The Hope pioneer., 1922-11-23
SMALL GRAINS RALLY
Closing Markets Show Wheat
Steadily Climbing.

u. 8. Bureau of Markets. Washington. D. c..
GRAIN: Grain prices trended up.
ward during the week and closed
sharply higher. Chicago December
wheat advanced firm cents; Chicago
December corn up 312c, European po.
litical situation, strong foreign mar.
kets, and good cash demand were main
market factors. Sentiment mixed on
the 18th but commission houses were
mostly bullish. Better foreign demand
reported; milling demand good at Chi
cago and Kansas City. Corn market
had firm undertone. Closing prices in
Chicago cash market: No. 2 red win.
ter wheat $132; No. hard winter
wheat $1.22; No. 2 mixed corn 73c;
No. 2 yellow corn 74c; No. white
oats 44c. Average farm prices: No. 2
mixed corn in central Iowa 60c; No. 2
hard winter wheat in central Kansas
tral North Dakota 81. Closing future
prices: Chicago Dec. wheat $1.20A;
Chicago Dec. corn 71Ac; Minneapolis
Dec. wheat Sligo; Kansas City Dec.
wheat $1.11%; Winnipeg December
wheat s1.O5%.
LIVESTOCK AND MEETS: Chi
>cago hog prices declined 10 to 4Oc per
100 pounds for week. Beef steers
steady to 15c higher, butcher heifers
weak to 35c lower with fat cows un.
changed; feeder steers steady to Csc
up and veal calves SOC to 81 lower
than week ago. Fat lambs declined
10 to Csc but fat ewes were steady to
soc higher. Yearlings and feeding
lambs unclaimed. On Nov. 18th Chicago
hog prices fully steady with Thurs.
days average; beef steers slow un'
even about steady, other classes fully
steady. Fat lambs steady to strong
and fat sheep fully steady. Nov. 18th
Chicago prices: Hogs, top, $S.25; bulk
of sales $S-8.25; medium and good
beef steers $6.9O-11.75; butcher cows
and heifers $3.4O-10.50; feeder steers
s$5.25-7.75; light and medium weight
veal calves $S-9.75; fat lambs $13-14.75;
feeding lambs $12.25-14.25; yearlings
s$9.75-13.25; fat ewes $5.50-S. Stockel
sand feeder shipments from II impor
tant markets during the week ending
Nov. 10th were: Cattle and calves
154,753; hogs 1921; sheep 173,401
With the exception of pork which was
weak to SO lower, the trend of prices
in eastern wholesale fresh meat mar
kets was upward for the week. Yea
and mutton steady to 81 higher, bee
firm. On Nov. 18th steer beef weak al
New York, steady elsewhere, othel
classes about steady; veal steady or
good and choice grades with other:
weak; lamb steady to firm; mutto1
generally steady; pork unevenly 50'
to 81 lower at New York, weak else
where. Nov. 18th prices good grad'
meats: Beef $14-1S; veal $13-16; laml
:$23-2S; mutton $12-16; light pork loin'
$17-20; heavy loins $15-19.
DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter market
have ruled steady to firm during th'
week with prices practically unchang
ed on fresh butter, and slightly highe
on storage butter. Supplies of fresl
demands; storage is moving freely
CLOSING prices 80 score butter: New
York SO; Chicago 491a. Cheese price
were unsettled during the week wit
demand slightly improved and sligh
gain in prices on some styles. Their
is more demand for held cheese pre-
sduction of fresh cheese decreasing
Cheese prices at Wisconsin primar
markets Nov. 10th: Twins 24A; Da
sizes 25; Double Daisies 241a; Long
horns 241h; Square Prints rs.