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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1933
Page
5
Grain market summary from Chicago shows wheat in active months July September and December holding steady with yesterday's close, corn down slightly, oats up sharply with a 100 percent gain in late trading. Provisions follow grain strength as markets reflect near record tightening amid a mixed cash grain scene in Chicago and Baltimore notes.
Richmond reports moderate receipts and steady markets for fruits vegetables and other staples. Prices vary by region with old potatoes 1.50 per sack and cantaloupes 2.25 to 3.50 per crate. eggs and butter show firm or higher quotes across New York Philadelphia Chicago and Washington markets.
Baltimore notes a steady egg market with prices for various grades including U. S. extra large 22 cents and U. S. standard large 18 cents. Receipts reach 1,887 cases as of June 22. Lancaster Livestock reports cattle trading suspended due to a cattle show today.
Hogs receipts 27000 with slow market and early sales 5 to 10 below Wednesday's average. Cattle receipts 6000 with slow demand. yearlings 7.10 and some 6.75 to 7.00. vealers up to 6.00. cows 4.25 and steers 5.25 to 5.75. Sheep receipts 8500 with fairly active market. ewes 3.00 down, rams 7.00 to 7.50, top 7.85 unchanged.
Jersey City and Baltimore reports show light cattle receipts with vealers steady, lambs up to 8.75, sheep and hogs mixed with higher lambs and steady to higher hog prices. Prices list by grade include bulls at 3.25 to 3.50 and calves around 5.00 to 5.50, with Western hogs 10 to 20 higher.
Local market brief lists wholesale prices for dairy feed and mixed feed components. Cracked corn, middlings, screenings, and meal show prices. Also shows butter, country butter, cows, calves, lambs, and helpers with per unit figures.
Readable figures show shelled corn around 5.50 to 6.00 with 1.70 for corn at 130. Dairy Country butter price mid range 15 to 20. Creamery butter noted, eggs and mixed feed around 1.30 to 1.36, middlings near 1.36.
Clark Lloyd of Millwood was elected president of the Boyce Agricultural High School Alumni Association at a recent meeting in the Parish Hall Here. Officers for the year include J William P ier as vice president Miss M Virginia Baker as secretary and Oscar M Carr as treasurer. Dr Henry C Smith is reported improved at his home after injuries from a car collision on Berryville pike. The Boyce Methodist Church will hold a lawn party in the church yard this evening and tomorrow evening with refreshments served.
A woman wrote to the Bank of England asking how she suddenly had £380 000 credited to her account though her investments were tiny. An investigation found a clerk copied the serial number at the top of a page into her record. Green with Envy and other notes follow.
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