The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-04-19
GRAIN MARKET STRONG
All Classes of Livestock Showed
Declines for the Week.
(For week ending April 10. 1920

GRAIN: Market strong throughout
week and all grains made sharp price
advances. Chicago May wheat up
3%c; Chicago May corn up 3%c. Bull
ish factors were continued unfavor-
able crop news, severe cold weather
In Northwest, and liberal export sales.
Wheat market had strong undertone
on the 18th but profit taking developed
and gains were lost. Corn higher most
of day in sympathy with wheat but
reacted and closed f~ractionally lower
than preceding day. Closing prices In
Chicago cash market: No. / red win
ter wheat $1.36, No. 2 hard winter
wheat $1.27, No. 2 mixed corn SIC,
No. 2 yellow corn SIC, No. 8 white
oats Ate. Average farm prices: No. 2
mixed corn in central Iowa CSC, No.
2 hard winter wheat in central Kan
sas $1.O7. Closing future prices: Chi
cage May wheat $1.25%, Chicago May
corn S0%c, Minneapolis May wheat
$124% Kansas City May wheat
s1.16%, Winnipeg May wheat 1928.
HAY: Eastern hay markets prac-
tically unchanged. Receipts of all hay
continues only moderate but bulk of
arrivals of oliver grades which are in
poor demand and sell at heavy dis
counts. Prices of better gra- .es steady.
Central western markets report an
active demand for the limited receipts.
Quoted April 18th: No. 1 timothy New
York $26.50, st. Louis .$22.50.
FEED: Feed demand shows slight
improvement. Millfeed offerings freer
of wheat feeds. Nearby shipment Of
ferings well absorbed. Bran market
steady, middlings easier. Flour mid.
dlings scarce, trading light. Linseed
meal steady to firmer On reported ex-
port Inquiries. Cottonseed meal dull,
prices firm, demand negligible. Hominy
feed quoted fifty cents higher result
ing from advanced corn prices. Gluten
feed situation unchanged, offerings
and demand fair. Supplies considered
ample. Receipts generally good. Quot
ed April 18th: Bran $3.50, middlings
$26. rs, -four middlings s2S, Minneapo-
lis; White hominy feed $29 st. Louis,
$3.50 Chicago; Gil ten feed $4G.65
Chicago; 32 per cent linseed meal SAL
Minneapolis, $4,000 Chicago.
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS: All
classes of livestock Oh the Chicago
market showed declines for the week.
Acc; butcher cows and heifers rs to
40c; feeder steer 10c net, and light
and medium weight veal calves 81 to
SIPS lower. Fat lambs steady to l5c
lower with other classes sheep and
lambs unchanged. On April 18th hogs
opened strong, closed steady md 10c
.ower than thursdays average: beef
steers uneven, better grades about
steady, others weak to 15c lower;
butcher cows and heifers steady, stock.
ers and feeders 10 to 15c lower. April
18th Chicago prices: Hogs top $3.50
bulk of sales IS to S.45, medium and
good beef steers $7.75 to S.65, butcher
cows and heifers $40 to $50; feeder
steers $6.15 to $50; light and medium
weight veal calves 81 to 9, fat lambs
$12.75 to 1860; yearlings 1915 to
1880, fat ewes 81 to 9.25. Stocker and
feeder shipments from IL important
markets during the week ending April
9Th were: Cattle and calves 1892,
hogs 1896, sheep 1911 In eastern
wholesale fresh meat markets beef and
veal steady to 81 lower; lamb 81 low
er to SO higher; mutton weak to $i.5O
lower; pork loins soc to 81 lower for
the week. April 18th prices good grade
meats: Beef $13 to Is, veal $14 to Is,
lamb $22 to rs, mutton $14 to II, light
pork loins s14 to Is, heavy loins $11
to Is.
Cheese markets weak and unset
tied, although at close volume of bust
ness increased somewhat. Wisconsin
cheese boards declined from half to
one cent again on Monday, April 9Th,
which placed trading on a correspond.
ingly lower basis. No export demand
Prices at Wisconsin primary cheese
markets April 18th: Flats 20%, Twins
20Ac, Single Daisies 20hc, Double
Daisies 20Ac, Young Americas 20.1c
Longhorns 1Shc. Square Printe 20zc