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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1946
Page
19
Chicago reporters note cattle prices steady with few strictly choice steers offered and demand narrow for good to average steers and heifers. Hog prices unchanged as 9 500 salables cleared near the ceilings of 14 85 and 14 10. Packers purchased 5 500 more via direct shipment. Receipts listed 5 000 cattle and 7 000 sheep.
US Department of Agriculture reports hog receipts 15 000 head with top prices around 14.85 for barrows and gilts and sows at 14.10. Cattle receipts 5 000 head with steer top near 16.50 and calves 600 head. beef cows around 13.00 to 9.25. Sheep and lambs show scattered sales with native wooled leans weak and best western ewes above 8.00.
USDA market notes show cattle receipts 4 800 with slaughter steers and heifers steady to weak and cows fair active. Fed steers mostly 14 75 to 16 00. bulk cows 9 50 to 22 00. canners 7 25 to 8 75. Hogs 2 400 with barrows and gilts 14 ceiling. sows around 13 75.
Salable hog receipts at Omaha reach 6,000 with barrows and gilts around $14.50 and sows $13.75 while cattle at Omaha show loads of choice fed steers up to $16.75 and heifers to $16.25. sheep receipts near 15,000 with good and choice fed lambs at $14.25 to $14.75. Kansas City cattle sales mostly steady with slaughter steers $15.00 to $16.50 and vealers $15.00 to $17.00. Holsteins and mixed breeds $11.50 to $14.00. cows $9.50 to $13.75. Combined hog receipts at interior Iowa and southern Minnesota yards total 40,900 with barrows $13.75 to $14.45 and sows $13.45 to $13.70. 450-550 lb hogs $13.40 to $13.70.
Market notes list prices for pork products and packing sows with varied figures for weights from 160 to 360 pounds. It records prices from sellers including Mason C Waterloo Ottumwa and Austin, with margins around 13.50 to 14.50 per hundredweight.
Cedar Rapids hog market quotes ceiling prices with top prime butchers at 14.45 and packers at 13.70 dollars. Hog weights 160 to 180 pounds fetch 14.00 while 180 to 400 pounds bring 14.45 and 270 to 600 pounds 13.00. Cattle and calf and sheep quotes follow with varied grades and weights, noting quotations vary with yield.
Classified snippets advertise service for radios vacuum cleaners washing machines and refrigerators with promises of prompt 24 hour and 3 3169 dial numbers plus stoves stoker services blinds fur shop and employment inquiries from a local Gazette page. Readers are urged to visit Rapids Chevrolet for car related service and to place orders for future furnace parts and automatic heat deliveries.
Classified help wanted ads invite candidates for bookkeeper sales positions and general kitchen and house help. Listings include Bishop's Cafeteria in First Avenue, L. B. Lamb Sales Company on First Street NE, and a Boston Plan notice, with varying duties and requirements.
Page eight highlights include cattle hides prices for No 1 and 2 varieties, eggs at wholesale and retail rates, and assorted fruits and vegetables with prices per dozen or per crate. Wisconsin cheese and a Plymouth dairy note report car sales at 27 cents per unit.
Inland market listing for Chicago with butter volumes 1 228 tubs steady demand 92 A 46 90 B 45 percent 89 C 4574 88 Spore cooking 44. Eggs 21 216 cases irregular extras 1 2 3643642 cars 36.6 extras 3 4 3543542 standards 1 2 cars 34 3 3 ndards 3 4 32 2 standards 3 4 cars unquoted current receipts 3242 dirti es 31 checks 3042 Cheese Twins 25 1 5 daisies prints horns 2 Live Poultry steady hens 23 2
The report notes light old stock supplies and cautious demand for springers broilers roosters and other fowls with prices shown. Potatoes list U S ship totals and regional prices while eggs butter and cheese prices are given as firm with limited changes and no quotations.
In Chicago brokers watched mixed grain markets with rye and other grains mostly holding, May rye trading around 1% lower while wheat corn and barley finished unchanged near ceilings. Oats rose slightly ahead of Wednesday’s close as May futures hovered near 81 cents.
Chicago AP notes No 2 hard wheat and No 2 red at 1.79 ceilings. Corn No 5 yellow at 1.05 percent lake billing. Oats sales none. Barley nominal malting 1.24 to 1.39 percent, seed 1.10 to 1.23. Field seed per hundredweight nominal red clover 21.50, sweet clover 10.75, alsike 28.50, alfalfa common 5.04 to 6.00, timothy 5.75 to 6.00, red top noted.
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