The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-03
HOG PRICES DECLINED
Wheat Prices Advanced First
Half of Week.
For week ending April 80, 1928.

For week ending April 80, 1928.
HAY: Markets continue fairly firm
on best grades of timothy but are
very dull general on clover and heavy
clover mixtures. Movement of prai-
rie continues light and prices have
been fairly we'll maintained. Warmer
weather and the approach of pastur-
age are causing a weaker tendency in
many markets. Only the limited re-
ceipts reported to be sustaining prices
in some sections. Quoted April 2Sth:
No. timothy New York $26.50, Chica-
go $23, Minneapolis $3.50. No. 1 prai-
rie Omaha $3.50, Minneapolis $3.50.
FEED: Good demand for spot feeds
noted in most markets. Wheatfeed Of
ferings light particularly for cary ship
ment, prices firm. Gluten feed demand
dropped since recent price advance,
production good. Hominy feed prices
firm, offerings and demand light. Oil
meals weaker, linseed and cottonseed
meal quoted 75c and soc per ton re-
spectively lower, offerings good, de-
mand light Future deliveries difficult
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Export demand oil meals light. Re-
ceipts and interior supplies ample to
meet present requirements. Quoted
) pril 2Sth: Bran $2S.75, middlings
r 1.25, flour middlings S31, rye mid
N3ys S27.50, Minneapolis; gluten feed
x Chicago; 80 per cent Linseed
1914 Minneapolis; White hominy
$3.50 Chicago.
f"N: Wheat prices advanced
7 half of week but eased off later
closed lower. Chicago May wheat
IN 23sc net, Chicago May corn up
&c. Liquidation sales and selling
on good weather and improved crop
conditions were main market factors.
Liquidation resumed on the 30th and
wheat prices declined Visible supply
wheat 44,521 900 bushels compared
with 31,2S1 900 bu same date last year.
Visible supply corn 22,339,000 bushels
compared with 35.564,0OO bushels same
date last year. Closing prices in Chi
cago cash market: No. 2 red winter
wheat $131; No 2 hard winter wheat
S1.24; No. 2 mixed corn SIC, No. yell
low corn SIC, No. white oats Acc.
Average farm prices: No. mixed corn
in central Iowa 69c, No. 2 hard winter
wheat in central Kansas $10S; No.
dark Northern wheat in central North
Dakota $1O7. Closing future prices:
Chicago May wheat $1.221a; Chicago
May corn sos, Minneapolis May
wheat $1245s, Kansas City May wheat
s1.14I. Mingipeg Nay Yasat $ls2Aa'
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS: Chicago
hog prices ranged from sc lower to &c
higher for the week. Beef steers and
butcher steers steady to 15c off; butch
er cows steady to 10c up and veal
calves 25c net higher. Fat lambs so to
75c, yearlings Csc net and fat ewes
steady to Csc up. On April Goth hogs
opened steady to 10c higher. Closed
steady to 10c lower than Saturdays
average. Butcher cows and heifers and
stockers and feeders steady to strong,
veal calves 25c higher. April 3Oth Chi
cago prices: Hogs, top, $3.50; bulk OF
sales $40 to SIS, medium and good
beef steers So to 9.75; butcher COWS
and heifers $3.50 to 975; feeder steers
s5.75 to S.25; light and medium weight
veal calves So to 10, fat lambs 1880
to 1925; yearlings SO to 1875; fat
ewes 81 to $50 Stocker and feeder
shipments from II important markets
during the week ending April goth
were. Cattle and calves 40,537, hogs
1885, sheep 10TH. In eastern whole
sale fresh meat markets beef and veal
wax to soc and lamb and mutton weak
to 81 lower. Light pork loins firm to
roc and heavy loins firm. to 81 higher
for the week. April Goth prices good
grade meats: Beef $3.50 to Is, veal
s14 to IS, lamb s22 to 26, mutton SIG
to IS. light pork loins $3.50 to 10,
heavy loins $11.50 to Is.
DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter mar
kets weak and unsettled most of week
although at the close there was ten
dency for the downward trend OF prlc-
es which have been suddenly declin-
ing since the first Of the month to be
checked, and temporarily the tone was
steady to firm Market has felt pres
sure of extensive stocks and all deal
ers have been DESTROYS of keeping
floors cleared in view of spring pro-
duction. Closing prices 80 score but
ter: New York AZ, Chicago 4Oc. Cheese
markets developed strength during the
week especially after an advance aver
aging about lie which occurred on Wis
consin cheese boards Monday, April
%. Trading on higher basis. Prices
at Wisconsin primary cheese markets
April 2Sth: Twins 201a, Daisies Il,
double Daisies 2O%, Young Americas
21A. Longhorns 81, Square Prints