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Show kets very firm with price tendency upward. Supply light, especially of fancy grades, which are becoming scarcer as hot weather has become more general. Consumptive demand so far has been good. Closing prices, 92 score: New York, SSVic; Chicago, Chi-cago, 3 7c; Philadelphia, IlS'ic; Boston, 39c. Cheese markets firmer and prices higher following recent advances at country points. Storing still taking place, although on conservative scale movement into storage in production section active. No export business of any consequence. Wisconsin primary pri-mary markets prices averaged: Twins, 15c; Daisies, lSUc; Double Daisies, 15c; Young Americas, 10: Long Horns, 16 !jC IilYKSTOCK AM) 31 HATS. Prices on practically all classes of livestock trend upward tho past week Fat lambs and veal calves led the advance with respective gains of. 75c to $1.25 net higher per 100 lbs. Fat ewes and yearlings 2 5c to 75c . higher. Beef steers advanced 10c to . 15c. The advance on hogs ranged 15c to ,60c per 100 lbs., light and medium weights gaining most. July 8 Chicago prices: Hogs, top, $9. SO; bulk of sales, $8.75 to $9.75; medium me-dium and good beef steers, $7 to $8.65 ; butcher cows and heifers, $-1 to $8.25; feeder steers, $5.75 to $7.50; light and medium weight veal calves, $8.25 to $10.75; fat lambs, $9 to $11.75; feeding lambs, $5.75 to $6.75; yearlings, $G to $S.75; fat ewes, $3 to $5.25. Stocker and feeder feed-er shipments from eleven important markets for the week ending July 1 were: Cattle and calves, 30,127; hogs, 3,545; sheep, 18,092. In eastern east-ern wholesale fresh markets lamu advanced. $4 to $6 per hundred lbs. Pork loins up $2 to $3; 50 'to $1.25 higher on beef. Veal and mutton steady to $1 higher. July 8 prices good grade meats: Beef, $14 to $15; veal, $14 to $15; lambs, $24 to $27; mutton, $10 to $16; light pork loins, $20 to $23; heavy loins, $16 to $19. Marketgram For week ending July 9, 1921. GKA1X. Market unsettled and lower the first half of the week and although prices have advanced since j the 0th the close today was slightly I under that of a week ago.' On the 1st trade was evening up in character charac-ter account triple holiday. A big decline took place on the 5th on hedging sales and pressure from local lo-cal interests. The higher prices the remainder of the week were the result re-sult of good export business, damage reports from Northwest, disappointing disappoint-ing returns and black rust reports. Dry weather continues in Illinois, Indiana In-diana and Ohio. In Chicago cash market No. 2 red winter wheat $1.23! No, 2 hard, $1.24; No. 3 mixed corn, 5 9c; No. 3 yellow corn. 5 9c; No. 3 white oats, 3Gc. Chicago July wheat closed at $1.22; July corn, Gl; Minneapolis July wheat, $1.24; Chicago September wheat, $1.21; September corn, 61c; Minneapolis Min-neapolis September wheat, $1.26; Kansas City September wheat, $1.13; Winnipeg October wheat, $1.42. HAY. Light- receipts causing price advance in New York and Chi-' cago. Other important markets dull and demand limited: Advices from shipping points indicate continued light receipts. Many quotations only nominal. KKCD. Very limited demand for wheat feed; other feeds stuffs neglected. neg-lected. Cotton seed meal strong Linseed meal up $1 per ton. Fair demand de-mand for export cake. Hominy feed weak. Gluten feed steady. All feed-stuffs feed-stuffs in ample supply. Movement light, receipts fair. Alfalfa meal in poor request and quoted $1 lower. Inquiry for red dog and flour middlings mid-dlings has dropped off; prices easier. FW'IIS AND VEGETABLES. Potato receipts have been decreasing hi, eastern markets a,nd several cities report higher prices, ranging $2.75 to $4.75 per bbl. for eastern shore of Virginia Irish Cobblers. Strongest advances recorded in New York, where good stock was in demand and up $1.50 per bbl., closing $4.50 to $4.75. Potato production for the United States as forecast July 1 is 376,997,000 bushels; December estimate es-timate of last year's crop- was 430,-458,000 430,-458,000 bushels: DAIRY PRODUCTS. Butter mar- |
