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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1932
Page
10
Grain pits reacted to Senate action on a produce exchange event. Wheat traded near the day’s bottom with slight declines. corn and oats also fell. Liquidation by corn owners pulled prices to new lows since 1897, aided by weak wheat and crop projections for 1932. Provisions declined with grains and securities, with lard hitting a new seasonal low.
Market notes from Chicago Baltimore Washington Philadelphia and Richmond date June 1 list wheat No 2 red winter prices and various white oats and rye values. Produce and poultry prices show butter 21 cents per pound and range of live and dressed poultry by weight for multiple breeds with revised figures and local shipments in Virginia and surrounding regions.
Market activity mixed with eggs at 14 to 14 1/2 cents for standards and dirties around 13 1/2 cents for rehandles. Poultry steady to moderately active with Leghorn hens 13 to 15 cents, colored hens 15 to 16 cents, broilers Leghorns 14 to 30 cents, Reds 15 to 21 cents, Rocks 18 to 25 cents. whole message notes capons and live weights including Guinea fowl at 40 to 50 cents.
Chicago June 1 eggs show 26 923 cases market steady. Fresh firsts offered 11 1 2 to 12 1 4 cents with bids at 11 1 4 cents. Current receipts 11 11 1 4 cents. bids at 10 1 2 cents in storage packed firsts 13 0 cents and bids 2 1 4 cents.
In Philadelphia on June 1 the egg market reported 18,501 cases with prices steady. Extra firsts sold at 16 1 2 cents, new cases 15 cents, old cases 14 cents, seconds at 12 to 12 1 2 cents.
Hogs 500 head unchanged top 3.45 for medium and light weights. Cattle 250 head plus 100 calves steady with veal at 6.00, cows 1.50 to 4.00, bulls 3.00 to 5.50. Sheep 500 head steady with lambs 4.00 to 7.25 and range 1.50 to 3.50. Lancaster hogs 100 steady, 170–220 lb averages around 4.25 top.
Cattle and calves offered with a steady tone and best heifers at six seventy five dollars. Hog and sheep runs show mixed results with tops around three fifty five for hogs and six fifty for spring lambs. Government bonds quoted with several issues around one hundred and two and change. Fairy stones described as saurolite, a cross shaped mineral of hydrated aluminum silicate.
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