The Yale expositor., 1922-09-14
MARKETS
v. 8. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington. .. c.

Cor the week ending Sept T. 1929
Hay
Market generally weak with receipts
| equal to or slightly In excess OF demaNd.
Buying limited to immediate needs. LSw
quality hay slow sale. Country loading
Quoted September 6: No l timothy.
New, York $26. Philadelphia sl9, Pitts
ST. Louis SIS, Memphis S2050. No. l al
| falfa Memphis $2250, No. l prairie, st.
Louis $l5, Chicago SIG.
Feed
Mill feed market generally inactive.
Buyers not inclined to accumulate
| stocks beyond current needs. Offerings
OF wheat feeds especially bran reported
light but production has increased and
mills are reported as storing feed;
$22.50 Philadelphia, winter bran $3.50
ST. Louis. Grey shorts S25 st. Louis.
Grain
Prices unsettled during the week but
averaged higher on strength in corn, bet
demand and buying by exporters. Chi
cago December wheat up l 3-Sc; Chicago
December corn up Lac On 7th prices
continued TO advance on strength in
corn with sentiment much more friendly
| to buying side despite lower Liverpool
market. Crop export from northwest
spring wheat crop s42,OOOOOO bushels
compared with 79500 900 bushels 1921.
! Argentine acreage estimated by Broom
hall ten to fifteen per cent larger than
! last year Cooler weather forecast over
Closing prices Chicago cash market:
! No. red winter wheat $1.04; No. 2 hard
S4c S'G No. yellow ;Oc corn G4c; No. ;S white
oats 36 LAC.
Average farm prices No mixed corn
in central Iowa about so 1-4c; No. l dark
northern wheat in central North Dakota
! SSc.
Dairy Products
Butter market firm. Light receipts
and scarcity OF fine grades OF consider
able influence. Reports from creameries
indicate production showing relatively
! heavier decrease each week.
Closing prices, 90 score butter: New
York 80 lie; Chicago SSc; Philadelphia
| i0c Boston 39c.
Live Stock and Meats
The trend OF Chicago hog prices was
! downward during tho week declines
ranging from 10 to 30 cents per 100 lbs.
Extreme lights, however, showed a 4Oc
! decline over a week ago.
Sept. Z Chicago prices: Hogs, top,
$3.50; bulk of sales S6.S099.55; medium
and good beef steers $7.9O@1O 40; butcher
| cows and heigers S3.35q9.25; feeder
steers S5.500S; light and medium weight
| veal calves S11.25@12.75; fat lambs.
! S11.75912.9O; feeding lambs, s11.5Od
l275; -yearlngs $s.25Q10.S5; fat ewes,
Eastern wholesale fresh meat prices
! showed mixed movements during the
/ week, Beef firm 10 81 higher. Veal
! weak to 50 lower and mutton S1@250
! lower Lamb was unchanged. On Sep
! tember better grades Of steer beef
steady to weak with other grades weak
| to soc lower.
September prices good grade meats:
! Beef S15.50017 veal s15H1S lamb S236
! 27 mutton seals; light pork loins S25G
29 heavy loins Sl5d20
Fruits and Vegetables
Potato markets lower for the week
| Eastern cobblers and giants and middle
western stock down 1Oc TO zoe per 100
! lbs. Western white varieties show sim
| ilar declines. Onions weaker. Apple
markets steady 70 firm. New York
! Wealthys slightly stronger New York
! city. Peaches continue TO decline. Can
taloupes down soc at s1.75 in leading
! markets.
Prices reported Sept. I: New Jersey
potatoes, sacked cobblers mostly S1.15
! @l.40 per 100 lbs. Cincinnati steady at
! Sl.50q1 Go. Giants 75c TO S5c eastern
! cities, Sld1.35 in the middlewestern.
! Maine cobblers, Boston S1.25G1.30 Min
nesota, Michigan and Wisconsin round
whites steady Cincinnati $3.50. Carlot
| sales Chicago 90c TO S1.10 Western
white varieties s1@1.60 in midwestern
| cities. New York and middlewestern yell
! low onions mostly s1.4061.75 per 100
ID. sack Boston S2d2.15
Michigan peaches, Elbertas, bushel
| baskets mostly S202.25 Cincinnati. and
| Detroit sL2561.50 Eastern Elbertas so
| 42.75 eastern cities.