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Show Marketgram (U. S. Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates.) Week ending February 18, 19 22. Hay Markets ruled firm to higher. high-er. Quoted February 17: No. 1 alfalfa Kansas City, $19.50; Chicago, Chi-cago, $22.50 . Memphis, $25; No. 1 prairie Kansas City, $10.50; Chicago, Chi-cago, $15. Livestock and Meats Chicago hog prices advanced 20c-35c per hundred pounds during the week, medium and heavy hogs advancing most. Lower grades of beef steers ranged from 25c-40c higher, with those selling sell-ing in the upper registers practical-y practical-y unchanged. Fat cows and heifers steady to strong, with lower grades weak to 25c lower. Stockers and feeders up 15c-25c. Veal calves steady. Fat lambs ranged from 50c o $1.10, the average advance being About $1. Yearlings up 50c to 75c; :at ewes up 25c to 50c. Feeding lambs advanced 2 5c for the week. February IS Chicago nrioes: Hoes heavy loins, $14-$17. Dairy Products Butter markets irregular at beginning of week but steady to firm at close. Closing prices 92 score: New York. 38c; Chicago, 36 y2c; Philadelphia, 37 Vzc. Boston, 37 c; Cheese markets firm with higher prices at Wisconsin country points. Distributing markets also show partly part-ly increased strength. Prices at Wisconsin Wis-consin primary markets February 17: Twins, 21c; aisies, 22c; Double Daisies, 21 c; Longhoms, 22c; Square Prints, 22 c; Young Americas, Ameri-cas, 20c. Grain All grains sold at new high points on crop during the week. Principal market factors were: Strong Liverpool and Buenos Aires markets, improved flour and milling demand, bullish crop reports from southwest and Argentina. Closing Clos-ing prices in Chicago cash arket: No. 2 red winter wheat, 1.37; No. 2 hard winter wheat, $1.35; No. 2 mixed corn, 57c; No. 2 yellow corn, :57c; No. 3 white oats, 3Gc. Average farm prices:' No. 2 mixed corn in central Iowa, b4c; No. 1 dark northern north-ern wheat in central North akota, $1.32; No. 2 hard winter wheat in central Kansas, $1.20. For the week Chicago May wheat up 7c, closing at $1.40. Chicago May corn up 3JAc at 6 2V2c; Minneapolis May wheat up 6c at $1.43; Kansas City May wheat up 7c at $1.28 ; Winnipeg Winni-peg May wheat up 10V2c al $1.38. Top, $10.45ffi bulk of sales, $9.90-110.35; $9.90-110.35; medium and good beef steers, $7.25-$9.15; butcher cows and heifers, heif-ers, $3.80-$7.75; feeders,. $5.35-$7.25; $5.35-$7.25; light and medium weight veal calves, $7-$ll; fat lambs, $13.25.-$15.85; $13.25.-$15.85; feeding lambs, $11.50-$13.50; $11.50-$13.50; yearlings, $10.50-$14; fat ewes, $5.50-$8.75. Stocker and feeder shipments from twelve important markets during dur-ing the week ending February 10 were: Cattle and calves, 55,828; hogs, 12,549 . sheep, 32,055. Eastern wholesale fresh meat prices advanced. Pork loins advanced ad-vanced $2-$3; mutton, $l-$5; lamb, $l-$2; beef, 30c to $1; veal firm to $1 higher. February 17 prices good grade meats. Beef, 12.50-$14; veal, $16-$20; lamb, $25-$28; mutton, $13-$19; light pork loins, 10-$2.0 |