The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-10-12
GRAINS MAKING GAINS
All Glasses of Live Stock Show
Sharp Declines.
q. 8. Bureau of Markets. Washington. ID. C..
for week ended Oct G. 1922.

". =. Bureau OF Markets, Washington. ~. u.
for week ended Oct. s, 1922.
GRAIN-Grain prices unsettled dur.
ing the week but closed higher. Chi
cago December wheat up 2bc; Chi.
cago December corn up 2$c. Prin-
cipal market factors were: Wal news,
strength in corn improved cash de.
mand. Market strong at the start on
the sixth but ran into liquidation and
closed irregular. Milling demand con.
tinues good. Corn lacked buying sup.
port and declined under liquidation.
Cash corn demand good. Closing
prices in Chicago cash market: No.
2 Red winter wheat SLIT; No. 2 hard
winter wheat s1.09; No. 2 mixed corn
&c; No. 2 yellow corn &c; No. 3
white pats 40c. Average farm price
No. 2 mixed corn In central Iowa SAC.
Closing future prices: Chicago De.
cember wheat S106B; Chicago De-
cember corn 60Ec; Minneapolis De.
cember wheat $1O7A; Kansas City
December wheat 995sc; Winnipeg De
cember wheat 95&sc.
DAIRY PRODUCTS-Butter mar
kkets firm during the week. Produc-
ton shrinking and receipts on mar
kets running lighter. Supplies espe.
cially OF medium and lower grades ap.
pear ample to take care of immediate
demand. A movement Of storage
goods heavy for season Closing prices
81 score butter: New York 45c; Chi.
cago 43c. Cheese markets steady dur.
ing the week. Wisconsin board
prices advanced Monday on small
styles only. Firmness in the country
not fully shared in distributing mar.
kets where buying is being held close,
ly to requirements. Fall quality run.
ming good. Cheese prices at Wiscon.
sin primary markets Oct. 5th: Twins
22&c; Daisies 231ac; Double Daisies
23cA; Longhorns 24Ac: Square
prints 25Rc.
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS--An
classes and grades of live stock at Chi
ago showed sharp declines for the
week. Hogs ranged from 25 TO S5o
down, lighter weights showing the
greatest decrease. Beef steers 5 to
35c, cows and heifers generally loo;
feeder steers 10 to 15c and veal calves
s1.75 to $225 lower. Fat lambs and
yearlings declined % to soc and feed
ing lambs 25 to soc down while fat
ewes were steady to 25c lower per 100
lbs. On Oct. 9Th at Chicago hogs on
ened steady to ~unevenly higher, and
closed weak to 10c lower on lighter
weights and steady on others com.
pared with Thursdays average. The
cattle market was slow and generally
weak to lower on all classes. Veal
calves so to 75c lower. Fat lambs
and sheep practically steady. Oct. 9Th
Chicago prices: Hogs, top S10.05;
bulk of sales $3.50: medium and good
beef steers s715-s11.10; butcher cows
and heifers s3.65-9.15; feeder steers
S~5.65-sS,10: veal calves s7.75-S11; fat
s12.~ 50-$14.35; feeding Iambs
IS; warnings sS~.75-s12.25; fat
$3~.50-S6.75. Stocker and feeder
from IL important markets
during the week ending Sept. 20 we're:
Cattle and calves 163,136: hogs 1884:
sheep 124.S6S. As was the case OF
live stock prices, eastern wholesale
fresh meat prices declined materially
for the week. Beef ranged from weak
2 lower. veal 81 to Sc lower or bet |
ter grades and 81 to 50 lower on me.
dunn grades: lamb 81 to Sc down
while mutton ranged from 81 lower to
81 higher and pork loins from 50 .
lower to 81 up per 100 lbs. On Oct.
9Th beef was weak TO 50 lower, veal
steady at some markets and as much
as "a lower at others; lamb weak, |
tending lower: mutton weak to 81
while pork loins were u~nevenly
SOC to 81 higher under light receipts.
Oct. 9Th prices god grade meats: Beef
s15 to SIS; veal 1887; lamb $40.
s24: mutton 1854; light pork loins
heavy loins s17-$22.
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