, 1921-09-15
LATEST MARKET
QUOTATIONS
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US. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington DC.

Western Newspaper Union News ser,ice.J

Potato prices advanced in Chicago
eariot market. Minnesota Early ohios
up Zoe ranging $2.25q2.50 per 100
pounds sacked. COLORADO and Idaho
Rurals strong at SS.15@3.25; other
middle western markets steady to
s silm at s Soi $40; Prices at Idaho
Minnesota points. zoe to Csc higher.
at s2.05q2.10. New Jersey Giants
points. steady in eastern cities. $500
OBS. Main Cobblers steady in los
ton. at $2.20@ 2.35.
Eastern markets generally dun.
Slightly improved demand noted at
Atlanta and other southern markets.
Light receipts caused advance at Chi
caEo. but country loadings are again
put demand fairly active at the de
cline. quoted September Z. No. l
timothy; New York, .S3O:50; P%hiladel-
S24; Minneapolis, $3.50: Atlanta, SIG:
Memphis, S21. No. l alfalfa. Memphis.
$22; Minneapolis, $50. No. l prairie,
Minneapolis, $14; Omaha, $12.5O.
Dairy Products.
Butter market very unsettled and
duiet the past week, buyers holding
off until after Labor day. Stocks OF
fancy butter well cleared, and market
now firmer with prices on 92 score /
prices, % score; Chicago. 39hc: New
York, Philadelphia and Boston, 42c.
Grnin.
For the week Chicago December
wheat advanced s%c. closing at
$1.32h; December corn, lie. closing at
54h &c. Save lack Of support and ag-
gressive selling by Northwest houses
on the "a, the market advanced
mission house demand, good buying
by eastern houses. short covering and
general bullish news. Closing price,
IN Chicago cash market; No. > red
winter wheat. s1.3O; No. 2 hard. S1.31:
No. 2 mixed corn. SIC: No. 2 yellow
corn. Soc; No. 3 white oats. 3Gc. For
the week Minneapolis December wheat
advanced S&c, closing at s1.39L Kan
sas City December wheat, 91kc. at
Sl.2S. Chicago September wheat closed
at sl,2s: September corn, 541kc; Min
neapolis September wheat, S1.S9A ;
Kansas City September, SI.19A VIM
nipeg October. Sl.44h.
Live stock and Meats.
Chicago hog prices show declines
ranging from 10c to 75c per 100 pounds,
compared with prices a week ago.
Beef and feeder steers down Csc to soc.
butcher. cows. 15c to 25e. Heifers un-
changed; veal calves up 25c to 75c per
100 pounds. Fat lambs and yearlings
up 25c to 50c; feeding lambs. 1Oc to
soc. Fat ewes steady to 25c higher.
top. $40: bulk of sales. $685. a 800;
medium and good beef steers, S6.00@
$50; butcher cows and heifers. $500
SIS; feeder steers. s5.O0Q7.25: light
and medium weight veal calves. s1O.75
m13.50; fat lambs. s7.O0Qs.25: feeding
lambs, {5.O0Q7.10 yearlings, $4.75
47.25; fat ewes, s2.5004.75.
Stockers and feeder shipments from
ten important markets during the
week ending Sept. 2 were: Cattle and
calves. 52,022; hogs. 1878; sheep,
1871. sos.
Eastern wholesale fresh meat mar
kets beef ranged from SOC higher at
some markets to as much as $3.50 low
er at others. Good veal up 81 to 81:
medium grade yenl generally 81 InUar
Lamb ranges So to SO lower: mutton
steady. to 81 lower. Pork loins. 81 to
" higher. Sept. z prices. good grade
meats: Beef. S13.50Ql7; veal. s2OQ
"a; lamb, s16Q20; mutton. S11Q14;
light pork loins. s27Q 80: heavy loins,
s17q22.
Cotton.
Spot cotton prices advanced about
f23 points during the week. closing
around 1890 per pound. New York
October futures up 345 points, at 1890.