The St. Mary banner., 1922-02-04
The Markets

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Hay-Eastern hay markets dull with
prices tending downward. Colder
weather in west stimulating demand
and markets in that section are fairly
firm. Receipts and country loadings
generally light No. l timothy quoted
January 25: New York s2S, Philadel
phia $23, Pittsburg $3.50, Cincinnati
s1975, Chicago $22, Minneapolis
$3.50, Kansas City $13.75. No. l al
falfa: Kansas City $40, Memphis $25,
Minneapolis $21. No. l prairie: Kan
sas City $40, Minneapolis $3.50, Chi
cagO SIT.
Feed-Mill feed weak. Offerings by
resellers liberal Wheat feed offer
ings for prompt shipment by mills
light, for deferred shipment good at
discounts of $1.O0@1.5O below prompt
shipment prices. Middlings weak,
flour middlings and red dog also in
light request. Gluten feed and hominy
feed quoted 81 lower Linseed meal
and cotton seed meal holding fairly
strong, but quoted by resellers at
slightly below mill prices. Alfalfa meal
and beet pulp quiet and unchanged.
Quoted January 25: Bran $3.50, mid
dlings S19, flour middlings $3.50, So
per cent cotton seed meal $34 Mem
phis; gluten feed $30.65, white hominy
feed S21, Chicago; "a per cent linseed
meal S4275 Minneapolis; No. l alfalfa
meal $16.75, Kansas City.
Gran-The market had firmer un-
dertone during the week, but prices
made only fractional gains. Principal
market factors were: bullish reports
on farm reserves, continued drouth in
southwest, good milling demand for
cash wheat, and decrease in the visi-
BILE supply. Cash market rather in
active at the close. Good export de-
mand for corn; domestic shipping de-
mand sluggish. Closing prices in Chi
cago cash market: No. 2 red winter
wheat S123; No. 2 hard winter wheat
S1.15; No. 2 mixed corn 49c; No. 2
yellow corn 49c; No. 3 white oats SAC.
Average farm prices: No. mixed
corn in Central Iowa SEC; No. 1 dark
northern wheat in Central North Da-
kota SLIP; No. 2 hard winter wheat
in Central Kansas 81. Chicago May
wheat closed at $115; Chicago May
corn $3.50; Minneapolis May wheat
s121A; Kansas City May wheat
$1O6A; Winnipeg May wheat $1.121a.
Live Stock and Meats-Chicago hog
prices ranged from 45@55c higher per
100 pounds during the week, better
weights advancing most. Both beef
and feeder steers were practically un-
changed, while butcher cows and heif
ers were generally 15@25c higher;
veal calves up 50@75c; fat lambs ad-
vanced 50@65c; yearlings 75@9Oc;
feeding lambs and fat ewes generally
25c. January 26 Chicago prices: Hogs,
top SO; bulk of sales $8.50@8.75; me-
dium and good beef steers S6.65 @9.00;
butcher cows and heifers S3.65@7.50;
feeder steers S5.15@6.75; light and me-
dium weight veal calves $7.75@11.00;
fat lambs s120O@13S5; feeding lambs
$10.50@12.75; yearlings $9.75@12.90;
fat ewes $5.25@S.00. Stocker and feed
er shipments from II important mar
kets during the week ending January
20 were: Cattle and calves 52,982;
hogs 4,334; sheep 30,619. Eastern
wholesale fresh meat prices were not
materially changed since week ago.
Beef, veal and mutton practically
steady Lamb steady at some points,
though from $1@2 lower in some in
stances. Light pork loins up 81; heavy
loins down generally soc. January rs
prices good grade meats: Beef $12@
IA; veal $17@20; lamb s24@26; NUT
ton s12@16; light pork loins $16@18;
heavy loins $11.5O@14.50.
Fruits and VegetabIes-Potato mar
kets irregular, fairly steady. Eastern
and northern sacked round whites un-
changed in most markets at $2150
2.35 per 100 pounds; 30c lower in Chi
cago at $1.90@2.00;. steady at north
ern shipping points at $1.65 @1.85; up
5@10c at New York shipping points
at s205@210. Bulk stock down 15c
New York City at s2.15@2.35. Maine
Green Mountains firm in New York at
$2.5O@255; weaker at shipping points
at $1.66@1.75. Onion prices advanced
further; supplies light in most cities.
Principal eastern markets quote yell
low globes up SOC mostly around $3.50
per 100 pounds. Massachusetts ship
ping points up 25c at $7.2507.50 fob.
Middle-western red stock firm in Chi
cago and ST. Louis around ST. Cab
bage markets continued weak under
liberal supplies of Southern stock.
Texas early flat type lower in Pitts
burg and Cincinnati at s40@50 per
ton; steady in producing sections
around s25 per ton. New York and
Northern Danish type in light demand
and nearly steady in city markets,
mostly $40@50 per ton bulk; weak in
Cincinnati at $30@35; down So at New
York shipping points at $35. Wiscon-
sin shipping points $35@39. Apple
markets firm for barrel stock. New