Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1916 — THE MARKETS [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chhago,—May 18. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ing. est. est. i ing. May ......1.15-1514 1.15% 1.12% 1.12% July 1.1574-16% 1.16% 1.12% 1.i2% Sept. 1.16-16% 1.16% 1.13% 1.13% CornMay 75% .75% .7-1%-% .74% July .........74%-% .74% .73% .73% Sept 73% .73% .72% .72% Oats— May 46% .46% .45% .45% July 43 .43 .42%-% .42% Sept. ~..,...39% .39% .39% .39% FLOUR—Spring wheat, patent, Minneapolis, wood or cotton, $6.70 to retail trade: Minneapolis and Dakota patents, $5.6Q@5,50; jute, straight, $5.20<g5.40; first clears, $4.00®4.75; second clears, jute, $3 50 @370; low grade, jute. $3110®3.20; soft wheat, patents, [email protected]; rye flour, white patents. [email protected]; dark, [email protected]. HAY—Market firm: choice timothy.s2l.oo @22.00; No. 1 timothy, [email protected]; No. 3 timothy. $17.00® 18.00; light clover mixed, $17.00® 18.00: heavy clover mixed, $12.00® 14.00;• No. 3'red top and grassy mixed timothy, [email protected]; threshed timothy, $7.50® 10.00; clover, [email protected]; heated and damaged, SG.OO@ 10.00; alfalfa, choice, $17.00® 18.00; alfalfa, No. 1. $14.00® 15.00; alfalfa, No. 2, $13.00® 14.'J0; alfalfa. No. SL sß.oo® 10.00. w BUTTER—Creamery, extras. 29®29%c; extra firsts. 2874 c; firsts. 27%@28c; seconds, 26@27c; dairies, extras, 29c; firsts, 27@27%c; seconds, 26®26%c; packing stock, 23@23%c; ladles, 23%@26c. EGOS—Firsts, 21@2V%c; ordinary firsts, 19%@20%c; miscellaneous lots, cases included, 19%@21c; cases returned, 19@20%c; extra, 24@25c:' checks, 17@17%c; dirties, 78 #lS%e: storage packed firsts, 22@22%e; extra, 22%n 22', c . LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys. 20 per lb.; fowls, lS%c: roosters. ll%c; ducks, 16@lSc; geese, 10@13o. ICED POULTRY- Turkeys, 26@28c per lb.; fowls, 18%@19c; roosters, 12%@13c; ducks, 16(918c; geese, 12@13c. POTATOES—Minnesota. Dakota, white, 85®94c per bu.; Wisconsin, Michigan, white, Ss@94e; Minnesota and Dakota, Ohios. 80@90c. NEW POTATOES—FIorida, bids., No. 1, $6.25@N0. 2. $4.75(95.25; hampers. No. L $1.50®1.75; No. 2, [email protected], New York. May 18. WHEAT—Lower; inquiry inactive; No. 1 northern, $1.32%; No. 2 red, $1.27%; No. 2 hard, $1.25%; May, $1.20; July, $1.20%. CORN—Easier, moderate inquiry; No. 2 yellow, 84%@86%e; No. 3, 83%c.

Live Stock. Chicago, May 18. CATTLE—Good to choice steers, $9.00® 10.20: yearlings, good to choice, $7.50(510.00: Inferior steers, $7.50@9:00; stockers and feeders, $7.25®8.35; good to choice heifers, $7.00(59.00; good to choice cows, [email protected]; cutters, [email protected]; canners, [email protected]; butcher bulls, 56.5057.25; bologna bulls, $5.00(56.85; good to prime veal calves, $9.00 @11.00; heavy calves, [email protected]. HOGS—Prime light butchers, $9.75@9 96; fair to fancy light, [email protected]; prime medium weight butchers, 240(5270 lbs., $9.90® 10.00; prime heavy butchers, 270@310 lbs., [email protected]?V2; heavy mixed packing, $9.70® 9.95; rough heavy packing, $9,[email protected]; pigs, fair to good, stags, [email protected]. SHEEP—Shorn yearlings, $8.50(59.35; fair to choice clipped ewes, $7.75(59.00; shorn wethers, fair to choice. [email protected]; feeding lambs, $9.50(511.50; fed western lambs, $10.50<512.50; Colorado wool lambs, $10.50® 12.75; spring lambs. $10.00(513.75; shorn lambg, [email protected]. East Buffalo, N. Y., May 18. CATTLE—Market active; prime steers. [email protected]; butcher grades, [email protected]. CALVES—Market active; cull to choice, [email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active; choice lambs, [email protected]; cull to fair, [email protected]; yearlings. [email protected]; sheep [email protected]. HOGS—Market slow and steady; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, [email protected]; mixed, $10.25® 10.30; heavy. [email protected]; rough* vinotfirm stairs W.vnfrfi 75 ’>