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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1928
Page
10
Chicago traders boosted by export deals totaling about 4 000 000 bushels and Kansas crop damage, with rust fears in the spring wheat belt. Wheat closed unsettled up 15 8 to 2 1-2 cents, corn up 7 8 to 1 1-2, oats up 1 2 to 8, provisions mixed.
Wheat No 2 hard 142 cents. Corn No 2 mixed 1.00 dollar. No 3 mixed 99 2/3 cents. Yellow prices around 1.00 to 1.02. White oats ranges 63 to 78 cents. Sample blade oats 88 95 cents.
Minneapolis flour market notes unchanged shipments at 31 585 barrels Bran priced at 30 00 to 30 50 per barrel with no change in quotations for the period.
Poultry prices include hens four pounds and over at 14 cents for light Leghorns and blacks, cocks. Hog quotations from J T. Seantre Company show prime butchers 186 to 200 pounds averaging 19.10 with extremes heavy at 9.70. prime butcher packers at 8.60. good heavy packers at 8.55. No market on common grades.
Chicago area market notes show butter and egg receipts up to 6 979 tubs and 818 cases with mixed quality grades. Poultry steady with prices for fowls broilers and springs listed, potatoes on track with 1 137 U S shipments. regional markets Alabama Louisiana Texas Virginia North Carolina Wisconsin Idaho prices quoted for sack whites and russets.
Butter firm receipts 17 159 tubs. Cheese firm receipts 182 195 tubs. State whole milk flats fresh fancy to new special 25 26 3 4? Eggs nearby and western emery white first to average extra 21 3 ic.
Kansas City market notes from June 26 list Bees Firsts at 26 cents for 26 seconds at 24 cents. Poultry Springs quoted at 3i with other produce unchanged.
In New York on June 20 the poultry market shows dressed meat steady and live fowl firmer. Roosters range 15 to 16 cents by express. 2 264 by freight, details limited to the day’s freight and express quotes.
New York sugar markets showed no change on June 20 with raw sugar steady at 4.33 delivered and refined sugar priced 6.05 to 6.10 for fine granulated as AP reports.
Women of the Wapsinonoc township farm bureau division studied meal planning Monday afternoon at Mrs Charles Miller's home. Miss Florence Perkins led the session.
Chicago market reports moderate livestock receipts with hogs at 19.69 to 19.75 for select butchers and a firm tone as buyers absorb the crop. Cattle trade weak at times with high grade beeves scarce and steers around 12.90 to 14.00, while calves move with limited activity and lambs show premiums for native and choice western stock.
Chicago market reports show hogs receipts at 19 909 head with most prices 10 to 20 cents higher. Prices paid for 200 to 280 pound hogs around 10.75 and 16.00 for 250 to 350 pounds. Cattle receipts 11 000 head with calves 3 009 head. bids 15 to 25 cents lower for better fed steers, with various weight ranges and prices listed for slaughter classes and cows.
Vealers traded $6 to $19.96 with high quality at $11.56 to $14.00 and medium at $19.96. Sheep receipts totaled 9,900 head with fat lambs steady to 25c higher on light supply. feeders scarce and sheep and lamb grades showing varied quotes from $4.06 to $15.90 depending on weight and quality.
U S department data shows 12 900 head receipts with uneven demand and steadier top grades. Top hogs bring 10 15 per cwt for 219 266 pounds while steer and calf classes hold near prior levels though best yearlings show strength. Argo cattle receipts total 6900 with calves 1990. best steers slow but steady, yearlings steady to strong.
Slaughter class steers bring 59 to 1590 pounds with prices around 14.35 12.75 per hundredweight noted. Fed yearlings 7506 to 350 pounds quoted at 12.56 14.56. Cows common and medium 7.50 11.75, fat lambs and sheep receipts 7 990 head market active with lambs 14.50 15.85, ewes 4.25 6.23 per hundredweight.
Receipts total 7000 hogs with market active and prices up. top hogs near 19.15, bulk 190 to 300 pounds 9.96 to 10.10, choice 300 to 254 pounds 9.85 to 10.06, packers’ sows strong with some up to 9.50. Cattle receipts 2000 with calves 250. steers and yearlings show strength with several loads at 998 pounds around 14.75 and other weights 14.49 14.25 13.85. cows mostly 8.00 to 9.75, cutters 6.25 to 6.56. Sheep receipts 3409. market active with lambs and yearlings strong.
Market report shows top Idaho lambs at 75 pounds selling around 25c higher with $25.75. ecarrot natives at 15.25 and others at 15.25. 115.80 down for destatic best Texas shorn yearlings. Prices move 11.50 11.75 with best held at 12.25. Aged stock steady with best clipped ewes at 6.00.
U S Department of Agriculture figures show cattle receipts 2900 with steady to strong trade for fed steers yearlings and stockers. Hogs receipts 13500 with top at 10.10 and bulk ranges 8.25 to 9.75. Sheep receipts 206 with prices rising about 25 cents.
Hogs receipts 19 500 head due to washouts on three Missouri railroads. Prices mixed with top at 10.65 for 196 pound hogs and various weights ranging 9 to 14.60 per cwt. Cattle receipts 1 890 head with calves and steers mostly steady to higher. vealers at 13 23 per cwt.
Receipts include 2,900 sheep with fat lambs three cents higher and bulk desirable lambs at 15.25 to 15.50 dollars. Cattle receipts show top heifers around 13.25 to 14.25, bulls 5.50 to 7.50, fat ewes 4.30 to 6.59, natives near 15.75, and wet fleeces praised with spots 32 cents higher.
U S Department of Agriculture reports mixed but steady demand across cattle hogs and sheep at South St. Paul. Cattle including fed steers yearlings and cows show steady to firm prices with bulk steers 12.50 to 14.25 per cwt and cows 7.25 to 8.75. Hogs sell steady to 19 cents higher with top at 10.25 and sows 7.75 to 9.25. Sheep and lambs show better native lambs up slight while fat ewes and yearlings move within established ranges.
Bond listings furnished by Muscatine State Bank show high grade issues including American Telephone and Telegraph 5s and Conda Copner 6s for 1953, with various coupon notes and weathered entries.
Classified ad offers cottage cheese at one or ten cents per pint delivered by phone order. Contact number 1988 to arrange delivery.
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