The Delta independent., 1921-05-06

firm because of light receipts. Tracks
at Chicago cleaned up better than
last week. Demand at Kansas City
for better gardes improved. Quoted
April 30: No. 1 timothy New York
s31 so, Chicago s22, Atlanta $29; No.
II alfalfa Chicago $23. Kansas City
1922. Atlanta $33; No. 1 prairie Chic
ago s1S, Kansas City $14.
FEED-Market less active for
wheat mill feeds; demand from con-
sumers extremely light; offers from
mills and jobbers not urgent. Tran
sit and immeriate offerings scarcs
and command slight premium over
propmt. Gluten feed down SIS per ton;
production increasing; demand fair
but not sufficient to take care of in
creased production. Cotton seed meal
quiet, brokers quoting 81 per ton un-
der mill prices. Quoted April 80;
Linseed meal $3.50 Chicago, s30.5O
Minneapolis; Cottonseed meal $26
Atlanta, S26 Memphis; Spring wheat
bran SIG Minneapolis. $3.50 Chicago;
hominy feed S23 Chicago; Alfalfa
meal SIS Kansas City, s22 Chicago.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Sacked round white potatoes slightly
weaker at northern shipping points
closing 20 to so cents per 100 lbs.
Chicago carlot market near seasons
low point at S0-95c. Florida No. l
Spaulding Rose up 25-75c pc rdouble
head barrel Chicago. Closing around
s7.75; New York recovered to So;
Shipping points prices higher reach
ing s625-6.50; Movement good. Texas
sacked Bliss Triumphs down 81 to
SIPS per 100 pounds Kansas City at
s4.5O-5 ST. Louis s4.5O-475. Cold
storage baldwin apples up $3.50 cents
per barrel city wholesale markets.
New York A 21h stock mostly Sc Z
per barrel. Northwestern extra fancy
winesaps firm Chicago medium to
large sizes s2.75-s4; small sizes 81.
$3.50. Sacked yellow onions slow and
steady eastern city wholesale markets
at 70 cents to s1.25 per 100 pounds
Texas yellow bermudas steady $1.50-
50 per standard crate for No. and
2 stock commercial pack: shipping
stations prices down 1920 cents at
5000 cents carloads FOB shipping
point acceptance. Tennessee klondike
strawberries 2S-30c quart basis New
York Klcndikes lower at Louisiana
points, closing s4.50-4.7O per "a quart
crate carloads fob cash track; 80
quart crates down rs cents to S1.75
at North Carolina stations. closing
s425-5 wagonloads cash to growers.
First car Florida watermleons in New
York Wholesale market brought rs
cents to SLIPS each for Is to 20 pound
tom watsons, few selling as high as
$3.50
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS Hog
and cattle prices at Chicago declined
the past week. Veal calves and fat
lambs advanced with feeding lambs;
yearlings and fat ewes unchanged.
Hogs steady to 1Oc higher, beef steers
feeder steers and butcher cows and
heifers down 25c veal calves up Csc
to 75c. fat lambs up 25 to Soc April
: 80 Chicago prices: Hogs, bulg of sales
B $818.50; medium and good beef steers
B $7.25-S.75; butcher cows and heifers
; $4.75-S.75; feeder steers s6.50-S; light
D and medium weight veal calves $7.75
3 to 1915; fat lambs $9-11.25; feeding
lambs $7-s.50; yearlings $3.50; fat
i ewes s5.50-7.25. Stockers and feeder
shipments from eleven important
r. markets during the week ending we're
e Cattle and calves 37,716; hogs, 6,479;
, sheep 1850. With the exception OF
a lamb the trend OF eastern wholesale
j., fresh meat prices was downward the
v past week. Beef down SOC to 81; pork
= loins SOC to SO; mutton steady to 81
D lower; lamb steady to so higher; veal
'. practically unchanged April 29 prices
- good grade meats: Beef $16-17; veal
- $17-20; lamb s20-24: mutton s15-16;
y light pork loins s23-275 so; heavy loins
y. s17-2O.
N COTTON-Spot cotton prices ad
n vanced Is points the past week, clos
a ing at 11.17 cents per pound New
E York May futures up 16 points al
1219 cents