Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1916 — THE MARKETS [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago. May- 4. Open- High- I.>nv- ClosWheat— ihg, est. est. ing. May ..l.lf-hr',4 1.15% 1.13 1.13%. July' ......1.H!%-% i.16%-% 1.14% 1.14%% Sept. 115% 1.1(5 1.13% 1.13% Corn— May ;.........77%-% .77*4 .76% ; .76*%% July .........76 %77 .77 .76*8 .76% Sept. , ........76% .76%-% .75% .75 , fiats— May 46V & -46% .46*4 .46%-% July ....... ~42**-% .43% . .43 \ .43 Sept. 33%-% .3.1% 40 .39*4 .33% FLOUR—Spring wheat, patents, Minneapolis, wood or cotton. $6.70 to retail trade: Minneapolis and Dakota patents. [email protected]; jute, straight, $5.2005:40; first clears, $4.407!4.60; second clears, jute, $3.5C 773.70; low grade, jute, $3.1003.20; soft wheat, patents. $5,2005,40; rye flour, white patents, $5.0005.20; dark, $4.1004.30 HAY —Market firm; choice timothy, S2I.(X @22.00; No. 1 timothy. $ 13.00ft20.00; Xo. i timothy, $17.00018:00; light clover, mixed, $17,007(18.00; heavy clover, mixed. $12,000 14.00; No. 3 red top and grassy mixed timothy, $14,00016.00; threshed timothy, $7.50(8 10.00; clover, $11.00013.00; heated and damaged, $6.00010.00; alfalfa, choice, $17,000 18.00; alfalfa. No. 1. $14.00@i5'.00; alfalfa, No. 2, $13.00014.00; alfalfa. No. 3, $8.00(8 10.00. BUTTKH -Creamery, extras, 31 %c: extra firsts, 31c; firsts, 30030%’; seconds. 2S @39*4c: dairies, extras, 31c; firsts. 29030 c; seconds, 27028 c; packing stock. 25@26e; ladles, 28%25%c; process. 28%@30c, KGGS— Firsts, 20%@20%c; ordinary firsts. 13@13%e; miscellaneous lots, cases included. 19020%c; cases returned, ls%o2O*ic; extra, 23024 c: checks. 16317 c: dirties, 170 18c: storage packed, firsts, 21%%21%c; extras. 21%022c. - LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 20c; fowls, He; roosters, 13c: ducks, 16018 c; geese, 1C <& 13C. ICED POULTRY—Turkeys, 25@26c pet lb.; fowls, l8@18V4c; roosters, 13‘4@14c; ducks. 16018 c; geese, 12313 c. POTATOES—Minnesota, Dakota, white, 85094c' per bu.; Wisconsin, Michigan, white, Ro®94c; Minnesota and Dakota, Ohio, 55092 c. NEW POTATOES Florida, bbls., No. 1. $6.5036.75; No 2. $5.5005.75; hampers. No. 1. $2.25: No. 2. $1.75. New York. May 4. WHEAT—Weaker, trade brisk: No. 1 northern. $1.33*4; No. 2 red, $1.27: No. 1 hard. $1.24; May. $1.21*4; July, $1.22*4. CORN -Weaker, trade quiet; No. 2 yellow. 87090%c; No. 3, 53%C.OATS—Steady, Inquiry Inactive; standard, 51V4@52*4c; No. 3 white, 50?4@51*4c; No. 4 white, 49%@50t 1 c; ungraded, 50@63%c. Live Stock. Chicago, May 4. CATTLE—Good to choice steers, $9,000 9.90; yearlings, good to choice, $7.50(89.75; inferior steers, $7,500(8.55; stockers and feeders. $7.2508.35; good to choice heifers, [email protected]; good to choice cows, $5,5008.00; cutters, [email protected]; canners, $3.5004.60; butcher lulls, $6.5007.25; bologna bulls, $8.0009.00; good to prime veal calves. sß.ofi @9.00; heavy calves, $6.5007.75. HOGS—Prime light butchers, $9.7509.96; fair to fancy light, $9.6009.95; prime medium weight butchers, 2400250 lbs., $9.75@ 9.95; prime heavy butchers, 2700310 lbs., $9.6509.90; heavy mixed packing, $9.6009.75; rough heavy packing, $9.4509.65; pigs, fall ,to good, $7.8008.75; stags, $8.2509.00. SHEEP—Yearlings, $7.50010.25; shorn yearlings. $8.3008.75; fair to choice clipped ewes, [email protected]; shorn wethers, fair to choice, $7.75053.50; feeding lambs, $9,500 10.90; fed western lambs, $10.50011.60; Colorado wool lambs. $10.50011.75; spring lambs $10.00016.00; shorn lambs, [email protected]. East Buffalo. N. Y.. May 4. Market light; prime steers, $9.2509.60; butcher grades, $7.0009.00. CALVES-Market active; cull to choice, $5.00010.00. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active; choice latnbs, $10.25010.50; cull to fair, $6.50 010.00: yearlings. $7.0008.50; sheep, $4,000 8.25. - HOGS—Market active; Yorkers, $9,250 10 20; pigs, $9.0009.25; mixed, $10.20010.26; heavy. $10.30310.25; roughs, $9.0009.16; stags, $6.5007.50,