The Hope pioneer., 1922-03-23
STOCK MARKET WEAKER

STOCK MARKETWEAkER
Grain Prices Unsettled But
Closed Strong and Higher.
U. S. Bureau of Markets. Washington. D. c..
for week ended Mar. II. 1922.
GRAIN-Market unsettled during
the week but closed strong at higher
prices. Principal market factors were:
Weakness in foreign markets. decline
in sterling exchange, improved crop
conditions in southwest, light receipts,
strong cash markets, and improved
milling and export demand. Closing
prices in Chicago cash markets: No.
2 red winter wheat $1.39: No. 2 hard
winter wheat $1.37; No. mixed corn
SOC; No. 2 yellow corn 60c; No, white
oats SIC. Average farm prices. No.
2 mixed corn in Central Iowa about
40c; No. l dark northern wheat in
Central North Dakota $1.2SA; No. 2
hard winter wheat in Central Kansas
$1.15. For the week Chicago May
wheat up 1lAc, closing at $1.3Ssa; Chi
cago May corn up Nc at 62Ac: Min
neapolis May wheat up &c at s1.441a;
Kansas City May wheat up &c at
$1.26; Winnipeg May wheat, up 2Ac
at $1.3SA.
HAY-L:ght receipts of hay held
prices generally firm. Demand most
ly local but in excess Of receipts at
Chicago, Minneapolis and Memphis
No. timothy and alfalfa wanted at
Chicago. Quoted March II: No.
timothy Chicago nominal $25 to &c,
Minneapolis $3.50. No. at Mime.
apolis $22. No. prairie Chicago SIS.
Minneapolis $16,50.
FEED-Markets generally weak par
ticularly for wheat feeds. Quotations
have been reduced materially but de-
mand remains sluggish. Pressure Of
offerings from the West and slow coun-
try demand outstanding factors. Quot
ed March II: Bran $24, middlings
$25.25, -four middlings $28.50, linseed
meal $23.50 Minneapolis.
LIVE STOCK AND MEATS-Chica-
go hog prices declined GO to SOC per
100 lbs, medium and light weights de-
clining most. Beef steers lost 35 to
SOC; butcher cows and heifers 25 to
75c: feeder steers 15c: veal calves de-
clined soc to $1.5O; sheep and lambs
firm to higher. Fat ewes advanced
75c; yearlings and feeding lambs gen.
orally Csc higher; fat lambs weak to
Csc lower. March II Chicago prices:
Hogs top $1O.55, bulk of sales $500 to
1890; medium and good beef steers
$7.15 to 8.75; butcher COWS and heifers
81 to 7.75; feeder steers $3.50 to $50;
light and medium weight veal calves
Sc to 9.25; fat lambs $1325 to 16;
feeding lambs $11.75 to 1875; year.
lings SLIPS to 14.50; fat ewes $6.75
to 1925.
Stocker and feeder shipment from
IL important markets during the week
ending March II were: Cattle and
calves 52,1O8; hogs 13,417; sheep a..
SAG.
VEGETABLES-Repo of potato
stocks March shows 9O,946,000 bus.
on hand il. Is leading potato states or
OUIO VI plOuuCIlOu VI IuSoc 6LdICS
Growers hold $40 of stocks; dealers
1870. Growers expected to move 30,
935, bus. from farms and to retain 49,
$4,000 bus. Price declines of to
1919 occurred in most city markets
Eastern and Northern sacked round
whites ranged s165 to 2.10 per 100 lbs
The seasons low point was reached in
producing sections. Growers in Idaho
and Colorado receiving Csc to soc for
sacked stock.
DAIRY PRODUCTS-Butter mar
kets firm during week; tone steady at
close; tendency upward Receipts
moderate. Good demand for practical
Ivy all grades. Closing prices 80 score
New York 40c; Chicago 39c; Phila
delphia 391sc; Boston 4Oc.
Cheese markets firm with fairly &C
tive buying most of week. Daisies
plentiful with supply greater than de
mand. Prices on nearly all styles at
close showed tendency to go lower
Minneapolis Cash Closing Prices.
Minneapolis-Whe / darl
northern, S1.47@1.55; No. 1 northern
$1.45@149; No. 2 northern, s1.4O@
Las; No 3 northern, s14O@142; No
durham, s1.16@1.21. Corn-No.
yellow, soc; No. mixed, 49c@5Oc
Rye-No. 2, 95c@96c. Oats-No.
| white, 33c. Barley-choice to fancy
57c@61c Flaxseed, $2.4S@2.53
South St. Paul Live Stock.
: South st. Publishers, s5.75@735
{ COWS, $3.50@500; calves, $3.5O@70O
hogs, $9.50@10; sheep and lambs, 81.
@14.75.