The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1922-03-30
MARKETS
v. S. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington, D. c.

Hay
Receipts continue light: markets gener-
ally firm. Bad roads curtailing country
loading. Prices for good grades steady.
Some Improvement reported i'm southern
demand. Inquiries for prairie less urgent
at Chicago
Quoted March % No. / timothy: New
York $3.50; Philadelphia $24; Pittsburgh,
S23.50: Cincinnati $2k.50; Chicago $25:
Minneapolis $3.50: Kansas City $l425.
No. ! alfalfa Kansas City $22.75; Mem
phis $26.50; Minneapolis $22, No. | prai-
rie Kansas City $3.50 Chicago ST.; Min
neapolis $3.50.
Offerings liberal Production Of south
western mills In excess OF demand and
future shipments prices quoted are $1G2
below prevailing prices. Buyers con-
unue indifferent, Sales In most markets
of small volume. Homny feed weak, Of
ferings liberal. sales light. Production
gluten feed and gluten meal heavy, de-
mand fair, prices unchanged. stocks OF
most feeds good. Receipts and move
ment fair.
Quoted March %: Bran s24, middlings
$26, flour middlings $3.50. Minneapolis:
white hominy feed s2l.5O, ST Louis;
$21.5O Chicago; lnseed meal 5000. Min
neapols No. | alfalfa meal $50. Kansas
City: SO per cent cottonseed meal Sal
Memphis gluten feed $32.65 Chicago
Grain
Prices advanced first half OF week ac-
count light receipts, strong cash market
liberal export business and bullish for
egn conditions. but buying power fell
off latter half Of week and the close was
heavy. Chicago May wheat declined PC
closing at Sl.32; Chicago May corn down
&c at SO l-4C.
Closing prices in Chicago cash market:
No. red winter wheat S1.32 No. 2 hard
winter wheat SL3l; No. mixed corn
sec; No. yellow corn SIC; No white
oats 35c
Average farm prices: No. ? mixed
corn In central Iowa about 43c; No.
dark northern wheat In central North
Dakota $.33 3-4; No. hard winter
wheat In central Kansas Sis.
For the week Minneapolis May wheat
down | lac, closing at Sl.39 3-S; Kan
sas City May wheat down lac at Sl.20;
Winnipeg May wheat down Lac at $l.3o.
Dairy Products.
Eastern butter markets have weaken
ed from firm condition which prevailed
/ 1-2c, at New York and Philadelphia.
Increased receipts and accommodating
stocks together with slackened buying
demand caused weakness.
Closing prices 90 score: Boston 40 l-2c;
New York IS -; Philadelphia 39c; Chi
cage 800
Fruits and Vegetables.
Potatoe markets steady To firm. Chicago
market declined during week, closed tirm
at SI65M1.75 per 100 lbs. for sacked
round whites. New York stock up 90 loc
in Baltimore and Pittsburgh, I'm eastern
cities $2M2.15. Maine Green mountains
down l5c in Boston at Sl.15; bulk stock
firm at $2M2.20 I'm New York and Phila-
dephia. Prices firm i'm western New YORK
at S1.71M1.7S T. o. h. shipping points.
Maine bulk stock down l0C at $l.llM III.
Northern round whites weaker at Sl2O6
!. 40 {. O. h. north central points. Onions
advanced sharply In all markets. East-
ern yellow globes up SO in Philadelphia
at $ll per 100 lb. sack. Up " IN fltts-
burgh at $l0M10.5O; up $lUl.5O IN other
eastern cities at S9I9.5O California
Australian browns strong IN chicago ana
Minneapolis. Florida Strawberries firm
I'm wholesale city markets at 5O@55c per
quart. Louisiana klondikes in "a PINT
crates steady In Chicago at Si5om .;
reached So I'm Pittsburgh. Apple mar
kets held fairly steady New York Bald
wins 40 1-2 at S7.50@S per barrel in
eastern cities, fancy stock IN New YORK
at SS25dS so: Michigan Baldwins SSd9
boxed winesaps steady at $3M250 In most
markets; S3.5Om3.75 I'm Kansas CITY
Florida Golden self blanching celery firm
at $3M325 pey crate I'm eastern market
slightly weaker I'm the middlewest at $50
3.75; up soc f. o. b. at $2.25m2.4O. cab
bage markets slightly stronger. Texas
flat type up s. I'm Pittsburgh AT S4oU 10
per ton bulk. firm I'm st. Louis At S32U33
Florida pointed stock firm at 81 l5U 90
per 1-2 bu. hamper i'm leading markets.
Live STOCK ana MeatS
Compared with a week ago Chicago
hog prices declined 15m2 5c per 100 his
Beef steers firm to 10c higher; butcher
cows and heifers up generally 25c.
March % Chicago prices: Hogs. TOP
5000; bulk Of sales, S9.T5m i: 80; medl-
UNI and good beef steers. S7.25mSS5i
butcher cows and heifers 81 25UN; feed
or steers $5.50d 80; Hight and medium
weight veal calves, S6m9; fat lambs So! %
G15.S5: feeding lambs 81 75ml3 -;
Yearlings, $ll.25ml4.5O rat ewes S'p
Net changes in eastern wholesale fresh
meat prices generally slight
March % prices good grade meats:
Beef Sl3Mi4: veal si4m17; lamb. s27@ %;
mutton. S19d21: light pork lolns Sl9" ~
heavy loins. $l5M ~.
Feed and Grain
WFIEAT-Cash No. 2 red. SLAB; May
81 AZ. No. white and No. mixed, $l.40
YELLOW CORN-Cash No ?. 65c; No
3, 90 l-2c; No. 4. 62c; No, ., 60 l-2c'
No. 3. 80 1-2c; No. 4, 34u37c.
RYE-Cash No. ?. $LO4.
BEANS-lmmediate and prompt ship
iBhRSRLIfEY-Feeding. si.25@1S5 per cwt
SEEDS-Prime red clover, sic: April
Sl45O: alsike, $1260; timothy, S3S5;
HAY-No. / timothy, Sl9M20; standard,
S1S@19; light mixed, SlSml9; No. : tim
othy. Sl6m1S; No. clover mixed, $3.50
II: No. l clover, $16017; rye straw
si35Oa14: wheat and oat straw. I2.5O
013 per ton In carlots
FEED-Bran, 1888; standard middllngs
S33: fine middlngs, 1913; cracked corr
$40: coarse cornmeal, $27; chop, go per
ton in l00-lb. sacks.
FLOUR-Fancy spring wheat patents
$9.10d9.60; fancy, winter wheat patents
S.S5m go: second, winter wheat patents
s795mS.2O: winter wheat straights' St;45
dS1O; Kansas patents. $S.3O@S.So per DBL
Live stock and Poultry
CATTLE-Best heavy steers. $50 -
best handy weight butcher steers, T.25
as: mixed steers and helfers, $500 !,
handy light butchers. $6m6.5O; light
butchers IS 25M5.75: best cows, S4l5m
a 10. butcher cows Sim475: cutters. $50
10: tanners. S2m3. choice bulls. $45Om
=. bologna bulls S4m450; feeders. $1,000
6.75: stockers, S5.25m5,15' mixers ana
springers $40M70.
C'ALVEs-Best, $lim11.50; others, $50
1859
SHEEP AND LAMBs-Best lambs.
Sic 25m15 rs; fair lambs. Sl2M 1850; light
TO common lambs. sea- II: fair To good
sheen. SSG9.50; culls and common S2u T..
HOGS-Mixed hogs. $lO.6b: roughs'
s. 25GIS so; stays. S5m5.50: extreme heavy,
$40: bears. So; pigs. SO 20.
LIVE POULTRG-Best spring chlck-
ems. smooth legs. Csc; STACEY springs,
21c. leghorn springs, 24c; large fat hens,
27G2Sc: medium hens. ga use: small
hons. 27m2Sc; old ROSTERS, lNc; geese,
1Sc: ducks 35c; turkeys, S5c per lb.