Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1916 — THE MARKETS [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, Feb. 17. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ing. est est. ing. May 1.30%-31 1.31% 1.28% 1.29% July 1.23%-24% 7.24% 1.22% 1.22% CornMay ....79%-% .80% .78% ' ,78%-79 July 79%-% .79% .78% .78%-% OatsMay ........49%-% .49%; .48% .48% July 46% .47 .45% .45%-% FLOUR—Spring wheat, patent. Minneapolis, wood or cotton, $7.30 to retail trade; Minneapolis and Dakota patents, [email protected]; Jute, straight, [email protected]; first clears, [email protected]; second clears, jute, $3.50 @3.80; low grade, jute, [email protected]; soft wheat, patents, $5.40@5,50; rye flour, white patents, [email protected]; dark, [email protected]. HAY—Market firm; choice timothy, SIB.OO @19.00; No. 1 timothy, [email protected]<J; No. 3 timothy, [email protected]; light clover mixed, [email protected]; heavy clover mixed, $12.50@ 13.00; No. 2 red top and grassy mixed timothy, [email protected]; threshed timothy, [email protected]; clover, [email protected]; heated and damaged, [email protected]; alfalfa, choice, SIB.OO @19.00; alfalfa No. 1, [email protected]; alfalfa No. 2, [email protected]; alfalfa No. 3, $9.00@ 11.00. Chicago, Feb. 17. BUTTER—Creamery, extras, 32c; extra firsts, 30%@31%c; firsts, 27%@30c; seconds, 24@26c; dairies, extra, 31c; firsts, 26@28c; seconds, 20%@23c; packing stock, 19@20c; ladles, 21@21%w. EGGS—Firsts, 21@21%c; ordinary firsts, 20@20%c; miscellaneous lots, cases Included, 19@21c; cases returned, 18%@20%c; extra, 25@26c; checks, 10@15c; dirties, 12@ 16c; storage, Aprils, 12%@15c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 19c per lb.; fowls, 14%c; spring chickens, 17c; young stags, 14%c; roosters, ll%c; ducks, 17c; geese, 12@15c. DRESSED POULTRY—Turkeys, young, 24@25c; chickens, springs, 16@16%c; fowls, 12@15%c; roosters, 12@12%c; ducks, 14@17c; geese, 12@14c. POTATOES—Minnesota, Dakota, white, [email protected] per bu.; Wisconsin, white, 95c@ $1.02. New York, Feb. 17. WHEAT-Weaker, light Inquiry; No. 1 northern, $1.5(1%; No. 2 red, $1.42%; No, 2 hard, $1.39%; May, $1.37%; Jauly, $1.30%. CORN—Weaker, quiet Inquiry; No. 2 yellow, 85%@90c; No. 3, 84%c. OATS—Weaker, business moderate; No. 3 white. -53@53%c: No. 4 white, 51%@52%c. Live Stock. Chicago, Feb. 17. CATTLE—Steers, good to choice, sß.oo@ 9.65; yearlings, good to choice, [email protected]; inferior steers. [email protected]; good to choice heifers, [email protected]; good to choice cows, [email protected]; cutters, [email protected]; canners, $3.25 @4.00; butcher bulls, [email protected]; bologna bulls, [email protected]; good to prime veal calves [email protected]; heavy calves, [email protected]. HOGS—Prime light butchers, [email protected]; fair to fancy light, [email protected]; prime medium weight butchers, 240@270 lbs., $8.20@ 8.50; prime heavy butchers, 270@310 lbs., [email protected]; heavy mixed packing, [email protected]; rough heavy packing, [email protected]; pigs, fair to godo, [email protected]; stags, [email protected]. East Buffalo, N- Y., Feb. 17. CATTLE—Market slow and steady; prime steers. [email protected]; butcher grades, [email protected]. CALVES—Market active and steady; cull to choice, [email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active; choice lambs, [email protected]; cull to fair, SB.OO @11.25; yearlings, [email protected]; sheep, $4.00@ 9.25. HOGS—Market active, 10@15c ’ higher; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, [email protected]; mixed, [email protected]; heavy, [email protected]; roughs, $7.25@ 7.60; stags, [email protected]. Omaha, Feb. 17. HOGS—Market higher; heavy, sß.oo@ 8.15; light, [email protected];, pigs, [email protected]; bulk of sales, [email protected]. CATTLE—Market steady; native steers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, [email protected]; 'western steers, [email protected]; Texas steers, [email protected]; Stockers and feeders, [email protected]. SHEEP—Market steady; yearlings, SB.OO @9.65; wethem, [email protected]; lambs, $lO 40® 11.00.