The Dolores star., 1924-02-08
LATEST MARKET
QUOTATIONS
-Furnished by
U. S. BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington. D. G.
Fruits and Vegetables.


Eastern potatoes. round whi,.s r.
to iOc higher in consuming center.
closing at &.75 to 81 sacked per Ia
pounds with top of s2.l0 per bulk stacp
Rochester. y: Y: sacked Maine Green n o.
Mountains, si.75 to s2.25 in New Yors
sl.g5 to 81 in Boston. $3.50 to si5s 70,
bulk stock (. o. b.: sacked northern
round whites weaker at sl.2O TO sIat
in Chicago. sl:O5 to s1.l0 I. o. b. Dan.
ranging $50 to ss5 bulk per osh1I Ioa 4
leading markets. top of $40 In New
York. s2s to $50 (. o. b.: Florida waSs.
field prices irregular. mostly sl25 IA
$l.75 per "a -bushel hampers. top et
s2.l2h in Boston. Yellow onion mar.
ket about steady ut s225 to s2is
sacked per 100 pounds in consuminS
centers, SO to s2.l5 {. o. b. Florida
celery. golden self-blanching in i0-ineh
to s2.25, Texas spinach, $3.50 to {i,;;
per bushei basket In New York % IN
$2.25 other leading markets Appis
markets M, slightly weaker: New York
Boston. Eastern York Imperials 50 To-
$3.50 in leading city markets: North,
western extra fancy winesaps. 81 "a
s2.25 per box In Philadelphia
Live Stock md Meats.
Chicago hog prices zoe to 30c higher
the top and s670 to 81 for the bulk
Medium and good beef steers 25c Ia
55c higher at SIS to sIl; butcher cow,
and heifers steady to 55c higher a,
Soc up at $3.50 to IS; light and medium
weight veal calves. 75c to 81 higher Al
$40 to sl3. fat lambs, soc to 6Oc higher
at $3.50 to slA.50. feeding lambs. 500
net higher at sll.75 to sl375. year
lings. soc to 75c up at $3.50 to sl275,
and fat ewes 25c to 4Oc higher at {5?5
to 1915.
In eastern wholesale fresh meat mar.
kets beef Is weak to 50c lower, veal Il
higher. mutton firm to So higher and
pork loins SOC to $3.50 lower.
Prices good grade meats: Beef 81
to $3.50. veal SIS to s2l. lamb $40 to
s2t. mutton SIG to SIS. light pork oins
sl3 to as, heavy ioins sll to $l25O.
Timothy hay markets slightly lower
supply continues to exceed the demand
Alfalfa and prairie in fair demand a,
Kansas city from feeders. Supply Of
prairie exceeded demand at Minncapo-
No. timothy. New York S2S50. Pitts.
burgh s2T. Memphis $2s, Cincinnati
$3.50. Chicago s26.5O. Minneapolis slg
st Louis S25, Kansas City $3.50, 10.
alfalfa. Memphis $3.50, Chicago I?s
Minneapolis S23. Kansas City S2L75
No. l prairie. Chicago $50. Miuneap0li,
SIG. st. Louis 1880. Kansas CIty Sli50
Feed.
Mil feed markets easier: demand
limited: offerings liberal. Stocks in
most sections In excess of require
mcnts oil meal weak due TO pressure
OF offerings both by mills and resellers
Grain.
Wheat market developing firmer tone
md future prices up about cents for
week. No Improvement In foreign de-
mand but more strength in local mar
kets. Receipts and movement light
Corn prices reached new high level
during week but weakened toward this
close. Receipts larger but demand less
active. oats market firm and higher.
good demand. Quoted: No. dark
northern spring. Minneapolis Sill TO
s1.29A. No. hard winter, Chicago
s1.l1 to s1.13. Kansas city s1l7 70
sl.20, st. Louis sl1l1a to S1l2i No.
red winter. st. Louis S1.lS TO sl20.
Kansas City sl.13 to s1.14. No. ? ye1lgw
corn. Chicago NC; No. 3 yellow St
Louis 7s1Ac. Kansas city 7tc; No
76c. No. 3 white oats. Chicago iShc
st. Louie ioc, Kansas City I9I=c, Mnne-
apol.s i5c.
Lniry Products.
Wholesale prices of 90 score butteri
Boston 81 &c New York Sic phila-
delphia Sic. Chicago 49c.
Cheese markets about steady. Cheese
prices at Wisconsin primary maTkets
Single daisies 23hc. longhorns 23&G
square prints 2iec.
Cotton.
Average price of middlinE spot cotton
in ten designated spot markets de-
cllned G7 points during the week, clos1
Ing at 33.O9c per pound. New hots
March future contracts declined
points, closing at 33.07c.