The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-03-23
MARKETWEkKER
Grain Prices Unsettled But
Closed Strong and Higher.

~. 4. Bureau Of Markets, Washington. d. c.
for week sadsd Mar. II. 1877.
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. 2 hard
winter wheat S1.37; No. 2 mixed corn
soc; No. 2 yellow corn Coo; No. 3 white
bats SIC. Average farm prices: No.
2 mixed corr in Central Iowa about
40c; No. l dark northern wheat in
Central North Dakota $1.2S&; No. 2,
hard winter wheat in Central Kansas
s1.15. For the week Chicago May
wheat up lac, closing at $1.381.; Chi
cage May corn up &c at 62$4c; Min
neapolis May wheat up &c at $1.44h;
Kansas City May wheat IN &c It
s1.26; Winnipeg May wheat, up 2Ac
at S1.3SA.
HAY-Light receipts Of hay held
prices generally firm. Demand most
ly local but in excess OF receipts at
Chicago, Minneapolis and Memphis.
No. / timothy and alfalfa wanted at
Chicago. Quoted March II: No. /
timothy Chicago nominal $25 to rs,
Minneapolis $3.50. No. / at Mime
apolis $22. No. / prairie Chicago SIS.
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, m.ddlings
$25.25, -four 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 35 to
soc; butcher cows and heifers 25 to
Use; feeder steers 15c; veal calves de-
clined soc to $3.50; sheep and lambs
III Al " l6hC rat S"CS oNNohNSu
75c; yearlings and feeding lambs gen.
orally Use higher; fat lambs weak to
Csc lower. March II Chicago prices:
Hogs top $10.55, bulk Of sales $3.50 to
1880; medium and good beef steers
S7.15 to SIS; butcher COWS and heifers
81 to IT'S; feeder steers $3.50 to 75o;
light and medium weight veal calves
Sc to 9.25; fat lambs S13.25 to 16;
feeding lambs $11.75 to 1875; year
lings SLIPS to 1850; fat ewes s6,75
to 1925.
Stocker and feeder shipment from
II important markets during the week
ending March IL we're: Cattle and
calves 52,10S; hogs 13,417; sheep a.
SAG.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF potato
stocks March / shows 90, 946, 900 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 3o,-
935, bus. from farms and to retain A.
$4,000 bus. Price declines Of 5 to
1919 occurred in most city markets.
Eastern and Northern sacked round
whites ranged s1.65 to 30 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 so score:
New York 40c; Chicago 39c; Phila-
delphia S9hc; Boston 40c.
Cheese markets firm with fairly ac-
tive buying NEST of week.. Daisies
plentiful with supply greater than de-
mand. Prices on nearly all styles at
close showed a tendency to 20 lower.
Minneapolis Cash Closing Prices.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1 dark
northern, $1.47Q1.55: No. 1 northern.
$1.45@1.49; No. 2 northern, $1.406
146. No z northern e. Ann 40. No