The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-12-28
BUYING HELPS MARKET
Foreign Dairy Products Arriving
for Holiday Trade.
q. s. Bureau of Markets. Washington, D. c.,
for week ended Dec. %, 1922.

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for week ended Dec. %. 1922.
GRAIN-Grain prices unsettled but
closed slightly higher for week. Bull.
ish sentiment still apparent especially
! on declines and markets showed con.
siderable firmness in face of heavy
profit taking. Chicago May wheat ad.
f>vanced 1Ac; Chicago May corn &c
Prices unsettled on the 21st and
slightly lower but there was a sharp
upturn on late reports of active for.
eign demand and bullish statements
regarding the foreign wheat situation
Corn closed slightly higher. Closing
prices in Chicago cash market: No.
red winter wheat $1.35; No. hard
winter wheat $1.29; No. 2 mixed corn
75c; No. 2 yellow corn 76c; No. 8
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.O6
Closing future prices: Chicago May
wheat $125k; Chicago May corn
1890; Minneapolis May wheat $123k;
Kansas City May wheat $1.25k; Win
nipeg May wheat $1.47H.
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 26asc;
Longhorns 27c; Square prints ZINC.
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 10c higher. Heifers
were SOC lower. Cows from 35c lower
to Csc higher with feeders steady to
SOC lower and veal calves steady. Fat
lambs were 25c 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 Csc higher. Butcher
cows and heifers steady to strong. veal
calves fully steady Fat lambs rs to
40c higher. Dec. 21st Chicago prices:
Hogs, top, $3.50; bulk of sales So to
$8.25; medium and good beef steers
$3.50 to $11.50; butcher cows and
heifers $3.50 to $1O.25; feeder steers
$5.35 to $3.50; light and medium
weight veal calves $3.50 to $40; fat
lambs s13 to s15.25; feeding lambs
s12.75 to STATS; yearlings 50 to $12.75;
fat ewes S. to SITS. Stocker and
feeder shipments from IL 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 SIT; veal
SIS to SIS; lamb $22 to $25; mutton
S11 to SIT; light pork loins SIS to SIT;
heavy loins $12 to SIS.