The Delta independent., 1922-02-10

Kansas City May wheat up 51ac at
/ $1.15A; Winnipeg May wheat up &c
at $1.19.
Hay-Timothy market slightly firmer
because Of light receipts. No ma
terial improvement in demand except
for dairy alfalfa at Kansas City, which
reached record price of season at $29
per ton. Prairie market weak. Poorer
grades of all kinds of hay continued
dull. Quoted February 3: No. 1 tim
othy, New York $3.50, Philadelphia
$23, Pittsburgh s22, Cincinnati $21,
Minneapolis $3.50. Chicago s22. Kan
sas City $14, Memphis $21; No.
alfalfa, Kansas City $20.75, Memphis
$24; No. I prairie, Kansas City $1O.50,
Minneapolis SIS.
Feed-Markets firm on good jobbing
demand. Country demand dull. Deal
ers are well stocked up on most feeds
and mild weather during past few days
has tended to restrict buying in the
eastern markets. Offerings good, espe-
cially of pure bran; receipts and move
ment increasing. Market stronger in
west, caused by colder weather.
Strong hog market causing more &C
tivity in demand for shorts and mid
dlings at Kansas City. Cottonseed
and linseed meal quotations un-
changed, demand light. Gluten feed
and hominy feed offerings good. Ware
house stocks of bran at Buffalo about
5000 tons. Quoted February 4: Bran
s30.50, middlings $50, flour middlings
s3I50, SO per cent cottonseed meal
r1, rr1,
my feed s26.25, delivered Philadelphia;
"a per cent linseed meal s47.50 (. o. b.
Buffalo; spring bran $21.50. standard
middlings $22, linseed meal s43. Mime
apolis; white hominy feed, $20.50, st.
Louis; No. 1 alfalfa meal, $16.75, Kan
sas City.
Dairy Products - Butter markets
barely steady to weak. Prices fairly
well maintained throughout week, but
trading lacked confidence in some mar
kets where declines have occurred and
price tendency is downward. Best
trading on top grades. Closing prices,
80 score: New York, 361ac; Philadel-
phia, 36c; Boston, 371ac; Chicago, 36c
Cheese markets steady; prices show
slight advances in Wisconsin and bust
ness is fairly active. Distributing mar
kets quiet; dealers pushing sales espe-
cially on fresh cheese. Prices in Wis
consin primary markets February 8:
Twins, zoe; Daisies, 20a4c; Double
Daisies. 2O1ac; Longhorns, 21c; Square
Prints, 231ac
Livestock and Meats-Chicago hog
prices advanced 25c to soc per 100
pounds during the week, light and
medium weights advancing most
Beef steers were mostly Csc to 40c
higher; butcher COWS and heifers up
Csc to 35c. Better grades of stockers
and feeders ranged from 15c to Csc
higher, with others practically un-
changed. Best fat lambs and yearlings
advanced 10c to Csc; other grades of
fat lambs about steady. Heavy year
lings and feeder lambs we're un-
changed. Fat ewes averaged Csc
lower. February Chicago prices:
Hogs, top, 1910 Zone load; bulk of
sales, sS.s5 to 1925; medium and good
beef steers, 81 to 1918; butcher cows
and heifers, 81 to s7.75; feeder steers,
s5.15 to $500; light and medium
weight veal calves, $3.50 to S11; fat
lambs, $12 to s1410; feeding lambs,
s1O.50 to $12.75; yearlings, 1915 to
s13; fat ewes, IS to $7.75. Stocker and
feeder shipments from IL important
markets during week ending January
% were: Cattle and calves, 55,026;
hogs, 3,074; sheep, 2s.371. Eastern