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Show WEEKLY MARKETGRAM (U. S. Bureau of Markets.) Washington. T. C, for week ended December 1, 1920: Hay and Feed. Hay receipts in western west-ern mar Ice ts continue to improve and had a depressing effect on prices, which are ?2.00-ii 3.00 lower than a week ago. Buyers holding off aniiei- I patina lower quotations more in pro- ! portion lo these feeds. Heavy arrivals arriv-als are expected within the next thirty days. Enormous quantities will b shipped from Pacific coast section where hay condii ions are better than they have lit on for years. Quoted No. 1 timothy $37 New York ; Cincinnati. Cin-cinnati. $J0 Chicago; 54 Richmond: No. 1 alfalfa J26 Kansas City; $32 Memphis, Mem-phis, $24 Omaha. No. 1 prairie i Kansas City, $19.50 Minneapolis, $ 1 6 Omaha. General disposition of the trade for lower prices caused severe slump in wheat fields and high protein feeds. Decline ranges $3.00 13-5.00 on wheat feeds, $4 on cottonseed meal and $3 on linseed meal. Corn feeds fairly strong. Cluten feed and hominy feed showing recession of $1 per ton. Stock continue in excess ot demand, which is light for this time of year. Bran offered by northwestern mills, November 30 at $.16 delivered, Philadelphia middlings $2 per ton less. Quoted 3 G per cent cottonseed meal, $30 Memphis, linseed meal $4C Buffalo, Gluten feed $51 Philadelphia, hominy feed $41 New York, No. 1 alfalfa al-falfa meal $29 Kansas City, beet pulp $44 Chicago, $48 New York; flour middlings, mid-dlings, $35, red dog $45 Minneapolis. Fruits nnd Vegetables. Potato pricea continued to decline at northern f. o. b. markets, losing in additional 15c per 100 lbs. sacked, reaching $1.50 fa 1.6S. Chicago carlot market off 20c, closing $1.60(1.70. Jobbing prices in other markets slightly lower, closing $2.00 SJ 2.35. Western New York f. o. b. markets mar-kets continue dull; prices 15??20c lower low-er at $1.75(21.80. Shipments, week ended end-ed November 30, 367 2 cars compared with 5014 cars preceding week. Apple values slightly lower New York shipping points, A2 Baldwins closing $4.004.25 per bbl. Baldwins up 50c New York at reaching $4.50 (Qi 5.00. Pittsburg had advance of previous pre-vious week at $5,50 66.00. Northwestern Northwest-ern extra fancy boxed Jonathans unchanged un-changed in Kansas City and Detroit at $ 3.25 & 3.50 at medium to small sizes, $2.50 (ft 2.75 in New York. Shipments of barreled stock, 1622 cars week ended November 30, compared with 1657 cars preceding week; boxed, 1176 cars week ended November 30 compared with 1576 cars. Virginia yellow sweet potatoes up 50c per bbl in New York November 30, reaching $2.452.50. Chicago weakened to $3.75tf4.25. Tennessee Nancy Hall's, $1.501.S5 per bushel hamper in middle mid-dle western cities. Total shipments 2S6 cars week ended November 30, compared com-pared with 518 previous week. Movement Move-ment from New Jersey increasing; eastern shore Virginia about 50 cars. Grain. Export sales were unusually heavy during the week and demand for cash wheat for export good at firm prices. Excellent demand for cash corn, yet prices suffered several breaks due ' to uncertainty regarding business and financial conditions partly as a result of bank failures In North Dakota. Flour demand improved slightly, aa indicated by better milling demand for wheat On the 1st the markets showed a fair degree of steadiness and advanced toward to-ward the close. Sentiment in the grade trade seems to favor prices. There is a genuine feeling that grain prices have declined too far. For the week Chicago Chi-cago March wheat gained 1 M c, closing at $1.554, and May corn 2ViC closing at 74c. Minneapolis March wheat up lc at $1.51 ; Kansas City, 2 'a c at $1-51 H ; Winnipeg May 2c lower at $1.70. Chicago December wheat closed at $1.62 December corn 6Slic. Excellent Ex-cellent demand for cash wheat from millers and exporters on the 1st. In Chicago No. 1 soft red winter, 30T34c over December, No. 2 soft red winter. 30c. No. 1 hard winter, 105 1 lc; No. 2 hard winter. 910c: No. 3 yellow corn, Chicago. 5SSc over December, old No. 2 yellow 14c over. Dairy Product. Buttf r markets suffered suf-fered sharp break just after Thanksgiving Thanks-giving and prices today are 8c lower than a week ago in eastern markets. Chicago market has been declining steadily since middle of November and heaviest declines there occurred before eastern markets weakened. Chiea-pj dropped 2c during week. Cause of general break attributed to light trading trad-ing and surplus of all grades. Fancy better has been in heavy demand right along and when first signs of surplus appeared support was wholly lack in g. Foreign butter als- quite a factor in decline. Closing prices 92 score: New York. Philadelphia, Boston, 57c; Chicago, Chi-cago, 52c. Cheese markets remain steady to firm. No large amount of business reported re-ported by confidences expressed generally gen-erally in situation. Fresh cheese beginning be-ginning to show a time off In quality, and while this makes for easier feeling on medium and undergrade?, it strengthens the position of fancy for which good demand continues. Export business sLill slow as though there are inquiries. Some actual shipping during dur-ing week was made impossible on account ac-count of shortage of shipping spare. Better demand expected after January 1st. Trices show slight change from a week ago. Wisconsin primary markets: mar-kets: Twins. 25c; daisies. 26'c; double daisies. 2u.c; Young America. 27c; long horns, 27c; square '-i'lls. 29,;c. Livestock and M is. The hog market mar-ket showed some n-ivcry from the low point of a week ago. net advances ranging 401 50c per uni ins. viuue, however were draggy during most of the week and prices declined sharply. Beef steers from $1 502 15: butcher cattle. 25c. feeders 75c. Veal calves lost 25c, nnd feeding ewes 75c per 100 lbs. Feeding lambs, however, were slow sellers and eased up about 25c. December 1. top Chicago prices: lips. $10.50; vearling steers. $16; good i eef steers, $1.1. 7 5 ft 14.00; hoifers. $12 2; cows, $10 25; feeder steers. $10 00; western. $11.50; veal calves. $13.00: fat lambs, $13. 00; feeding lambs. $11.25 : ewes, $5.4 0. With the exception of beef, fresh meat prices showed substantial sub-stantial declines for the week. Pork led with about ranging $7 00 U? 10. 00 per 100 lbs. Veal lost $ 3.00 ff 5.00. Trade reported draggy at practically all markets. mar-kets. December 1 prices on good grades meats: Beef. $ 1 7.00 ft 2 1 .00 ; veal. $ 1 S 00? 2 2.00. Lambs. $24 OO'.f 27 00 ; mutton, $13.00fffir.00. Light pork loins, $22,041 ti? 24.00; heavv loins. 5 1 6.00 rtr 19.00. |