Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-08-11
U. S. MARKET REPORT
Weekly Marketgram by Bureau
of Markets and Crops.

Washington, Aug. 5.--Week ending Aug.
3.-HAY-Quoted August 2: No. timothy,
New York $1,000, Philadelphia $3.50. Gin
cinnati $17.OO, Minneapolis $1I0O. Chicago
$21.0O st. Louis $3.50, Atlanta $24o0, Mem
phis $20.50. No. i alfalfa, Kansas City
$780, Memphis $500, st. Louis $1,000. No.
prairie, Kansas City $1075. Minneapolis
$500. Chicago $500.
FEED-Quoted August 2: Bran, $780,
middlings, $3.50, Minneapolis; So per cent
cottonseed meal, $500 Memphis: white
hominy feed, $3.50, gluten feed, $29S5
Chicago; No. / alfalfa meal, $1S.75 Kansas
City; "a per cent linseed meal, $500 Min
neapolis
GRAIN-Wheat prices advanced early in
week on heavy export buying. Weakness
In foreign exchange and drop in foreign
grain markets caused slump on July %
and advanced afterwards met with heavy
selling toward the close of the week,
causing prices to trend downward Corn
future prices acted largely in sympathy
with wheat, though cash corn was In
good demand and cash prices were fairly
strong On August third wheat market
had heavy undertone early in day maxi
ing new lows in September and December
futures. Seaboard buying came out on
all breaks, but hedging pressure on each
advance kept price range within fairly
ly steady. Clocing prices in Chicago cash
market No. red winter wheat, $1.0s;
No. hard winter wheat. $1.10; No. Q
mixed corn, CSC; No. 2 yellow corn, SIC:
NO. white oats, 34c Average farm
prices: No. 2 mixed corn in central Iowa
about Soc; No. 2 hard winter wheat in
central Kansas, 90c; No. / dark north
ern wheat in central North Dakota. $1.O5.
Closing future prices: Chicago Septem-
Der wheat s105as; Chicago September
corn, Gle; Minneapolis September wheat
Sl119s; Kansas City September wheat.
97Bc; Winnipeg October wheat, s1.09A.
FRUITS AND vEGETABLES-Peac
markets weaker Georgia and North Car
DINA stocks mostly 25c lower Arkansas
Elbertas slow and duh. New Jersey,
Delaware and Maryland fruit followed
the general trend. Watermelons slightly
weaker. Carolina Tom Watsons down
SIS per car Georgia melons 5000 lower.
New York firm, Pittsburgh and Chicago
Missouri stock slow and weak. Canta-
loupes steady to firm, eastern markets
weaker in middlewest for California
stock. Eastern green meats generally
lower. Prices reported August 8: New
Jersey sacked cobblers, $1.15@1.50 per 100
lbs. city markets, $L0061.15 f. o. b. North
and South Jersey points. Kansas early
Ohios partly graded. 600S0c Chicago. Min
nesota stock, 1.1001.2O Chicago, $10O f.
o. b. sandlot district points. Georgia
peaches, Elbertas, skies and bushel bas-
kets, $225@2.75 leading wholesale mar
kets. North Carolina Bellies and Elbertas
mostly $2.25@25O in eastern cities. $3.50
2.55 f. 0. b. shipping points Eastern
Elbertas s1.0091.75.
LIVE STOCK-Compared with week ago.
Chicago hog prices showed advances of
10 to 45c per 100 lbs. light weights adj
vancing most Beef steers, 25@50c higher
and butcher cows and heifers 10000 high
er. Fat lambs, yearlngs and fat ewes.
10@25c higher; feeding lambs 10c higher
per 100 lbs. August 8 prices: Hogs, top.
$10.S5: bulk of sales, $7.9O010SO medium
and good beef steers, $550@7.65; light and
medium weight veal calves, 50. 25@10.75;
fat lambs $12013: feeding lambs, $116o0
1850: yearlings. $85001100; fat ewes. So Is
@7.60. Stocker and feeder shipments from
IL important markets during the week
ending July Is were: Cattle and calves.
66,9S3: hogs, 1852: sheep. 46,100
DAIRY PRODUCTS-Bu markets
steady to firm at close Heavy accumula-
lions caused declines early in week but
war prices attracted speculative demand
and brought about reaction.