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The Markets

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
March
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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CH1CAO0, Marcti 24. Tho quotations on the board oL trade to-day were as follows: Wheat- No. 2 March, oponed S1.2C% closed $1.01%; May, opened $1.05J, closed $1.03%; July, opened $1.0% closed fl.02. Corn- No. 2 March, opened , closed 68%c; May, opened 69c, closed 68%c; July, opened 68c, closed %c. Oats- No. 2 May, opened 5BLc, closed 55c; June, opened 50c, closed 54éc; July, opened 53%c, 52Hc Pork - March, opened , closed $12.05; May, opened $13.0J, closed 812.20; July, opened $13.35, closed $12.62J. Lard- March, opened , closed 6.72. Live stock- Following were the prices at the Union stock yards: Hogs- Market opened fairly active and flrm; prices 25@3óc higher; light grades, J4.35@4.75; rough packing, $4.4Od 4.55; mixed, $4 50@4.80; heavy packing and shipping lots, $4.6ü@.4.90; pigs, Ï3.5O@4.5O. Cattle- Trade brisk; beef cattle, i3.80@5.85; stockers and feeders, S2.5O@4.25; cows and bulls, gl.T5@4.50; calves, $2.20@5.50. Sheep- Trade fairly active, $4.755.60; lambs, 85.25 6.00. Produce: Butter-Fancy separator, 2é@ 30c per lb; fresh dairies, 23@26c; packing stock, ll13c. Eggs- Strictly fresh, 22c per doz. Dressed poultry- Chickens, 9@10c per lb; ducks, 12O13c; turkeys, mixed lots, ll@13c; geese, 7@9c Potatoes- White rose, $1.07 1.10 for seed; Hebron, $1.05@1.07; Peerless, 8100@1.05. Sweet potatoes- minois Jerseys, $3.00@3.50. Cranberries- Bell and cherry, $8.OO@8.50perbbl; bell and buglee, $8.00@aOO. Apples- Cooking, 83.00@4.00 per bbl; eatmg, $4.0U@5.00; fancy varieties, 85.00@6.00. New York. New Yobk, March 24. Wheat- No. 2 red winter, $1.18H cash; do May, $1.13%; do June, $1.11%; do July J1.09J4. Corn- No. 2 mixed 810 cash; do May, 76c; do July, 73Jíc Oats- Quiet; No. 2 mixed, (SOJSOlc cash; do May, 61c; do Jnly 59?íc. Eye- Nominal. Barley- Nominal. Pork - Dull; mess, $12.00@12.50 for uew. Lard- Quiet; May, 8S.22; July, $7.47. Live Stock: Cattle- Market firm, but no trading in beeves; dressed beef, steady native aides, 7@SJ4C ï s. Sheep and Lambs- Very little trading; lambs, $ti.5i@6.75 $ 100 tts. Hogs- Nominally steady; live hogs $3.40@3.95 f) 100 Ibs. Miltvaukee. Milwaukíe, Wis., March 24. Wheat- Quie ter; No. 2 on track cash, 9c May, 99c; No. 1 northern, $1.05. Corn- Firm No. 3 on trac, 70c. Oats- Higher; No. 2 white on track, 56c St. Louis. St. Louis, Maroh 24. Wheat-Heavy; cash, $1.04@1.04?i; May $1.O4J4; July, 970 bid; August, 95Hc Corn - Weak; cash, 65c; May, 65c asked; July, 64yfce Oata- Easy; cash, 54c; May, 54-4c. Pork- Weak; $12 37i@12.50. Lurd- Weak; $6.50 Whisky- Steady; $1.16.