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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1917
Page
10
Chicago reports show wheat business shrinking with futures trading halted amid anticipated export and distribution controls. July wheat at 2.01, September 1.81. corn largely steady. oats and provisions fluctuating amid export doubts and rain impacts.
Chicago St Louis Kansas City Peoria and Minneapolis show varied bids for wheat corn and oats. No. 2 mixed corn sits around 1.68 to 1.74 dollars, with hard and red wheat values ranging from about 2.30 to 2.50 dollars and oats near 0.68 to 0.71 dollars, reflecting a broad regional price mosaic.
Chicago June 29 Wheat markets close the wheat chapter with J P Griffin returning from Washington signaling the end for wartime wheat trading. Corn rises on bullish cash and grain demand while oats gain steady support from cash buyers. weather in Kansas and Illinois Iowa favorable. July corn uncertain with deferred months ready to fall.
The local livestock market Thursday saw hogs and wheat hold steady. Nine farmers sold at the city lot with corn totaling five loads at 1.70 per bushel and hay at 20 per ton. Oats arrived in three loads at 0.68 and 0.70 per bushel.
Prices paid for hay and grain including No 2 wheat at 2.35 and corn at 1.50, mill products from Knollenberg Milling such as high patent flour and bran per cwt, plus livestock quotes from Co L B Q stock yards and local butchers. Includes hogs by weight, wagon loads, calves, cows, veal, poultry, hides, skins, and wool.
Toledo and Chicago reports show Clover seed priced at Prime cash 10.80 with October 11.42 and December 11. POI remarks include March, Alstria prime cash 11.35, September and October 11.28. Timothy seed traded at Prime cash 3.95 with September 4.00. Barley 1.10 to 1.40. Timothy 4 to 4.76. Clover 12 to 17.
In St Touts on June 29 the May market held firm to slightly stronger for timothy and clover mixed, with high grade bales selling better. Receipts were light while local demand remained steady, improving overall tone. Mixed hay priced around 17 20.26 and alfalfa to 24 while straw remained scarce at 9. Chicago values show timothy 320 20.00, No 1 18.50 8.80, No 8 16417, straw rye 12, oat 10 11, wheat 10 11.
New York money market notes show mercantile paper at 6 percent, bar silver quoted at 7849, Mexican dollars at 6 1/2 percent. Time loans and call money indicated tightness with high bids and low offers, reflecting cautious lending conditions.
New York June 29 stock market closed with irregular prices as optimism over Liberty Loan faced weakness in motors utilities and several heavy industries. Dealers cited technical selling and war price tax anxieties, with utilities and several big names dropping 2 to 10 points while rails and some untied issues held steadier. Total volume reached 790000 shares as declines dominated late trading and several leading corporations showed sharp reversals.
Chicago buyers mixed receipts with hogs at 16.00, cattle near 13.85 to 15.51, and sheep 10.75 to 15.25. St Louis reports hogs 15.30 to 15.80, cattle 7.40 to 12.50, sheep 5 to 15. Lambs reach 18. Heavy hogs around 15.60. Kansas City hogs 14.80 to 16.55, cattle 9.18 to 13.95, sheep 11 to 16. E om a h a hogs 14.75 to 16.25, cattle 9.50 to 13.50, westerns 9.60 to 11.75.
Market notes from New York and Chicago with unsettled butter and creamery receipts. Fresh gathered poultry data shows higher fowls and varied prices. Sugar, eggs, and flour readings appear with regional quotes and daily exchange details.
A Palmyra report covers a June 29 canning demonstration by Miss Flood in Mt. Zion with 53 attendees, detailing canning methods for beets, rhubarb, peas and beans. It also notes gooseberries and other produce canned at Palmyra and a steam cooker demonstration. County Agent Nielsen campaigns against blackleg, vaccinating calves near Mt. Zion and in Philadelphia vicinity, and attends farm bureau events. The piece lists marriages and visits from various locals, plus upcoming Palmyra Farm Bureau meeting and guest speaker B. P. Smoot on marketing farm products.
Harris Bros. operating the Model Hereford farm at Harris Missouri conducted a two day dispersal sale on June 26 27 selling 334 head of pure bred Herefords for a total of 412384 dollars Repeater Seventh led the herd at 27500 dollars and Gay Lad Sixteenth at 20000 pounds.
Farmers report Wednesday’s heavy rain beat down oats but warm sunshine should help recovery. Ground and hill farm crops washed away while birds face new woes as sparrows allegedly destroy eggs and young in nests.
Captain Charles Sweeny recalls night post duties with the Foreign Legion near Craonne. He describes crawling through mud under fire, listening posts, and intermittent shelling, then recounts the first Western Front trench raid where 50 men set out and only seven returned. Memorial Day observations follow with the Soldiers Aid Society backing.
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