The Dolores star., 1921-04-08
MARKETS
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U. S. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington, o. c.
lwc,t~u Ss.spaper Union Nee. ssr'-.l
Dairy Products.


Butter markets unsettled during the
week. A tendency to recover WAS fol-
lowed by sharp breaks. and while there
is momentarily somewhat firm feeling
and prices have advanced again. there
is no assurance that market will hold.
Closing prices, 80 score; New York.
I6c. Chicago. Iti1c; Philadelphia, 47hc:
Boston. i7c.
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 sparingly. Market
quiet. upper grades selling well. low
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 81
that market Chicago reports stocks
good; $40 offered for clover mixed.
free from grasses: fair demand for
southwest prairie at $3.50: Southeast
ern markets dull: supplies ample. Ship
ping demand generally light. Quoted:
No. l timothy, S24, Cincinnati; $24. Chi
cago: s27. Memphis: sls. Minneapolis:
cago; s2s Memphis; si7. Minneapolis;
e. rh,nds,phia 'Saifp '2sSp c:ino,nnSt, MeW fark.
Memphis; $2I. Minneapolis. $40. Kansas
city. No. prairie. $3.50. Minneapolis:
$li, Kansas city.
Prices lower, particularly for wheat
feeds. though fewer distress sales
noted. and western offerings less heavy.
Market dull 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
at $50. delivered northeastern markets.
Quoted; Bran. s2l: middlings, $50:
lour middlinss, s26. Chicago Thirty
Memphis; s2s.5O. Cincinnati; 43 per
cent cotton seed meal. $3.50. chicago.
Nor af%a sas meg ,s 81? s.. ous uI msses mn..s
meal. $40. Buffalo: $3.50. Minneapolis.
Bran, SIS. Minneapolis.
Grnia.
Market unsettled and prices fluctu-
ated rapidly within narrow range the
past week.
Sentiment mostly hearish. but there
buying 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 3Oth all grain had very heavy
undertone.
fair increase. Corn products industries
out OF cash market.
Wheat crop reports favorable and in
dicate little or no damage by recent
freeze on the 30th 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 14hc to 1i&c over Chi
No. mixed corn. So C to &c under May;
No. yellow, ac to 5 &c under.
For the week Chicago May wheat
down " at sl.3S7s; May corn. csc. at
61Sc.
Fruits and Vegetables.
Potatoes. l0c to l5c up per 100 lbs.
/ northern shipping stations. closing 90c
4sl.00 Chicago carlot market up &c to
lOc, at sl.l0al.20. New York round
white= held at sl.4O91.5o. bulk. New
York cold storage Baldwin apples down
kets. at si7545.75. Northwestern ex-
ira fancy winesaps mostly s3a3.5O per
box in consumins centers. ~
and dull in city markets. 50c9$1 per
100 lb' Texas yellow Bermuda onions.
commercial pack mixed; Nos. l and 2,
burg New York around $3.50; Chicago,
s2.5o. shirping points range sl.5O@l6o
Florida celery down csc per crate.
consuming markets, at s263. Louisi-
ana Klondyke Strawberries firm, New
York. around zoe per pint. Consuming
markets range mostly s3.5O@4.OO per
2ipnt crates. Louisiana {. o. b. mar
kets s2.75a2.S5 Carlot shipments
week ended March 20: Potatoes. 2,l67
cars; boxed apples. 295, barreled apples.
sos; cabbage. 69i celery, 329; lettuce,
Ill: onions 231: sweet potatoes, ESQ.
strawberries. 257.
Live Stock md Mcnts.
Prices of practically all classes of
live stock at Chicago declined the past
week. Hogs ranged from SOC to 75c
lower: beef steers lost CSC to 4Oc:
butcher cows and heifcrs generally csc;
feeder steers soc to 60c; veal calves.
SOC peri 100 pounds: fat lambs. soc to
81; feeding lambs steady to a 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 elsewhere;
mutton steady; pork 81 lower New
York; weak elsewhere.