The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-01-26

for week ended Jan. %, 1922.
GRAIN = Prices averaged higher
during the week, mainly on strength
in cash markets, good milling demand,
dryness and severely cold weather in
southwest. Chicago May wheat up 4c,
closing at $1.155s; Chicago May corn
up 1ac at 531ac. Visible supply wheat,
43,S22,000 bushels, decrease of 1876
900 bushels for the week. Visible sup
ply corn, 26,117, 900 bushels, an in
crease of 1,S58,000 bushels >for week.
Average farm prices: No. 1 mixed
corn in central Iowa about 36c; No. 1
dark northern wheat in central North
Dakota, SLIP. For the week Mime
apolis May wheat up &c at $1.22A;
Winnipeg May wheat up three cents at
$112%.
Potato haulings light; shipments de-
creasing. Many shipping points weak
er. Bulk Green Mountains closed $1.66-
LII f. o. b. Down 10c at $1.65, Mime
sofa points; Wisconsin points, $1.75-
1856.
Receipts of hay at the princi-
pal markets increased slightly during
the week except at Kansas City. The
demand, while still limited, was equal
to receipts in most markets. Prices
declined at Boston, New York, Phila-
delphia and Cincinnati, but were prac-
tically unchanged at the other mar
kets. Alfalfa market stronger at Kan
sas City, prairie market weak. South
ern markets displayed more activity
but transactions were not large. Quot
ed Jan. 21st: No. timothy, Chicago,
$22; Minneapolis, $3.50; Kansas City,
$14. No. prairie, Kansas City, $10.75;
Minneapolis, $3.50; Chicago, SIT.
FEED - Markets quiet Increased
output of wheat feeds tended to freer
offerings and weaker tendency. Mid
ding offered by resellers $3.50 per ton
less than bran. Cottonseed and lin
seed meal firm, demand light. Gluten
feed and hominy feed weak offerings
fairly heavy. Alfalfa meal and beet
pulp prices unchanged. Demand for
most feeds light. Stocks. good and
quite ample to meet requirements.
Quoted Jan. 21st: Bran, SPOTS; mid
dlings, $2025;, flour middlings, $23.
Minneapolis.
= LIVESTOCK AND MEATS - Chi
cago hog prices made net advances of
$105-1.25 per 100 pounds during the
week, light hogs advancing most. Beef
and butcher cattle ranged from 25c
lower to as much as 35c higher, the
better grades declining most. Feeder
steers averaged about steady; veal
calves up 81. Fat lambs advanced so
90c higher; feeding lambs, 75c; yearl-
ings and fat ewes, 50-75c. January %
Chicago prices: Hogs, top, $9.05; bulk
of sales, $8.35-8.85; medium and good
beef steers, $6.90-910; butcher cows
and heifers, $3.65-7.75; feeder steers,
$5.15-7; light and medium weight veal
calves, $7.50-1050; fat lambs, $12-
1875; feeding lambs, $10.50-12.75;
yearlings, $9.75-12.25; fat ewes, $5.25-S.
DAIRY PRODUCTS - Butter mar
kets steadier following week of more
or less dull trading. Demand just
about sufficient to prevent break in
prices except for low grades. Firmer
foreign markets has lessened POSSIBLE
ity of immediate imports of conse-
quence. Closing prices, 80 score: New
York, 81; Chicago, "a.
Cheese markets easy; slightly unset
tied undertone evident, especially in
distributing markets. Fair trading in
Wisconsin, although cold weather still
interfering with shipping at some
points. Prices at Wisconsin primary
markets Jan. 81: Daisies, 201a; Dou-
BILE Daisies, 20A; Young Americas, 20;
Longhorns. 20A :: Square Prints. 231h.