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Show Marketgram (U. S. Department of Agriculture) , Week ending May 20, 1922. Hay: Alfalfa market steady with fair demand for best grades. Quoted May 19: No. 1 Alfalfa Kansas City $22.00, St. Louis $25.00, Atlanta $32,00. No". 2 A,LfaJfa Memph'js $22.50. livestock & Meats: Chicago prices of medium and heavy weight hogs advanced, ranged from 20 to 40c. Beef steers up 10 to 15c, butcher cows and heifers practically steady; veal calves 25c higher, stockers and feeders unchanged. Fat sheep mostly most-ly 75c to $1.00 lower; spring lambs 50 to 75c lower; yearlings 75 to $1.25 and ewes 75c to $1.00 down. May 20, Chicago prices: Hogs $1.1.00 top. Bulk of sales $10.50 to $10.95; Medium and good beef steers $7.75 to $8.85; Butcher cows and heifers $4.85 to $8.50; Feeder steers $G.25 to $7.S5; Light and medium weight veal calves $7.50 to $10.00; Fat lambs $10.00 to $12.75; Spring lambs $13.25 to $15.00; Yearlings $8.25 to $10.50; Fat ewes $4.00 to $7.25. Stocker and feeder shipments ship-ments from 12 important livestock markets during the week ending May 12th were: Cattle and calves 55,192, Hogs 10,885, Sheep 16,004. Eastern wholesale meat prices continued on their downward course. Beef weak to 50c lower; Veal and mutton weak to $4.00 lower; lambs steady to $1.00 lower; Light pork loins weak to $2.00 lower; Fleavy loins down $1.0 0. May 19 prices good grade meats: Beef $13.00 to $14.50; Veal $13.0 Oto $14.00; lamb $25.00 to $28.00; Mutton $17.00 to $20.00; Light pork loins ,$21.00 to $23.00; Heavy loins $16.00 to $20.00. Dairy Products: Butter markets easy at close. The tone is very sensitive sen-sitive on account of seasonal influences. influ-ences. Receipts including increased quantities, strong grass flavor. Closing Clos-ing prices 9 2 score: New York 3Gc; Philadelphia and Boston 37c; Chisago Chi-sago 3 4c. Cheese firm, prices on Wisconsin cheese board Monday averaged lc advance and this week's business in producing -sections is on the higher basis. Prices at Wisconsin Wiscon-sin primary markets May 19: Twins 17c; Daisies 17 c; Double Daisies 17c; Young Americas 17c; Square prints 18 c; Long horns 17c. Grain: Only strength in wheat market during week was on lGth. Followed by continued decline account ac-count lack of export demand and profit taking. Chicago July wheat down iy2c closing at $1.23. Chicago Chi-cago July corn up Vic at 04 Vic. Closing prices in Chicago cash market: mar-ket: No. 2 red winter wheat $1.3 6; No. 2 hard winter wheat $1.36; No. 2 mixed corn 6 2c; No. 2 yellow com 63c; No. 3 white oats 40c. Average farm prices: No. 2 mixed corn in central Iowa 4Sc; No. 1 dark Northern wheat in central North Dakota $1.36; No. 2 hard winter heat in central Kansas $1.1S. For he week Minneapolis July wheat Jown 4c at $1.40. Kansas City July wheat down 1 Vi c. at $1.15V8j Winnipeg July wheat down 3c at SI. 38. |