Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1922-03-10
GRAIN PRICE UNs IElD
Cattle Price Firm Hogs Remain
Steady But Stronger.

-. for week ended Mar 6, 1922. -
GRAIN: Market unsettled during
the week and prices averaged lower.
improvement in crop conditions in
Southwest, lower tendency Of foreign
markets and slower cash and export
demand were pricipal market factors.
Visible supply wheat 40,O55, 900 bu., a.
decrease of 1,123,00O bu. for week.
Visible supply corn 44,792,0 blu, an
increase of 1896 200 bu. for week.
Closing price in Chicago cash market:
No. red winter wheat $1.41; No. z
hard winter. wheat $1.3S; No. 2 mixed
corn SIC; No. yellow corn $50; No.
3 white oats CSC. Average farm prices:
No. 2 mixed corn in central Iowa about
48c; No: dark: northern. wheat IL
Central North Dakota $1.42k; No. u;
hard winter wheat in central Kansas
$1.20. For the week Chicago May
wheat declined SIC, closing at
$1.43h; Chicago May corn. down SIC
at 64c; Minneapolis May wheat down
INC at $1.44A; Kansas City May
wheat down &c at $1.31A; Winnipeg
May wheat down 2Ac at $142A.
VEGETABLES: Potao market gen..
orally steady to strong; Chicago
slightly weaker. Northern and East
ern sacked round whites 81 to 2.25
per 100 lbs. in leading cities, sl75 to-
LBS in Chicago. Growers il Idaho
and Colorado receiving soc to ST.. =,
HAY: Movement of hay light be-
cause of bad condition of country
roads. Receipts light, especially of
good quality timothy which is firm
and 50c to 81 higher. Eastern and
Southern market steady. No. TIM
othy quoted March Chicago $2s No.
i alfalfa, Chicago $23, No. prairie
Chicago SIG.
FEED: 3 Markets inactive. Linseed
and cotton seed meal in fairly good
demand. Wheat feeds quiet Eastern
trade reported as reselling to Western
jobbers. Quoted March 4: Bran S25,
middlings $26, flour middlings f29
Minneapolis; linseed meal $50 Min
neapolis.
LIVE STOCK AND MEATS: Chi
cago hog prices ranged steady TO 10c
higher. Beef steers firm to 1oc high
err; butcher COWS and heifers. any
where from 10 to soc higher Feeder
steers up 15c. Veal calves 81 to IT'S
lower. Fat lambs and yearlings al
vanced soc; fat ewes 25c. Feeding
lambs unchanged. March Chicago
prices: Hogs top $11.25; bulk of sales
$1O.S5 to Ills; medium and good beef
steers $7.25 to 9.25: butcher cows and
heifers $425 to $40; feeder steers
$3.50 to SOS; light and medium weight
veal calves 81 to 1925; fat lambs
$13.75 to 1850; feeding lambs $11.50
to 1880; yearlings $11 to 1475: fat
ewes Sc to $50
STOCKERS AND FEEDER SHIP
MENTS FROM IL important markets
during the week ending February "a
were: Cattle and calves 55,754; hogs
S,773; sheep 1855.
DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter mar
kets steady in East but weak at Chi
cagO. Severe storms in producing sec
tons have been principal market fac
tors. Closing prices go score: New
York, Philadelphia and Boston 38c;
Chicago 361ac.
Cheese markets steady. Trading &C.
tive following last weeks decline on
Wisconsin markets. Held cheese firm
Prices at Wisconsin primary markets
March 4: Twins 1SKc; Daisies zoe;
Double Daisies 1910 Longhorns zoe;
Square Prints &C.
COTTON: Spot cotton prices de-
clined % points during the week, clos
ing at 1850 per pound. New York
March futures down % points at
|18.21c. -,