Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1922-12-29
BUY nee S MARK E {
Foreign Dairy Products Arriving
for Holiday Trade.
y. s. Bureau of Markets. Washington, D. c.,
for week ended Dec. 22, 1922. -

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for week ended Dec. 22, 1922.
GRA1N-Grain prices unsettled but
closed slightly higher for week Bull
tsh sentiment still apparent especially
on declines and markets showed con-
siderable firmness in face of heavy
profit taking. Chicago May wheat ad-
vanced INC; Chicago May corn Nc.
Prices unsettled on the'eS21st and
slightly lower but there was a sharp
upturn on late reports of active for
elgn demand and bullish statements
the foreign wheat situation
Corn closed slightly higher. Closing
prices in Chicago cash market: No.
2 red winter wheat $1.35; No. 2 hard
winter wheat 1929; No. mixed corn
75c; No. yellow corn 76c; No.
white oats 44c. Average farm prices:
No. mixed corn in central Iowa &c;
No. 2 hard winter wheat in central
Kansas $1.05; No. 1 dark northern
wheat in central North Dakota $1.06.
Closing future prices: Chicago May
wheat $12511; Chicago May corn
1880; Minneapolis May wheat $1.23h;
Kansas City May wheat $685.; Win
nipeg May wheat $1.47%.
DAIRY PRODUCTS-Butter mar
kets barely steady although declines
at Chicago have placed markets in
more normal relation to each other.
Consumptive demand good at prevail
ing prices. Fresh and storage butter
moving freely. More foreign butter
has arrived; further shipments ex-
pected. Closing prices, 80 score but
ter: New York 55c; Chicago SIC.
Cheese markets firm but trading
slow, rejecting usual seasonal dull
ness. Dealers feel confident and are
not pushing sales except at asking
prices. Cheese prices at Wisconsin
primary markets Dec. Goth: Daisies
and Flats 27Ac; Double Daisies 1880;
Longhorns 27c; Square prints 27Ac.
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS Com
pared with week ago Chicago hog
prices ranged from 15c lower to Csc
higher. Beef steers were Csc to 35c
lower on better grades with medium
grades steady to 1Oc higher. Heifers
were SOC lower Cows from 35c lower
to 25c higher with feeders steady to
soc lower and veal calves steady. Fat
lambs were Csc to 35c lower, yearlings
Csc to soc lower and ewes steady to
Csc higher. On Dec. 21st hogs closed
generally steady; steers active, gener-
ally strong to 25c higher. Butcher
cows and heifers steady to strong, veal
calves fully steady. Fat lambs 25 to
40c higher. Dec. 21st Chicago prices:
Hogs, top, $3.50; bulk of sales IS to
1925; medium and good beef steers
$3.50 to $11.50; butcher COWS and
heifers $500 to S10.25; feeder steers
$535 to $3.50; light and medium
weight veal calves $3.50 to $40; fat
lambs $13 to $1525; feeding lambs
STATS to STATS; yearli ss 50 to s12.75;
fat ewes SIS to SITS. Stocker and
feeder shipments from II important
markets during the week ending Dec.
18th were: Cattle and calves $3.50,
hogs 1913, sheep 3S,S4S. In eastern
wholesale fresh meat markets; all
grades beef and mutton were steady.
Veal ranged from 81 lower to 81 higher
on better grades and steady on lower
grades. Lamb was 81 t. So lower with
light pork loins steady and heavy loins
steady to soc lower. On Dec. 21st
beef and mutton were steady at all
markets.. Veal was weak at New York.
steady at other markets. Lamb weak
| and declining at all markets. Pork
weak at New. York, about steady at
| other markets. Dec. 21st prices good
grade meats: Beef $14.50 to $17; veal
SIS to SIS; lamb s22 to SIS; mutton
$11 to $17; light pork loins SIS to SIT;
! heavy 1OinS S12 to SIS