The St. Mary banner., 1922-04-08
The Markets

Hay-Market remains rather firm
with prices ranging from unchanged
to 81 advance over those of week
ago. Receipts light, demand also light
and mostly local. Glover and clover
mixed strong at Pittsburgh. Timothy
up 81 at Cincinnati Some prairie re-
ceived at Chicago reconsigned from
st. Louis Quoted March %: No.
timothy, New York, $29; Philadelphia,
$23; Pittsburgh, $3.50; Cincinnati,
$23; Atlanta, $27 so; Chicago, $25;
Minneapolis, $2O.50 No. l alfalfa,
Kansas City, $22.75; Minneapolis. $2S;
Atlanta, $50. No. l prairie, Kansas
City, $11.75; Chicago, $3.50.
Feed-Markets very quiet. Produc-
ton and stocks of most feeds good;
offerings not easily absorbed. Coun-
try demand dull Jobbers well stocked
up and shading prices below mill quo
tations. Cottonseed meal prices held
firm by mills, stocks at mills and IN
dealers hands good. Linseed meal
easier on freer offerings by mills.
Hominy feed weak, production heavy,
demand light. Gluten feed and gluten
meal in fair request, production good
dlings, $2275; flour middlings, $25.75,
Minneapolis; white hominy feed $2O.50
at ST. Louis, $21 Chicago; yellow hon.
my $20.5O Chicago, linseed meal $51.5O
Minneapolis, $51 Buffalo; 36 per cent
cottonseed meal, $42.50 Atlanta and
Memphis; gluten feed, $32.65, Chicago
Grain-Market unsettled with price
changes erratic, but close was strong.
Chicago May wheat up 3Ac, closing
at $1.35A; Chicago May corn down
NC, at 59c. Light outside interest and
lack of support, good weather for
growing crop, slow demand, and larger
estimate for Russian crop than ex-
pected were principal market factors.
Shipments at all leading markets
larger than receipts. Closing prices
in Chicago cash market: No. red
winter wheat, $1.36; No. hard Win
ter wheat, $135; No. 2 mixed corn,
SIC; No. yellow corn, SIC; No. 3
white oats, 36c. Average farm prices:
No. 2 mixed, corn in central Iowa,
431ac; No 1 dark northern wheat in
central North Dakota, $1.32 3-8. For
the week Minneapolis May wheat up
&c, closing at $1.42A; Kansas City
May wheat up &c, at $1.22; Winnipeg
May wheat up &c, at $1.32A.
Dairy Products-Butter markets un-
settled and have been out of line with
each other. Chicago prices being
higher than prices in eastern markets
Supplies more than ample for current
demand Closing prices 81 score:
New York, 36c; Philadelphia, 361sc
Boston, SIC; Chicago, 36c. Cheese
markets on lower basis. Trading light
following declines on Wisconsin
cheese boards Monday. Approach of
heavier producing season appears to
be of influence on present markets.
Prices at Wisconsin primary markets,
March %: Twins, 18hc; daisies, 1Sc;
double daisies, 17Ac; young Americas,
201hc; longhorns, 1910; square prints,
20%c.
cotton.-Spot cotton prices advanc.
ed 10 points during the week, closing
at 17.00c per ID. New York futures up
% points at 1870.
Fruits and vegetables.-Onion mar
kets strong; demand limited. Ship
ments average 20 cars daily. Eastern
yellow globes up $1@2.50 in Eastern
cities at $12@12 per 1O0-lb. sacks. Mid
dlewestern yellow small to medium 50
@1O in Pittsburg and Cincinnati. Cali,
fOrnia Australian browns up SOC to 81
in leading Eastern and Middlewestern
markets at $9.50@10. Florida yellow
Bermudas No. standard crates $3.50
in Baltimore. Potato markets slow,
dull and slightly weaker. Supplies old
stock liberal, new stock limited. East
ern and Northern sacked round whites
$1.85@215 per 100-lbs; carlOt sales in
Chicago down sc at $1.55@1.70. North
ern stock nearly steady in producing
sections at $1.3O@1.45 +. o. b. Maine
Green Mountains in bulk up 10c@15c
f. o. b. shipping points at $121@1.31,
firm in New York and Philadelphia at
$2.10Q2.25, sacked stock up 15c in
Boston at $175 to $3.50 Florida
Spaulding Rose No. 1 dull and unset
tied in Eastern markets at $3.50 tC
$1I per Dbl. Strawberries weaker at
shipping points, stock showing effects
of rain. Louisiana Klondikes 24-pint
crates down $1.15 at $3.60G3.S5 +. o. b.
cash trackside, firm in consuming cen
ters at $450@6.. Floridas various va
rieties firm at 45@65c per quart. Gel
cry markets strong Demand moderate.
Supplies moderate in East, liberal in
Middlewest. Florida golden self-blanch.
ing 10-inch crates up SOC to SLIPS in
Eastern city wholesale markets at
$3.75@425; up $1.25@1.50 In middle
western cities at $3.7504.50.
Live Stock and Meats.-Chicago hog
prices advanced 15c@25c, medium and
heavy hogs advancing most. Beef
steers firm to 15c higher; butcher
COWS and heifers generally 25c higher.
Feeder steers weak to 25c lower; veal
calves unchanged. Fat lambs up 25c0
CSC: yearlings and fat ewes firm to
25c higher. Feeding lambs unchanged.
March 30 Chicago prices: Hogs, top,