The Yale expositor., 1922-02-23
MARKETS
v. s. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington. o. c.

The hay market is generally weak be-
cause OF light demand and burdensome
receipts Of poor quality hay only best
grades bringing full quotations. Prices
have fluctuated over a narrow range
during the week and are barely steady
in most markets
Quoted Feb. Is: No / Timothy-New
York 500, Philadelphia s24, Pittburgh S22,
Cincinnati $3.50, Chicago S22.50. No 1
Alfalfa-Kansas City Sl9.75 Memphis
$3.50 Atlanta $50. Chicago s225O. No. l
Prairie-Kansas City $lO.25, Chicago Sl5.
Feed
Market generally firm. Wheat feeds
higher but jobbers are not inclined to
buy at the advance. Gluten feed i'm
better request, price advanced Doc pro-
duction good. Hominy feed firm on mod
crate offerings. White hominy quoted on
same basis as yellow hOminy I'm many
markets. Alfalfa meal and beet pulp UNI
changed. sales light. Stocks of most
feeds good with offerings ample to sup
ply requirements.
Quoted Feb. l5-Bran $25, middlings
gluten feed s32.15 Chicago; white hom-
my feed S2150 Chicago s2l st. Louis
No l alfalfa meal Sl7 Kansas City.
Fruits and Vegetables
Chicago potato market steady; other
markets slow and dull Northern sack
ed round white held at $l.656D1.90 per 100
lbs. in Chicago and ruled steady at 81
in other middlewestern cities. New York
round whites down 15M25c at $2@2.15,
bulk stock in New York City 50 10M2.20.
Total stock on hand January l as es-
timated Feb. Il was l4l ,042,0 600 bushels
compared with 1452s6.O0O last year.
Onion markets showed "A slightly weak
er tendency for the first time in many
weeks Middlewestern yelows down 25c
in Chicago at $615M 1.25.
Eastern apple markets slightly weaker
for barreled stock. New York Baldwins
az 1-2 ranged S7Q rs per barrel steady
in Chicago at $15OaS; firm in Cincinnati
at SSGIS.25.
Dairy Products.
Butter markets irregular at beginning
Of week but steady TO firm at close.
Closing prices % score: New York
3Sc Chicago 36 lee Philadelphia 81 lie;
Boston 81 l-2c.
Prices trended upward during the
week with both May and July wheat and
corn reaching new high points. Princi-
pal market factors Cnfavorable crop
reports from southwest and Argentina,
improved milling and flour demand. and
close adjustment of world wheat supply
90 demand.
No. red winter wheat Sl37; No 2 hard
winter wheat S132; 40. mixed corn 5Sc;
No. > yellow corn 5Sc; No. 3 white oats
Csc; average farm prices: No mixed
corn In central Iowa about "a l-2c; No. !
dark northern wheat I'm central North
Dakota SL34 81: 40. hard winter
wheat i'm central Kansas SlEo.
For the week Chicago May wheat up
Zoe closing at 81 80 5-S Chicago May corn
up Lac at G3 l-4c; Minneapolis May
wheat up 1-4c at SLAP ga; Kansas City
May wheat up Zoe at $i29; Winnipeg
May wheat up II LIE at $3.50.
Live Stock and Meats
Chicago hog prices advanced soc 10
roc per roo lbs. during the week. heavy
hogs advancing most. Cheaper grades OF
beef steers up 15n 35c Grades selling i'm
the upper registers generally steady.
Butcher cows and heifers practically un-
changed.
Feb Is Chicago prices: Hogs, top.
$40 40: bulk of sales. 50 90H 1890; medium
and good beef steers $725d915. Butcher
cows and heifers S3.90a7.75; feeder steers
S5.35m725; light and medium weight
veal calves SOIL; fat lambs Sl3.25dt
Is 500 feeding lambs S11.50N13.50; year
lings $40 506 3.75; fat ewes $5.50u $50.
Eastern wholesale fresh meat prices
trended upward. Mutton advanced SlM3;
lamb $ln2; beef firm 10 soc higher; veal
generally steady although a decline of 81
on good veal was reported at one market.
Feb. Is prices good grade meats: Beef
St2d1350; veal $l6G20; lamb S25u Is;
mutton Sl3u19; light pork loius $lSu20;
heavy loins S13dl6.