The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-05-24
WHEAT PRIC: ADVANCE
Chicago Hog Prices are 5 to loo
Lower Than a Week AGO

lfOT week HulHS MAY 10, loGoJ
HAY: Prices holding firm at most
markets because of very light receipts.
Demand is of small volume but suff'
cient TO absorb all desirable offerings
promptly. Poor hay continues slow
sale but no great amounts of this hay
being offered. Farm work continues
20 restrict country loadings. Quoted
May 18th: No. 1 timothy New York
$3.50, Chicago s23. Minneapolis
$3.50; No. / prairie Minneapolis SIT.
FEED: Markets dull and declining.
Demand very moderate. Linseed meal
heavy offerings good, demand light.
Wheat feeds especially bran easier.
More pressure from southwest to sell
for future delivery than from north
west. Season shipment bran and mid
dlings offered in eastern markets
around $27. Production most feeds
good. Quoted May 18th: Bran s26,
meddlings s27, -four middlings $3.50
Minneapolis; gluten feed s37.15 Chi
cago; 8. per cent linseed meal 500
Minneapolis; white hominy feed s34
Chicago.
GRAIN: Wheat prices made net
gains for the week despite sharp day
to day fluctuations. Strengthening
factors were wet, cold weather and IN,
favorable crop news both wheat and
corn. For the week Chicago July
wheat up &c net; Chicago July corn
I'D 1Ac. Prices declined on the 18th
on selling by local interests. Claims
of damage TO crops in several impor-
tant producing counties in Kansas
was main market factor. Corn prices
followed wheat. Closing prices in Chi
cago cash market: No. 2 red winter
wheat S1.29; No. 2 hard winter wheat
$1.20; No. 2 mixed corn sac; No. 2
yellow corn sec; No. 3 white oats 45c.
Average farm prices: No. 2 mixed
corn in central Iowa &c. Closing FL.
trre prices: Chicago July wheat
$116h; Chicago July corn soc: Min
neapolis July wheat s1.21B; Kansas
City July wheat S1.091s; Winnipeg
July wheat $1.19.
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS: Chica,
go hog prices are 5 to 10c lover than
week ago. Beef steers 10 20 Csc;
butcher cows and heifers Is to Acc and
veal calves rs to 75c higher, while
feeder steers declined sc. Fat lambs
81 to 1.50: yearungs soc to S1.85 and
fat ewes steady to SOC higher. On May
18th hogs ouened slow, 10 to 15c low.
err. closed 10 to Csc lower than Thurs.
days average; Cattle. sheen and lambs
steady to strong. May 18th Chicago
nrices: Hogs top S7.S5: brlk of sales
$7.35 to 7.S0; medium and good beef
steers 1855 t o 1910: butcher cows
and heifers SIS 10 to 10: feeder steers
$6 so to 8 40; light and medium weight
veal calves SO to 11.75: fat lambs
S13 % to 1880; spring lambs $15.75 to
1850; yearlings $3.50 to 1875; fat
ewes s4.25 to s. Stocker and feeder
shipments from IL important mar.
kets during the week ending May
18th we're: Cattle and calves 42,S67,
hogs $50; sheep 16.049. In eastern
wholesale fresh meat markets beef
was 81 10 Low, veal QUO W 81, idhuu
So to 5 and mutton 81 to 2 higher,
with ligh tpork loins firm to SOC and
heavy loins firm to 81 up for the week.
May 18th prices good grade meats
Reef $15 to 1850; veal SIC to IS; lamb
$27 to 81; mutton SIT to is.
DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter mar.
kets unsettled and weak due to some
what higher receipts at and reports
of higher shipments. Prices declined
11h to &c lower than the first of the
week. In anticipation OF higher re-
ceipts buyers have confined their pur-
chases largely to their needed re
quirements. Closing prices 90 score
butter: New York 41h: Chicago 40H.
Cheese markets fairly steady follow
ing advances on Wisconsin cheese
boards which placed trading on a basis
OF half to 1hc higher than last week.
Trading has been rather dull during
most of the week but at the close was
more active and supported by feeling
OF greater confidence. Held cheese has
| continued firm. Prices at Wisconsin
primary cheese markets May 18th:
Flats 22M; Single Daisies 22h Dou-
BILE Daisies %; Young Americas
22A Longhorns 22h; Square Prints
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