The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-04
BUYING HELPS MARKET
Foreign Dairy Products Arriving
for Holiday Trade.
U. s. Bureau Of Markets. Washington. ID. q.
for week ended Dec. %. 1922.

u. s. Bureau OF Markets. Washington, d.. C..
for week ended Dec. 20. 1922.
GRAlN-Grain prices unsettled but
closed slightly higher for week. Bull
ish sentiment still apparent especially
on declines and markets showed con
siderable tirmness in face of heavy
profit taking. Chicago May wheat ad'
yanced lAc; Chicago May corn &c
Prices unsettled on the 21st and
slightly lower but there was a sharp
upturn on late reports of active for
eign demand and bullish statements
regarding the foreign wheat situation
Corn closed slightly higher. Closing
prices in Chicago cash market: No.
2 red winter wheat $1.35; No. 2 hard
winter wheat $129; No. 2 mixed corn
75c; No. 2 yellow corn Zee; No. 5
white oats 44c. Average farm prices:
No. 2 mixed corn in central Iowa 62c,
No. 2 hard winter wheat in central
Kansas $l.05; No. / dark northern
wheat, in central North Dakota $1.06.
Closing future prices: Chicago May
wheat s1.25k; Chicago May corn
73$c; MINNEAPOLIS May wheat s1.23h;
Kansas City May wheat $1.25h; Win
nipeg May wheat S1.47B.
DAIRY PRoDUCTS-Butter mar
kets barely steady although decline
at Chicago have placed markets III
more normal relation to each other.
Consumptiye demand good at prevail.
ing prices. Fresh and storage butter
moving freely. More foreign butter
has arrived; further shipments ex.
pected. Closing prices, so score but
ter; New York 55c; Chicago SIC.
Cheese markets firm but trading
slow, rejecting usual seasonal dull
ness. Dealers feel confident and are
not pushing sales except at asking
prices. Cheese prices at Wisconsin,
primary markets Dec. Goth: Daisies
and Flats 27Ac; Double Daisies 26&c:
Longhorns 27c; Square prints 27Ac.
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS-Com
Jared with a week ago Chicago hog
prices ranged from l5c lower to 2b1
higher. Beef steers were 25c to 35l
lower on better, grades with medium
grades steady TO Zoe higher. Heifers
II W hoWSI. So"S liOil oVS WV
to 25c higher with feeders steady to
sec lower and veal calves steady. Fat
lambs were Csc to 35c lower, yearlings
CSC to SOC lower and ewes steady ia
25c higher. On Dec. 21st hogs closed
generally steady: steer active, gener
ally strong to Csc higher. Butcher
cows and heifers steady to strong. YEA
! ,oiyao spll, cfnnlu Tat 10 pahE cE RI
Acc higher. Dec. 21st Chicago prices.
Hogs, top, $3.50: bulk OF sales IS to
1925; medirm and good beef steers
$3.50 TO Sl1.50; butcher cows ant
! heifers s36o to sl0.25; feeder steers
S5.35 to $3.50; light and medium
weight veal calves, $3.50 to si0; fai
lambs s13 II $15.25; feeding lambs
s12.75 to STATS; yearli ss 80 to sl2.75
fat ewes SIS to $7.75. StGcker ana
feeder shipments from IL important
markets during the week ending Dec
18th were: Cattle and calves s 2,57o
hogs 1913, sheep 38.84S. In casters
wholesale fresh neat markets al
grades beef and mutton were steady
Veal ranged II m 81 lower to 81 highe,
on better grades and steady or lowe.
grades. Lamb was 81 I, SO lower witt
light pork loins steady and heavy loin,
steady to soc lower. On Dec. 2l8
beef and mutton were steady at al
markets. Veal was weak at New York
steady at other markets. Lamb veal
and declining at all markets. Po:l
weak at New York, about steady a
other markets. Dec. 21st lrices gooC
grade meats: Beef $14 80 TO SIT; yea
SIS to SIS: lamb $22 to SIS; muttoi
81 to S17; light pork loins SIS to sl7
heavy loins S12 to SIS.