Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1916 — THE MARKETS [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. A.. Chicago, May 25. Opkn- High- Low- ClosWheat— ■ ing. esL est. ing. May July 1.10-10% 1.11% 1.09%-% 1.10%-% Sept. ~..1.10%-11% 1.12%-% 1.10% i.ij% CornMay ...,.72%-73 .73 .70% .70% July 71%-% .71% .69% .70%-% Sept69%-70% .70% .68% .69% OatsMay ....42%-% .42% .42 .42% July ..42%-% 40% .40% .40%-% Sept3B% .39% .38% .38%-% FLOUR—Spring wheat, patent, Minneapolis, wood or cotton, $6.50 to retail trade; Minneapolis and Dakota patents, [email protected]: jute, straight. $5.20(55.40; first clears, $4.5<[email protected]; second clears, jute, $3.50 @3.70; low grade, jute, [email protected];’ soft wheat, patents. [email protected]; rye flour, white, patents, $5,[email protected]: dark, [email protected]. HAY—Market easy; choice timothy.s2l.oo @22.00; No. 1 timothy, [email protected]; No. 2 timothy, [email protected]; light clover mixed, [email protected]; heavy clover mixed. $12.00@ 14.00; No. 3 red top and grassy mixed timothy, [email protected]; threshed timothy. [email protected]; clover, [email protected]; heated and damaged, [email protected]; alfalfa, choice, $17.00 @18.00; alfalfa No. 1, [email protected]; alfalfa No. 2. [email protected]; alfalfa No. 3. $9 00© 10.00.

BUTTER—Creamery, extras. ?8%@29%c; extra first, 28%@28%c; firsts, 27%@28c; second, 26@27c; dairies, extras, 29c; firsts, 27© 27%c; seconds. 26@26%c; packing stocks, 23 @23%c; ladles. 25@25%c; process. 27c. EGGS—Firsts, 21%@21%c; ordinary firsts, 20@20%c; miscellaneous lots, cases included, 20@21%c; cases returned, 19%@21c; extra, 24@25c; checks, 17@17%c; dirties, 18@ 18%c; storage packed, firsts, 22@22%c- extra, 22%@22%c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 20c per lb.; fowls, 19c; roosters, 12c; ducks, 16@18c; gese, 10@12c. ICED POULTRY—Turkys. 26@28c; fowls, 19c; roosters. 12%@13c; ducks, 16@18c; geese. 12@13c. POTATOES—Minesota. Dakota, white, [email protected] per bu.; Wisconsin, Michigan, white, [email protected]; Minnesota and Dakota Ohios. 90c@$1.00. NEW POTATOES—Triumphs, sacked, Texas and Louisiana, [email protected]; Alabama [email protected]. New York, May 25. WHEAT—Firmer, inquiry fair; No. 1 northern. $1.28%; No. 2 red, f 1.22%; No. 1 hard, $1.21%; May, $1.16%; July, $1.13%. CORN—Weaker, quiet inquiry; No. 2 yellow, 81@83c; No. 3,80 c. OATS—Weaker, trade moderate; standard, 48c; No. 3 white, 46%@47c; No. 4 white, 46%@46c; ungraded, 46@49%c,

Live Stock. Chicago, May 25. CATTLE—Good to choice steers, $9.50© 10.75; yearlings, good to choice. [email protected]; inferior steers, [email protected]; stockers and feeders, $7 [email protected]; good to choice heifers,' [email protected]; good to choice cows. [email protected]; cutters. $4.00@5 25; cannters. [email protected]; butcher bulls. [email protected]; bologna bulls. [email protected]; good to prime veal calves. SIO.OO @12.00; heavy calves, [email protected]. HOGS—Prime light butchers, [email protected]: fair to fancy light, [email protected]; prime medium weight butchers. 240@270 lbs., $9.90@ 10.05; prime heavy butchers, 270@310 lbs., [email protected]; heavy mixed packing,- $9,70@ 9.90; rough heavy packing, [email protected]; pigs, fair to good, [email protected]; stags, [email protected]. SHEEP—Shorn yearlings. [email protected]: fair to choice clipped ewes, [email protected]; shorn wethers, fair to choice, [email protected]; feeding lambs, [email protected]; fed western lambs, [email protected]; Colorado wool Jambs, $11.25@ 12.50; spring lambs. [email protected]; shorn lambs, [email protected]. <? . ’ East Buffalo, N. Y., May 25. CATTLE—Market active; prime steers, [email protected]; butcher grades, [email protected]. CALVES—Market active; cull to choice, &[email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market slow; choice lambs, [email protected]; cull to fair, $6.50 @10.00; yearlings, [email protected]; sheep. $4.00@ 9.00. HOGS —Market active, 5c higher; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, $9.60@9 75; mixed, ♦[email protected]; heavy. slo.3o@lo.£}i rough*, <[email protected]; stags. [email protected].