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Show WEEKLY MMETGRAM (IT. S. Bureau of Markets.) Washington. D. C, Week Ended November No-vember 24. lyO: Ha uiid :ed. The hay market trend is downward because of heavier receipts and liht demand in principal distributing" markets. Timothy and prairie prices $l.UU'u 3.00 lower. Alfalfa steady. Prices unchanged at a few markets, mar-kets, principally because of very light receipts, hardly equal to local demand. Chicago and Cincinnati report improved demand at lower quotations. No. 1 timothv. Chicago. $30; Kansas City, ?J4.5t ; Cincinati. ?:U.2"; Minneapolis. S24.50. No. 1 alfalfa. Omaha, $ '0 Memphis. $33.00: Kansas City, J'a.aO. No. 1 prairie, Chicago. $23.00; Kansas Citv. $l5.r0; Omaha, $17. a0; Minneapolis. Minneap-olis. $20.00. Wheat feeds- slightly lower. Bran and middlings. $2.00 lower than last week in Cincinati. December and Janu-arv Janu-arv bran offered around $35. OM northeastern north-eastern markets. Middlings. $1 00 Cottonseed meal prices off $3.00 to $5.00. Philadelphia and other markets offer 36 per cent cottonseed meal at $-10.50. Unseed meal quoted $45.00 f. o. b. Buffalo. Demand, light. Homin off $1.00. Gluten feed advanced $ 00 by principal manufacturers. Other manufacturers followed advance and increased price. Production and demand de-mand below normal. Beet pulp supplies sup-plies plentiful. Quoted: Bran, $30 a0, middlings $2S.50 Minneapolis; beet pulp. $40.00 f. o. b. New York City: 41 per cent cottonseed meal. $34.00. Memphis: Flour middlings. $37.00. Bod Dog JjO. Minneapolis: liominv, $2.00 St. Louis. Oat feed. 515.00. Kansas City. Ab-nonnallv Ab-nonnallv slow movement of clover and alfalfa seed continues. Growers unwilling un-willing to sell at prevailing prices. Clean seed, per 100 pounds: Red clover, $1 6 00 f? 18.00 : Alsike clover. $20.00 -? 22.00; sweet clover. $9.0012.00; alfalfa. $ 1 2.00 fff 15.00. Seedmen reluctant to make "bids because of declining prices and money stringency. Grain. Trend of prices sieanny downward during the week, with the exception of the 23rd. Export sales of wheat heavier on the 24th than any day since earlv fall, yet heavy selling of Chicago December by houses with seaboard connections caused further break in prices. Good demand for cash grains on the 24th at strong premiums ovr December prices. Soft red winter wheat hard to get and No. 2 brought 30 cnts over Chicago December. No. 2 hard winter, SV,c premium over December; De-cember; No. 2 old mixed corn, 6c premium; pre-mium; new No. 4 yellow, 2-; old No. 2 vellow, 12c: No. 2 white. 6c. Kansas City reports plan adopted by large elevator ele-vator companies to advance farmers $1 a bushel on wheat with contract that wheat is to be delivered at once, but farmers may sell at any time and receive re-ceive balance. For the week Chicago December wheat lost 24c, closing at $1.60; December corn down 7c at 65c. Minneapolis December wheat lost 22c at $1.47; Kansas City. 25c at $1.51; Winnipeg. 24 Uc at $1.69. Chicago March wheat closed at $1.54 and May corn at 71 $c. Minneapolis March wheat, $1.50; Kansas City,' $1.49 ; Winnipeg, Mav. $1.72. I'rniln nnd VeprelnMen. Potatoes. declined de-clined 10tf7l5c per 100 pounds at northern north-ern f. o. b. markets, reaching $1.65 1.85 sacked. Haulings light at western New York shipping points; prices. 10c lower, closing $1.90 -f? 2.00. Accumulated supplies in consuming centers served to depress leading markets 1525c. car-lots car-lots declining to $1.801.90 Chicago. Jobbing prices closed at a weaker, wider range of $2. 005 2.50 in other markets. mar-kets. Shipments. 5014 cars week ended November 23rd. compared with 5261 cars preceding week. Apples continue steady at western New York shipping points, A2 Baldwins Bald-wins moving slowly at $4.25 per barrel. Extra fancv boxed Winesaps, steady, f. o. b. northwest at 1 2.10 2.25 per box. New York Baldwins, irregular in consuming con-suming markets: New York. 50c lower at ?4.00T 4.50; Pittsburg up $1.00'? $1.50 per barrel at $5.006.00. Northwestern North-western extra fancy boxed Jonathans, steady in Kansas Citv and Detroi t at $3.25rif 3.50: New York. $2.753.00. Shipments Ship-ments lighter: barreled. 1657 cars compared com-pared with 29S0 cars previous week: boxed. 1576 cars week ended November 23rd compared with 20S4 cars preceding preced-ing week. Danish type cabbage, steady, f. o. b. arou nd $ 1 0 per ton hulk at western N-'v York markets. Eastern consuming consum-ing markets closed at more narrow rang- of $13 00 fi 20.00: domestics. $10.00 ''j 15.00. Shipments. 416 cars compared with 1241 cars previous week. Virginia sweet potatoes, weak; about 2.'c per barrel lower in consuming markets at $1.75 fr' 4.25 on November 23rd. Shipments decreasing. 39 cars November 22nd compared with 105 November No-vember 20 th and 79 cars November 19th. livestock nnii Ments. Cattle at em-cago em-cago recovered from the depressed conditions two weeks ago. and net advances ad-vances of 25c on feeding steers to $1.25 on choice yearlings were recorded for the past week. Beef steers advanced S5c to $1.15. Veal calves lost $1.25. Hog prices continued to drop, the extreme ex-treme top showing a decline of $3 00 P'r 100 pounds and the average decline J2.75. Fat lambs broke 75c; feeding iambs, $1 25. Sheep were also sharply lower. November 24th, top Chicago pricos: Hogy. $1 0.00 ; yearling steers. $ 1 S .ilO ; pood beef steers. $15. 50 -JJ 15.75; heifers. $12 50; cows. $10.50; feeder steers, $ ' 0.7 5 ; westerns. $1 2.25 ; veal calves, $13.75: fat lambs. $11.25; feeding feed-ing lambs. $11.50; ewes. $4.65. All fresh meat prices declined during the week. Fresh v pork showed the rreatest loss, loins declining $3.00 6 00 per 100 pounds. Beef broke S2 00i3 5O; veal. $ 1 OOtfT 3.00. with some medium grndes more. I.ambs ami mutton mut-ton lost $1.00-3.00. Trade uniformly lower. November 24 th prices on gooil grade meats: Beef, $ I 7.00 if 21 .00 ; veal. $22.00 fr 2. 00 ; lamb. $ 2 4 00 '-7 2 6.00 ; mutton. mut-ton. $13. 00 -rr 16.00; light pork lni:s, $29 OO-'d 34.00; heavv loins. $25.00 a $27.00. liniry Product. Butter market decidedly de-cidedly weak . prices for 9 2 score de-clining de-clining 7c at Chicaco. At eastern markets mar-kets i2 score barely firm, with tin degrades de-grades In limited demand at irregular and lower prices. Danish butter well cleaned up at New York at firmer prices. Two steamers with fresh Danish Dan-ish supplies due to arrive latter part of week. Storage in very limited demand de-mand and rod ue t ion of stock mostly for purpose of su pplying private jobbing job-bing trade. Eastern markets ant ici-pn ici-pn t e decline and dealers are shading prices to move stock of all grades. Closing prices. 92 score : New York, 65c; Philadelphia, 65 He; Boston, 60c; Chicago. 54o. Cheese market, good: demand mostly for small lots, but conditions indicate that prices are easily obtained. Some slight further advances reported during dur-ing past few days at Chicago and Wisconsin Wis-consin points. Current arrivals in eastern markets beginning to show effects ef-fects of weather. Lighter trade anticipated antici-pated through holidays. Prices slight-Iv slight-Iv hlgh'-r-iind for most part steady to firm. November 22nd prices Plymouth Wisconsin cheese exchange: Twins, 2 1c; daisies, 25 1 c: double daisies. 24 1 . c; long horns, 26o; square prints, 2S (. |