Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1917 — THE MARKETS [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, March 8. - Open- Highr Low- ClosWheat ing. est. ' est. ing. May .......1.87-87% 1.89% 1.85% 1.88%-% July 1.57-57% 1-59 1.56% 1.58%-59 Septl.4s% 1.47 1.44% 1.47 CornMay ......1.07%-% !.<&% 1.06% 1.08%-% July L1.06%-% 1.08% 1.06% 1.08 Sept. ......1.06% 1.07 1.05% 1.07 OatsMay 58%-59 .59%-% .58% .'59% July 56%'-%' .57% .56% .57%-% FLOUR—Spring wheat, special brands, in wood, $10.20 per bbl.; hard spring wheat patents, 35 per cent grade, in jute, $9.30; straight, in export bags, $9.10; first clears, $8.30, in jute; second Clears, [email protected]; low grades, [email protected]; fancy soft winter wheat patents, in jute. $9.15; standard soft winter wheat patents, $9.00, in jute; fancy hard winter wheat patents, $9.10, in jute; standard hard winter wheat patents, $8.90, in jute; first clears, $7.90@'8.10, in jute; second clears, in jute, [email protected]; pure white rye flour, $8.20, in jute; pure dark rye, $7.70 in jute. HAY—Choice timothy, [email protected]; No. 1 timothy. [email protected]; No. 2 timothy, $14.00 @ls 00; No. 3 red top and grassy mixed timothy. [email protected]; light clover mixed. [email protected]; heavy clover mixed, $13.50@ 15.00; threshed timothy, Kansas and Oklahoma choice, [email protected]; No. 1, [email protected]; No. 2, [email protected]. BUTTER— Creamery, extras, 40c; extra firsts, 38%@39c; firsts, 34%@37c; seconds, 33 @34c: packing stocks, 26@27c; ladles, 28® 29c; process, 31c. EGGS—Firsts, 27%@27%c; ordinary firsts, 26%@26%c; miscellaneous lots, cases included 26%@27%c; cases returned, 26@27c; 'extras, 30@31c; checks, 24@25e; dirties, ,25@ 26c. LIVE POULTRY 15@21c; spring chickens, 21c; roosters, 15c; ducks. 21@23c: geese. 13@16c. DRESSED POULTRY—Turkeys, 26@27c; fowls, 19@20c; springs, 21@22c; roosters, 15 @l6c;’ ducks, 18@22c; geese, 15@19c. POTATOES—BuIk. white, Wisconsin, $2;25; Minnesota. $2.25; western, [email protected]. SWEET POTATOES—Hampers, Illinois, $i;[email protected]; Jersey. [email protected]; Delaware, [email protected]. New York. March 8. WHEAT—Spot weak: No. 2 hard, $2.17%; No. 1 northern Duluth; $2.26%; No. 1 northern Manitoba, $2.22% f. o. b. New York. CORN—Spot easy; No. 2 yellow. $.22% c. i. f. New York. OATS'—Spot weak; standard, 75Q75%c.

Live"St6cß k ’ Chicago, March 8. CATTLE—Good to choice steers, $11.60® 1’ 50- yearlings, good .to choice, $10.50011.65; j fair to good steers, $9.00010.00; Stockers and feeders, $7,500’9.00; fair to goad cows, $6 0608.25; good to .choice heifers, $7.00® 9 00- canners. $4.5005.25: cutters, $5.0006.00; bologna bulls, $6.7507.75: butcher bulls, $8.00010.50; good to prime calves, SII,OOO . 12.50. . | HOGS—Prime light butchers, $14.60014.85; 1 fair to fancy light, $14.50014.75; medium weight butchers, 3000250 lbs., $14.70014.90; prime heavy weight'butchers, 2500400 lbs,, $14.70014.95; choice heavy packing, $14,400) 14 75- rough , heavy packing, $14.00014.40; pigs, fair to good,. $11.00013.60; stags, $ll.OO . *015.60, SHEEP— Yearlings, $11.90013.75; fair to , choice ewes, \59.00®12.00; wethers, fair to choice, $11.09012.50; western lambs, $13,500 , 15.00; . feedifig' lambs, $13,50014.50; native : lambs, $13.00014.75. East Buffalo. N. Y., March 8? CATTLE—Market slow; prime steers, $11.00011.50; butcher grades, $7.00010.50. CALVES—Market active, 50c higher; cull to choice, $5.00015.00. / SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active, j 25c higher; choice lambs, $14.75015.00; cull ' td fa.tr. 12.00014.25; yearlings, $12.00013.75; | sheep. $5.00012.50. HOGS—Market active; Yorkers, $14,000 . 15.10; pigs, sl3 00013.75; mixed, $15.00015.25; ; heavy, $15.00015.25; roughs, $12.25012.75; •tags, $11.25012.00.