The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-03-04
The Markets


'iASs hght during the week. Eastern
shipping points weaker. Sacked rount
whites closed $1.75 per 100 lbs. fob
western New York: nearly steady !,
city market at s2OOM2.5o. Michiga,
country points weakened to s1.55M
I-o3' with Chicago carlot marke
stronger at $1.75@2.OO. Bulk greer
mountains down 5O615c fob. Maine
points at $1.31; steady in New Yorl
city at $2.20d235. Sacked STOCK
down lOc in Boston at s1.9o02.OO. Min
hesota red river Ohios up zoe in Gin
cinnati at $40. Cabbage prices low
er at producing points. New York
danish type weakened to $2803O PEI
ton in shipping sections; down s305
IN New York City at $3O@35; stronger
IN other eastern markets at $4O@45
Early flat type weaker in lower Rio
Grande Valley at $40 per ton; steady
IN most consuming centers at S4O6SO.
FLORIDA celery down 10c per crate at
shipping points, closing at $225@2.35
LODI. cash track; haulings heavy.
Eastern markets nearly steady at $500
@3.5O; middle-western markets $3.50
W4OO. Sweet potato markets nearly
steady. Maryland and Delaware vel
low varieties ranged $165M19O per
pushel hamper in eastern cities New
Jersey stock $2.00@2.25 in the east;
$2.40@2.65 in Chicago, with Tennessee
nancy halls $1.O0M125. Little change
in apple situation, New York baldwins
2-212 inch closed at 1925 fob. ROch-
ester section, $7.50@8.OO per barrel in
most city markets. Chicago market
reached $S.O0@S.53. Northwestern ex-
ira fancy boxed jonathans up 25c in
Chicago at $3.00@3.5O; winesaps rang
ing $2.75@3.25 per box.
Hay-Market dull and generally
slightly lower. Off grades hay con
tinues in excess of demand Quoted
FEBRUARY "a: No. / timothy. New
York $27. Philadelphia $24, Pittsburg
$22, Chicago $21, Atlanta $27, Cincin-
natl $19; No. l alfalfa. Atlanta $32,
Chicago $3.50.
Feed-Markets firm. Cotton seed
meal strong on reported export in
curry. Linseed meal also quoted high
er. Western quotations for wheat
feeds unchanged. Gluten feed offer
ings good, demand good. Hominy feed
production light, demand fair. Alfalfa
meal and beet pulp steady. Stocks
and receipts good, demand generally
fair. Quoted February "a: Bran $25,
middlings $3.50, flour middlings
$3.50 Minneapolis white hOminy feed
$22 st. Louis, $27.25 Philadelphia; SO
per cent cotton seed meal $3.50 Mem
phis; linseed meal $49.50 Minneapolis;
$53 Buffalo: alfalfa meal SIPS Kan
sas City; gluten feed $32.65 Chicago.
Grain-Wheat market unsettled but
closed higher for the week. Princi
pal market factors were: strength in
Liverpool and Buenos Aires, good ex-
port sales, bullish crop reports and
breaking of drouth in Southwest. Elk
port demand for corn continued good;
country offerings to arrive light. Clos
ing prices in Chicago cash market:
No. red winter wheat $1.41; No. 2
hard wheat $1.39; No. mixed corn
60c; No. yellow corn soc; No. 3 white
oats 36Ac Average farm prices: No.
2 mixed corn in Central Iowa 46hc;
No hard winter wheat in Central
Kansas $1.23. For the week Chicago
May wheat up sc, closing at $1.445s.
Chicago May corn up &c, closing at
66Ac; Minneapolis May wheat up 30
3Ac at $1.46k; Kansas City May
wheat up 2Ac at $1.31@1.31h; Win
nipeg May wheat up SIC at $1.42h.
Dairy Products - Butter markets
barely steady. Supplies of all grades
liberal and buyers operating cautious
ly. Prices on all markets practically
the same and there is very little inter
market trading Closing prices 80
score: New York, Philadelphia and
Boston &c; Chicago 36kc.
cotton-Spot cotton prices advanced
36 points during the week, closing at
l7.31c per lb. New York March fu- !
lures up 81 points, closing at 1910.
Five Stock and Meats-Chicago hog
prices advanced 50@65c per 100 lbs. |
Beef steers practically unchanged;
butcher cows and heifers up 10@25c. |
Feeder steers up 15@25c; veal calves
ID 5Oc@$1. Fat lambs advanced ESQ |
IOc; yearlings and fat ewes 25@50c.
Feeding lambs practically unchanged.
February 25 Chicago prices: Hogs,
op 5000; bulk of sales $10.40@10S5;
Medium and good beef steers 1880
|.15: butcher cows and heifers $4,000
'.S5: feeder steers $55007.50; light
md medium weight veal calves $3.50
D12.00; fat lambs $13.50016.25; feed
ng lambs $11.50@13.50; yearlings
fat ewes $5.75@9.25.
,tocker and feeder shipments from IL
important markets during the week
nding February II were: Cattle and
alves 61,577; hogs 12,703; sheep o..
~. The general trend of eastern
wholesale fresh meat prices was up
vard. Lamb advanced 81 to 81; pork
pins and mutton 81 to -; veal prac-
Ically unchanged; beef ranged from
DC higher on medium grades to soc
over on good. February "a prices
God grade meats: Beef $3.50 to
1880: veal SIC to $40; lamb $27 to
30: mutton $14 to $18; fight pork
bins $1s to $23; heavy loins SIS to SO.