The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-09-07
MARKETS UNCERTAIN
Wheat Higher, Then Lower
Pork Higher, Beef OFF.
U. S. Bureau Of Markets. Washington. d. c..
for week ended August 20. 1922.


U. s. Bureau Of Markets, Washington. D. c..
for week ended August 2s. 1922.
GRAIN-Wheat prices higher first
half Of week on good export business
and oversold condition. The market
then turned dull but at the close of
week prices advanced. Chicago Sept.
wheat shows a net gain of 2hc for
the week; Chicago Sept. corn up IL
On the 2Sth buying by seaboard houses
sent prices up, but aggressive buying
was lackin on the upturn and best
generally good. Visible supply wheat
27,S13,0e0 bu., compared with 343, $780,
900 bu. same date last year. Chicago
grain stocks 100000 blu. wheat,
1928, 900 blu. corn, 1881, 900 blu. oats in
addition to $4,000 blu. wheat afloat.
Corn advanced early but lost upturn
On liquidation. Visible supply corn
6,949, 900 blu. compared with 10000. 900
Blu. last year. Closing prices in Chi
cago cash market: No. 2 red winter
wheat $1.06; No. 2 hard winter wheat
$1.07; No. 2 corn CSC; No. 2 yellow
corn 63c; No. 3 white oats 33c. Aver
age farm prices; No. 2 mixed corn in
central Iowa soc. Closing future
prices: Chicago Sept. wheat $1.03h;
Chicago Sept. corn 60hc; Minneap-
oils Sept. wheat $1.02k; Kansas City
Sept. wheat 97c; Winnipeg October
wheat $1.00A.
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS-Chica,
go hog prices were generally 10-25c
higher for the week with some ex-
treme heavies as much as Csc lower
per 100 lbs. Beef steers and butcher
cows and heifers were Is to soc lower
and veal calves soc lower. Feeder
steers were 10-1cc higher, fat lambs
firm to loo higher and feedig lambs
25-50c higher; yearlings firm to Csc
higher and fat yves unchanged. On
Aug. % light hogs were active and 10
to 15c higher; good butcher hogs
strong to loo higher and packing sows
steady to strong. Beef steers and
yearlings fairly active and steady to
15c higher; butcher cows and heifers
slow but about steady with stockers
and feeders steady to strong. Aug.
% Chicago prices: Hogs top So 85;
bulk of sales $6.75 to 9.775; medium
and good beef steers $7.S5 to 10.15;
butcher cows and heifers 1855 to SO;
feeder steers $3.50 to IS; light and
$11.50; fat lambs s12 to 1910; feed
ing lambs S11.50 to $13; yearlings
$8.75 to SLIPS; fat ewes $3.50 to $7.65.
Stocker and feeder shipments from
eleven important markets during the
week ending August 18th we're: Cat
tie and calves S6,519; hogs 4,206;
sheep 56,76S. Net changes for the
week in eastern wholesale fresh meat
prices were slight. Beef was gener-
ally 81 lower, veal and fresh pork
loins firm to 81 higher lamb and NUT
ton were practically unchanged. On
Aug. 28th beef and veal were gener-
ally steady under light to moderate
receipts and a slow demand.
DAIRY PRoDUCTS-Butter mar
kets firm during the week. Decrease
In production in evidence and along
with lighter receipts on markets per-
centage of top grades is becoming
lighter. Undergrades do not share
fully in firm condition Of markets
Closing prices August %, on 81 score
butter: New York 37c; Chicago 35c.
Cheese markets about steady during
week but an unsettled undertone has
been evident. Decreases early in week
in Wisconsin were not anticipated in
wholesale distributing markets and
buyers have operated cautiously.
Cheese prices at Wisconsin primary
markets August 26: Twins 19Ac;
Daisies zoe, Double daisies 1890,
Longhorns zoe, Square prints 21hc::