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Show sheep and Iamb prices advanced sharply while cattle and hogs declined de-clined during the past week. Fat lambs up $1, feeding lambs 25c-50c. Yearlings up 50c-75c; fat ewes, 25c-50c 25c-50c per hundred pounds. Hogs ranged fiom 20c-40c net lower. Good beef steers down 25c; medium grade steers steady. Haif is also steady, but butcher cows lost 15c. Feeder steers down 25c-50c, veal calves, 75c-$1. 75c-$1. September 9 Chicago prices: Hogs, top, $9.25; bulk of sales, $6.90-$9.20; medium and good beef steers, $6.25-$9.50; butcher cows and heifers, $3.50-$8.75; feeder steers; $5-$7.25; light and medium weight veal calves, $10-$13; fat lambs, $7.75-$9.65; feeding lambs, $5.75-$7.50; yearlings, $5-$7.50; fat ewes, $3-$4.75. Marketgram Grain. Following a weak opening, open-ing, prices - advanced steadily throughout the seven-day period, Chicago December wheat gaining 10y2c net and closing at $1.32. Chicago December corn up 2 Vie, closing at 5 6c. News and sentiment generally bullish commission houses, local buyers and houses with eastern connections wero good buyers throughout. Eight hundred thousand thou-sand bushels corn sold to seaboard September 9 for export. In Argentina Argen-tina heavy damage from drought expected. ex-pected. Closing prices in Chicago cash market: No. 2 red winter wheat, $1.34; No. 2 hard, $1.34; No. 2 mixed corn, 5 7c; No. 2 yellow corn, 57c; No. 3 white oats, 38c. For the week Minneapolis December wheat up 13 c, closing at $1.45; Kansas City December wheat up 9c at $1.2 6; Winnipeg December wheat up 10c at $1.43. Chicago September wheat closed at $1.33; September corn, 55 c; Minneapolis September wheat, $1.4S; Kansas City September wheat, $1.22; Winnipeg October wheat, $1.48. Dairy Products. Following unsettled unset-tled condition in the butter market last week, the markets are now much firmer with increased demand for all grades at higher prices. Closing prices, 92 score: Chicago, 40c; Philadelphia, 41 c; New York, 41c; Boston, 42 c. Livestock and Meats. Chicago |