong
to higher. In each class the most de-
sirable lots averaged about 25c hig her.
October 5 Chicago prices: Hogs. top.
1896; bulk of sales. $6.754s.50: me-.
dunn and good beef steers. $6.l5Q10.40;
butcher cows and heifers, $3.50G9 $50;
feeder steers. $4.S5Q SIS; light and me-
dunn weight veal calves. s5.5Oql1.5O;
fat lambs, $7.250s.25; feeding lambs,
$1,000 $50: y~earlings. $500 q 700; fat
ewes. $500 05 500.
Stocker and feeder shipments from
eleven important markets during the
week ending Sept. 80 were: Cattle and
calves. l01,677; hogs. $50; sheep.
126,S22.
In contrast with live stock eastern
wholesale fresh meat prices were gem
orally lower than a week ago. Lamb
was 81 to 50 lower. with mutton and
fresh pork loins ranging from steady
to So lower. Beef was 81 to $3.50 low
err inc veal steady to 81 lower. Octo-
Der s prices good grade meats: Beef.
$4,000 1900; veal, $500 a 1000; lamb,
Sl5oO@ls.OO; mutton 81 oOql3.0O;
light pork loins '26,oo92s.Oo; heavy
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Hay.
Receipts light in practically all mar
kets. Prices steady but demand limited
mostly to local needs. Shipping de-
mand continued light. Quoted October
8: No. l timothy. New York. $1,000;
Chicago. sea-; Minneapolis. si9. No. /
alfalfa. Memphis, S22.50; Minneapolis.
sci; Kansas City. $4,000. No. l prairie.
Chicago. sl7; Minneapolis. SIS; Kansas
city, s13.
Fruits and Vegetables.
Northern round white potatoes
strengthened in Chicago, gaining 25c at
SAGE per 100 lbs. sacked. Eastern
round whites lost 15c in Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh, closing at $2.15ds2.25.
Round whites firm at Sl.75 a 1876, fob.
northern shipping points; weak at $3.50
at New York points. Maine Green
Mountains weak at Sligo .41 per 100
lbs. bulk, fob. and weak and dull at
$l.65n1.S5 in New York.
Demand for cabbage slow to moder-
domestic weakened in Philadelphia,
closing $500 a 700 lower at S25m2S per
ton bulk. New York Danish about
steady in Cincinnati at $780, 0m 40. 90;
Northern Danish gained SO at $4,000
200. fob; firm in Chicago at $40, and
up $40 in st. Louis at Si5.
Dairy Products.
Butter markets were firm, the sup
ply of fancy butter being short of the
demand. ~Undergrades We're slow. Clos
ing prices of 92 score: New York, 45c;
Chicago. Aitsc; Philadelphia. iGhc;
Boston, Acc.
Spot cotton declined 12t points dur
ing n week, closing at 1870 per ID.
New York October futures lost 156
points, closing at 19.4Sc.