The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1922-04-27
MARKETS
U. S. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington, .. c.
Cor the week ending April 20. 1929

Cor the week ending April 20, 1929
Grain
Wheat prices advanced during the week
with Chicago May wheat selling within
sc of high point on crop. Chicago May
wheat up 1-4c closing at 81. 43 1-S. Chi
cago May corn up l lac at 81 lac. Prin-
cipal market factors We're: Unfavorable
weather and crop news, strength in for
eign markets. and good export business.
Closing prices I'm Chicago cash market:
No. red winter wheat $1.44; No. hard
winter wheat S1.42; No. mixed corn
Gle; No. yellow corn Gle; No white
oats. S9c Average farm prices No, 2
dark northern wheat in central North
Dakota SLAP IA; No. hard winter
wheat in central Kansas 1927. Mnne-
$3.50 5-S; Kansas City May wheat up
1-4c at $1.30 Ia; Winnipeg May wheat
up Lee at $l.4O IL
Hay
Eastern market continued firm on light
receipts, but prices practically unchanged
Demand less urgent at Chicago. Glover
lower at Pittsburgh. Good demand for
alfalfa at Chicago distributing points
Shipping demand urgent at Minneapolis.
Market active for all kinds at Kansas
Quoted April 10: No. timothy New
$24, Chicago $27, Minneapolis $22, Gin
$3.50, Minneapolis s2a, Chicago SIS, Kan
D.
apolis SIS. Chicago SIS Kansas City
$115O.
Feed
Market quiet. Offerings of wheat feeds
light mills behind on contracts, especial
~ for bran. Reselers freer offerers but
at firm prices Export and domestic
demand dull. Gluten and hominy feed
in fair request production good, prices
unchanged; Alfalfa meal demand poor
Quoted April 10: Bran $2S, middlings
$24.50 Minneapolis; White hominy feed
s21 St Louis. $2l Chicago; gluten feed
$50. So Chicago; No. l alfalfa meal $3.50
Kansas City
Fruits and Vegetables.
Potato markets continued slow and
weak. Florida Spaulding Rose No. i
weaker in most markets at $6uS5O per
bbl; down So in Pittsburgh at S6.75, down
$3.50 in Detroit at 81 So weaker in Bos-
ton at $3.50. down 25c f. o. b. producing
sections at IS. Northern sacked round
per 100 lbs. Nearly steady +. o. b. north
ern shipping points 81. 3O@l: 40. Maine
Green Mountains and New York round
whites slightly weaker in eastern mar
Onions lower under liberal supplies.
Texas yellow Bermudas commercial pack
maPfets at frG ssas3 H&n ,2o@25 S md
dlewest; mostly $l.75 T. o. b. shipping
points Cabbage markets lower.
Apples 6 best grade New sSsd YORK baaT 20
Northwestern extra fancy boxed wine
saps slightly weaker at S2.75@3.50.
Apple stocks April l In cold storage
SIS, $40 barrels and 1862 913 boxes COM
pared with $4,000 barrels and 6,2S2,043
boxes March l.
Live Stock and Meats
Chicago hog prices ranged from 1Oc
lower to &c higher per 100 lbs. Beef
steers weak TO 10c lower; butcher cows
and heifers up 10C to l5c.
April 20 Chicago prices: Hogs. top
5000; bulk Of sales, $9.S5mi0.65; medium
and good beef steers. $750mS.75; butcher
cows and heifers S4.50MS.50; feeder steers
$5.S5@7.60; light and medium weight veal
calves. $5.50m775; fat lambs, 81. 25@ 4;
yearlings, s9.75612.25; fat ewes, $6.5O@9.
Eastern wholesale fresh meat prices
followed mixed trends April 20 prices
good grade meats: Beef sl9q "a; veal,
s13m14; lamb. S2763l; mutton, $l5M2l;
light pork loins s2lq24; heavy loins,
$16Q21.
Dairy Products
Butter markets steady but undertone
unsettled. Despite ease with which
dealers have been clearing stocks they
have been free sellers. Seasonal declines
responsible to large extent for this feel
ing.
Closing prices, 90 score New York,
Philadelphia and Boston 39c; Chicago
81 1-2c.