The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1922-03-16
MARKETS
v. s. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington, o. c.

(For the week ending March ., l922.)
Hay
Market firm because of light receipts
Timothy prices up about 81 per ton. Cold
weather I'm northwest causing urgent de-
mand in that territory. Alfalfa higher
but prairie market practically unchanged
Quoted March S-No. | timothy New
York $3.50. Philadelphia $24, Pittsburgh
S23, Cincinnati $2l, Chicago $23, Minne-
apolis $40, Atlanta $26.50. No. | alfalfa
Kansas City $22. Memphis SIS, Atlanta
$50. No. prairie Kansas City $l1.5O,
Chicago SIG, Minneapolis $3.50
Feed
Demand quiet. particularly I'm East
Wheat feed offerings by mills light but
at slightly lower prices Heavy wheat
feeds I'm good request in southwest HON.
my feed In excellent supply, prices easier.
demand light. Production gluten feed
continues good, demand slowing up Lin
seed meal scarce, export and domestic
demand light. Cottonseed meal and cake
supplies good at mills and in hand on
dealers, prices easier. Receipts and
movement most feeds good.
Quoted March 8: Bran $2525, midd-
lings S26.75. flour middlings $3.50; SO
white hominy feed $3.50 ST. Louis; lin
seed meal $50 Minneapolis; No. 1 alfalfa
meal $3.50 Kansas City.
Grain
Prices trended downward under con-
tinued liquidation, Chicago May wheat
losing 10c net and closing at Sl.36 is;
Chicago May corn down 6 lac at Gle.
Lower tendency of foreign markets and
improved crop conditions southwest were
responsible for down turn
Government crop report issued March
placed quantity Of corn on farms March
l at 1871 900 bushels or 426 percent
Of 1921 crop as compared with 1854, 1922
600 bushels or ass percent of 1920 crop
on farms March /. 1921. Quantity of
wheat on farms March 1 estimated at
1871. 1856 600 bushels or 1916 percent of 1921
as ed IN. H.
els or 2G1 percent Of 1920 crop on farms
March /. 1921
Closing prices in Chicago cash market:
No. red winter wheat SI33; No. hard
winter wheat Sl,3l; No. mixed corn
SIC; No. yellow corn SIC; No, 3 white
oats SIC
in central Iowa about 43c; No. ] Dark
northern wheat in central North Dakota
Sl.34 3-4: No. 2 hard winter wheat in
central Kansas S1.2O
down lac at Sl.4O: Kansas City May
wheat down 8 IA at 81. Ia; Winnipeg
May wheat down Sac at l.S6 5-S.
Dairy Products.
Butter markets steady to firm and
fairly well in line with each other al
has been an unsettled undertone. Clos
ing prices 80 score: New York 3S 12c,
Chicago Sec, Philadelphia 81 l-2c Boston
CSC.
Chicago hog prices ranged from firm
to 20c higher, light hogs advancing most.
Beef steers firm to 10c higher butcher
cows and heifers up 25a50c.
March 2 Chicago prices: Hogs top
Si1.50; bulk of sales. Sl0S5m1l 35; medi-
UNI and good beef steers s7.50@9.25; but
cher cows and hefers, $4.40M s. so;
feeder steers. IS 65d 1885, light and med
ium weight veal calves S675W10.75; fat
lambs, s13.25d16: feeding lambs, Sll.606o
1880 yearlings, $11@1450; fat ewes, sea
$50.
March prices good grade meats;
30: mutton s17m22; light pork lolns,
St9921; heavy lons S5M1S.
Fruits and Vegetables.
Cabbage nearly steady slow and dull.
New York Danish type i'm eastern mar
kets $4Oa50 per ton bulk $50 In Pitts
burgh
Onions higher in some markets. De-
mand and movement limited. Eastern
yellow Globes up 25d75c in eastern mar
kets at So 25mS.5O per 100 10. sack. Mid
dlewestern yellows up 50cM$i In leading
markets at $S.50G9; 75c to 81 higher in
Chicago.
New York potato market firm, other
cities weaker. Northern sacked round
whites down l0M2 zoe i'm Chicago at $40
also per 100 pounds, down lOml5c I'm
other markets at $2G2 05: declined 15c at
shipping points at Sl.45d1.57. Eastern
stock firm in New York city at $4,000
2.15
Markets for good apples continue fairly
steady. New York Baldwins AZ l2 at
- 5ODSS per barrel In city markets.
Northwestern extra fancy boxed Wine
'aps $3G $50 In most consuming centers.