Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — THE MARKETS [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, Nov. 2. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ing. est. est. ing. Dec. .....LS2%-53% 1.86% 1.81% 1.86%-W May 1.81%-82% 1.87 1.81% 1.86-86% July 1.46%-% 1.50 1.46% 1.49%-% CornDec 8374-84% .87% .83% .86% May 56%-% .89% .86% .88% July 86% .89% .86? .88% Oats— Dec 53%-% .54% .53% .54% May .. 57-57% .58%-% .56% .58%

FLOUR—Spring wheat, special brands in wood, $10.30 per bbl.; hard spring wheat patents, 95 per cent grade, in jute, $9.30® 10.10; straight in export bags, $9.10; first clears, $8.25 in jute; second clears, $6.00® 6.50; low grade, [email protected]; fancy soft winter wheat, patents, in jute, $8.70; standard soft winter wheat, patents, $8.60 in jute; fancy hard winter wheat, patents, $8.90 in jute; standard hard winter wheat, patents, $8.75 in jute; first clears, sß.oo® 8.15 in jute; second clears In Jute, $6.00® 6.50; pure white rye flour, $6.70 In jute; pure dark rye, $7.20 in jute. HAT—Market steady; choice timothy, [email protected]; No. 1 timothy, [email protected]; No. 2 timothy, [email protected]; No. 3 red top and grassy mixed timothy, [email protected]; light clover, mixed, [email protected]; heavy clover mixed, [email protected]; threshed timothy, $7.0fl @9.00; alfalfa, choice. [email protected]; alfalfa No. 1, [email protected]; alfalfa No. 2, $15.00® 16.00; Kansas and Oklahoma choice, $15.00 @15.50; No. 1, $13.50® 14.00; No. 2, $12.00® 13.00. BUTTER—Creamery, extras, 35%c; extra firsts, 34%@34%c; firsts, 33@34c; seconds, 32®32%c; packing stock, 27%@28%c; ladles, 29%@30c; process^.3l@32c. EGGS— First, 31%@32%c; ordinary firsts, 29%@31c: miscellaneous lots, cases included, 25%@31%c; cases returned. 25@34c; extras, 37%@38%c; checks, 20@24c; dirties, 22@26c; refrigerators, Aprils, firsts, 30® 30%c; extras, 30@30%c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 19c per lb.; fowls. 13@16c; spring chickens, 17c; roosters, 13c; ducks, 13<814%c; geese, 12@14c. DRESSED POULTRY—Turkeys, dry picked, 25c; chickens, 16%®17%c; geese, 14@18c; ducks, 15@18q. POTATOES—Minnesota and Dakota Ohios, [email protected] per bu.; Minnesota white, [email protected]; Wisconsin white, $1.50@L70. SWEET POTATOES Bbls., Jerseys, $4.25; Virginias, [email protected]; hampers, Jerseys, [email protected]. New York, Nov. 2. WHEAT—Higher; trade fair; No. $ red, $1.93%; No. I northern, $2.06%; No. 2 hard, $1.99%. CORN—Easier; inquiry is fairly good; No. 2 yellow, $1.11; Argentine, sl.lß delivered. OATS—Firmer; trading is inactive; No. 2 white, 60 Vic; standard, 69%c; No. I white. 59%c; No. 4 white, 58%c. Live Stock. Chicago, Nov. 2. CATTLE—Good to choice steers, $9.00® 11.75; yearlings, good to choice, $9.25®11.40; fair to good steers. [email protected]; range steers [email protected]; stockers and feedeiy, [email protected]; good to choice heifers, [email protected]; fair to good cows, [email protected]; butcher bulls, $6.00® 7.23; canners, [email protected]; cutters, [email protected]; bologna bulls, $0.75®6.15; good to prime calves, [email protected]. HOGS—Prime light butchers, [email protected]; fair to fancy light, $9.75®10.06; prime medium weight butchers, 200®226 lbs., $9.86® 10.20; prime heavy weight butchers, 226® 300 lbs., [email protected]; heavy mixed packing, [email protected]; rough heavy mixed packing, [email protected]; pigs, fair to good, [email protected]; stags, [email protected]. SHEEP—Yearlings, [email protected]; fair to choice ewes, [email protected]; breeding ewes, $7.00 @9.00; wethers, fair to choice, [email protected]! western lambs, [email protected]; feeding lambs, [email protected]; native lambs, [email protected].

East Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 2. CATTLE—Market slow; prime steers. [email protected]; butcher grades, [email protected]. CALVES—Market active and 25c higher; cull to choice, [email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS-Market active; choice lambs, [email protected]; cull to fair, sß.oo® 10.25; yearlings. [email protected]; sheep. $4.00®8.25 "HOGS— Market active and 5c higher; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, [email protected]; mixed, [email protected]; heavy, slo.2s@l<Mo; roughs! staes 17 HOAX Bl .