Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1880 — THE MARKETS. [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS.

New York Produce. Flour, weak; uperfine state and western, 3 40@4 00; common to good extra, 4 30@5 00, good to choice, 5 70@6 00; white wheat extra, 4 40@ 6 85; St. Lonis, 4 65@6 75; Minnesota patent, 6 50@8 25. Wheat, heavy, and 1 to IVo cents lower; ungraded spring, 1 05; No. 3 do, 1 12; ungraded red, 1 10 @1 24; No 3 do, 114%@1 15%; steamer do, 1 05; No 2 red, 1 18@1 19; No. 1 do, 1 25; mixed winter, 1 15%@1 16%; No. 2 white, 114%1 15; steamer do, 1 14%. Corn, heavy; ungraded, 56@ 59; No 3, 56% @57; Steamer, 57%; No. 2, 58%@58%. Oats, heavy; mixed western, 42@44; white western, 44@ 48. Eggs, firm; for choice fresh, 26 @37. Pork, dull and nominal; old mess for export, quoted at 13 50. Cut meats dull find weak; long clear middles, quoted at 7%; short do, 7%. Lard, heavy; prime steam, 8 72%@ 8 80. Butter, quiet at 14@29, Cheese, firmer at IQ@l9, Chlcaco. Flour dull and nominal; receipts today much the largest on record. Wheat active but lower and unsettled; No 2, red winter, 99%@100; No 2Chicago spring, 1 00 bid; cash and December, 1 00%; No 3,d0. 85@87. Corn dull, weak and lower, 39% @39% cash. Date dull and lower 31%cash. Rye steady and unchanged. Barley strong and higher, 117%; sales 100,OQO in January al I 2Q, Burk steady wi|h a fair deinand, 1180 cash; 1170 @1175, December; 12 85, January: 13 10@13 12%, February. Lard quiet and weak;jß 30, cash; 8 35, January; 845 February. Plain shoulders, 4%; bulk short ring, 6 70; bulk short clear, 6 95. Whisky in fair demand, but at lower rates, 111,

Cincinnati. Flour in active demand; family 4 75@5 00; fancy 5 25@6 00. Wheat quiet and firm; No. 2 amber, 1 02; No. 2 red, 1 04. Corn lower ana in good supply; No. 2 mixed. 46, Oats unsettied; No. 3 mixed. 36%@37%. Rye in ihir aemand; No. 98. Barley active and firm :No. 2 fall, 95@98. Pork dull and nominal at 18 00. Lard heavy at mand at 1 10. Butter dull and nnchanged. Hogs dull and lower; common, 3 85@4 20; light, 4 25@4 45 ;packing, 4 45@4 64; butchers, 4 65@4 75.