The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-05-22
Today's Markets
CHICAGO ~ LIVESTOCK


HOGS-25, 900; moderately active; mostly
10 lower spots 10 to Is off on light weight
quiet shipping demand bulk good and
choice gao to 325 pound butchers 7.60@7.65
ages 7.406l7.55; bulk better grades lao to
100 pound averages 6.90@7.30: packing
sows largely 6.75@6.90: killing pigs dull
20 lower bulk good and choice 100 to $50
pound averages 6.00@6.40. heavy weight
hogs 7.4517.65; medium 7.4007 go; light
7.10G77 so; light light 6.15@7.45; pacing
sows smooth 6.85@7.00; packing sows rough
6.70M6,S5 slaughter pigs 5.25M6.5O.
CATTLE-12,000; most killing classes
slow; beef steers uneven, 10 to Is lower ;
bidding % off on better grades heavy steers
in spots; liberal receipts; killing quality
fed steers largely medium. handy and
matured steers 11.4O; some held higher |;
best yearlings early 1880; fed loads Miss
ouri yearlings held at HOO she stock about
steady Tower grades fat cows, Gamers
and cutters moderately active; bulls steady
to weak; best heavy bolognas 5.2s; vealers
slow generally steady; packers paying up
ward to HOO; outsiders up to 1l.50; half
fat quality weighty steers 10 Mineral
Point 100.
SHEEP-6. 600 fat lambs slow; early sales
steady to weak; now bidding lower. Fat
sheep weak to lower: desirable clipped
lambs i4.75M15.25: spring limbs better
grades F.O0017.50; choice fat clipped
ewes 6.25.
CHICAGO GRAIN
Less favorable crop reports from the
southwest and west together with export
buying at Winnipeg and an upturn in Liv-
erpool quotations, gave the wheat market
here an upward swing today during the
early dealings. Offerings were light, the
legislative outlook at Washington having
a deterrent effect on sellers Need of rain
IN western Kansas and western Nebraska
attracted special attention, The opening,
which ranged from 1-S to Y q 5-sc higher.
with July 1.06A "a LOS T-8 and Sept. 10y
rs, was followed by moderate additional
gains.
Corn and oats were firmer in sympathy
with wheat and result of meagreness
of receipts. Besides. some improvement of
shipping demand here for corn was quoted.
After opening unchanged to 1ac higher,
July rs 5-sc, the corn market scored a
slight general, advance.
Oats started at q shade lower to 3-Sc
higher. July 44c, and later hardened all
Provisions were weaker owing to drop
in hog values.
CHICAGO - PRODUCE.
BUTTER-Steady receipts s,4s4 tubs /:
creamery extras 371a standards 371a; ex-
ira firsts s6@S61a; firsts S41a@S514. Sec
onds 30n331h.
CHEESFAUnchanged
EGGS-Unsettled; receipts 27,646 cases !;
firsts 233tM24; ordinary firsts 21h022 I;
storage pack extras &c; firsts 251a.
POULTRY--Alive. unsettled; fowls 24M
%. broilars 1904; boosters IA.
POTATOFS-About steady: receipts So
cars: total u. S. shipments 602; Wisconsin
sacked round whites 1l0M1.30: bulk Lisa
so: Idaho sacked russets 1.S5@2.10, New
stock, Alabama and louisiana sacked bliss
triumphs 2.75Ms25; Florida barrel spauld-
ing rose 7.50M7.S5.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
NEW YORK CITY-Stcck prices devel-
oped an irregular tone at the opening OF
today's rnaroet. rejecting the play of OPP
posing speculative forces for control Some
of the oil shares, including the Standard
issues moved hieher along with several con-
per stocks. Bethlehem led an advance in
independent steel shares. Baldwin and
Studebaker yielded slightly to selling pres
sure.
Buying of the coal carriers. including
Delaware and Hudson, Chesapeake and Ohio.
Norfolk and Western and Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron. stimulated adj
vance in the general market, which was ac-
centuated by short covering in number of
industrials and specialties. Chesapeake and
Ohio reached 70 Ia, the highest level in
ten years. Delaware and Hudson rose 8
points and gains of l to 2 oints were
registered by Dupont, Republic Steel, Dawson
Chemical. United States Industrial Alcohol.
New York Dock. Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron, Colorado Fuel. United States
Cast Iron Pipe. Gulf States Steel and Bald
win. Foreign exchanges opened steady.