Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-12-16
U. S. MARKET REPORT
Weekly Marketgram of Bureau
of Markets and Crops.

washington, Dec. 12-For the week end
trended lower during ls1Ni the Week We with
rains IN, drought areas, narrow outside
interest in lack of support mainly respon-
sibie Upturns at times during the week
rallied to attract outside buying and prices
invariably declined again on liqu1dat ton.
On the closing day the market had q
strong undertone and prices advanced
Closing prices in Chicago cash market:
No. red winter wheat, $1.15; No. hard
winter wheat. SLIP; No. 2 mixed corn, 6Oc;
NO. 2 yellow corn, Sic; No. white oats,
54c. Average price to farmers in central
farmers in central North Dakota for No.
dark northern wheat $1.01; to farmers
IN central Kansas for No. hard winter
wheat declined 2Ac. closing at $1.14; Chi
cago May corn unchanged, at 54Ssc; Min
neapolis May wheat down &c, at $lN;
= CITY May wheat down PIC, at
$1.1O.
HAY-Quoted December Z: No. tim
othy-New York. $50; Philadelphia, $22;
Pittsburgh, s21.50: Cincinnati $3.50; CHI
No. l alfalfa-Kansas City, $21; Omaha.
$3.50; Memphis, $25. No. prairie-Kan-
sas City, $l1-75; Omaha, $12; Minneapolis.
Markets firm. Quoted December
6: Bran $3.50; middlings $40: flour mid
dlings so; linseed meal Sal, Minneapolis;
S6 per cent cottonseed meal $3.50, Mem
p plas s.. white hosm1iny $2a. Chicago: No.
FRUITS AND vEGETABLES-Po
shipping points generally quiet: prices
steady. Michigan No. i sacked round
whites $1.5O@1.55 per 100 lbs; New York
rornd whites Sls5gl7o Idaho sacked ru
8OQS5c. Chicago carlot market firm. at
$i.6o@l75; Shipments tend to increase,
Maine leading. Onions slow; prices
steady. Eastern points mostly $5.25 per
100 lbs. City markets generally slow.
nearly steady, $5.5015.75 for choice large
stock. California yellow stock slightly
5.25: No. / Maine Baldwin apples up soc
in Boston, at $1,000 per barrel; generally
steady to firm elsewhere, at $6@7.50. Ex-
ira fancy northewestern Jonathans up 10
to 25c per box New York and Pittsburgh,
firm in middlewestern markets, general
jobbing range $2.50@3. Extra fancy wine
saps steady, $2.5O@2.75 in Philadelphia,
around 81 at northwestern shipping points
LIVE STOCK Chicago sheep and lamb
prices made rather sensational advances
during the week. Fat lambs ranged from
$1@115 net higher, fat ewes 75c higher
and .yearlings from 6OQ75c higher. Feed
ing lambs advanced Is to 35c per 100 lbs.
Hog prices were somewhat Irregular;
light weights ranged from &c lower to
zoe higher; medium and heavy weights,
however, we're from 5 to 25c lower. Good
beef steers were weak to 10c lower, while
medium grade steers were quotable from
10 to 40c higher. Butcher cows and heif-
erS were weak to 25c tower, veal calves
Is 10 Soc lower, while feeder steers were
IN changed December Chicago prices:
Hogs top, $7.25; bulk of sales, S. COOS IS;
medium and good beef steers, S. 25@1O;
butcher cows and heifers, $3.4O@875; feed
err steers, $4 60@6.6O; light and medium
$40 25@11.65: feeding lambs, $825d9 so;
yearlings, s6.75@9.75; fat ewes 49, 1906
Stocker and feeder shipments from IL inn
portant markets for week ending Decem-
Der were as follows: Cattle and calves,
81, 423; hogs, $50 sheep, 22384.
DAIRY PRODUCTS-Butte markets
have been unsettled during week but
showed signs of steadiness at close
Closing prices, 90 score: New York, 441sc;
Philadelphia 451Ac; Boston, 44c; Chicago,
44c Cheese markets firm and Wisconsin
advances of Monday. Prices at Wisconsin
primary markets December z: Twins, zoe;
daisies, zoe; double daises, 1910; long
horns, 2O34c; young Americas, 21c.