The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-02-09
MARKET REPORT
FURNISHED BY y. s. BUREAU
OF MARKETS. WASHING
TON, D. G.
(For the week ending Feb. .. 1929

Cor the week ending Feb. Q. 1929
| Market firm during the week ana
| prices closed higher; Chicago May wheat
advanced lac net, closing at III ~ Is
Chicago May corn up l 1-Sc at % l-1.
Principle market factors were strength
in foreign markets, bullish reports OF
farm reserves and crop conditions ana
fair export business. Movement or corn
to terminal markets during January
largest on record.
Closing prices in Chicago cash market:
No red winter wheat $l.3O; NO. haro
winter wheat 1921: No mixed corn
49c; No yellow corn 49c; No. white
oats 35c.
Average farm prices: No. mixed corn
i'm central Iowa about SIC. No l dark
northern wheat I'm central North Dakota
Sis; No. 2 hard winter wheat In cent
raj Kansas $1.03.
For the week Minneapolis May wheat
up lac, closing at Sl.29; Kansas CITY
May wheat up 6 Use at $1.13 lis; Win
nipeg May wheat up &c at sl.lS IL.
Hay
Market continues dull generally Re-
ceipts are not large except In one or
mand. Poorer grades sell slowly Price
variations within narrow ranges. Rain
in central west and snow in east cur
failing movement.
Quoted February /: No. l timothy,
New York $27 so, Philadelphia $23, Pitts
burgh $2150, Cincinnati $1,000, Chicago
$22; Minneapolis $l7.50s Memphis Szz. s DO
Minneapolis $2l. No. l prairie Kansas
City 1925, Minneapolis SIS. Chicago $40.
Feed
Markets generally firmer on improved
demand. Wheat feeds advanced on re-
ported short covering by Minneapolis job
bers. Substantial sales of January-F Feb
ruary shipment bran and mlddlings to
jobbers were made by Minneapolis and
southwestern mills. Gluten and hominy
Demand reeds
light in most sections. Alfalfa meal ana
beet pulp steady. Receipts and move
Quoted Feb /, bran $2O.5o, mddlings
500 Minneapolis: gluten feed $3215 Chi
cago; white hominy feed $l9.75 st. Louis;
No. / alfalfa meal $1675 Kansas City
Livestock and Meats
Chicago cattle and hog prices We're
sheep and lamb prices were weak TO a
shade lower
Feb. 2 Chicago prices: Hogs, top.
So 40; bulk of sales, SS13Q9.10; medium
and good beef steers S675W9.15; butcher
cows and hefers $4@ 475; feeder steers
$5.15q6.90; light and medium veal CAVES.
$775@11.25; fat lambs. Sll75@l4; feed
ing lambs, $10.50Wl2 10; yearlings, S9.ooW
$13: fat ewes $5t7.75.
Stocker and feeder shipments from II
important markets during the week end
ing Jan. % We're: Cattle and calves,
80, 026; hogs, 1904; sheep, 2S,37l.
Eastern wholesale fresh meat prices
showed only slight changes. Beef steady
at some markets and 81 lower at others.
Good veal SlW2 higher and medium veal
unchanged. Feb 2 prices good grade
meats: Beef S12M13; veal SlS@22; lamb.
S25027; mutton $l2G16; light pork loins,
$16@1S; heavy loins $l0@l4.
Fruits and Vegetables
Potato markets unsettled at shipping
points at the end of the week. HaullngS
light: demand and movement slow.
Northern sacked round whites down Toe
f. o. b. at $1.55@1.75 per 100 lbs; Chicago
carlot market firm at $1.70M1.95. East
ern sacked round whites down 5@lOc
(. o. b. western New York points at Sl9S
2.45.
Cabbage markets irregular. Limited
supplies tended TO strengthen prices IN
some cities New York Danish type
stock up So In Pittsburgh and SIS in Gin
cnnati at $45M50 per ton bulk North
ern Danish stock steady in Chicago at
$40, weaker at shipping points at S35.
onion prices continued to soar. Md
dlewestern yellow varieties $7QS.25 in
leading cities; slightly weaker in Chicago
at s6.75W7.25.
steady. New York Baldwins or 1-2 hold
ing at S725QS per Dbl
Dairy Products
Butter markets barely steady. Prices
fairly well maintained throughout week
but trading lacked confidence in some
markets where declines have occurred
and price tendency is still downward.
Best trading on top grades.
Closing prices 90 score: New York CSC;
Philadelphia Soc; Boston 81 lie; Chicago
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