The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-02-16
HOGsADvANCEsHARPLY met IN GARDENS
Grain Prices Stronger Through
out Week-C0rn Higher.

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fhr week ended Feb. g.. 'a92.
GRAIN Market strong throughout
week and prices advanced: Chicago
May wheat up &c, closing at $1.31%
Chicago May corn up &C at 59Ac
Principal market factors were: World
wheat situation, higher foreign mar
kets, drouth and cold weather in south
west and increased buying support.
Report at close that Argentina corn
crop damaged by locusts and drouth.
Cash corn market strong; country Of.
ferings to arrive less LIBERAL. Closing
prices in Chicago cash market No. 2
red winter wheat, $1.33; No. 2 hard
winter wheat, 1925; No. 2 mixed corn,
SAC; No. 2 yellow corn, SAC; No. 3
white oats, SIC. Average farm prices:
No. 2 mixed corn in central Iowa
about Ale; No. / dark northern wheat
in central North Dakota. S1.25h; No
2 hard winter wheat in central Kansas,
SLIP. For the week Minneapolis May
wheat up 4Hc, closing at $1.35h
Kansas City May wheat up sc at
$1.20A; Winnipeg May wheat up 6%c
at $1.26A.
HAY-Timothy market fairly steady
at unchanged prices. Alfalfa firm,
Prairie dull. Low grades very slow
sale.
FEED-Feed market inactive. Trad.
ers have no difficulty in fill .ng ord.rs;
country buyers hesitate at curren
levels. Advance in corr has been help
full but moderate weather in principal
feeding sections has created Sigh ly
easier feeling. Offerings of wheat
feeds by mills light for February but
good for March and April shipment.
Linseed meal firm. Bran, $3.50; mid
elings, $3.50; flour middlings, $3.50,
Minneapolis.
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS - Hog,
sheep and lamb prices advanced sharp
ly during the week while cattle prices
were practically unchanged. Hogs ad-
vanced 65-75c; fat lambs scored a SIM
liar advance. Feeding lambs up So
75c; fat ewes up assoc; yearlings adj
vanced Csc. Both beef and butcher
cattle were practically unchanged.
Feeder steers firm to zoe higher; light
and medium weight real calves weak
to soc lower. Feb. 10th Chicago
prices: Hogs, top, $10.25; bulk Of
sales, $9.50-10; medium and good beef
steers, $7-9.15; butcher cows and heif-
ers, $4.10-7.75; feeder steers, $5.15-
10; light and medium weight v. al
calves, SILL; fat lambs, $12.75-14.7 rs;
feeding lambs, $11.25-13 25; yearlings,
$10-1S.25; fat ewes, $5.25-S.25.
Stocker and feeder shipments from
IL important markets during the week
ending Feb. 4th were: Cattle and
calves, 45,O10; hogs, SASS; sheep, 2S,
651.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES potato mar
kets strong for eastern stock, weaker
for southern.
Potato markets irregular. Western
and middlewestern markets showed
slightly stronger tone: eastern mar
kets weaker. Northern sacked Ro nd
Whites. slightly weak at Minnesota
points at $1.50-1.65.
DAIRY PRODUCTS = Chicago but
ter market firm and higher than east
Oth HaA hCtoS OluCI uldI eau
Trading somewhat irregular with &C.
tive demand limited to fancy goods
Foreign butter dull; offerings being
made at as much as three cents lower
than prices a week ago. Closing
prices, 90 score: New York, 37hc
Chicago and Philadelphia, BIC; Boston,
36kc.
Cheese markets showed a little
steadier tone. Trading in Visions n
more active with good general demand
except in extreme east, where demand
is still large for held cheese and
where nearby production of fresh prac.
tically fills current req lirements. Clos.
ing prices at Wisconsin primary mar
kets Feb. 9th Twins, 20Ac; Daisies,
21Ac; Double Daisies. 21c; Long
horns, 21Nc; Square Prints, 22c;
Young Americas, 1870.
Minneapolis Cash Closing Prices.
Minneapolis-Wheat No. / dark nor.
thern, 1.46Q1.52; No. / northern, LA
@1.49; No. 2 northern, $1.39@1.45;
No. 8 northern. 1.34Q1.41; No. / du-
rum. 1.15@1,2o. Corn No. 8 yellow,
Nc. 3 mixed, 47c@4Sc. Rye
No. 2, 93c@94c. Oats No. 2 white,
35c. Barley, choice to fancy. 53c@
SIC. F~laxseed, 2.36@243.
So. ST. Paul Live Stock.
So. st. Paul = Steers, $425D 7 90;
cows. s3.00@5.50: calves, $31950;
hogs, ss.00@9.S5; sheep and lambs,
s10@13.25.
MINNEAPOLIS Butter, Epus and Poultry
BUTTER-Special. lb, 35c; extras,
Id, SAC: irsts. 29c; seconds, 23c; pacK-
ing stock. Ice; storage extras, 27c.
EGGS Country receipts, rots out,
per case, So; No. 1 candled, good
cases, free from rots, small, dir lis
and checks out, doz, 33c: seconds.
small, dirty and held stock, rots and
leakers or, doz, 23c; checks, rots and
leakers out. doz. zoe. Quotations on
eggs include cases. .
LIVE POULTRY-Hens, 4 lbs. and
over, csc; under 4 lbs, 1Sc; turkeys,
Fat, s lbs and over. use: turkeys, SIN II.
ID. 15Q20c: stays, 1Sc: geese, fat. 15c;
guineas, doz. IS: ducks. 1Sc; springs,
ID 23c; cocks. 16c.