Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1923-06-28
WHEAT PRICES LOWER
Chicago Hog Prices are 5 to soc
Lower for the Week

LIVESTOCK AND MEATS: Chicago
hog prices 5 to soc lower for the week.
Beef steers around 10 to zoe, butcher
cows and heifers steady to soc; feed
er steers steady to 15c and veal
calves soc to $1.25 lower. Fat lambs
81 net lower: yearlings zoe to sl.75
on and fat ewes so to 75c up. On June
20 hogs around 10 to 15c lower; beef
steers. butcher cows and heifers is
to Csc lower and veal calves largely
soc lower. June 25th Chicago prices:
Hogs, top. $40: bulk OF sales $s.75
to 1880; medium and good beef steers
IS to 1880; butcher cows and heifers
1915 to 1926: light and medium
weight veal calves s7,75 to s.7s: fat
lambs $13 to 1880: yearlings $40 to
1880: fat ewes $3.50 to Z.
Stocker and feeder shipments from
~ important markets during the week
ending June 18th were: Cattle and
calves 1884; hogs 1885; sheep
10,751. In eastern wholesale fresh
meat markets beef weak to $50 low
er and mutton and veal weak to 50.
lamb 81 to 4: light pork loins weak
to 81 lower for the week. June 25th
prices good grade meats: Beef $3.50
to IS. veal SIC to Is, lamb $24 to 20.
mutton s14 to Is. light pork loins SIS
to 20, heavy loins Sill to Is.
HAY: Eastern markets continue
dull except for best grades. Prices in
buyers favor Increased movement to
market noted In New York state. Re-
ceipts OF alfalfa increasing but quality
generally poor because Of wet weather
during harvesting season. Quoted
June %: No. timothy New York $26.
Minneapolis SIT. No. prairie Mime
apolis $3.50.
FEED: Demand generally light and
principally confined to nearby stun.
Good inquiry for linseed meal for Au-
gust, September shipment but imme-
date shipment offerings difficult to
place. Few resellers offering Gluten
feed 81 under mill prices, stocks gen.
orally ample. movement fair. Quoted
June 25th: Bran $50. middlings SIS.
-four middlings $3.50 Minneapolis;
Gluten feed s3715 Chicago; white
hominy feed s33 Chicago; 80 per cent
iinseed meal $3.50 Minneapolis.
GRAIN: Wheat prices closed lower
for week mainly under liquidation
and stop-loss selling. Corn showed
irmness and closed higher. For the
week Chicago July wheat &c lower.
Chicago July corn 21sc higher. Wheat
narrow but firm on the 25th and
closed fractionally higher. Trade small
and mixed with some buying by east
ern houses. Corn firm with wheat. Wis
ible supply OF wheat 2s.343,o00 bush
els compared with 22.002. 900 bushels
last year. Visible supply Of corn g.
les. 900 bushels compared with 81
1926, 900 bushels last year.
Closing prices in Chicago cash mar
ket: No 2 red winter wheat $1.12; No.
2 hard winter wheat s1.07; No Q mixed
corn s5c; No. yellow corn SIC; No.
white oats 43c. Average farm pric-
es: No. mixed corn In central Iowa
Tic; No. 1 dark Northern wheat In
central North Dakota sec; No. hard
winter wheat In central Kansas SSc.
Closing future prices: Chicago July
wheat s1.04b: Chicago July corn
s3hc: Minneapolis July wheat S107h:
Kansas City wheat s7ac.
DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter mar.
kets nervous and unsettled during
the week Lack Of confidence prevent
ing extensive storage. Imports contin
ue to arrive at New York including
Danish. Holland and Argentine but.
ter. Closing prices 90 score butter:
New York 3s&c. Chicago 3sc. Cheese
markets dull following declines which
occurred during the week. Some stor
ing being done but It appears to be
mostly temporary protection against
loss. More New Zealand cheese and
relatively heavy shipments reported
as prospect. Prices at Wisconsin prt
mary cheese markets June 22nd: Sin
gle Daisies 22hc: Longhorns 22hc;
Square Prints 23hc.