Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-03-09
GRAIN PRICE UNSTEADY
Cattle Price Firm-Hogs Remain
Steady But Stronger.

the week and prices averaged lower
Improvement In crop conditions In
Southwest, lower tendency Of foreign
markets and slower cash and export
demand were pricipal market factors.
Visible supply wheat 40,05b,0 900 bu., a
decrease OF 1,123,000 bu. for week.
Visible supply corn 44,792,0OO bu., an
increase OF 3,S95.00O Blu. for week.
Closing price In Chicago cash market:
No. 2 red winter wheat $14l: No. 2
hard winter wheat $1.3s: No. 2 mixed
white oats 38c. Average farm prices:
No. mixed corn in central Iowa about
4Sc; No. l dark northern wheat In
Central North Dakota $1.42h; No. 2
hard winter wheat In central Kansas
$1.2O For the week Chicago May
wheat declined axe. closing at
@1.43M; Chicago May corn down 3hc
at SIC; Minneapolis May wheat down
1hc at $1.44%: Kansas City May
wheat down &c at s1.3lA: Winnipeg
May wheat down 2Ac at 3142M.
VEGETABLES: Potao market gen
orally steady to strong; Chicago
slightly weaker. Northern and East
ern sacked round whites 81 to 2.25
per 100 lbs. in leading cities. $1.75 to
1856 In Chicago. Growers In Idaho
and Colorado receiving soc to 81.
HAY: Movement OF hay light be-
cause OF bad condition of country
roads. Receipts light. especially OF
good quality timothy which is Arm
and soc to 81 higher Eastern and
Southern market steady. No. l tim
0thy quoted March 4 Chicago $23. No.
l alfalfa, Chicago $23. No. prairie
Chicago SIC.
FEED: Markets inactive. Linseed
and cotton seed meal In fairly good
demand. Wheat feeds quiet. Eastern
trade reported as reselling to Western
jobbers. Quoted March 1: Bran $25.
middlings &26, -four middlings $29
Minneapolis: linseed meal $50 Min
neapolis.
LIVE STOCK AND MEATS: Chi
cagO hog prices ranged steady to 1Oc
higher. Beef steers firm to l0c high
or; butcher cows and heifers any
where from 10 to soc higher. Feeder
steers up 15c. Veal calves 81 to It's
lower. Fat lambs and yearlings al.
vanced soc; fat ewes 25c. Feeding
lambs unchanged. March 6 Chicago
prices: Hogs top $11.25: bulk of sales
$10.S6 to Ills: medium and good beef
steers $7.25 to 9.25; butcher cows and
heifers $4.25 to $40: feeder steers
$3.50 to SIS: light and medium weight
veal calves 81 to 1926; fat lambs
$l375 to 1850; feeding lambs $11,50
to 1850: yearlings $11 to 14.75; fat
ewes So to $50.
STOCKERS AND FEEDER SHIP
MENTS FROM IL important markets
during the week ending February -
were: Cattle and calves $3.50: hogs
SITS; sheep 26.6S5.
DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter mar.
kets steady In East but weak at Chi
cago. Severe storms In producing Sec
lions have been principal market fac
tors. Closing prices 90 score: New
York. Philadelphia and Boston 3Sc:
Chicago 36hc.
Cheese markets steady. Trading ac-
Wisconsin markets. Held cheese Arm.
Prices at Wisconsin primary markets
March 4; Twins lShc; Daisies zoe:
Double Daisies 19Ac Longhorns 20c:
Square Prints zee.
COTTON: Spot cotton prices de-
clined % points during the week, clos
ing at 17.26c per pound, New York
March futures down % points at
1S.21c.
Minneapolis Cash Closing Prices.
Minneapolis-W No. ! dark nor
thern, $1b20l69: No. northern
$i.5O0l.54: No. northern, $144G
$50: No. 3 northern, 1850 as: No.
durum, $120Ml.26: Corn. No, vel
low, Sic: No. 3 mixed 49M50c; Ry'
No. 2, 96N97c: Oats No. 2 white. Soc
Barley. choice to fancy bsI62c; Flax
seed. $25SG2.64,
South st. Paul Live Stock.
South St Publishers $4df$5