The Raymer enterprise., 1921-04-07
MARKETS
Furnished by
U. s. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington, o. G.
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Dairy Products.

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Dairy Products.
Butter markets unsettled during the
week. A tendency to recover was fol-
lowed by sharp breaks. and while there
10 momentarily somewhat firm feeling
and prices have advanced again. there
is no assurance that market will hold.
sc: Chicago. +4he: Philadelphia, 47ae:
Boston. 47c.
Supply Of domestic barely taking
care Of demand. but arrivals Of Danish
liberal. and II this butter were thrown
on open markets weakness would like
~ follow.
Hay receipts light. Buyers NOT
alarmed and buying sparingiy. Market
grades weak Bulk Of hay shipped
south and southeast from Kansas City
three weeks at destinations refused.
Choice hay with tagged weights at
premium in Cincinnati. Straw up -
that market: Chicago reports stocks
good: SEQ offered for clover mixed.
free from grasses: fair demand for
southwest prairie at 1850: Southeast
ern markets dull: supplies ample. Ship
ping demand generally light. Quoted:
No. l timothy. S24. Cincinnati; 32i. Chi
cago: $27. Memphis: 3ls. Minneapolis:
s2s; Philadelphia: 'sl. New York. No.
cago: .e5. Memphis: si7, Minneapolis:
s2i. Philadelphia: $3.50. New York.
No. / alfalfa, S2l. Cincinnati: t27,
Memphis: SCI. Minneapolis; $50. Kansas
City. No. l prairie, $3.50. Minneapolis:
"a. Kansas City.
Prices lower. particularly for wheat
feeds, though fewer distress sales
unt. .I nd nff less hcavv
Market dun and irregular: demand
very moderate. Trade not showing any
interest In future shipment offerings.
concessions to move transit stuff being
freely made In Cincinnati and other
markets. Limited exports and scattered
domestic demand for cotton seed and
linseed meal held prices lower. Hominy
feed In ample supply and weaker. Glu-
ten feed steady: transactions small.
Alfalfa meal firm: quoted slightly
higher. Beet pulp dull. Flour mid.
dllngs for April May shipments offered
at $40. delivered northeastern markets.
Quoted: Bran. t2i: middlings, $40;
six per cent cotton seed meal. S24.
Memphis: 1880, Cincinnati: - per
cent cotton seed meal, $3.50. Chicago.
No. alfalfa meal. sag. st. Louis. white
hominy feed, S23. st. Louis: Linseed
meal. $40. Buffalo: $3.50. Minneapolis.
Sios
GFaia.
Market unsettled and prices fluctu-
ated rapidly within narrow range the
past week.
Sentiment mostly bearish. but there
was buying on the breaks. Favorable
crop reports. lack Of export demand,
reports OF damage to growing crops BY
freezing weather and pit conditions
were the principal factors influencing
prices.
On the soth all grain had very heavy
undertone.
Offerings OF corn to arrive showed
fair increase. Corn products industries
out OF cash market
Wheat crop reports favorable and In
dieate little or no damage by recent
freeze on the 3oth. Six hundred thou
sand bushels wheat sold for export at
Gulf, but generally demand slow. and
Italy out Of market for season.
In Chicago cash market No. red
winter wheat 14Isc to i%c over Chit
cago May: No. hard same premium.
No. . mixed corn. 81 &c to &c under May:
No. . yellow. &c to 5hc under.
For the week Chicago May wheat
down Nc at &i.3sS: May corn. 2He, as
Size.
Fruits and yeGetabIes.
Potatoes. l0c to 15c up per 100 lbs.
northern shipping stations. closing sec
d3l.00. Chicago earlot market up &c TO
i0c. at $1.10dl20 New York round
whites held at sl.todL50. bulk. New
York cold storage Baldwin apples down
about 25c per bbl., city Wholesale mar
kets. at siT5T575. Northwestern ex-
ira fancy Winesaps mostly S3dS.60 per
box In consuming centers.
Middle western yellow onions slow
and dull In city markets. 50c1i per
100 lbs. Texas yellow Bermuda onions,
commercial pack. mixed. Nos. and !,
i3250350 per standard crate, Pitts.
burg; New York around $3.50: Chicago.
s2.s0. Shipping points range N.bO6l.G
per crate Z. o. b.
Florida celery down ESQ per crate.
ana Klondyke strawberries firm, New
York, around 20c per pint. Consuming
markets range mostly S3.60d4.o0 per
24-pint crates. Louisiana I. o. b. mar
kets s275 u 2.s5. Carlot shipments
week ended March %: Potatoes. 2.ls7
cars: boxed apples. 2s5. barreled apples.
5b5: cabbage, G9t: celery. 329: lettuce.
al: onions, 23l; sweet potatoes. $50;
strawberries. 25f.
Live stock and Meats.
Prices OF practically all classes Of
live stock at Chicago declined the past
week. Hogs ranged from soc to 76c
lower: beef steers lost 2bc to loc:
butcher cows and lheifers generally a6c:
feeder steers, soc to 60c veal calves.
soc per 100 pounds; fat lambs. Soc to
81; feeding lambs steady to q shade
higher: fat ewes up CSC.
Eastern wholesale fresh meat mar
kets: Beef. weak; veal. 81 lower Bos-
ton. weak elsewhere; lamb steady.
Boston, weak to 81 lower elsewh here;
mutton steady: pork 81 lower, New