The Holly chieftain., 1924-04-03
LATEST MARKET
QUOTATIONS
-Furnished by
u. {. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington, D. G.
Fruit. and Vegetable.

Eastern round white potatoes steady
at >l.50 to $l.s5 sacked per 100 pounds
ponts fieS orsbe1n 59 as sacked ed
round whites firm in Chicago. a. 81
to sl.3o; mostly 3l.c5 to Sl.l5 al ship
ping points. Florida spaulding Rose
| generally 1880 to SIS per double head
barrel. Florida Bliss Triumph, $3.50 to
$500 per bushel crate in midwestern
markets. New York Danish type cab
base steady, at $40 to s45 bulk per ton
In Baltimore and PIttsburg. Texas
new stock flat and round types ranged
$45 to 365 in city markets; SIS to f2o
higher Eastern cities, closing at $l.75
to $500 per bushel basket, top of s2.25
In New York South Carolina Savoy;
$500 to $500 per barrel in New York.
Virginia stock. $500 to s45 Yellow
varieties on onions about steady, at
$l.75 to s225 sacked per 100 pounds
steady to firm. New York Baldwins
closed at $3.50 to $3.50 per barrel in
leading markets; mostly $3.50 f. o. b.
oS so o esl estrb box fancy
| onion crop is reported from a week to
ten days late this season. with a fore
:asted total production of 2.449,S00
bushels. compared with 2,169,400 BUSH
| els in 1928.
Live stock and Meat.
Chicago hog prices ranged from 10
TO 2oc lower, at $40 for the top and
good beef steers. &c lower to Zoe high
er, at $50 to sl1.75: butcher cows and
heifers steady at $500 to sl0.5o: feeder
and medium weight veal calves, Csc to
SOC lower, at $7.75 to .11.25; fat lambs.
!oc lower to 25c higher. at sl4.75 to
1865; feeding lambs, csc ,ower, at
/ $l3.75 to $3.50; yearllngs, Csc higher,
at $500 to $500 fat ewes steady to
25e higher, at s7.25 to s11.75.
In Eastern wholesale fresh meat
higher, veal and mutton firm to s1.oo
higher; lamb 3l.O0 to $500 higher and
pork ps,dsi ioins na1 firm to $50 up: ,,o,
10 1885, FG0a yea ,11eo neo's to .aec Sss
lamb $500 70 .al;oo; mutton, $4,000
to s22.0o; light pork loins, sl4.oo to
1l7.00; heavy loins, $1,000 to sl4.00.
Grain future prices continue down
| ward trend and market very weak,
though more settled. Cash grain firm
er than future. because OF light re-
weakening market for that grain.
Demand for wheat and corn of only
fair volume. Quoted: No. / dark
1925. No. 2 hard winter. Chicago.
slo9h; Kansas City. s1,oO to s1.05. N
2 red winter. Kansas City. $1.o4 to
corn, Chicago, soc; Minnea polls. Tic.
St. Louis, 7s1sc No. 3 white corn,
lsaI, Kansas City, re; St: Louis 7sc: No 3
1
| Minneapolis, 43Ac; Kansas City. 4sc;
st. Louis, 4Skc.
Increased receipts weaken Eastern
tinue firm. Good demand for top
grades in practically all markets
| Lower grades moving better in the
West, Alfalfa and prairie in good de-
| mand.
.27.75; New York, 5000; Plttsburg
ssSS cSisnro Mpns ,s ss7so So Gineagp .ss 81
No = timothy: Boston. $25.o0; New
York. $3.50; Memphis, $1,000, Chicago
$2S.00. No. alfalfa: Memphis, s3l 90;
| Chicago, S2S00: Omaha. $2l.00. No.
prairie: Chicago, $1,000; st. Louis
1880; Omaha. $14.50.
| Feed markets dull with Eastern
| markets more depressed than Western
markets. Mill offerings small, but re-
sellers appear well supplied and quote
below mill prices. Wheat feeds weak
| with Buffalo quoting bran and mid
dlinxs at $685. delivered, Philadelphia
| rate of freight.
! Dairy Products
| Butter markets unsettled and sensi-
tive regardless of consumptive de-
| rent receipts. Prices only current
grades show close ranges. Import.
light -
| New York, 431ac; Chicago. 43laci
Philadelphia, 43hc; Boston. 44kc.
Cheese markets weakened. Feeling
| of trade is indicated by general ten
dency to keep receipts moving.
| Wholesale prices at Wisconsin pri-
mary markets: Flats. 20hc; singls
Daisies. 28Ac; Double Daisies. 19s.c;
| Young Americas, 2ohc; Longnorns
1890; Square Prints. -01ac.
| Cotton
Average price of middling spot cot
ton in ten designated spot markets de-
| clined 175 points during the week, clos
| ing at 2f.3sc per pound.
| New York May future contracts de-
| clined zoo points closing at 26.95c.