Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-01-19

Prices Show Only Fractional
Net Change For Week.

U. s. Bureau of Markets. Washington, d. c..
for week ended Jan. IL. 1922.
GRAIN = Market unsettled during
week but somewhat better feeling ex-
listed at the close and prices show
only . fractional net change for the
week. Principal market factors were:
Rains in drouth sections of south
west: good milling demand: strong
cash markets, and good sales wheat
and corn for Russian Relief Primary
receipts running materially uoder
those Of year ago. Australian crop
privately estimated 120.000,000 bu a.
compared with 152,0O0,000 blu. last
year. Closing prices in Chicago cash
markets: No. red winter wheat,
$1.1S; No. 2 hard winter wheat, $1l0:
No. mixed corn. 49c: No. 2 yellow
corn. 49c: No. white oats, 341kc.
Average price to farmers in central
Iowa for No. mixed corn about SEC;
to farmers in central Kansas for No.
2 hard winter wheat, 92c. Chicago
May wheat closed at SLIP: Chicago
May corn. 53hc; Minneapolis May
wheat, $1.19h; Kansas City May
wheat, $1.o4: Winnipeg May wheat.
$1.09x.
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS - Chi
cago hog prices advanced 1Oc-30c dur
ing the week. Only the top end Of
medium weight hogs declined. Beef
steers and butcher cows and heifers
were weak to Csc lower. Better
grades of beef steers up 35c; other
grades generally Csc lower. Sheep
and lamp prices continued their up
ward trend. Yearlings and fat ewes
advanced Soc: fat lambs. 25c-5Oc:
feeding lambs, 5Oc-75c. January 18th
Chicago prices: Hogs, top, $40:
bulk OF sales, $7.75-S: medium and
good beef steers, $685-9.25: butcher
cows and heifers. $3.5O-S; feeder
steers. $5.25-6S5: light and medium
weight veal calves, $6.50-9.5O; fat
lambs. $9.75-11.75; yearlings. 1925
11.50: fat ewes, $4.75-7.25.
With the exception of fresh pork
loins eastern Wholesale fresh meat
prices were firm to higher. Veal and
lamb advanced generally 81: mutton,
$34 at some markets: steady at 9th.
ers: beef firm to SOC higher; pork
loins generally $1-2 lower. Jan 18th
prices, good grade meats: Beef, $3.50
IA: veal, 1920: lamb, $25-2S; mutton.
$12-1S; light pork loins. $15-17; heavy
loins. $11-15.50.
HAY-Receipts in eastern markets
light; prices firm: demand limited
Larger arrivals weakened demand at
Chicago, but prices there were un-
changed. Expected improvement in
demand appeared at Kansas City, re-
ceipts light but country loading re-
ported increasing. No. l timothy
quoted Jan. 18th. New York. $29 80:
Philadelphia. 1923; Chicago. $23; Mem
phis, $24: Kansas City, $14. No. al
falfa: Kansas City. $40; Memphis.
$3.50; No. l prairie: Kansas City,
$l1.75: Chicago. SIS.
FEED-Demand continues light in
most markets. Wheat feed prices are
q trifle easier, due to heavier offer
ings from spring wheat mills for fu-
ture shipments. Mill offers are for
bran and middlings equal quantities
each month February to June inclu-
sive at slightly below prompt ship
ment prices. Cottonseed and linseed
meal prices unchanged. demand unim-
proved.
DAIRY PRODUCTS - Butter mar
kets demoralized early in week but
6rm at close following advances the
past two days. Best trading on top
grades. Storage butter moving as
fresh prices show tendency to ad-
vance. Closing prices, 80 score: Phil
adelphia and Boston. 36hc; New
York, 36hc: Chicago. 33hc.