Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1909 — THE MARKETS [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS

Cash Grain Market. Chicago, April 29. Winter wheat by sample: No. 2 red, $1.42% @1.43%; No. 3 red, $1.32% @ 1.41; No. 2 hard, $1.23% @1.31; No. 3 hard, $1.18%@1.23%. Spring wheat by sample: No. 1 northern, $1.24% @ 1.25%; No. 2 northern, $1.22%@ 1.24%; No. 3 spring, [email protected]. Corn by sample: No. 2 yellow, 73%@74c; No. 3,72 c; No. 3 white, 73%c; No. 3 yellow, 73%@73%c. Oats by sample: No. 3 white, 55@57c; No. 4 white, 53 @ssc. Chicago Live Stock. Hogs—Receipts 16,000. Quotations ranged at $7.35 @7.42% for choice heavy shipping, [email protected] light mixed, [email protected] choice light, [email protected] heavy packing, [email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle —Receipts 3,500. Quotations ranged at $6.75 @7.00 for choice to prime steers, [email protected] good to choice steers, [email protected] good to choice beef cows, [email protected] good to choice heifers, [email protected] good to choice calves, [email protected] selected feeders, [email protected] good to choice stockers. Sheep—Receipts 10,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] good to choice wooled lambs, $6.25 @6.75 good to choice wooled shep, [email protected] good to choice shorn lambs, [email protected] shorn yearlings. Live Poultry Turkeys, per lb, l|6c; chickens and fowls, 15c; roosters, 10c; geese, 8c; ducks, 13c. East Buffalo Live stock. East Buffalo N. Y., April 29. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts 2 cars; market steady. Hogs— Receipts 15 cars; market slow; heavy, [email protected]; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, $7.30. Sheep and Lambs —Receipts 15 cars; market strong; best lambs, $7.65 @7.75; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, [email protected]. Calves —Market"strong; best, [email protected]. ‘ Elgin Butter Market. Elgin, April 29. Creamery, extras, 23c; prints, 28c; extra firsts, 21c; firsts, 23c; dairies, extras, 23c; firsts, 21c; packing stock, 17c.