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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1928
Page
14
Latest stock and grain round shows weights under pressure with heavies unevenly lower. Feeders steady. lambs mixed with good and choice $2 per pound lower at 15.50 to 17.15. medium 14.99 to 15.50. cull and common 11.25 to 14.09. Ewes medium to choice 150 pounds down at 2.75 to 7.15. cull and common 1.75.
Wheat prices closed slightly higher amid bearish corn moves and strong buying from European delivery orders. Corn fell sharply with July leading and September and December hitting season lows as traders weighed weather and shipping demand.
Wheat No 4 mixed 1 37. Corn No 2 mixed 99c to 1 91. No 2 yellow 1.00 to 1.02. No 4 yellow 1.00. No 3 white 98 to 1.91. No 2 white 1.1947 02. Barley 95c. Timothy seed 4.10 to 4.85. Mover seed 19.75 to 27.00. Lard 11.75. Ribs 12.50. Bellies 13.87. Prices listed for various grain and livestock products.
Fragments show prices per barrel and shipment timing notes. Readable items mention a 7R.79 per barrel rate and a shipment count of 30 units. The text is fragmentary with illegible terms and lacks clear entities beyond price and quantity.
Chicago market summary notes butter receipts at 9 464 tabs and higher fees. Poultry prices steady with leghorn hens around 11c and broilers 32c. Potatoes receipts 37 cars, total US shipments 1 287 cars. Trading slow with mixed regional supplies, prices for Irish cobblers and other items listed.
New York reports, June 21, raw sugar held at 4.22 delivering, refined sugar steady from 6.05 to 6.19 for fine granulated. No. 189 imbs. Weicht values cited with unclear OCR text.
Trading drifted, prices mixed with small moves as Wisconsin shares dipped at 0.79 and Idaho at 0.75. A few items traded near 1.99 while the market overall remained dull and slow.
New York reports butter receipts of 17 896 tubes with creamery butter prices higher than extra at 44 45 c and related grades. Cheese receipts total 197 209 pounds with state milk flats and fancy grades noted. Kansas City Produce lists poultry at 17 2c for hens and 32c for springs with other produce unchanged.
Poultry rates furnished by Swift & Co show hens 4 lbs and over at 14 cents, light Leghorns and blacks 11 to 14 cents, cocks to Eggs Xo 2 at 20 cents. Live stock quotes via J. P. Lautre Company list prime butchers 189 to 200 pounds average at 10.29, extreme heavy butchers 9.80, prime butcher packers 8.79, 910 good heavy packers 8.45. No market on common grades.
Chicago livestock market opened strong to 10 cent higher with 30 000 hogs and 8 009 cattle receipts. Hogs top paid 10 85 for 200 to 260 pound averages while butchers and light grades ranged around 9 50 to 11 09. Cattle receipts included calves and fed yearlings with steers and heifers trading from about 12 50 to 15 90 and various grades showing broader spreads. Sheep receipts were light with prices around 10 0 to 14 96 for fat lambs and muttons improving slightly.
Peoria market reports 2,000 hogs received with bids 196 to 26 cents higher. Top hog price reached 10.65 dollars, bulk sales from 19.25 to 14. Sh cattle receipts 100 head in today’s rundown.
Omaha Nebraska livestock receipts 13 500 hogs and 2 409 cattle sold with higher prices. Hogs mostly 9.59 to 10.16 per cwt with top 19 26 for 239 pounds. Cattle steady to higher with fed steers and yearlings around 14.00 to 14.40 and select heifers 13.60 to 13.90. stockers and feeders scarce.
Bulk beef cows at 8.75 to 10.90 per unit and medium bulls at 8.25. Bulk air cutters 6.25 to 7.75, practical top veals 14.06. Sheep receipts 6,509 head with fat and feeding lambs up about 25 cents, top lambs 16.60, yearlings 12.75 to 12.85, feeding lambs 13.99 to 13.25.
Route in Stour City Ta June 21 AP Department of Agriculture cattle receipts 1590 head with fed grades strong grassers steady to weak heifers cows and veals with varied prices. hog receipts 11909 head market strong to 25 cents higher with pigs and bulk cows listed. sheep receipts 590 head market two cents higher.
In St. Joseph Missouri on June 21 hog receipts reached 8 000 head with active trading. Top price 19 25 for 225 pounds and bulk 200 to 280 pounds 16 00 to 19 19. Slaughter sows steady with bulk smooth trading.
Cattle receipts show beef steers and yearlings strong to higher values with few price dips. Top beef beves around 14.50 with fed steers and yearlings largely 13.25 to 12.85. veal tops 12.59. cows 8.00 to 9.59. lambs steady to firm with Oregon lambs around 15.73 and natives 15.09 to 15.25. Sheep receipts 7,590 head, market slow and about steady.
South St. Paul Minn June 21 cattle receipts 1800 head light supply firm several loads yearlings 1315 to 1425 bulk 1250 1350 stockers feeders steady to high bulls 775 850 calves 1790 head steady hog receipts 8500 head uneven mostly steady to strong Wednesdays average early bulk desir able lights and butchers 1000 to 1040 top 1025 pigs 775 }
U S Department of Agriculture livestock receipts at Kansas City show hogs steady to 10 cents higher with top bids around 19.25 for 210 to 244 pounds and varied prices for other weights. Cattle receipts 3 398 head with fed steers and yearlings steady to strong. hogs, sheep and calves listed with range bids across weight classes and grades.
Journal want ads report the 1929 estate amateur golf tournament awarded to Cedar Rapids Country Club. Herman L. Sani of Hyperion Club Des Moines was named president of the association.
Bond market brief states New York government and corporate issues priced for January 20. Muscatine State Bank provided the furnished quotation service and distributed current bid levels and yields to investors.
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