Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1915 — THE MARKETS [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, June 24. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ing. est. est. Ing. July .......1.04%05 1.05% 1.0314 1.03% Sept 1.02%-03% 1.03 >4 1.01 1.01 Dec. ....... 1.05%-% 1.06% 1.04% 1.04% CornJuly .........74-74% 74% ,73% .73% Sept. 73%-% .73% .72% .72% Dec. .........65% .65% ,64% .64%-% Oats— July ..44%-45 .45 .43% .44 Sept. ........39%-% .39% .38 ,25% FLOUR—Spring wheat patents, Minneapolis, wood or cotton, $6.90 to retail trade; Minnesota and Dakota patents, '55.3005.60; jute, straight, $5.0005.10; first clears, $4.6004.80; second clears, jute, $4.00 04.10; low grade, jute, $3.4003.50;’ soft wheat patents, $5,3005.60; rye flour, white patent, $5.7005.90; dark, $4.50 04.75. - HAY Market firm; choice timothy, $19.00020.00; No. 1 timothy, $17.50®15.50; No 2 and No. 1 mixed. $16.00017.00; light clover, $15.50016 50; heavy clover, $14.00015.00; clover, $12.50013.50; red top and grassy mixed timothy, $14.00015.00; threshed timothy, $9,00012.00;no grade timothy, $7,000 9.00; alfalfa, choice, $18.00019.00; alfalfa. No. l, $16.000 17.00; alfalfa. No. 2, $15,000 16.00. ( TIMOTHY SEED Market steady. There was a sale of September at $7.60; country lots, $5,5007,50 nominal. Chicago, June 24. BUTTER—Creamery, extras, 27c; extra firsts, 2G@26%c;, firsts, 24%®25%c; seconds. 23024 c; packing stock, 20@20%c; ladles 21021%*, EGGS—Miscellaneous lots, cases included, lfi@l7c; cases returned, 15%016%c- ordinary firsts, 16@16%c; firsts, 17@17%c; extras, 21c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 11c per lb.chickens, fowls, 14c; springs, 20025 c; roosters, 9%c; ducks, 13c; geese, 809 c; young ducks, 15016 c: spring geese, 14@15c. ICED POULTRY Fowls, 14@14%c; ducks, 12014 c; turkeys, 13014 c; geese, 9 ®loc. NEW POTATOES-Texas Triumphs, 60 ®‘sc per b'u.; Carolina cobblers, $1,750 1.85 per bbl.; Virginia cobblers, $1.7501.85 per bbl. ' ; ■■" ■ ' . I New York, June 24. WHEAT—Higher, business quiet; No 1 northern, $1.40; No. 2 fWf, $1.27%®1.30; No. I hard. $1.33; September, SI.OB. C ORN—Easy, Inquiry inactive; export, 82%c; No. 2 .yellow, Ss%c; No. 3 yellow 85%c. OATS—Weaker, business inactive; No. 2 white, standard, 54c; No. 3 white, 53%c; No. 4 white, 63c’.

Live Stock. Chicago, June 24. CATTLE—Steers, good to choice, $7.45® 9.70: yearlings, good to choice, [email protected]; inferior heifers, [email protected]; good to choice heifers, [email protected]; good to choice cows, [email protected]; cutters, $3.75@>4.75; canners, $3.00 @4.00; butcher bulls, [email protected]; bolognas, [email protected]; good to choice veal calves, $7.60 @10.60; heavy calves, [email protected]. HOGS—Fair to fancy light, [email protected]: prime medium weight butchers, 240@270 lbs., [email protected]; prime heavy butchers, 270 @340 lbs., [email protected]; heavy and mixed packing, [email protected]; heavy packing, $7.35@ 7.60; pigs, fair to good, [email protected]. East Buffalo, N. Y„ June 24. CATTLE—‘Market active and steady; prime steers, [email protected]; butcher grades, [email protected]. CALVES—Market active; cull to choice, [email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active, lambs 25c higher; choice lambs, slo.oo® 10.25; cull to fair, [email protected]; yearlings, $7.00 @8.00; sheep, [email protected]. HOGS—Market active; Yorkers, $8.10; pigs, $8.10; mixed, [email protected]; heavy, $7.90@ 8.00; roughs, $«[email protected]; stags, [email protected]. Omaha, June 24. HOGS—Market higher; heavy, $7.25@ 7.35; light, [email protected]; pigs, [email protected]; bulk of sales, [email protected].' j . CATTLE—Market strong; native steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, [email protected]; western steers, [email protected]; Texas steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, [email protected]; calves, [email protected].. SHEEP—Market strong; yearlings, $6.25 @8.36; wethers, [email protected]; lambs, $8,609 LIS. /