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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1915
Page
2
In Chicago trading wheat showed weakness most of the day with a late rally. Bearish cables and a larger spring crop arrival outlook weighed on prices, December at 1.0614 to 1.063 and May near 1.0714, with corn and oats drifting and provisions fluctuating.
Liverpool notes dated October 14 show No 1 Northern wheat at Duluth 9d per bushel and No 2 hard winter at 125 2d. American mixed new corn quoted at 8s 2d.
Fragmentary weather style data shows today values for Minneapolis 325 and Duluth 326, with last week 495 and 265 respectively and last year 233. Winnipeg entry unclear. E382 reports today 1 481 last week 7, last year 259.
Estimated receipts here for Friday show wheat at 87, corn 95, oats 205. Hog arrivals total 11,000 head, cattle 2,500, and sheep 7,000, reflecting market activity for the day.
Wheat and corn futures posted mixed figures with estimates and year-ago baselines. Oats showed higher values with near term contracts tracking 285 and 281 against last year’s 382.
TOTAL CLEARANCE lists Wheat 531000, Corn 6000, Oats 9000. RECEIPTS show Wheat today 1732000 vs last year 1709600, Corn today 379000 vs 327000, Oats today 932000 vs last year 1014000.
Wheat shipments reach 1,548,000 today vs 751,000 last year. Corn shipments total 606,000 today versus 190,600 previously. Oats shipments total 978,000 today compared with 596,000 last year.
Chicago wheat and corn prices show varied bid ranges for No. 2 and No. 3 grades across red and hard classifications. Oats values for No. 3 and No. 4 white grades appear alongside standard futures figures.
Kansas City wheat and corn prices listed for various grades and futures. Hard wheats range from No. 2 at 107 1.15 to No. 4 at 98 1.05. Red wheats show about 1.16 to 1.10. Corn values include No. 2 at 62 cents and No. 2 yellow around 62 cents with mixed figures for other grades. Oats and white oats quoted in the mid thirties to high thirties per bushel with several grade variants.
Wheat No 2 red at 1281.29, No 3 red 1191.25, No 4 red 1081.15. No 2 hard 117, No 3 hard 1121.14, No 4 hard 0. Corn No 3 600764, No 2 yellow 6514, No 3 white 60 6314. Oats No 3 37, No 4 white 85 3535, No 2 34, No 3 33.
Omaha cash grain values show Wheat No 2 hawl at 1.08 to 1.10. Corn No 2 white quoted 59 to 60 cents, No 2 yellow at 60 to 63 cents, and No 2 at 50 to 60 cents. Oats No 8 white sold around 34 to 34.5 cents.
Wheat prices moved lower early in Minneapolis trading as receipts reached 325 cars. Cash grain quotes show No 1 hard around 81.07 to 84, No 1 northern about 102.34 to 1.06, and No 2 northern near 93.34 with other values around 1.03.
At Peoria on October 14 corn prices held steady with No 2 white at 64 cents No 2 yellow 64 cents No 3 yellow 64 cents No 3 mixed 64 cents No 5 mixed 68.34 cents and sample 58 cents Oats also mostly unchanged rising up to 4 cents with No 3 white 34 34 cents No 4 white 3 cents
In St Louis on October 14 the market for timothy grades No 2 and No 1 remains buoyant with local demand cleaning up offerings at full value. Alfalfa and high quality hay are scarce and in urgent request with firm to rising prices. low grades weak or slow. Straw remains scarce and firm with limited car sales reported.
Wheat spots ease for No 2 red and No 2 hard term. No 1 northern Duluth at 1.25 and No 1 northern Manitoba at 1.08. Futures feverish with December at 1.14. Corn steady No 2 yellow and prompt shipment. Oats quiet on spot.
Chicago reports 6000 hogs and 5000 cattle receipts with firm to higher prices. Hogs range 5.00 to 8.90, average mostly 7.90 to 8.10 for heavy and mixed lots. Cattle show native beef steers 6.00 to 7.10, western steers around 8.65, cows and heifers 2.80 to 3.25, calves 7.73 to 11.75. Sheep receipts 8000 with wethers 6.00 to 7.00, ewes 4.00 to 6.35, lambs 6.75 to 8.90.
In St Louis on October 14 hog receipts totaled about 8600 with buyers paying up to 25 cents higher for various hog classifications. Cattle receipts reached around 5500 with steady demand. native beef steers ranged from 7.80 to 10.25, yearling stuff from 8.50 to 10.25, cows 6.00 to 8.00, stockers and feeders around 6.00 to 7.50, native calves 6.00 to 12.50. Sheep receipts about 1300 remained steady with lambs at 5.00 to 9.00 and sheep and ewes 5.00 to 9.00.
Kansas City report shows hog receipts about 7 000 with market higher. Bulk prices around 158.50 heavy 8.15 to 8.50 light. Cattle receipts 5 000 with market steady cattle and calves values around 4 000 to 6 000. Sheep receipts 4 000 with market steady lambs 8.25 8.60 and yearlings 6.50 7.25.
Omaha Oct 14 hogs receipts 5 700 lower heavy 6.00 8.35 light 850 845 pigs 7.00 8.30 bulk 8 1508.35 cattle receipts 5800 market steady steers 6.75 9.75 cows and heifers 30.00 67.25 calves 7.00 10.00 sheep receipts 13500 steady yearlings 5.75 6.75 wethers 5.50 6.50 lambs 8.25 8.50
Spot coffee in New York shows quiet trading with Rio No 7 at 7 cents, Santos No 4 at 9 cents, indicating subdued activity in the morning session of October 14. Prices reflect standard market variations and no abrupt shifts reported.
New York trading opened irregular with rail and United States Steel under pressure from foreign selling. Motor stocks led gains with Willys-Overland rising to 253, Maxwell issues advancing, and Studebaker climbing to 167. Bethlehem Steel and Pittsburgh Coal posted gains while General Motors and other majors dropped. Bank of England and Bank of France reports showed contrasting gold movements and note circulation changes.
The article lists time loan rates and currency figures for sterling dollars marks rubles and other standards with bid cables and on demand values. It notes time loans firmer with 60 day 90 day and six month rates and calls money at steady to high with a ruling rate mentioned.
New York market reports butter weaker with creamery extras at .92, higher scoring creamery entries and various grade markers. Prices for peas firsts and seconds listed, with cheese steady. Nearby poultry and hen brood stock values noted, including whites and browns.
East St. Louis October 14 hogs 7,000 mix higher 10 to 15 cents, sats heavy 83 08 85 rough 7 60 8 10 light 8 60 8 85 bulk 8 50 8 70 pigs 6 75 8 00. Cattle 4,500 market steady. Sheep 800 steady.
New York market report lists dressed firm Western fresh chickens in barrels at 164 23, fresh fowls iced 14001814, weak western chickens 1314, turkeys 18. Prices shown in unclear OCR but indicate fluctuations across poultry types on October 14.
Butter and creamery markets show firsts at 27 and 25 seconds and excessive packing at 191 percent. Poultry items list hens twelve, roosters nine, broilers fifteen with various exes firsts and seconds noted.
New York sugar markets show raw sugar steady around 4.01 cents per pound with molasses at 3.24 cents and refined grade remaining quiet as of October 14.
Full day market report shows corn up to a hundred percent gains with new corn near yesterday's levels. A load at 60 cents per bushel and another at 65 cents sold. old corn at 70 and 75 cents. Oats rose to 36 cents with four loads at that price. Hay: three loose loads at 13.50, baled hay 14.09 and 13.50, straw at 6.00. Forty one loads recorded yesterday. baled hay was the only item at 4:30 PM.
Local markets list commodity prices including No. 2 wheat at 7.00, corn at 0.80, new oats at 0.37 to 0.40, prairie hay around 6.50 to 8.00, baled prairie hay up to 10.00, oats straw 6.50 to 7.50, shredded fodder 5.00, new loose hay 10.00 to 14.00, Alsike clover seed 9.00 to 10.00, new Clover hay 7.00 to 8.00, crab grass 7.50, clover hullings 10.00, baled straw 6.00 to 6.50, clover seed 7.50 to 9.00.
Retail selling prices list from Knollenberg Milling Company shows high patent flour at 6.30, straight patent flour 6.10, hard wheat flour 6.30, bran 24 per ton, shipstuff 32 per ton, and corn meal 2 per 100 pounds.
Choice light hogs each at 7.40 7.90 highlighting rough sows and stags 6.00 6.50. Fat steers 6.00 7.00 fat cows 4.00 5.00. Veal calves 8.00 9.00. Bulls 4.00 5.00. Spring lambs 10.00 11.00. Sheep 4.00 5.00. Roost ers 7c spring chickens 11 4c. Eggs 20c. Turkeys old gobblers 9 4c young 9 4c hens 9 4c. Geese 6 1 4c. Ducks 8 1 4c. Butter 7c packing stock country No 1 25c.
Reported prices list carrots three bunches five cents beets three bunches one cent cauliflower per head ten to twenty cents cauliflowers per head twenty five cents wax and string beans per quart five cents new potatoes per bushel forty cents onions per bushel seventy five cents tomatoes per pound ten cents sweet corn per dozen twenty to twenty five cents turnips per peck twenty five cents
The bulletin lists prices for cured hides No 1 and No 2 in various grades, green hides, cured calves and hips, horse types, ghie and pony, colts, tallow and white and brown greases, wool pelts andshearlings with per unit values in cents and dollars, reflecting grade and quality variations.
ST LOUIS Oct 14 strong demand for southern horses with many good animals bought by buyers from that region. Eastern buyers were few in number. war horse purchases remained robust with large numbers of contracts. Four foreign governments the French English Belgians and Italians bought supplies, transport issues aside. Mule demand remained fair with quotations for various heights and sizes recorded.
Wheat prices moved irregularly with early gains, then fell about 2 cents from last night as Broomhall’s crop figures sparked profit taking. Export activity resumed with roughly 1,000,000 bushels sold, Manitoba grain a large share. buying on sharp bulges warned against. Corn followed wheat, ending slightly lower. oats stayed firm with December up a touch and May down. cash demand rose on expected smaller old-cash receipts. Provisions edged higher as packers bought near deliveries and hedging shifted toward January deliveries.
Butter steady at creamery 22 27 14. Eggs steady with receipts 3 26 7 cases at work. ordinary firsts 24 24 14, firsts 25 25 6. Potatoes steady with receipts 35 ears. Michigan and Wisconsin whites 50 60, Minnesota whites 57 60, Minnesota Whips 60 66 2. Poultry alive higher. fowls 13, springs 14.
Illinois and Princeton crude prices shown in Lima Ohio on October 14, with Illinois crude quoted at 1.17 dollars per barrel.
Indianapolis stock market report for October 14 shows Ben at market steady with minor drop to 5 cents, top price $8.90. Cattle volume around 500 with market slow activity.
Federal agriculture department offers guidance to keep hog cholera out of herds. Locate hog lots away from streams and highways, quarantine new or loaned stock for two weeks, and avoid mixing visiting animals. Clean, disinfect, burn waste, and confine dogs and birds to limit spread. treat affected dogs with anti hog cholera serum and spray facilities with cresol solution.
Authorities call for filling and draining sunlit wallow holes and cesspools, fencing off runs, cleaning gildings, disinfecting areas, and boarding up to prevent cholera. Hogs found not fully recovered should be destroyed as potential carriers.
A Whig LOST and FOUND notice states AD will coordinate the meeting place for finder and loser to reunite. organizers prepare a secure location and time for exchange. The item status and owner contact details are to be confirmed at the meeting.
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