The Hope pioneer., 1922-12-28
BUYING HELPS MARKET
Foreign Dairy Products Arriving
for Holiday Trade.
u. S. Bureau of Markets. Washington, D. c
for week ended Dec. %. 1922.


GRAIN-Grain prices unsettled but
Glosed Slightly higher for week. Bull
jsh sentiment still apparent especially
on declines and markets showed con
siderable firmness in face of heavy
profit taking Chicago May wheat ad
vanced 1Ac; Chicago May corn &c.
Prices unsettled on the 21st and
slightly lower but there was a sharp
upturn on late reports of active for.
eign demand and bullish statements
regarding the foreign wheat situation
Corn closed slightly higher. Closing
prices in Chicago cash market: No
2 red winter wheat $1.35; No. hard
winter wheat s1.29; No. 2 mixed corr
75c; No. 2 yellow corn 76c; No.
white oats 44c Average farm prices:
No. 2 mixed corn in central Iowa &c;
No. 2 hard winter wheat in central
Kansas $1.05; No. dark northern
wheat in central North Dakota $1.O6.
Closing future prices: Chicago May
wheat $1.25h; Chicago May corn
1880; Minneapolis May wheat $1.23h;
Kansas City May wheat s1.251a; Win.
nipeg May wheat $1.47H.
DAIRY PRODUCTS-Butter mar
kets barely steady although declines
at Chicago have placed markets in
j. more normal relation to each other.
Consumptive demand good at prevail
ing prices. Fresh and storage butter
moving freely. More foreign butter
has arrived; further shipments ex-
pected. Closing prices, 90 score but
ter; New York 55c; Chicago SIC.
Cheese markets firm but trading
slow, rejecting usual seasonal dull.
ness. Dealers feel confident and are
not pushing sales except at asking
prices. Cheese prices at Wisconsin
primary markets Dec. Goth: Daisies
and Flats 27Ac; Double Daisies 26%c;
Longhorns &c; Square prints 27Ac.
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS-Com.
pared with week ago Chicago hog
x;ices ranged from 15c lower to Csc
!e,r. Beef steers were Csc to Csc
~ on better grades with medium
@. res steady to 10c higher. Heifers
v<re SOC lower. Cows from 35c lower
'ks Csc higher with feeders steady to
&c lower and veal calves steady. Fat
,mbs were Csc to 35c lower, yearlings
SC to SOC lower and ewes steady to
Sc higher. On Dec. 21st hogs closed
Generally steady; steers active, gener.
ally strong to Csc higher. Butcher
COWS and heifers steady to strong. veal
calves fully steady. Fat lambs Is to
Is0c higher. Dec. 21st Chicago prices:
Hogs, top, $3.50; bulk of sales So to
1926; medium and good beef steers
$3.50 to $11.50; butcher cows and
heifers $3.50 to $10.25; feeder steers
$5.35 to $3.50: light and medium
weight veal calves $3.50 to $40; fat
lambs s13 to $15.25; feeding lambs
$12.75 to s14.75; yearlings 50 to $12.75;
tat ewes IS to $7.75. Stocker and
feeder shipments from IL important
markets during the week ending Dec
18th were: Cattle and calves $3.50
hogs 1888, sheep 38,S48. In eastern
wholesale fresh meat markets all
grades beef and mutton were steady
Veal ranged from 81 lower to 81 higher
on better grades and steady on lower
grades. Lamb was 81 t. SO lower with
light pork loins steady and heavy loins
steady to soc lower. On Dec. 21st
beef and mutton were steady at all
markets. Veal was weak at New YORK
steady at other markets. Lamb weak
and declining at all markets. Pork
weak at New York, about steady al
other markets. Dec. 21st prices good
grade meats: Beef s14.5O to $17; veal
SIS to $1S; lamb $22 to s25; mutton
S11 to SIT; light pork loins SIS to $17;
heavy loins $12 to SIS.