The Yale expositor., 1922-08-10
MARKETS
v. Q. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington, .. G.

Week ending August srd. 1929
Hay
Receipts light with good amount poor
hay among arrivals. Demand limited but
good hay selling readily at fairly steady
prices Clover and poor grades OF tim
York SS0; :sS f AHS So SIS Sly
Minneapolis 81: Chicago i2l, 81 Loyis
! alfalfa Kansas City $3.50. Memphis
$40. st. Louis $40: No. prairie Kan
sas City 'iO75. Minneapolis 'l6. Chicago
Markets unsettled and weak. Heavy
offerings OF wheat feeds and cottonseed
meal principal features. Prices difncult
TO determine. Liberal offerings OF bran
in southwest resulted in sales at !l2.69
in Kansas City market Gluten feed and
hominy feed holding fairly firm demand
apathetic Alfalfa meal steady. demand
Quoted Aug. 2. bran. tls.6O, middlinss
1880, Minneapolis: white hominy feed
$26. so, gluten feed t2s.s6 Chicago; No. ]
alfalfa meal t187b Kansas City; thirty
four per cent linseed meal ,4s Minneap-
oils.
Wheat prices advanced early in week
on heavy export buying. Weakness In
foreign exchange and drop In foreign
grain markets caused slump on July 20
selling toward the close OF the week
causing prices to 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 mar
ket had heavy undertone early in day
cember futures. seaboard buying came
out on all breaks but hedging pressure
on each advance kept price range within
fairly narrow limits Corn markets were
Closing prices in Chicago cash market:
No. 2 red winter wheat sos; No. hard
winter wheat $40; No. mixed corn
CSC; No. yellow corn e4c. No. white
Average farm prices; No. mixed corn
In central Iowa about soc No. hard
winter wheat In central Kansas 9oc; No.
/ dark northern wheat in central North
Dakota 1.o5
Closing future prices: Chicago Sep
TENDER wheat sI.o6 S-S; Chicago septem-
wheat 31.09 Is.
Fruits and Vegetables.
Potato decline continued during the
week ending August third. Supplies
liberal most markets light Cincinnati
and Baltimore.
Peach markets weaker. Georgia and
North Carolina stock mostly Csc lower.
Arkansas Elbertas slow and dull.
markets weaker in middlewest for Cal
ifornia stock eastern green meats gen.
orally lower
Live Stock and Meats
Compared with week ago Chicago hog
prices showed advances of 10c to 45c per
100 lbs. light weights advancing most.
Beef steers 25c to Zoe higher and butch
err cows and heifers 10c TO zoe higher.
Feeder steers loo lower and light and
medium weight veal calves generally boc
hiF Fss lambs, vsor,,Dr. and fat eve, ,oc
to CSC higher; feeding lambs 10c higher
per 100 lbs. On Aug. 3 choice light hogs
closed l0c higher with other grades rang
ing from steady 10 weak: beef steers
mostly 10c915c higher with butcher cows
and heifers steady to strong. Stockers
and feeders strong and veal calves steady
TO strong. Fat lambs strong with some
natives selling l5d25c higher; sheep firm.
August 3. Chicago prices: Hogs. top
s10.s5; bulk OF sales. $790G10.S0; medium
and good beef steers. sS.l5q1025; butch
steers. s5504765; light and medium
weight veal calves, s9.25@1075; fat
lambs. s12613; feeding lambs 81 GOA
~ 60: yearlings $S5Oq1l; fat ewes, 1926
81 100
AS a rule eastern wholesale fresh meat
prices were not materially changed dur
ing the week.
Aug. 3 prices good grade meats: Beef
s14G16: veal s13615 lamb s22624; NUT
ton Sl3M16; light pork loins $20@24
heavy loins s14d1S.
Dairy Products
Butter markets steady to firm at close
Heavy Accommodations caused declines
early in week but war prices attra cted
speculative demand and brought about
reaction.