The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-18
GRAIN PRICE MAKE GAIN
Foreign Political Conditions In
fluence The Markets Generally

o.. S. Bureau of Markets, Washington,
| ID. c., for week ended Jan. Is, 1928.
| GRAIN: Grain prices made slight
net gains during the week, Chicago
May wheat up 1bc; Chicago May corn
up 26c. Foreign political conditions
main factors influencing market.
Wheat market inactive at opening on
the 18th but later short covering
brought prices to fractionally higher
) level Visible supply wheat 40,193 900
bushels compared with 46,398,OOO bush
i els same date last year. Visible supply
corn 1S.S16,O00 bushels compared with
24,259,000 bushels same date last year.
| Closing prices in Chicag o cash mar
| ket: No. 2 red winter wheat $131; No.
| 3 hard winter wheat $1.21; No. mixed
corn TIC; No. yellow corn TIC; No.
| 3 white oats 44c. Average farm pric-
es: No 2 mixed corn in central Iowa
Sc; No. 1 dark northern wheat in
central North Dakota $102 Cltsing
future prices: Chicago May wheat
s1.19B; Chicago May corn 72Hc; Min
neapolis May wheat s1.195s; Kansas
City May wheat $1.10B; Winnipeg
May wheat $1.133s.
FEED: Mill feed markets quiet but
firm. Jobbers heavily stocked and
discounting prices. Present light oper-'
alton of flour mills tend to sustain
wheat feed prices. Cottonseed meal
weak; linseed meal easier Corn feeds
firm, production good, demand fair.
Alfalfa meal steady, demand light,
production good Supplies in interior
considered normal and storage stocks
in excess of those held at same time
last year. Receipts and movement
gooa ~
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS: Chicago
hog prices were 80 to Csc lower for
the week. Beef steers ranged from
25c higher to Csc lower on top and
good grades to 40c higher on medium
grades. Butcher cows and heifers
were 10 and 35c higher respectively
while feeders were 35 to Acc higher
and veal calves soc lower. Fat lambs
were 25 to Acc lower, feeders steady
to 10c higher, yearlings steady and
ewes 40c to 81 lower. On January 18th,
hogs were five to fifteen cents lower;
beef steers generally steady to 25c
lowr, and fat lambs 25 to soc lower.
Fat sheep weak to Csc lower. January
18th, Chicago prices: Hogs, top, $40;
bulk of sales $7.75 to $8.25; medium
and good beef steers $3.50 to $11.50;
butcher cows and heifers 1918 to
$1,000; feeder steers $625 to IS; light
and medium weight veal calves 1925
20 Sill; fat lambs $1275 to STATS;
feeding lambs $12.75 to SASS; year
lings 1925 to $13; fat ewes S. to $S.35.
Stockers and feeder shipments from
IL important markets during the week
ending January 9Th were: Cattle and
calves $3.50; hogs $3.50; sheep 23,141.
In eastern wholesale fresh meat mar
kets beef ranged from steady to 81
higher for the week, veal 81 to SIS high
err on better grades and steady on
lower grades; lamb remained prac-
tically unchanged. Mutton was 81
lower on good grades and 81 to 81
higher on medium grades Light pork
loins were from 81 lower to soc high
er and heavy loins steady to SOC low
er. On January 18th beef was 81 high
er at Boston, steady to slightly higher
at Philadelphia with good steers SOC
to 81 higher and other grades steady
at New York. Veal was steady at all
markets. Lamb was 81 higher at Phil
adelphia and steady elsewhere. Nut
ton was So higher at Boston, steady to
81 higher at Philadelphia and steady
at New York. Pork loins were soc to
81 higher at Philadelphia. Loins and
shoulders soc to 81 higher with other
grades steady at New York and Bos-
ton. January 18th prices good grade
meats: Beef SAT-; veal $17-2O; lamb
$24-2S; mutton $13-17; light pork loins
S16.50-18; heavy loins $13-15.
DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter mar
kets barely steady to weak. Firmness 1
early in week gave way under pressure
Of relatively heavy supplies which in
cluded several thousand packages of
foreign butter. Closing prices go score
butter: New York 53c; Philadelphia
54c; Boston SIC; Chicago sic.