The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-03-30
MARKETS
v. 9. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington. o. c.

Receipts continue light; markets gener-
ally firm. Bad roads curtailihg country
loading Prices for good grades steady.
Some Improvement reported I'm southern
demand. INQUIRIES for prairi9 less urgent
Quoted March % No Il mothy: New
York $3.50: Philadelphia $24E Pittsburgh.
$3.50; Cincinnati $21.5O; Chicago $25;
Minneapolis $3.50; Kansas City SLABS.
phis $3.50; Minneapolis SEA No. / prai-
re Kansas City $3.50 Chicago SIT; Min
neapolis $3.50.
Offerings liberal. Production of south
western mills in excess (of demand and
future shipments prices quoted are $1@2
below prevailing prices. Buyers con-
tnue indifferent sales in inc, most markets cts
ferings liberal, sales Yght. Production
gluten feed and gluten meal heavy, de-
mand fair, prices unchanged. Stocks OF
most feeds good. Receipts and move
quoted March 90; Bran s24. middlings
$26, flour middlings. f2S,50, Minneapolis
s21.50 Chicago; linseeh meal 5000. Min
neapolis. No 1 alfalfa meal $40. Kansas
City; SO per cent .cottonseed meal SAL
Memphis; gluten fe9d $3265 Chicago.
OR bin
Prices advanced first half of week ac-
count light receiptsI strong cash market
liberal export bust hess and bullish for
egn conditions, bdt buying power fell
OH latter nan OF week ana the close WAS
heavy. Chicago May wheat declined Lee
closing at S1.32; Chicago May corn down
&c at 80 lac.
Closing prices I'M Chicago cash market:
No 2 red winter Wheat 1892; No. hard
winter wheat Sl,B1; No. mixed corn
SEC; No 2 Yellow corn SIC; No. white
oats 35c.
Average farm iprices No. mixed
corn in central fiowa about 43c; No. l
dark northern Wheat in central North
Dakota $1.SS S-k; No. hard winter
,t,.aA
For the weekI Minneapolis May wheat
down | lac, Closing at 81. 80 1885, Kan
sas City May Wheat down 3 lac at S1.20:
Winnipeg May wheat down lac at Sl.35.
D lry Products.
Eastern buffer markets have weaken
ed from firm condition which prevailed
during the week, prices dropped 1c to
/ 1-2c. at New York and Philadelphia.
Increased receipts and accomplishing
stocks together with sackened buying
demand caused weakness.
Closing prices 92 score: Boston 40 lac;
New York 3Si 10; Philadelphia S9c; Chi
cage 39c.
Fruits and Vegetables.
Potatoe ma rkets steady to firm Chicago
market declined during week closed firm
at $l;65@1.75 per 100 lbs. for sacked
in Baltimore( and Pittsburgh. in eastern
down 15c inl Boston at $1.75 bulk stock
firm at $2qy2.2O in New York and Phila-
delphia. Prizes firm in western New York
at $11a1l7s (. O. b. shipping points.
Maine bulk stock down 10c at $111@l21.
Northern rbund whites weaker at $1,000
1.40 f. o. bi north central points. Onions
ern yellow globes up SO in Philadelphia
at $1l per- 100 10. sack Up 81 in Pitts
burgh at $l0q1O.5O; up $@1.5O in other
eastern cities at $9@9.5O California
Australian browns strong in Chicago and
Minneapolis. Florida strawberries firm
in wholesale city markets at 50@55c per
crates steady in Chicago at $45O@6;
reached Sc I'm Pittsburgh Apple mar
kets held fairly steady New York Bald
wins 40 1-2 at $7.50GS per barrel in
at $S.25mS.50: Michigan Baldwins $Sm9
I'm Chicago. Northwestern extra fancy
boxed winesaps steady at S3M3.5O In most
markets; s9.50d3.75 In Kansas City.
Florida Golden self blanching celery firm
at S3ml25 per crate In eastern market,
slightly weaker in the middlewest at $$@
bage markets slightly stronger, Texas
flat TYPED up s. in Pittsburgh at S4OG45
per ton lSulk firm in st. Louis at $32m3b;
Florida pointed stock firm at N;l5@l;5o
per 1-f bu. hamper In leading markets.
Live Stock and Meats
Compared with a week ago Chicago
hog priGhs declined 15625c per 100 lbs.
Beef STEERS firm to 10c higher; butcher
cows and heifers up generally 25c.
5000; bulk of sales, s975a1O. 30: medi-
butcher cows and heifers s4.25aS; feed
err steers $550@750; light and medium
weight veal calves, seas; fat lambs $3.50
615.S5; feeding lambs, $l1.75ql375;
yearllngs. $1125Q14.5O; fat ewes $40,
1925.
Net changes in eastern wholesale fresh
meat prices generally slight.
March % prices good grade meats:
Beef s13a14; veal s14@17; lamb, $27@29;
mutton, $19q2l; light pork loins, sl9Q22;
heavy loins, $15Q19. D.
Feed and Grain
s1G7; No. white and No. 2 mixed 81. 40
YELLOW CORN-Cash No. 2. Csc; No
8, SO 1.2e; No. 4, &c; No, 8, 60 1-,2c.
WHITE oATs-Cash No. 2, Al lie;
RYE-Cash No. 2, $104.
BEANS-Immediate and prompt ship.
ment, 1913 per owt
SEEDS-Prme red clover. $16 April
s14.5O; slslke, sl2.6O; timothy. 1895.
HAY-No. timothy, $1,000; standard.
othy,. .s16q1S;. No. 1 clover mixed, $500
II; No. l clover sI6Q17; rye straw,
sl3.5O@14; wheat and oat straw. $3.50
OBJ per ton in carlots
$780, fine middlings,. s33; cracked corr,
$780, coarse cornmeal, $27; chop, $25 per.
ton in 100-lb. sacks
FLOUR-Fancy spring wheat patents.
s910@9.6O; fancy winter wheat patents.
$3.50 9. so; second. winter wheat patents,
$795nS20; winter wheat straights, $7.45
OSLO; Kansas patents. $S.30qS.S0 per Dbl.
Live Stock and Poultry
CATTLE-Best heavy steers, $6@S:
best handy weight butcher steers, S725
as mixed steers and heifers, s6.50@7;
handy light - butchers, s6@6.5O; light
$50; butcher cows, $4@475: cutters, $36D
$50; Gamers, 1903; choice bulls, $4,000
675; stockers, s5.25a5.75; mixers and
sprngers S40D70.
CALvEs-Best, li911.50; others, $50
1850.
SHEEP AND LAMBs-Best lambs,
$15.25@15.75 fair lambs, S12m1350; light
TO common lambs, S6@11; fair to good
sheep. $Sm9.5O; culls and common, $204.
HOGS-Mixed hogs, $l065; roughs,
S25MS.50; stays, S51550: extreme heavy,
$40: boars. so; pigs, s10.25.
LIVE POULTRY-Best spring chick
ems, smooth legs. Csc; shaggy springs,
24c leghorn springs, 2ic; large fat hens,