, 1922-04-13
LATEST MARKET
QUOTATIONS
u. S. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington, D. O.
Western Newspaper Union New. Service,


Celery markets slightly weaker.
Florida golden self-blanching in 10
inch crates. 81 to $3.50 in leading city
wholesale
onion market steady to strong for
old stock. weaker for Bermudas. Texas
Nos. l and 2 in standard
kets at $3.50 to $3.50: steady in Chi
eaGo at S.. Old stock yellow and
brown varieties firm at slO.5o to $12
Strawberry markets steady. demand
moderate. Florida various varieties 40c
TO 55c quart in eastern markets. Louisi-
in Pittsburgh and Chicago; weaker in
producing sections at 81 per crate
Apple markets fairly steady: demand
moderate. New York Baldwins. $3.50
to 1929 per barrel in city markets..
Northwestern extra fancy boxed wine
saps slightly wcaker at SO to S3.15.
Live Stock and Ments.
Chicago hog prices advanced 25c to
40c per 100 pounds. Beef steers and
butcher cows and heifers firm to zoe
hisher' Feeder steers practically
Fat lambs up 25c to 4Oc; fat ewes gem
orally Zoe higher; feeding lambs un-
changed. Chicago prices: Hogs. top.
medium and good beef steers. S7.35 to
$500; butcher cows and heifers. $3.50
to sS.25; feeder steers. $40 to 1886;
light and medium weight veal calves,
$6.25 to $500; fat lambs. $3.50 to
$3.50; feeding lambs, $I1.75 to sis.75;
yearlings. Sl2 to s14.75; fat ewes. 1926
Eastern wholesale fresh meat prices
generally firm to higher. Pork loins
led with an advance of 81 to SO per 100
pounds. Lamb ranged from firm to
81 higher: beef firm to soc higher; veal
irregular. ranging from 81 lower at
some markets to 81 higher at others;
mutton unchanged. Prices good grade
meats: Beef. $3.50 to $3.50; veal. S13
to SIC: lamb. S27 to $50; mutton. S19
to S22; light pork loins. $23 to $26;
heavy loins. SIS to S22.
Hay.
Market generally firm because of
light receipts. Prices advanced at
Pittsburgh and Chicago. Demand was
mostly local and for immediate needs
only. Good demand at Mime
apolis. Alfalfa wanted at Chicago.
Some Indications of larger movement
as country roads improve. Demand
not broad and prices are likely to
weaken with larger receipts. Quoted:
No. l timothy. New York $50. Philadel-
phia SIG; Pittsburgh s24. Cincinnati
Atlanta $50. Kansas City $3.50. No. l
alfalfa. Kansas City s22, Memphis s26.
Minneapolis $3.50. No. l prairie. Kan
sas City $11-75. Chicago SIS, Mime
apolis $3.50.
Mill feed markets unchanged. Under
lying conditions slightly firmer. Wheat
and corn feed production rather heavy.
offerings liberal. Better jobbing de-
mand held prices steady. Interior de-
mand unimproved. Alfalfa meal
steady. Domestic and export demand
for oil meals negligible. offerings light.
stocks at mills fair. Production lin
seed meal light. Gluten feed and
hominy feed prices unchanged: demand
fair. Receipts. stocks and movement
good. Quoted: Bran S2l, middlings
$22. flour sec. y middlings $22.50.
Minneapolis: gluten feed. $32.65 Chi
ago; Mo- alfalfa meal. $3.50 Kansas
City: white hominy feed. $20.75 Chi
cage. s21 st. Louis; linseed meal. $3.50
Minneapolis. S51 Buffalo,; Sc per cent
cottonseed meal, $3.50 Memphis. $42.50
Atlanta.
Spot cotton prices advanced 10 points
during the week. closing at 1880 per
pound. New York May futures up 20
points at 1910.
Market unsettled and prices closed
lover, chiesg9 May wheat, down &c.
down lAc at Use. Declines were largely
on liquidation influenced by lack Of
buying. Closing prices in Chicago cash
s1.32: No. 2 hard winter wheat. s1.32;
No. 2 mixed corn. sec: No. 2 yellow
corn, SIC; No. 3 white oats. sec. Aver
central Iowa about 43c; No. l dark
northern wheat in central North Da-
kota. s1.32A: No. 2 hard winter wheat
in central Kansas. $i.1s. For the week:
Minneapolis May wheat down 1c, clos
Ing at s1.39k Kansas city May wheat
down &c at $l.16&; Winnipeg May
wheat down arc at si.31h.
Dairy Products.
Butter markets weak following trad
ing on an uncertain basis with mar
kets out Of line with each other. With
Chicago higher than New York part of
time receipts increased and market
there is now reacting downward on ac-
count OF this surplus. Closing prices.
90 score: Philadelphia and Boston. sec.
New York. 35c: Chicago. SAC.
Cheese market weak; trading light.
Production appears to be on increase
under more favorable weather con-
ditions. Prices In Wisconsin primary
Daisies lie. double daisies
l6Lc. Young Americas 1Sc. onghoFns