Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1922-12-28
HELPS MARKET
Foreign Dairy Products Arriving
for Holiday Trade.
U. q. Bureau OF Markets. Washington. u. O.,
for week ended Dec. "a, 1022


y. Z. Bureau q MARKETS; Washington. 2. g,
for week ended Dec. 81. 1922.
GRAIN-Grain prices unsettled but
closed slightly higher Tor week. Bull
ish sentiment still apparent especially
on declines and markets showed con-
siderable frmness in face Of heavy
profit taking. Chicago May wheat adj
vanced 1Ac; Chicago May corn nc.
Prices unsettled on the 21st and
slightly lower but there was q sharp
upturn on late reports Of active for
teign demand and bullish statements
regarding the foreign wheat situation.
Corn closed slightly higher. Closing
prices In Chicago cash market: No.
IL red winter wheat $1.35; No. 2 hard
winter wheat $1.29; No. mixed corn
|75o; No. 2 yellow corn 76c; No. 8
white oats 44c. Average farm prices:
No. 2 mixed corn in central Iowa &c;
No. 2 hard winter wheat in central
Kansas $1.O5; No. 1 dark northern
wheat In central North Dakota sos.
Closing future prices: Chicago May
wheat $1.25h; Chicago May corn.
1890; Minneapolis May wheat $1.23h;
Kansas City May wheat $1.25h; Win
nipeg May wheat s1.47B.
DAIRY PRoDUCTS-Butter mar
kets barely steady although declines
1t Chicago have placed markets In
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, 81 score but
ter; New York 55c; Chicago SIC.
Cheese markets firm but trading
slow, rejecting usual seasonal dull
ness. Dealers feel confident and are
mot pushing sales except at asking
prices. Cheese prices at Wisconsin
urinary markets Dec. Goth: Daisies
and Flats 27Nc; Double Daisies 26Ac;
Longhorns 27c; Square prints 27Ac.
LIVESTOCK AND MEATs-Com-
pared with a week ago Chicago hog
pricessranged from 15c lower to 25c
higher. Beef steers were 25c to 35c
lower on better grades with medium
grades steady to 10c higher. Heifers
were SOC lower. Cows from 35c lower
to 25c higher with feeders steady to
soc lower and veal calves steady. Fat
lambs were 25c to 35c lower, yearlings
e5c to soc lower and ewes steady to
csc higher. On Dec. 21st hogs closed
generally steady; steers active, gener.
lilly strong to csc higher. Butcher
cows and heiters steady to strong, veal
calves fully steady. Fat lambs Is to
40c higher. Dec. 21st Chicago prices:
Hogs, top, $3.50; bulk OF sales So to
1925; medium and good beef steers
$3.50 to $11.60; butcher COWS and
heifers $3.50 to $1O.26; feeder steers
$685. to $3.50; light and medium
weight veal calves $3.50 to $40; Fat
lambs $1s to $15.25; feeding lambs
$12.75 to $14.75;; yearlings 50 to $12.75;
fat ives $5%to $7.75. Stocker and
feeder shipments from II important
markets during the week ending Dec
18th were: Cattle and calves $3.50,
hogs 1873, sheep 38,848. 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 to IS 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 at
Iother markets. Dec. 21st prices good
grade meats: Beef $14.50 to SIT; veal
SIS to SIS; lamb $22 to $25;; mutton
$11 to SIT; light pork loins SIS to SIT;
heavy loins $12 to $16.