Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-07-22
HOG PRICES
STILL RISING

EDITORS NOTE: Folliwing Is
summary of market price infor-
nation for the week ending July
IL, 1858 as gathered and edited by
Market News Service, N. c. De-
partment of Agriculture, in COOP
Grafton with the N. c. Department
of Agriculture.
Hog prices advanced Is to rs
cents per hundred at local buying
stations this week with closing
tops ranging from 25.75 to $500.
This is an increase of 425 to ATS
per hundred over last years price
on July II when farmers were re-
ceiving 2l.OO to 2l.75. Prices also
moved up on the nations leading
terminal markets with Chicago
reporting an advance of 25 to SO
cents with tops closing at 27.25.
Baltimore was so cents higher
with top of PITS reported.
Auction sales of cattle were
again reported fully steady to
stronger at Rich Square and Rocky
Mount markets this week Fat
butcher beef type cows auctioned
at 1880 to 1000 per hundred
pounds while good fat heiferS
brought 1000 to 1880. Good fat
vealers were reported at 1900 to
1880 and medium to good butcher
steers at 1900 to 23.75. Good fat
butcher bulls sold from 1000 to
IT'S.
Slaughter steers and hciferS were
strong in Chicago with prices l.50
to 400 higher than last week.
VealcrS also advanced 200. High
ed at 1880 10 1000 with most sales
at 1850 down.
Fryers and broilerS were steady
after advancing one cent this week
in the Central North Carolina area
as supplies were barely able to
meet the good demand in some
places. Prices paid at the farm
were reported at % cents per
pound. Heavy hens were steady
with prices at the far managing
from % to &c cents. Flyers were
fully steady to unsettled in other
leading southern producing areas.
In the North Georgia area, farm
pay prices were one cent higher
at % to 20 cents per pound, and
were about steady in the Delmarva
area at 28A TO 314. The Shen-
andoah Valley closed unsettled at
% to % cents per pound.
Eggs remained steady in Raleigh
where local producers received Sc
cents per dozen for A, large: So
to So for A, medium: and 40 to
so for B, large.
Grain prices remained generally
steady at most eastern and pied
mont North Carolina markets dur
ing the week. No. 2 red winter
wheat prices closed at IL range Of
ITO to lbs per buShel. Oats were
generally steady 10 five cents per
bushel higher ranging from 68 to
80 cents per bushel.
No. ? yellow corn closed W.T.,
a range OF 1.85 to $50 per buShel
III the piedmont and from Ito to
100 in the eastern part of the
state. No. white corn was steady
with closing prices at l.85 TO 2.15.
Pepper prices were irregular at
eastern North Cardinals auction
produce markets. Bushels of Bull
nose type brought mostly 125 to
200 in FaiSon and 80 to Ito in
Clinton. Sales in Wallace ranged
from loo to l.25.
New York reported a weaker
pepper market at the close of the
week. Bushels of fine quality Bull
nose type from North Carolina
wholesaled at $50 to 1926. Peaches
were also weaker at the close in
New York. Bushels of ? inch and
up Elbertas from North Carolina
brought $50 to $50, while rs inch
and up Sullivan Elbertas brought
800.
Cotton prices showed only slight
advances on the nations leading
markets this week Middling 1916
inch cotton averaged 1882 cents
per pound on Friday. This COM
pares with 1896 last Friday and
1891 for the corresponding date a
year ago.