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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1936
Page
10
New York stocks rose modestly with steel shares advancing as demand increased across industries. Motor stocks were mixed amid slack auto sales while utilities and rails posted small gains and oils and coppers held steady. Douglas weakened in aviation. Chemicals varied and Allied Stores hit a new yearly high.
Grain in elevators and transit prices list Wheat No 2 red 98 99 c Corn No 2 yellow 68 69 c Oats No 2 white 31 32 c Rye No 2 63 64 c Track prices Wheat No 2 red 93 94 c No 3 red 91 93 c Corn No 2 yellow 63 64 2 c No 3 yellow 62 63 c Oats No 2 white 28 30 c No 3 white 25 29 c Butter Extra one pound prints 32 2 c Eggs Extras 20 20s
Butter and nearby tube prices with scores 92 89 88 for various standards. Eggs show steady receipts with current figures 20 23 25 and fresh extras. Poultry lists many items including heavy hens leg horn hens broilers stags ducks geese and fresh killed hens with full dressed hog prices.
Cleveland produce reports firm butter market with extras and standards. eggs rise with current receipts at twenty percent. Live poultry market steady with heavy hens at 21, medium hens 20, leghorn hens 17, old roosters 12 to 14, ducks 12 to 16, broilers 26 to 28 and No 2 at 20. Broiler leghorn small 18.
Market reports firm with egg receipts totaling 20 560 cases and butter intake 18 090 tubs. Fresh graded firsts 22 percent and extra firsts 22 percent appear alongside dirties 19 and checks 19. Butter scores show extra firsts 92 with 28 percent, firsts 27 percent and specials 29 percent. Centralized lots 88 score 27 and 89 score 28.
Pittsburgh hogs steady with 700 head including 200 direct weighing 160 to 200 pounds top 10.25 to 10.75. sows to 10.38. Cattle steady with good to average 8.35, calves 3.50 to 9.00. Sheep mostly steady with spring lambs 11.75, ewes 10.75 down, yearlings down. Cincinnati hogs 2600 head steady with 160 to 200 pounds 10.45, 250 to 275 pounds 9.90, sows 7.75 to 8.35. cattle steady, fat cows 4.50 to 5.75, bulls 5.50 to 6.25. sheep 2700 head spring lambs 50 cents lower, ewes 10.75 to 11.50, yearlings 6.50 to 10.23.
Eggs steady with 22 firsts 13 seconds 21 ungraded. Butter packing stock No. 2 19 No. 1 26 No. 2 24. Live poultry shows fowls colored 18 and over 18 1/2. fowls 4 and over 19. 3 and over 17. Leg horn fowls 3 and over 17. Old roosters 11.
The Agriculture Department reports light sales in graded territory wool with scattered transactions. Prices range from 65 87 cents for French combing fine to 70 72 cents for percent blood, with other grades at 76 78 cents and 85 87 cents for scoured combing. Some early shorn wools have arrived and been graded, with occasional orders for graded territory wools.
In Medford Oregon students take fly casting lessons as part of a school program linking fishing to state industry. Enrollment is strong and the article notes broad interest in angling education. It also mentions the existence of 162 crab species in Puerto Rico waters.
Report from Point Pleasant shows Saturday sale totals 660 head. Hogs 143 175 to 220 lbs priced mainly 9.80 to 9.60, fat sows 8.65, pigs 7.49. Cattle receipts 120 with steers 5.45, heifers 3.80 to 6.75, fat cows 5.60, canners 2.93, bulls 6.20, milk cows 28.47. Veal calves 250 tops 8.25, other grades 7.45 to 5.20. Sheep 37 fat sheep 4.29, lambs 102 tops 9.75, 9.40 for seconds. Horses 8 head.
June 13 sales report shows cattle receipts 250 with stocker cows heifers and cheaper steers. steers and heifers 5.50 7, stockers 5.59 6.50, bulls 4.50 6.50, fat cows 4.50 6.50, cutters 3.75 4.50, milk cows 30 65. Veal 580 receipts with goods ranging 6.35 7.40 to 7. Calves and grass calves 4 7. Hogs receipts 100 with good 10.10 10%, lights 8.75 9.90, heavies 3.25 9.50, sows 8 9, pigs 3.50 7. Sheep and lambs 525 with good 10.25 10.75, mediums 9 9.25, calls 5.8 8.50, clip lambs 3.50 7. Wethers 304, owes 203.0. Horse receipts 20 slow sale 50 1%.
A severe drought cripples Northwest spring wheat, with estimates of up to 40,000,000 bushels lost since June 1 and farmers in the Dakotas and Montana considering abandoning fields. Wheat futures rise as traders weigh a possible exportable surplus despite reduced yields.
A newspaper note explains that Gordon Emerson Ley and Van Vorhes Sr. were unintentionally left out of a list of Athens students who completed high school. The piece mentions a member of the honor society Pere Alpha and notes the omission occurred yesterday.
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