The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-02-02
MARKET REPORT
FURNISHED BY u. s. BUREAU
OF MARKETS. WASHING
TON, p. c.
Rer Week Ending January 70. 1920

tFST week ESTfFinS January 90 1857
Hay
Eastern hay markets dun with prices
tending downward Colder weather In
west stimulating demand and markets In
that section are fairly firm: Receipts
snd country loadings generally light,
York $2S Philadelphia $23 Pittsburgh,
s22.60; Cincinnati $l9.75; Chicago S22,
Minneapolis $2l. NO. l Prairie Kansas
CITY $40. Minneapolis $3.50, Chicago SIT.
Feed
Mil feed weak. offerings by reseIlers
liberal Wheat feed offering for prompt
shipment by mills light, for deferred
shipment good at discounts OF $lMl-5O
below prompt shipment prices Mlddiings
in light request. Gluten feed and hom-
my feed quoted 50 lower. Alfalfa meal
and beet pulp quiet and UNCHANGED
$40, flour middlngs $22.5O, Memphis: glu-
Ten feed s3O.65, white hominy feed $21.
Chicago; No. alfalfa meal Sl6.15 Kan
sns City.
The market had a firmer undertoue
during the week but prices made only
fractional gains. Principal market fac
tors were: Bullish reports on farm re-
serves continued drouth In southwest,
good milling demand for cash wheat, and
decrease I'm the visible supply Cash
market rather inactive at the close. Good
export demand for corn; domestic ship
ping demand sluggish.
Closing prices I'm Chicago cash market:
No red winter wheat $l.23; No. hard
winter wheat s115; No. mixed corn 49c;
No 2 yellow corn 49c; No. white
oats 34c
Average farm prices: No. mixed
corn In central Iowa 36c. No. l dark
northern wheat in central North Dakota
SLIP; No. hard winter wheat In central
Chicago May wheat closed at s1.15;
Chicago May corn SO 3-Sc: Minneapolis
Nuha IA.
wheat s1.06 IA; Winnipeg May wheat
SLIP 1-2.
Live Stock and Meats
Chicago hog prices ranged from 45c@
soc higher per 100 pounds during the
Both beef and feeder steers were practi-
cally unchanged, while butcher cows and
heifers were generally l5Q25c higher.
$9 bulk OF sales sS.5O6s 10; medium and
good beef steers. s6.6509; butcher cows
and heifers, s3.6507.50; feeder steers,
s5l546;75; light and medium weight weight
1885; feeding lambs, $l0.50Q12.75: year
lngs. s9.75Q1290; fat ewes s525Qs:
Eastern wholesale fresh meat prices
were not materially changed since a week
ago. Beef. veal and mutton practically
steady. Lamb steady at some points
though from slg2 lower in some in
stances.
January &c prices good grade meats:
Beef. $12014; veal, $1,000; lamb. s24@
26: mutton, s12Q16; light pork loins, SIG
Q1S; heavy loins, $11.50Q1450.
Fruits and Vegetables
Potato markets irregular, fairly steady.
Eastern and northern sacked round
whites unchanged in most markets at
S2.1502.35 per 100 pounds. Ten cents
lower in Chicago at 81 5000; steady at
northern shipping points at Sl.65@1.S5.
Up 5M10o New York shipping points at
$2.05@2.10.
Onion prices advanced further; sup
plies light In most cities Principle east
ern markets quote yellow globes up soc
mostly around $3.50 per 100 pounds Mid
dlewestern red stock firm in Chicago and
ST. Louis around 81.
Cabbage markets continued weak I'M
der liberal supplies of southern stock.
Texas early fiat type lower in Pittsburgh
and Cincinnati at S40M50 per ton; steady
In producing sections around SIS per ton.
Apple markets firm for barrel stock.
New York Baldwins az 1-2 follow general
jobbng range S7dS per barrel. North
western extra fancy winesaps generally
steady In city markets at S2.75Q3.25;
$2.10Q2.20 In producing sections.
Dairy Products
Butter markets firm and prices have
advanced the past few days. Active de-
mand for all grades on important mar
kets. including medium and undergrades,
Closing prices. 90 score: New York
&c., Chicago SO lie; Philadelphia 81 Lee;
Boston, 81 Lee.