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Show WEEKLY MMETGRAM (U. S. Bureau of Markets') Washington, D. C. For week ended April 2. 1921. Hay. Receipts tight, little inquiry, prices steady. Chieago buyers show better interest in prairie hay. Receipts Cincinnati linera!: prices easing off. Market moderately active at the decline. de-cline. Shipping: imiuiries few because of excellent pasturage in many sections. sec-tions. Poorer grades in tight demand; better quality welt taken. Markets generally in good condition to absorb Increased offerings. Quoted: Xo. I timothy 52S Memphis. J24 Chicago. $23 Cincinnati; Xo. 1' timothy $L'i.fLi Cincinnati. Cin-cinnati. ?20.i0 Chicago. $21 Memphis; Xo. 1 alfalfa $2(1. ."U .Memphis. S2U Cincinnati; Cin-cinnati; Xo. 1 prairie Sir.rU Minneapolis. $14 Kansas City. I-Veil All recent low levels for wheat feeds were shattered when bran broke to 517 Minneapolis with other wheat-feeds wheat-feeds showing proportionate declines. All markets weak and unsettled; demand de-mand unimproved. Offerings continue groocl; difficulty experienced in obtaining obtain-ing shipping instructions for wheat feeds. Transit stuff in liberal supply; selling slightly lower than shipment offerings. of-ferings. Gluten feed stei.dy; market narrow. Hominy feed declining in harmony with lower corn quotations. Linseed meal fairly firm, cottonseed meal weak. Southeastern markets very quiet, most prices unchanged but unsteady. un-steady. Keet pulp easier. tendency downward. Quoted: 36 per cent cottonseed cotton-seed meal $22 Memphis, bran $17. middlings mid-dlings $u; Minneapolis, flour middlings ?2:. redd osr iiu Chicago; linseed meal $41) Buffalo and Minneapolis; Xo. 1 Alfalfa Al-falfa meal $2.1 St. Rouis; white and yellow yel-low hominy feed $21.50 St. Rouis: rye middlings $lli Minneapolis. ?13 Chicago; dried brewers' grains ?2S Milwaukee, $33.50 Philadelphia. Dairy Products. AVeek opened with butter market unsettled but considerable consider-able strength developed and markets have all shown gradual advancement, today's prices averaging three cents above week ago. Prices 92 score: New York 49c: Chicago 47c: Philadelphia 50 tic: Boston 5c Buyers caught with low stock when advances began and domestic receipts have barely taken care of demand. Danish butter in liberal lib-eral quantities Xew York market, but held at firm prices. Cheese markets weak and lower; prices at about low point in December. Trading- slow and lower prices were generally anticipated. Some cheese shipped on consignment from Wisconsin Wiscon-sin points during- week. Southern demand de-mand very light, due to discouraging business conditions as well as to declining de-clining prices. At Wisconsin primary markets: Twins 201,ic; Daisies 22'4c; Double Daisies 21c; Young Americas and Ronghorns 22 Vic Fruits und Veg-etiiMes. Potato markets mar-kets firm at northern shipping stations, 'losing S5cf( $1.05. Chicago car-lot market mar-ket up 10c at $1.10 1.20. Ken' York round whites held at $1.40(3 1.50 bulk. Xew Y'ork cold storage Baldwin apples ap-ples down about 25c per bbl. city wholesale markets at $4.75 5.75. northwestern north-western extra fancy winesaps slightly weaker Chicago $2.25H3.25 per box; steady Kansas City $3.50 4. Middle-western yellow onions slow and dull in city markets, 40c$l per 100 lbs. Texas yellow Bermuda onions, commercial pack mixed No. 1 and 2, $3.25 3.50 per standard crate New Y'ork. April 1 prices rang-ed $2.25 2.50 per crate Chicago; $1.151.30 f. o. b. shipping points. Texas early flat type cabbage slow St. Louis and Chicago at $4042 per ton bulk. April R South Carolina Wakefields $22.25 per 100 lbs. New York. Louisiana Klondike strawberries firm New Y'ork at 2025c per pint. Prices 25c per crate higher in middle western markets at $4 4.75 per 24 pint crate; $1.25 per crate higher f. o. b. around $3.75. Kansas City market advanced to $55.50. Live Stock iia.l Meats. Chicago hog prices declined 50c $1 per 100 lbs tile past week. Most grades of beef and butcher cattle, also feeder steers 25c lower, cows practically steady. Veal calves down $1R25, fat lambs down 5075c; sheep steady to 25c higher. April 2 Chicago prices: Hogs, bulk of sales $S.759.75; medium a' d good beef steers $S.259.65; butcher cows and heifers $5 9.25; feeder steers $7.509: light and mediu.m weight veal calves $79.50; fat lambs $7.5010; feeding-lambs feeding-lambs $7.50S.75; yearlings $79: fat ewes $5 6.75. With the exception of pork, eastern wholesale fresh meat prices declined rather sharply. Veal declined $24: lamb $12; beef 50c $1.50 per 100 lbs.; mutton practically unchanged; pork loins up $12. April 1 prices good grade meats: Beef $14.50 17; veal $151S; Iamb $17 rfi) 21 ; mutton mut-ton $1215; light pork loins $242C; heavy loins $1S22. Cirnin. Price trend for the week downward. Freezing weather on the 2Sth caused considerable apprehension of damage to growing crop and resulted in the only upturn of the week. On the thirtieth liquidat n in coarse grains for country account started a decline that c:il:nued to the close on April 2. July wheat sold for export at Chicago Chi-cago and St. Louis. Heavy export sales of cash wheat also -cported. In Chicago cash market, No. 2 red winter wheat 7 10c over Chicago May and No. 2 hard 10 tic over. No. 3 mixed corn 45o under Chicago May corn and No. 3 yellow yel-low 3M5c under. For 'the week Chicago Chi-cago May wheat down 6c at $1.37. May corn 4 c at 59c. Minneapolis May wheat down 9c at $1.304; Kansas City May 6c at $1.29 ;-Winnipeg May 12c at $R67. Minneapolis flour demand de-mand light and good export inquiry. |