The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-11-09
MARKETS HOLD STRONG
Grains Climb to Profit Making
Heights.
U. s. Bureau of Markets. Washington. ,. C..
for week ended Nov. 8. 1922.

u: s. Bureau of Markets. Washington. ,. C.,
for week ended Nov. 8. 1922.
DAIRY PRODUCTS, Butter a
kets firm at steady prices during the
week. Production ~decreasingj sup
plies on market, especially on fancy
garden, somewhat limited. High prices
OF top scores have turned more inter
est to medium and under grades. With
drawals from storage heavy. Closing
prices 90 score butteri New York
49hc; Chicago aye; Cheese markets
barely steady, undertone unsettled.
Prices do not show much change from
week ago but trading is slow and most
ly confined to small lots Of goods for
immediate needs. Prices at Wisconsin
primary cheese markets Nov. /: Twins
25A: Daisies 25A. Double Daisies
24%, Young Americas 25h. Long
horns 25A. Square Prints 25A.
GRAIN: Grain prices had a higher
tendency during the week, but the
advances were not maintained due to
liquidation and the close was only
fr~actionally higher than a week ago.
Bullish factors were removal of hedg-
es against export sales, improved mill
ing and flour demand, and hullish pri-
vate reports on crops and world con-
ditions. Wheat market narrow on the
Bird. with fluctuations rapid and close
irregular. Flour demand northwest re-
ported active but transportation con-
ditions restricting business. Corn ner-
vous and affected largely by action of
wheat. Car situation reported some
what improved. Closing prices In Chi
cago cash market: No. 2 red winter
wheat S1.21; No. 2 hard winter wheat
$1.1S; No. 3 white oats 43c. Average
farm prices: No. 2 mixed corn in Gen.
trail Iowa 5Sc; No. 2 hard winter wheat
in central Kansas CSC; No. Q dark
northern wheat in central North Da-
kota 96c. Closing future prices: Chi
cago December wheat $1.15k; Chi
cago Dec. corn CSC; Minneapolis Dec.
wheat Slips; Kansas City Dec.
wheat $1.0S; Winnipeg Dec. wheat
991ac.
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS: At Chi
cago all classes of livestock show ed
declines for he week. Hog prices were
30 to Soc OF; light weight hogs de-
Ginning most. Beef steers declined Is
to 40c; butcher heifers were steady
to SOC lower; cows Is to zoe and feed
ers rs to soc of. Veal calves declined
75c net for the week. Fat lambs so to
Coo; feeding lambs generally soc and
yearlings rs to Csc lower. Ewes were
practically unchanged. 90 Nov. 3
Chicago hog prices steady with Thurs
days best time. Beef steers slow,
weak; veal calves rs to soc lower;
stockers and feeders weak to Use
off other classes steady. Nov. 3, Chi
cago prices: Hogs, top, $S.65; bulk,
of sales SIS to $3.50; medium and good
beef steers 8,S5 to $11.65; butcher
cows and heifers $50 to $40; feeder
steers s to $7.75; light and medium
weight veal calves IT'S to $10.25; fat
lambs 1880 to $14; feeding lambs
1925 to $13.S5; yearlings 9.25 to
S12.S5; fat ewes 4.50 to SITS. Stocker
and feeder shipments from IL impor-
tant markets during the week ending
Oct. 9th were; Cattle and calves
i84,473; hogs 1852; sheep 19S,I53.
All classes of fresh meat in eastern
wholesale markets declined during the
week. Veal weak to 81 lower; veal and
pork loins weak to 81 lower and NUT
ton weak to SO lower while lamb rang
ed from 81 to 81 down per 100 lbs.
On Nov. 8, beef was soc to 81 lower
at New York. weak elsewhere; veal
and mutton weak. barely steady;
lamb 81 to 81 lower at New York,
weak at Philadelphia and steady at
Boston. Nov. 3rd prices good grade
meats: Beef $15-17; veal s15-1S: lamb
$20-25; mutton $13-1: light pork leins