Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1947-11-07
Southern Farm
Market Summary
29S MILLION LBS. TOBACCO
SOLD-AVERAGE S41.84.

i SOLD-AVERAGE SALSA.
| ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 31.-Declin
ing pork prices and seasonally in
creased runs of hogs at markets IL
major producing areas helped pull
prices for live hogs down furthe
this week, with declines ranging
from 81 to as much as $3.50 hun
bred, the Production and Marketing
Administration reported today in 1t!
weekly Southern Farm Market sum
mary.
| In the Georgia, Florida, and Ala
bama peanut belt, where hog ar
rivals increased from 10000 head last
week to 1000 this week at eight
packing plants, prices were off 81
to $3.50 a hundred. Butcher hogs
Welding soft pork at the plants Fri
day from s22 to s22.50 hundred
for weights ranging from 100 to 24o
pounds. A few long-hauled, we'll
shrunk lots reached $23.
Soft hogs lost around 81 hun
;dred on small supplies at the Mont
eomery union stockyards. selling
/ downward to $3.50, with cornfeds Oft
about 81 at s24 a hundred pounds
for top butchers.
At Nashville, where hog receipts
totaled 2,5O0-about 800 head more
than the previous week-butcher hogs
lost 1925 to top Friday at $3.50.
Closing tops elsewhere were: Louis
willie, s25.75; Baltimore, s26.75; Rich
mond, s23.75; Carolina cash buying
stations, s2s25 to s24, and Chicago
s2615.
Fall cattle marketings continued
heavy. More than $4,000 head ar
rived this week at markets in Mont
gomerv. Nashville, Louisville. and at
the eight major packing plants III
Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. A
week earlier, receipts totaled slightly
over $4,000 head.
Prices at southern markets have
shown little change, with tradlng
moderately active in all markets.
However. medium or better grace
COWS were so cents or more lower at
Nashville this week, with Gamer
grade cows declining that much IN
late trading. Bulls sold weak to
l25 cents lower. Top vealers gained
81 at Nashville to bring $3.50 a
/ hundred pounds, but heavy calves
sold steady at from s22.5o down.
ward.
T! At MONTGOMERY, cows sold weak to
so cents lower. Feeder steers also
were off so cents, but stocker types
were steady. Medium and good feed
/ ers brought from s14.5o to SIT a
hundred pounds; common and meo-
iun lightweight stocker steers ana
heifers were mostly $l1 to SO.
In the Georgia, Florida, and Ala
hama direct trading trea, the slaugn-
ter cattle market was generally steady
to firm, although prices in some sec
tions went slightly lower. StocKef
cattle were weak and so cents lower
as grass pastures faded. Common
slaughter steers and heifers orougnt
from s11 to $3.50 hundred pounds
and similar grade stockers were STU
to s14.
Broiler markets in the major
southern producing areas were un-
settled. Farm prices in the north
Georgia area averaged cent higher
at mostly 20 to 80 cents pound
while Del-Mar-Va and Virginia mar
| kets were one to two cents lower.
Friday quotations in the Del-Mar-Va
and Shenandoah Valley areas, were
% to 20 cents, and in central Nor1n
! Carolina, 80 cents.
) Heavy hens were steady and most
" unchanged at 80 cents In Georgia
markets, "a to 26 cents IN Nortn
! Carolina, and "a cents in Richmond
Eggs sold steady for locally pro-
duced offerings, with top prices 10
retailers Y to IS cents a dozen In
Atlanta, 6 6to 81 in Richmond ana
ST cents in Raleigh.
Tobacco selling in the flue-cureo
a., tobacco areas VI INOlG Al S@A~
Virginia came to an indefinite nais
Wednesday, after British buyers hao
withdrawn from the markets.
, During Monday and Tuesday SAFES,
prices in the middle belt decnneo
in practically all instances, with ex-
port grades hardest hit. The volume
of tobacco taken by the Flue-Cureo
sterilization Corporation was the
largest of the season. Season gross
sales in the middle belt reacheo d
! total of more than 112 IL mlihon
pounds, averaging nearly SAB a nun
dred. ,,u+b
| South Carolina and border North
Carolina markets ended seasons safes
with the closing of other area me ao
kets. Gross sales totaled nearly $50
million pounds, averaging s41.S4 a
hundred.
i With the exception OF mooerats
movement of sweet potatoes ano
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