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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1928
Page
4
Corrected daily report from Moultrie Georgia shows current hog pricing by Swift & Company. Values listed include No 1 Packer Hogs, No 2 Packer Hogs, and Roughs with revised figures.
Hogs 20 000 marketed active mostly 10c higher with top 200 to 260 lbs. at 9 45 to 10 10. Cattle 9 000, calves 4 000, steady to higher on light and yearling stock. steers 1306 to 1560 lbs 13 25 to 14 85, 1100 to 1300 lbs 13 40 to 15 00, cows 9 00 to 11 75, cutters 6 00 to 7 75. Also New York butter steady. hennery whites and Pacific Coast whites quoted.
Chicago poultry market data from June 6 lists alive firm fowls at 24 and springs at 40, Leghorn springs at 31, Spates at 27 and 31, spring broilers at 39, and geese.
Liverpool reports quiet cotton spot with prices barely steady for grades from strict good middling to good ordinary. Sales total 5,000 bales, including 3,800 American, receipts 16,000 bales with 4,000 American. Futures close steady with July at 11.04 and later months near 10.84.
Chicago notes slow demand for new potato stock with weather impacting prices. Prices listed show Alabama Louisiana Texas Mississippi mixed ranges with few barrels at 2.50 and a few higher quotes around 2.25 to 2.85. Regional mentions include South Carolina North Carolina and Trish Cobblers at 3.75 to 4.00.
Stave barrels priced at 4.00 to 4.25 as old stock market shows slow but firmer tone. Wisconsin sacked round whites 1.20 to 1.30 while Minnesota sacked round whites 1.00 to 1.10. Idaho sacked russets mostly 1.55 to 1.70 with fancy shade higher.
Chicago market reports butter and eggs with receipts at 826 dollars for tubs creamery extras 42 percent standards 42 percent and firsts around 40 to 42 percent. Eyes steady receipts 15502 cases include firsts 27 ordinary firsts 25 storage packed extras 29 percent and firsts 29 percent.
New York cotton seed oil closed steady with prices for prime summer yellow at 10.20 and prime crude 8.75 9.00. Futures range includes Jan 10.65 and Dec 10.65. New Orleans quotes show June 9.70 and futures for Jan 10.08 with other months listed up to Dec 10.05.
Savannah naval stores figures show turpentine sales 50 percent, receipts 828, stock 33 7198 with no shipments. rosin sales 1,202, receipts 2,282, stock 11,251 and no shipments. Rate quotes listed across grades B through WG with values from 7.10 to 9.75.
U S Government Bonds closing figures show Liberty 334s at 100.8 and various Treasuries with 3s at 105.16 and 4s at 108.13. Other issues include 1st 4% at 101.10 and 3rd 4 4% at 100.1 and 4th 4% at 101.27.
Chicago June 6 market notes show Wheat No 2 red at 1.74 percent No 3 hard at 1 48 percent Corn mixed 1 07 and No 2 yellow 1 09 1 1 Oats No white 71 72 percent No 3 white ROATIAL Barley 92 1 03 Timothy seed 4 104 85 Clover seed 19 75 27 00 Lard Ribs 50 Bellies 14 00.
In New York and New Orleans trading June 6 the cotton market slipped on anticipated favorable South weather and a mixed crop outlook. July and October futures tumbled 30 points, spot quotes eased, and New Orleans spot eased with middling around 20.33. Chicago grain futures rose on persistent dry northwest conditions while live poultry remained steady in New York.
Raw sugar remained steady with prices unchanged near 4.80 plus duty, while refined and granulated quotes showed minor moves within narrow bands. Market tone was steady as traders awaited clearer guidance on demand and supply factors.
New Orleans June 6 Secretary H G Hester of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange says he wired a protest to H M Heffner head of Western Union commercial news in Washington over New York and other markets getting the boll weevil emergence report an hour and a half before New Orleans. Heffner said an investigation is underway to determine if a leak occurred among staff.
Miss Mabel Bell and a two man crew will attempt a nonstop flight to Europe tomorrow in the Columbia, a trans Atlantic plane belonging to Charles A. Levine. The pilots are Oliver Leboutillier, formerly of the British army, and Captain Arthur Argolls of Minnesota.
Atlanta reports the Georgia State Highway Department awarded contracts totaling 1 095 447.91 for paving the Dixie Highway from Marietta to the Tennessee line, with completion targeted by January 1 1928. Additional grading contracts in Catoosa County totaled 108 386.16 to Nichols Contracting Company and 19 823.95 to P Williams of Monroe. The two award rounds total 3 000 000 in highway spending, the department's largest ever.
Valdosta Georgia reports graduation exercises at G S W C with fourteen graduates receiving degrees and sixty nine receiving certificates in a formal ceremony.
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