The Yale expositor., 1922-06-08
MARKETS
v. 8. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington, D. C.

(For the week ending June /. 1929
Market slightly easier i'm tone but best
grades continue In good demand at fairly
steady prices. Large part Of receipts OF
Quoted May 81 No ] timothy New
York $50. so, Philadelphia S23, Pittsburgh
$3.50, CINCINNATI S2S.5o, Chicago $3.50,
ST. So u Louis S27 No Alfalfa Kansas city
Louis $3.50. Minneapolis $3.50
Feed -.
Wheat feeds dull; prices declining Corn
feeds firm and active.
Quoted May 81 spring bran $3.50 Min
neapolis; winter bran $3.50 st. Louis;
standard middlings. $3.50 Minneapolis;
gluten feed, $32S5 Chicago; hominy feed
$24, alfalfa meal $24 St Louis.
Grain
July wheat closed lower for week
mainly Influenced by heavy liquidation
and big decline In May future. Milling
and export demand rather quiet first part
Of week but considerably improved at
close.
Closing prices in Chicago cash mar.
ket: No 2 red winter wheat $l.20; No.
2 hard winter wheat $l.20; No mixed
corn GOc. No. 2 yellow corn Gle; No. 3
Average farm prices: No 2 mixed corn
I'm central Iowa 47c; No. / dark northern
wheat In central North Dakota 81 IL;
No. 2 hard winter wheat In central Kan
For the week Chicago July wheat
down 3-4c, closing at $l19; Chicago
apolls July wheat down ] 1-2c at
Sl.SS IA Kansas City July wheat down
lie at $1,13 IL; Winnipeg July wheat
TENDER wheat SLY "a Chicago Septem-
be- corn 6Jc.
Live Stock and Meats
Chicago hog prices dropped 20c to soc.
Better grades OF beef steers and butch
er cows and heifers generally steady;
other grades to 40c lower, COWS de-
ClninS most.
June Chicago prices: Eog9 ton
$1,000; bulk OF sales. $1,000 1898, me-
um and good beet steers. 81 \. $50.
butcher cows and heifers, 2jas $50:
teeGer steers, $60GSj; light and mgtuI"
we ght veal calves. IS. n lc.5g' g.;
5iI :. yyeaTLngs sSa io.75; tat ewes
S,ocker and feeder shipments from g.
important markets during the wecr ena-
ne May 20 We're: Cattle and ca.' es
-, i04; hogs 1887; sheep 1898.
Eastern wholesale fresh meat prices
generally finn TO higher. Veal up $lGt2,
pork lons up 81; beef generally 5Uc nigh
e.; June prices good grade meats:
%; mutton $i6al9; ! GIT pork INA S2l
u24; heavy loins Sl5u21.
Frults and Vegetables.
Potato markets generally weaker.
Northern sacked round whites down sc
Chicago at $1250 las per loo lbs;
weaker at shipping points at Si25 30.
Texas yellow Bermuda onions slow and
weaker ranging S1.50Wl.S5 per crate IN
eastern markets, $l25Gl.65 in Chicago.
Forecast OF commercial acreage late ON
.ons shows slight increase in nearly all
states. Total 4S.92i acres compared with
1870 in 1921, a gain OF fifteen percent
Strawberries, Missouri. Arkansas. Ten
nessee and Kentucky Aroma weaker at
IL to 23C a quart basis in eastern mar
6ets; $2.75@3 25 per "a quart crate IL
midGlewestern cities.
Cantaloupe acreage increased % per-
cent. Total for 1922 is IS, $40 acres com
pared with AZ 230 in 1921.
Dairy Products
Butter markets unsettled during week
although steady to firm at close. In
creasing interest in buying for storage
although no large into storage movement
has taken place.
Closing prices % score: New York 35c;
| Chicago 34c; Philadelphia 3Gc; Boston
35 Ice.