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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1949
Page
8
Wheat and rye decline sharply in the Chicago Board of Trade session with futures dropping as much as 5 percent while other grain values drift. Cash grain quotes for corn, oats, barley and soybeans are listed with varying grades and prices.
Salable hogs 9 000 top 22.25 ec most good and choice 170 250 Ib butchers 21 75 22 00 260 280 Ib 21 25 21 85 290 320 Ib 20 50 21 25 good around 375 Ib 19 50 good and choice few under 400 Ib 17 75 18 75 few 19 00 19 25 good 425 500 Ib sows 14 73 17 50 heavier sows to 15 75 Salable cattle 13 000 salable calves 600 bulk good and choice steers 26 00 28 50 including 1 690 Ib weights at 27 50 several loads choice light and medium weight steers 28 75 29 00 medium to low aged steers 24 50 25 75 numerous loads good to low choice heifers 26 00 27 00 load choice light heifers at 27 50 common and medium beef cows 18 50 21 00 canners and cutters 14 50 18 25 medium and good sausage bulls 21 50 23 25 common to choice dealers 23 00 29 00 Salable sheep 1 000 increased supply good to choice native spring lambs 28 00 32 00 slaughter ewes and bucks 50 75 cents lower mostly 11 75 down on good to choice handy with heavies and bucks 8 00
New York report shows two day receipts and steady wholesale quotes for eggs and butter with specific prices for extra fancy and fancy heavyweights browns and whites. The note lists creamery score prices and a statement on English language usage by over 270 million speakers, mainly Americans.
Washington May 31 Secretary of Agriculture Bran nan asked Congress to extend strict marketing quotas from six crops to most farm products including meat, milk, poultry, eggs, fruits and vegetables. Quotas would cap sales and trigger a penalty tax for excess, with referendum approval by two thirds of producers.
Irish monks arranged a settlement in Iceland by obtaining bonds. The arrangement linked monastic activity with colonial or regional trade efforts. Details remain fragmentary but indicate religious orders facilitating cross Atlantic links.
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