OCR Text |
Show Chicago Quotations CHICAGO. March 2U. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing that profit-taking by numerous numer-ous holders gave the wheat market a material setback today, the effect was only transient. Purchases for strong houses soon took the slack out of the market and carried quotations upgrade. up-grade. War preparations by the United States government had a tendency to encourage the bulls and so, too. had administration efforts to elemlnate as far as possible the dangers to American Ameri-can shippings. Opening prices, which ranged from l-2c decline to l-2c advance, ad-vance, with May at $1.87 1-2 to 1 88 1-4 and July at $1.58 to 1.58 1-2. were followed fol-lowed by a sharp general break and then a rise all around to yesterday's tinish. or considerably above. In corn as well as In wheat, realizing realiz-ing sales were quickly absorbed. Demand De-mand proved sufficiently active to lift the market to a new high price record. After opening l-4c off to 5-8c up, values underwent a moderate sag and then scored general net gains. Oats showed independent strength. Commission houses were the best buyers. buy-ers. New top-notch quotations on hogs lifted provisions. Packers supported the advance. Chicago Quotations. Wheat Open. High. May $1.87 1-2 $1.88 3-4 July 1.58 1.59 3-S Corn May 1.12 1.12 7-8 July 1.10 1-8 l.ll 1-8 Oats-May Oats-May 59 .59 1-2 July 67 1-4 .57 1-2 Pork-May Pork-May 34 .55 34.65 July 33.90 33.90 Lard May 19 70 19.85 July io. 70 19.82 Ribs-May Ribs-May is.io 18.20 July 18.25 18.25 Wheat Low. Close. May $1,86 3-8 $1,86 5-8 July 1.56 7-8 1.57 3-8 Corn-May Corn-May l.ll 1-2 1.12 July 1.09 5-8 1.10 3-8 Oats-May Oats-May 58 5-8 .58 3-4 July 565.8 .56 3-4 Pork-May Pork-May 34,00 34.27 July 33.55 33.40 Lard May 19.65 19.70 July 19.62 19.67 i Ribs , May 17.92 18 02 July 18.07 18.12 I Chicago Hog Market. CHICAGO. March 20. Falling off in nrrlvals ot hogs resulted today In the 'market touching a new lop record of 1. 1 wn i values. There was an unexpected scarcity also of cattle and sheep. Omaha Livestock. OMAHA. March 20. Hog receipts. 4.700; higher. Heavy, $14.401470. light. $14.25 g 14 .65: pigs. $12. bO'q 13.50; bulk of sales. $14. 35T? 14.60. Cattle receipts, 3.200; higher. Native Na-tive steers, $9.2512.25: coss and heifers, $7.25'or 10 25: western steers, 17.60910.55; Texas steers. $7.00 1? 9 00; stockers and feeders, $6.7577 10.25. Sheep receipts. 10.500, higher. Yearlings, Year-lings, $1l.50rt7 13 25; withers, $10. 50' 12.50; lambs, $13 7514.75. Sugar. NEW YORK, March 20. Raw sugar, firm; centrifugal. 5 39c; molasses. 4.52c; refined, steady; fine granulated. 7.00 8.00c. Sugar futures were quiet early to-, day and at noon prices were a point or two higher on coverings. |