WHEAt CORN 4 COMPARISON OF MARCH WHOLESALE PRICES WITH PEAK AND PRE-WAR POTATOES COTTON COTTON SEED CATTLE. BEE£ HOGS LAMBS WHEAT, SPRING fWHEAT. WINTER CORN, NO.2 BARLEY RYE.NO.4 TOBACdO. BURLE? COTTON WOOL'4 GREASE (BOSTON? CATTLE STEERS 6OGS. HEAVY SHEEP. EWES CHEEP. LAMB8 FLOUR, SPRING FLOUR* WINTER SUGAR. RAW SUGAR, GRANULATED) COTTONSEED OiL BEEF. CARCASS BEEF*. STEER ROUNDS HAMS. SMOKED (CHICAGO^ COTTON YARN COTTON. PRINT CLQTti COTTON. SHEETIN& WORSTED YARN WOMEN'S DRESS GOODS^ SUITINGS SILK. RAW HIDES, PACKER'^ HIDES. CALFSKIN? LEATHER. CHROME (BOSTON? LEATHER,SOLE OAK BOOTS AND SHOES (BOSTON/ BOOTS AND SHOES (ST. LOU(S) COAL. BITUMINOUS COAL. ANTHRACITS COKE PETROLEUM 1 PIG IRON. FOUNDRY PIG IRON; BASIC' STEEL BILLETS, COPPER r * •* * LEAD TIN ZINO LUMBER'PINE. SOUTHERN LUMBER, DOUGLAS FIR. BRICK, COMMON (NEW YORK), CEMENT 'STEEL BEAMS 1 RUBBER, CRUDE" (Relative prices 1913=100) JNDEX NUMBERS 1 JFARM PRODUCTSv AVERAGE FRjCE/TQ PRODUCEF 6 FARM PRODUCTS. MARKET PRICE'
5 WHOLESALE PRICE COMPARISONS—MAXIMUM PRICE COMPARED TO PRICE IN RECENT MONTHS COMMODITIES Farm products—Average price to producers: Wheat-.-. Corn Potatoes- Cotton .... Cottonseed.. .. —... Cattle, beef Hogs Lambs Farm products—Market price: -Wheat, No. 1, northern, spring (Chicago) *: Wheat, No. 2, red, winter (Chicago) Corn, contract grades, No. 2, cash (Chicago) Oats, contract grades, cash (Chicago) — Barley, fair to good, malting (Chicago) Rye, No. 2, cash (Chicago) _.„. Tohacco, burley, good leaf, dark red (Louisville).- Cotton, middling upland (New York) Wool, 1 blood combing, Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces (Boston) Cattle, steers, good to choice, corn fed (Chicago) _ Hogs, heavy (Chicago) - - — Sheep, ewes (Chicago) Sheep, lambs (Chicago) - - - Food: Flour, standard patents (Minneapolis) .•»-. .......... Flour, winter straights (Kansas City) Sugar, 96° centrifugal (New York) Sugar, granulated, in barrels (New York) Cottonseed oil, prime summer yellow (New York) Beef, fresh carcass good native steers (Chicago) Beef, fresh steer rounds No. 2 (Chicago) Pork, smoked hams (Chicago) « Clothing: Cotton yarns, carded, white, northern, mule spun, 22-1 cones (Boston).. Cotton, print cloth, 27 inches, 64 x 60-7.60 yards to pound (Boston) Cotton, sheeting, brown, 4/4 Ware Shoals L, L. (New York) Worsted yarns, 2/32's crossbred stock, white, in skein (Boston) Women's dress goods, storm serge, all-wool, dbl. warp, 60 in. (N. Y.) Suitings, wool, dyed blue, 55-56 inches, 16-ounce Middlesex (New York). Silk, raw Japanese, Kansai No. 1 (New York) Hides, green salted, packer's, heavy native steers (Chicago) Hides, calfskins, No. 1, country, 8 to 15 pounds (Chicago) Leather, chrome calf, dull or bright "B" grades (Boston).,-* Leather, sole, oak, scoured backs, heavy (Boston) Boots and shoes, men's black calf, blucher (Massachusetts) Boots and shoes, men's dress welt tan cslf (St. Louis) Fuels: Coal, bituminous, mine run lump, Kanawha (Cincinnati).-.- Coal, anthracite, chestnut (New York tidewater) : Coke, Connellsville (range <strong>of</strong> prompt and future) furnace—at ovens Petroleum, crude, Kansas-Oklahoma—at wells - Metals: Pig iron, foundry No. 2, northern (Pittsburgh) „ Pig iron, basic, valley furnace Steel billets, Bessemer (Pittsburgh) Copper ingots, electrolytic, early delivery (New York) Lead, pig, desilvered, for early delivery (New York) Tin, pig, for early delivery (New York) Zinc, slab, western, early delivery (New York) Building materials and misceUaneous: Lumber, pine, southern, yellow flooring, 1x4, "B" and better (Hattiesburg district) ..— Lumber, Douglas fir, No 1, common, s 1 s, 1 x 8 x 10 (Washington) Brick, common red, domestic building (New York) Cement, Portland, net without bags to trade, f.o.b. plant (Chicago dfst.).. Steel beams, mill (Pittsburgh) Rubber, Para Island, fine (New York) - 8ulphuric acid, 66° (New York) - "•*"•**"»—«•*•>•«• toe be*n Included, thus bring!,,* t.,)s tah.e up to d.1,. It Date and maximum relative price June, 1920 July, 1920 June, 1920 July, 1920 <strong>May</strong>, 1920 <strong>May</strong>, 1919 July, 1019 Apr., 1920 <strong>May</strong>, 1920 <strong>May</strong>, 1920 Sept., 1917 June, 1920 Mar., 1918 Mar., 1918 Mar., 1919 Apr., 1920 Apr., 1918 Mar., 1919 July, 1919 Apr., 1918 Feb., 1920 <strong>May</strong>, 1920 <strong>May</strong>, 1917 <strong>May</strong>, 1920 <strong>May</strong>, 1920 July, 1919 Sept., 1920 July, 1920 July, 1919 <strong>May</strong>, 1920 Apr., 1920 <strong>May</strong>, 1920 Jan., 1920 Oct., 1918 July, 1920 Jan., 1920 Aug., 1919 Aug., 1919 Nov., 1919 Aug, 1919 Mar., 1920 Aug., 1919 Sept., 1922 Nov., 1923 Aug., 1920 Mar., 1920 July, 1917 Sept., 1920 July, 1917 Mar., 1917 June, 1917 <strong>May</strong>, 1918 June, 1915 Feb., 1920 Jan., 1920 Feb., 1920 Sept., 1920 June, 1917 Jan., 1913 Feb., 1916 826 300 706 312 321 183 256 239 354 302 331 296 325 451 852 331 SOS 218 266 319 263 323 363 598 526 874 201 211 231 348 478 427 289 292 291 466 283 490 473 230 303 292 210 637 375 346 330 388 230 261 224 386 455 407 381 105 331 124 250 January. 1024 February, 1034 (1913 average-100) 122 119 145 271 204 01 88 167 124 112 121 126 113 114 212 271 208 111 86 153 171 135 137 192 m 152 131 106 116 223 223 220 219 1S4 239 202 78. 83 163 98 201 153 166 216 165 133 151 144 155 80 188 103 116 192 212 305 170' 166 25 75 Relative price 124 124 143 202 199 03 87 173 129 114 128 131 118 113 212 250 216 114 85 180 187 138 139 207 204 139 131 in in 211 205 204 219 184 239 189 86 96 163 93 201 153 166 216 172 162 155 150 155 81 203 118 123 193 212 305 173 166 24 73 March, <strong>1924</strong> 125 125 147 231 190 05 83 184 128 110 127 128 120 108 212 223 216 118 83 213 202 137 139 197 109 135 131 115 114 195 193 196 212 184 239 171 76 100 171 103 201 153 154 216 171 179 155 149 155 87 211 123 118 101 201 305 173 160 21 70 April, <strong>1924</strong> 121 127 153 230 185 TO 69 1S6 124 105 125 130 123 104 212 234 212 127 89 212 205 139 133 182 186 139 131 118 114 192 192 ISO 212 184 239 155 66 85 171 303 201 153 154 207 155 187 147 147 155 84 188 111 112 189 100 305 173 1G2 21 70 Per cent Increase +3.0 0.0 -2.0 0.0 -1.5 0,0 -8.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 -9,4 -13.2 -1 r>.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 ao -4.2 -0.4 +4.5 -5.2 t -J O 0.0 -3.4 -10.1 -9.8 -5.1 -1.0 -6.0 0.0 0.0 -2.4 0.0 0.0
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