Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1923-03-08
MARKET IS UNSTEADY
Hog Prices Generally 30c to $50
Higher for the Week

spot and transit millfeeds. Demand
slow for deferred shipment. Stocks of
all feeds Of moderate volume but de-
msnd generally limited to immediate
needs OF the trade. High protein feeds
and corn feeds practically unchanged.
Imports of beef pulp increasing sup
ply and causing lower quotations,
Quoted March 3rd spring bran and
middlings Minneapolis $3.50. Win.
ter bran ST. Louis s32. Linseed meal
Minneapolis $4S.50; So per cent cot
tonseed meal Memphis SAL. Aalfalfa
meal Kansas City $24, Gluten feed Chi.
cage $42.65; white hominy Chicago
$2s.
GRAIN-Market unsettled during
the week but the nudertone was firm
and prices closed higher. Bullish fac.
tors were drouth reports from South.
west and passage of Farm Credit Bill.
Chicago May wheat up 1Ec net: Chi
cago May corn up 1%c net Wheat
prices advanced on the 9Th on report
that stocks on farms were less than
trade expected. Trade estimates con-
sumption OF wheat this season 3S, OOO,-
600 bushels more than last year. Corn
prices held strong with wheat. Clos
Ing prices In Chicago cash market:
No. Red winter wheat $3.50; No. 2
hard winter wheat $120; No. Q mixed
74c; No. yellow corn 74c: No. 8
white oats 45c. Average farm prices:
No. mixed corn In central Iowa soc:
No. dark northern wheat in central
North Dakota $1.01: No. 2 hard Writer
wheat In central Kansas 81. Closing
future prices: Chicago May wheat
$11SA; Chicago May corn 75hc; Min
neapolis May wheat $I191sc; Kansas
City May wheat $1.11; Winnipeg May
wheat $113h.
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS-Chica-
go hogs, prces generally 80 to 45c
higher than week ago. Beef steers
to soc lower, butcher cows and heifers
Is to 35c and feeder steers steady to
15c on with veal calves rs to $2.25
lower. Fat and feeding lambs de-
clined Is and yearlings Csc, while
fat ewes were steady to SOC up. On
March 9Th hogs were active, 10 to 15c
higher; beef steers uneven, generally
steady to 15c lower, butcher cows and
heifers largely steady to strong. Fat
sheep and lambs generally steady to
25e higher. March 5th Chicago prices:
Hogs top sS.65. bulk OF sales IS to
1856, medium and good beef steers
$S.15 to $40, butcher cows and heifers
$5.25 to $3.50. feeder steers So to
SIS; light and medium weight veal
calves s7.25 to $1,000; fat lambs $3.50
to s15.a5. feeding lambs $3.50 to
s15.25; yearlings 1915 to $3.50; fat
ewes $3.50 to $S.75. Stocker and
feeder shipments from IL important
markets during the week ending Feb.
23rd were cattle and calves 41,967,
hogs 1883, sheep 11.729. In eastern
Wholesale fresh meat markets beef
was Soc to 81 lower. veal 81 lower to
IS higher, lamb and mutton generally
weak to 81 down. light pork lains 81
lower and heavy loins SOC to 81 OF for
the week. Beef and pork weak, other
classes about steady at New York.
March 9Th prices good grade meats
beef s13 to S14, veal $14 to $21. lamb
s23 to see, mutton Is to SIS, light pork
loins $15 to ST, heavy loins $3.50 to
$14.
DAIRY PRODUCTS-Butter mar
kets unsettled throughout the week
but steady to firm at the close. I'm
usual demand at Chicago for butter
to be used in filling contracts for Feb
ruary delivery kept markets firm until
oil contracts had been filed. following
which weakness developed and prices
declined sharply. With prices at
lower levels, demand has increased
osmewhat and market appears stron-
ger Closing prices 80 score butter:
New York 49c, Chicago 4sc.
Cheese markets unsettled and bare
ly steady throughout week. Trading
not up to expectations. Most OF larger
cities throughout the country reported
to have consigned stocks. In the mar
kets, buyers were plainly holding on
In anticipation OF lower prices. Clos
ing prices at Wisconsin primary |
cheese markets March Sd: Flats
24%c, Daisies 24hc. Double Daisies
24c, Young Americas 2shc. Long |
Horns 25Isc. Square prints 25hc.