Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1922-03-23
STOCK MARKET WEAKER
Grain Prices Unsettled But
Closed Strong and Higher.

Closed Strong and Higher.
u. s. Bureau Of Markets. Washington. D. c..
for week ended Mar. II. 1922.
GRAIN-Market unsettled during
the week but closed strong at higher
prices. Principal market factors were:
Weakness In foreign markets. decline
In sterling exchange, improved crop
conditions in southwest, light receipts,
strong cash markets, and improved
milling and export demand. Closing
prices in Chicago cash markets: No.
2 red winter wheat $1.39; No. hard
winter wheat $1.37; No. 2 mixed corn
SIC; No. yellow corn Coo; No. 3 white
oats BIC. Average farm prices: No.
2 mixed corn In Central Iowa about
4Oc; No. 1 dark northern wheat in
Central North Dakota s1.2SA; No, 2
hard winter wheat in Central Kansas
$1.15. For the week Chicago May
wheat up 11sc, closing at $685.; Chi
cago May corn up Nc at 62Ac; Min
neapolis May wheat up Sc at SLAM;
Kansas City May wheat up nc at
$1.26; Winnipeg May wheat, up 2Ac
at $1.3SA.
HAY-L!ght receipts Of hay held
prices generally firm. Demand most
ly local but in excess of receipts at
Chicago, Minneapolis and Memphis.
No. 1 timothy and alfalfa wanted at
Chicago. Quoted March II: No. 1
timothy Chicago nominal $25 to rs,
Minneapolis $3.50. No. i at Mime
apolis $22. No. / prairie Chicago $18,
Minneapolis $3.50.
FEED-Markets generally weak par
ticularly for wheat feeds. Quotations
have been reduced materially but de-
mand remains sluggish. Pressure Of
offerings from the West and slow coun.
try demand outstanding factors. Quot
ed March II: Bran $24, middlings
S25.25, flour middlings $3.50, linseed
meal $3.50 Minneapolis.
LIVE STOCK AND MEATS-Chica-
go hog prices declined 60 to SOC per
100 lbs, medium and light weights de-
clining most. Beef steers lost IS to
Soc: butcher cows and heifers Is to
75c; feeder steers 15c; veal calves de.
clined Soc to $3.50; sheep and lambs
firm to higher. Fat ewes advanced
75c; yearlings and feeding lambs gen.
orally Csc higher; fat lambs weak to
26c lower. March II Chicago prices:
Hogs top $10.55. bulk of sales $3.50 to
1880; medium and good beef steers
37.15 to S.75; butcher cows and heifers
81 to 7.75: feeder steers $3.50 to $50;
light and medium weight veal calves
Sc to 9.25; fat lambs $13.25 to 16;
feeding lambs $11.75 to 1875; year.
lings $11.25 to 1850; fat ewes $6.76
to 1925.
Stocker and feeder shipment from
- important markets during the week
ending March IL were: Cattle and
calves 62.10S: hogs 13,417; sheep a..
SAG.
VEGETABLES Report Of potato
stocks March / shows 90,946,000 bus.
on hand IL. Is leading potato states or
$3.50 of production of these states.
Growers hold $40 of stocks: dealers
1870. Growers expected to move 80,
1886, bus: from farms and to retain a..
656,000 bus. Price declines Of s to
10% occurred in most city markets.
Eastern and Northern sacked round
whites ranged $1.65 to 210 per 100 lbs.
The seasons low point was reached in
producing sections. Growers in Idaho
and Colorado receiving CSC to SOC for
sacked stock.
DAIRY PRODUCTs-Butter mar.
kets firm during week; tone steady at
CLOSE; tendency upward. Receipts
moderate. Good demand for practical
Ivy all grades. Closing prices 81 score
New York 40c; Chicago 39c; Phila.
delphia 3911c: Boston 40c.
Cheese markets firm with fairly &C
tive buying most OF week. Daisies
plentiful with supply greater than de.
smand. Prices on nearly all styles at
close showed tendency to go lower
Minneapolis Cash Closing Prices.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS No. darl
\ northern, $1.47@1.55; No. northern
s::$1.46@1.4s; No: 2 northern. $1.4O@
1.4e; No. 3 northern, $140@1.42; No
I durham. $1.l6@1.21. Corn-No.
yellow. Soc; No. 8 mixed. 4sc@50c
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