The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-08-10
U. S. MARKET REPORT
Weekly Marketgram by Bureau
of Markets and Crops.

Washington, aug. 5.-Week ending Aug.
3.-HAY-Quoted August 2: No. l timothy,
New York $1,000 Philadelphia $500 Gin
cinnau $lL0, Minneapolis $500, Chicago
S2IOO, St Louis $3.50 Atlanta S2400, Mem
phis 5000 No / alfalfa, Kansas city
$3.50, Memphis S23O0, st. Louis 5000. No.
/ prairie, Kansas City 500. Minneapolis
$500, Chicago $500.
FEED-Quoted August 2: Bran. $3.50;
middlings, $3.50, Minneapolis; SO per cent
cottonseed meal, $500 Memphis, white
hominy feed, $3.50. gluten feed. SO. IS
Chicago; No. / alfalfa neal $3.50 Kansas
city; "a per cent linseed meal, $500 Min
neapOlis
GRAIN-Wheat prices advanced early in
week on heavy export buying. Weakness
in foreign exchange and drop in foreign
grain markets caused slump on July p
and advanced afterwards met with heavy
selling toward the close of the week,
causing prices 60 trend downward. Corn
future prices acted largely In sympathy
with wheat, though cash corn was In
good demand and cash prices were fairly
strong. On August third wheat market
mad heavy underJOue carly in day max
ing new lows In September and December
futures. Seaboard buying came out on
all breaks, but hedging pressure on each
advance kept price range within fairly
narrow limits. Corn markets were fair
ly steady. Closing prices In Chicago cash
market. No. 2 red winter wheat, H0S;
No. hard winter wheat, Sll0; No. ,
mixed corn G3c; No. yellow corn, &c;
No. white oats, SIC. Average farm
prices No 2 mixed corn in central Iowa
about soc; No hard winter wheat in
central Kansas, goo; No l dark north
ern wheat in central North Dakota. $l.05.
Closing future prices: Chicago Septem-
Der wheat, SL05A; Chicago September
corn, Gle; Minneapolis September wheat,
N,ll#i Kansas City September wheat.
T#c; Winnipeg October wheat, s1.09A.
FRUITS AND Peach
markets weaker Georgia and North Car
DINA stocks mostly 25c lower Arkansas
Elbertas slow and duh New Jersey,
Delaware and Maryland fruit followed
the general trend Watermeons slightly
weaker. Carolina Tom Watsons down
SIS per car Georgia melons 5000 lower.
New York firm, Pittsburgh and Chicago.
Missouri stock slow and weak. Canta-
loupes steady to firm eastern markets
weaker in middlewest for California
stock. Eastern green meats generally
lower Prices reported August 3: New
Jersey sacked cobblers, S115G150 per 100
lbs, city markets. $lO0a1.15 +. o. b. North
and South Jersey points Kansas early
Ohios partly graded 60dSOc Chicago, Min
nesota stock, $l.1C0l20 Chicago, sl.0O T.
o. h. sandot district points Georgia
peaches. Elbertas, skies and bushe bas-
kets $22d275 leading wholesale mar.
kets, North Carolina Bellies and Elbertas
mostly 81 2j02.50 I'm eastern cities $l551
255 + o. b. shipping points Eastern
Elbertas 81 GOAL. 70.
LIVE STOCK-Compared with week ago.
Chicago hog prices showed advances OF
10 to 45c per 100 lbs, light weights adj
vancing most Beef steers. &dJlc higher
and butcher cows and heifers T0d2oc high
er Fat lambs, yearings and fat ewes.
l0025o higher: feeding lambs 1oc higher
per 100 lbs August 8 prices; Hogs, top.
slOS5, bulk Of sales. S790010S0 medium
and good beef steers, $55O6765; light and
medium weight veal calves, 80 25G1O rs:
Fat lambs S12Ql3; feeding lambs. 81 COO
1900. yoarlings, SS5o011.OO; fat ewes. - %
N7Go Stocker and Feeder shipments from
y important markets during the week
ending July 2s were: Cattle and calves,
GG9S3; hogs 4,552; sheep 600
DAIRY PRODUCTS-Butter markets
steady 10 firm at close Heavy accumula-
tions caused declines early in week but
war prices attracted speculative demand
and brought about a reaction.