Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1909 — THE MARKETS [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS

Cash Grain Market. Chicago, Aug. 16. Winter wheat by sample: No. 2 red, $1.64%@1.05%; No. 3 red, [email protected]; No. 2 hard, $1.04®1.07; No. 3 hard, [email protected]. Spring wheat by sample: No. 3 spring, [email protected]. Corn by sample: No. 2,69 c; No. 2 white, 72(g) 72%,c; No. 2 yellow, 71@714c; No. 3, 684 c; No. 3 yellow, 71®714c; No. 4, 664® 67c. Oats by sample: No. 2 white, 40c; No. 3 white, 38%@394c; No. 4 white, 37 4c; standard, 39® 39%c. Chicago Live Btock. Hogs—Receipts 26,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for choice heavy; $7.80® BXK) butchers, [email protected] light mixed, $7.80®8.00 choice light, $7.40 ®7.60 heavy packing, $6.75®7.75 good to choice pigs. ■= Cattle—Receipts 19,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for choice to prime steers,[email protected] good to choice' steers, $4.25®5.25 good to choice beef cows, $4.50®6.90 good to choice heifi ers, 38.00©8.76 good to choice calves*, $4.75®5.15 selected feeders, $4.00® 4.4<j good to choice stackers. Sheep—Receipts 30,000. Quotations ranged at $4.00®4.30 for range wethers, $7.00® 7.90 range lambs, $5.00® 5.50 native yearlings, [email protected] good to choice native ewes, $6.25<g>7.75 native lambs. Potatoes. Choice to fancy, 53@55c; fair to good, 50® 52c. East Buffalo Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 16. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle —Receipts 140 cars; market 10 to 16 cents lower; export steers, [email protected]; best shipping steers, [email protected]; cows, $3.00®4.50; heifers, $4.00®5.40. Hogs —Receipts 60 cars; market slow; heavy, $8.20®8.15; Yorkers, sß.oo® 8.15; pigs, $7.90. Sheep and Lambs— Receipts 30 cars; market lower; best lambs, $7.00®7.25; yearlings, $5.00® 6.60; wethers, $5.00®5.15; ewes, $4.50 ®4.75. Calves—Best, [email protected]. Elgin Butter Market. Elgin, Aug. 16. Creamery extras, 26c; prints. 28o; extra firsts, 25c; firsts, 234 c; dairies, extras, 234 c; firsts, 214 c; packing stock. 20c.