The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-06-21
HOG PRICES ARE LOWER
Grain Prices Made Net Gains for
the Week Despite Profit

(fOr week enGlng June ID, 1897
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS: Chi
cago h n rrice3 declined 5 to 15c com.
pared Win q week ago. Beef steers,
butcher COWS and heifers advanced Is
to Acc; feeder steers 35 to 40c and
veal calves so to 75e up. Fat lambs
steady to 10c lower; spring lambs rs
to soc higher.
On June IS hogs mostly 10 to 16c
higher than Thursdays average. Beef
steers, butcher COWS and heifers steady
to strong, other classes steady. June
18th Chicago prices: Hogs, top, $3.50;
bulk of sales $3.50 to los; medium
and good beef steers $40 to 1866;
butcher cows and heifers $4.25 to
1925. Feeder steers $40 to SIS; fat
lambs SIP to l4.75; spring lambs $14
to 1850; v4arlings 1925 to 10; fat
ewes SO to 6.25; Estimated receipts
OF livestock at seven markets today
we're: Cattle 1880 calves 1850;
hogs 10000; sheep 17,1OO.
Stocker and feeder shipments from
IL important markets during the week
ending June Sth were: Cattle and
calves 4S,79S; hogs 1885; sheer
II 100.
In eastern wholesale fresh meat
markets beef steady to soc; veal 81
to 50; lamb steady to 81 up; mutton
81 lower to 81 higher and pork loins
soc to 81 up for the week. June 18th
price good grade meats: Beef SIS to
II; veal SIS to 16; lamb s24 to 80,
mutton $11 to Is; light pork loins SIS
to IT; heavy loins $1l to IA.
GRAIN: Grain prices made net
gains for the week despite profit tax.
ing on all advances. Bullish Influences
were government report on Wheat,
strength in Winnipeg and Liverpool,
and claims of crop deterioration on
account wet weather. For the week
Chicago July wheat up 1%c; Chicago
July up sc. Prices advanced on the
18th on heavy rains in Kansas and
Nebraska, complaints Of damage and
wet harvest talk. Foreign demand for
wheat slow. Corn higher with wheat;
cash corn market active. Closing pric-
es in Chicago cash market: No. 2 red
winter wheat 1922; No. 2 hard winter
wheat $1.14; No. 2 mixed corn Sac;
No. 2 yellow corn S5c; No. 3 white
oats 44c. Average farm prices; No. 2
mixed corn in central Iowa Tic. Clos.
ing future prices: Chicago July wheat
L$l.1l% Chicago July corn S2Ac; Min.
~neapolis July wheat s1.14$; Kansas
| City July wheat $l.04; Winnipeg July
wheat S1.1S1s.
HAY: Timothy hay markets con,
time firm because of light ~reeeipts,
Arrivals generally below demand for
good hay. Dry weather in some sec.
tons of east and southeast causing
larger demand for hay. Alfalfa move.
ment in central and southwest delayed
by wet weather. Quoted June 18th
No. / timothy, New York $271 Chicago
$3.50, Minneapolis SIS.
FEED: Markets quiet, prices ir
regular. Moderately firmer tone in
spot and nearby bran. Demand con
tinues slow especially for deferred
shipment offerings. Western jobber:
bidding around $3.50 for July, Au
gust and September shipment bran II
Kansas City market. Alfalfa meal 500
to 81 lower at offerings increasing
! Quoted June 18th: Bran $40, middling
s23, -four middlings SIS, rye fec
$22. so Minneapolis; Gluten feed $37.1I
Chicago; White hominy feed $685.
Chicago; 80 per cent linseed mea
$3.50 Minneapolis.
DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter mar
kets unsettled during week and boil
advances and declines have occurred
Foreign arrivals include butter from
Denmark, New Zealand, Argentine ant
small lots from Ireland and Esphonia
Closing prices 90 score butter: New
York 3SAc; Chicago soc. Cheese mar
kets about steady. No active blyins
for storage has developed. Hot wealth
er has affected quality of current pro
auctions and conditions of pastures
are not the best despite recen rains
wisconsin production close to peak
Some 1900 cases of New y ,alant
cheese arrived at New York yesterday
Prices at Wisconsin primary chess
markets June IA: Daisies 24c; Double
Daisies 23hc; Young Americas 24c
Longhorns 24c.