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Show ! WEEKLY MMETGfiAM (U. S. Bureau of Markets.) Washington, D. C. For week ended Feb. is, lyi'l. Fruit and Kiablrn Sacked round white potaLot-s down o'.iSc per 100 lbs f. o. b. nurthern shipping stations at MJfJe. Chk-Htfo car-kit market down 10c. reaching $ 1 0." '.r 1 1 0 saekfd. Hound whites hekl around $1 at Wt-su-rn New York shipping points. Cold storage Haldwin apples firm at western ,- w York I", o. 1. slat ions, around per bid. Baldwins firm in city wholesale markets at $4.".0i:i5, York Imperials $3.73 w 4.50. Northwestern Northwest-ern extra fancy W'inesaps firm New Yurk $:i.3u t 4.50 ; up lVc f. o. b. at 1i l2 35. Wanish type cabbage weak around SS ptr tun f. o. 1).; eastern city wholesale whole-sale markets up $1 per ton. closing $14 IS Florida new cabbage weak at $1.2.12 per lla bu. hamper. Fasten) yellow sweet potatoes steady at $I.5n'ri2 per bu. hamper. New Jersey Jer-sey stock up l'5c Chicago, at tint in. Prices advanced about 10c the early part of week as result of reports of green bugs in southwest. An overlxnight condition was then- disclosed dis-closed and prices reacted about 4 c. larger movement, small demand and entire lack of export business then caused a further decline despite mora serious reports regarding green bugs, on the 17th colder weather and snow were reported in the bug territory. This influenced market lower, but prices later rallied on reports of export business and hessian fly talk from win ter wheat st a tes. For the week Chicago March w heat advanced 2 V c, closing at $l.(i7rSt: May corn 1 :Ki c at tUtc, Kansas Citv March wheat up 1c at $1.57 . Chicago May wheat $1.574. In Chicago cash market No. 2 Red win- : ter wheat 2fir-i31e over Chicago March; 1 No. 2 hard 4'fi tic over; No. 3 mixed corn 3 ;'4 n 4 Vjc under May ; yellow 3 (Q 4 VsC under. Hay and Feed. On account of colder weather and light receipts hay market slightly improved over conditions early in the week but prices still lower than a week ago in .most markets. Demand remains light ; only few orders for shipment being received in western markets. Kansas City congested with poor hay. Further declines likely. No. 1 timothy New York $31.50, Chicago $24, Cincinnati $23, Memphis $29, Kansas City $18.50. No. 1 alfalfa Kansas City $19.50, Memphis $30. Prices of several feedstuffs advanced 50c(fi$1.50 due principally to bidding up by jobbers as country demand is showing no signs of improvement. Mills state that business cannot be obtained ob-tained at the high prices and that they view the advance as of a temporary tem-porary character. Stocks remain ample; in several sections burdensome. No particular activity noted except in wheat feeds. Resales by jobbers at higher prices reported. Movement, receipts re-ceipts and production satisfactory. Forty-three per cent cottonseed meal quoted-Chicago market $1.50 below mill 1 prices. Linseed meal and gluten feed i dull. Quoted bran $20.50. middlings $20 , Minneapolis; flour .middlings $27, red ! dog $33 Chicago; linseed meal $36 Minneapolis, Min-neapolis, $40 Buffalo; 36 per cent cottonseed cot-tonseed meal $26.50 Memphis; No. 1 alfalfa al-falfa meal $20 Kansas City; whit a hominy feed $32 northeastern. $3$ southeastern markets; gluten feed $35 Chicago. Live Stock and Meats. Compared with a week ago hog prices at Chicago Chi-cago were nearly steady, declines of 1015c on some grades belrig counterbalanced counter-balanced by equal advances on others. Beef steers up 6590c; better grades of cows and heifers 60 75c; common grades unchanged. Feeder steers ad- : vanced 25cfi?$l per 100 lbs. Fat lambs ; up 25c; feeding lambs down 25c. Fat ewes gained 2550c. Feb. ISth Chicago prices: Hogs, bulli of sales, $8.86'9 9.50; medium and good beef steers $8.40 10.15; butcher cows and heifers $4 9,25; feeder steers $78.75; light and medium weight veal calves $9. 50 12.25; fat lambs $6.759.75; feeding 1 lambs $6.257.50; yearlings $5.507.26; fat ewes $3.50fq-5.25. Eastern wholesale fresh meat markets mar-kets firm to slightly higher than a week ago. Beef and pork loins steady to $1 higher; mutton up $1(82; veal steady to $1 higher. Feb. 18th prices good grade meats: Beef $13.5015; veal $lSffr20; lamb $18(ff20; mutton $10 (ti2 light pork loins $1921.50; heavy loins $1418. Dairy Product. During the past week 92 score butter has advanced lc daily w---h other grades following closely. Prices on the 18th are practically prac-tically back to where they were three weeks ago when the decline began. Demand is now very firm; trading very active. Feb. ISth. prices. 92 score: Philadelphia 4SV6o; New Y'ork and Boston Bos-ton 48c; Chicago 47c. With scarcely more than a steady market cheese prices have shown but very little change the past week. Smaller styles are least In demand with prices showing show-ing wider ranges than on other styles. Majority sales prices range 2525c n most styles. |