The Delta independent., 1923-06-29
Market Report
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.ginfa and North and South Carolina
Cobbler potatoes continue to decline
i'm leading markets and at shipping
points for the week. Southern Bliss
Triumphs tend upward.
PRICES REPORTED JUNE %
Carolina Irish Cobblers $3.50 to $3.50
Virginia and Norfolk section stock
$3.50 to $525 in city markets; $5.75
to Sc in Boston; $4.75 to $4s5 fob.
Southern Bliss Triumphs $3.50 to So.
so per 100 pounds mid-western mer-
kets.
GRAIN-Wheat prices made sharp
declines during week mainly on liquid
&c: corn had independent strength.
advancing "a cents net. Wheat had
firmer undertone at the end of the
week on short covering. Closing pric-
es in Chicago cash market: No. 2
red wheat $1.07. No 3 White Oats
43 cents Closing future prices: Chi
cago July wheat $1.05 7-s; Chicago
July corn "a cents: Minneapolis July
wheat 01.Os5-S; Kansas City July
wheat. 98 5-Sc: Winnipeg July Wheat
$1161-S.
LIVE STOCK AND MEATs-Chi-
cago hog prices advanced to 30c
for the week Beef steer prices Is
to Csc up Butcher cows and heifers
15c lower to 1Oc higher; feeder steers
steady to 10c up and veal calves
steady to 75c lower; fat lambs 75c
to 81; yearlings soc to $175, and fat
ewes SOC to 75c higher.
\ On June 20 hogs were 15c to zoe
lower than yesterdays average. Com
mon butcher cows 15c lower: other
classes steady. Fat lambs SOC TO 75c
lower; sheep steady to weak. June 22
Chicago prices: hogs, top, $7.45;
bulk of sales $6.75 to $7.35; medium
and good beef steers 1925 to $10.75:
butcher cows and heifers $385 to
,$1035; feeder steers $6.40 to 1885:
light and medium weight veal calves
1925 to $10.25. Stoclcer and feeder
shipments from IL important markets
during the week ending June Is were:
Cattle and calves 29,994; hogs s.235;
sheep 10,751.
In Eastern wholesale fresh meat
markets beef steady to SOC, veal and
pork loins steady to 81; lamb steady
to 50 and mutton 50 to IS higher for
the week. On June % steer beef was
weak to SOC lower at Boston. Steer
beef Soc; veal. lamb and some sales
pork lions 81 lower with mutton to
81 higher at New York.
June % prices good grade meats:
Beef $3.50 to $3.50: veal SIS to ST;
lamb $24 to $50: mutton $14 to $1s:
light pork lions SIS to SIS: heavy lions
81 to $14.
Hay: Light receipts continue to
hold hay prices generally firm. Wes-
tern markets rather dun except for
best grades OF timothy and receipts OF
poor hay exceed the demand. Quoted
June % No. / timothy Boston $3.50:
New York $2750; Philadelphia $23;
Pittsburgh $22. Cincinnati s20.50;
Chicago $24; st. Louis $23.50; Mime
apolis $3.50; Atlanta $26; Memphis
$27.5O: No. / alfalfa (new) Kansas
City $21.25. No. prairie Kansas City
$18; st. Louis $23; Minneapolis $17.
FEED-Markets quiet with scatter
ed demand for nearby shipment stuff.
Deferred shipment offerings wheat
feeds liberal resulting from improved
flour demand. Inquiries from interior
| very moderate Production and stocks
most feeds in excess OF present re-
quirements. Quoted June %. bran
$50. middlings $24.75; flour middhngs
$2s.75, rye middlings $24. Minneapolis
gluten feed $37.15. Chicago: white
hominy feed $3.50 st. Louis. $32 Chi
cago; 80 per cent linseed meal $3s
Minneapolis. 500 Buffalo; thirty-six
per cent cotton seed meal $34 Memp-
his; $36 Atlanta.
DAIRY PRODUCTS-Butter market
\ unsettled throughout the week. At the
close the tone was about steady, with
indications OF weakness in some quar-
ters. Both buyers and sellers have
| lacked confidence IN the situation. al
though there has been a slight in
crease In purchases for storage.
Closing prices, 90 score butter: New
York 39c; Philadelphia 40c: Boston
4Oc; Chicago 3s 1-2c.
Cheese markets unsettled through
out the week under a slow demand.
The decline on Wisconsin cheese
boards Monday placed trade on a
basis fully one cent lower than week
ago and should stimulate buying I'M
less buyers anticipate still further
drop.
/ Prices on Wisconsin primary cheese
markets June 81; Twins % lac;
daisies ~ 1-2c; double daisies &c;
fyoung americas ~ 1-2c: longhorns
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