Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 17, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba Commercial Grain markets very bullish prices soaring March 1920 fluctuations in Winnipeg markets Oats May May july 97 May july 1 Rye May 162 157 555 542 192 157 571 551 161a 156 555 537a 94a 15794 550 160 548 528a 191 the banners forum a column few the discussion of a matters of interest to Farmers letters banners local Market in hands of professionals who Are grains reach new Grain March the Advance in prices on tuesday of All the coarse grains was almost and new High records were reached in fax and the Market was simply a big speculative in the hands of the local who Are very and were in Complete con the volume of business was tit which was due principally to Telegraph wires Beinor Down in All caused by the the strength in the Chicago and other american markets gave Confidence to holders for still higher which caused a very Small Selling and the feature of the local pit today was the absence of both business and to us higher advanced to May Oats opened at Shi to and Jhent to july flax opened 14c higher at and went up to these figures were taken fifteen minutes before the close of the at which time there was a Little recession in Oats and the Cash the Cash markets were Dull owing to very Light Thuro demand continues Good but offerings in All Are it was noticeable Chicago Market relatively stronger than Winnipeg and differences Between these two markets showed a narrowing Canadian Export Trade advise no business in fact very Little encouragement offered in cables leading commission houses in american markets advise Eood class Selling a splendid demand for All grades of f deferred position futures at present and during the session professional in character and we still bids were being received at the May i adhere to the View that profits on Long Strain should be taken at present the weather forecast is for Clearing i believing immediate prices discount All and cold and on for Faili Martlet Winter wheat crop ant j i will Bear close impairment in the condition of the Winter wheat crop when it is revealed is this is against aggressive Short Selling but technical pit conditions suggest a re closed higher action is reasonable to expect after the v Foft col lit cry n Avn rift it and closing Price Winnipeg Oats closed in higher for w May at july closed at at july closed higher recent flax closed 22hc higher i article appears to be in editorial Cement farm help we Are publishing this week a let Ter from of which undoubtedly voices the senti ment of a very Large percentage of the Farmers of Western the food supplies for next year Are going to be very largely determined by this question of on the important dates Calgary show and March 22 to Edmonton show and March 29 to april Dauphin shorthorn March Swan River shorthorn april hogs Are holding their especially Light the slump in has been disastrous to the big prune lard fielders help or no help the matter has been i for May at july closed 22c control of Strong offerings were of of unchanged at Chicago Corn closed to 3c Oats opened to v c to and advanced july higher at 33 to j May Barley opened higher at and advanced to july Barley opened higher at and advanced to j May flax opened 7c higher at i Oats Barley c Rye Rye closed 18c to Grain Winni Neir tenders for printing and bookbinding wheat Plax Rye screenings separate sealed tenders addressed to i the chairman committee on finance will be received at the office of the 1 undersigned up to 3 Oclock on 1 april for the Supply i of printing and bookbinding required by the City during the fiscal Vear Endi ing december i 199 9 10 4 5s2 Ley appears to be in a Strong featureless Strong and higher in sympathy with general strength in other coarse in article scored again a very rapid undoubtedly there has been a Short interest badly punished in i Northwestern Duluth spec against Early season sales in fun fenced by Argentine anticipated move i Cash seed has lost considerable of its the erratic character of the Market against merchandising As a consequence crushers in i largely 00 62 1920 of 19si contract grades of 145 cars in sight for Winnipeg Cash prices livestock markets Dominion livestock specifications together with and forma of tender i prices arc All Cash grains at the conditions governing j future Market lenders As prescribed by by Ian be obtained at the City clerks office i City fixed wheat Union Stock Winnipeg and March to the the severe Snow storms rasing throughout time of closing the the province and the West on monday and Early tuesday All the railways were More or less snowbound the lowest or any tender not necessarily City clerks March the Home investment and savings association dividend 92 1 hard 1 Northern 3 Northern 3 Northern 4 special 5 6 special feed 1 rejected 2 rejected s rejected 1 smutty 2 smutty and there were no arrivals at the Stock Yards on there were Only a very Small number of cattle on not sufficient to constitute a Tufi Refore no Market letter or quotations were issued tuesday Montreal notice is hereby Given that dividend of two per being he Bare rate 01 eight per cent per on uie amount paid up on the capital 3 smutty 1 no Crade Toush 2 no Grade touch 3 no Grade per ton 2100 i 2 1w j to 3 w 97 i 1 feed 1 feed feed rejected feed Stock of this has been de dared for the Quarter year ending the unit first Day of and that the same will be payable at the head i office of the 333 main 215 215 215 215 212 218 208 233 202 202 191 191 181 131 171 171 204 234 201 201 196 196 206 205 205 20s 199 199 209 209 206 20s s02 202 2100 i made s7 96 a Tui 9di 8si Itoi 173 it 140 162i Montreal March Canadian press receipts food cattle offered Ivere of common prices i demand just receipts the average Quality of veal calves offered has improved since the enforcing of regulations governing the marketing of Young and immature prices were some what the majority of sales being one of general discussion at the Spring shows and livestock sales which have already taken and Farmers and stockmen complain that it is impossible to Getgood and the almost invariable addition is1 1 am going to put in just As much As we can care for ourselves and let the rest an inquiry at the government employment agencies shows a much greater number of requests for farm help Ihan applications for positions on the officials in charge that this is not unusual at this season of the As Farmers Are putting in their applications and men who ultimately will be willing to go out on the farms Are holding Back until such time As they get the higher wages for the heavier Spring work More season has been a Long one in the Bush and the men Are not yet out of the lumber and a considerable number of these men will goods who want custom and the but what permanent Benefit to Canada will accrue from a repetition of the mistakes of the past with regard to another which seems to be receiving very Little attention from the Dominion is the i number of settlers from the South who Are already coming in who Bear unmistakable German the great avar veterans Are pro testing against people from the alien enemy countries being allowed to come to but How about the nominally citizens of the United but wholly German in who May come in under the name of american citizens in the recent lists of immigrants into South Ern Manitoba foreign names pre and these people Are go ing on to the land of Canadian Cibij Zens who lost their sons during the War and finding labor almost hide and grease values de disc our impossible to Felt it necessary to sell out and retire into the towns and no District in the West suffered More heavily in the War than Southern and it seems an irony that the farms which were denuded of help because of the boys who went should pass in to the of people with German and for All the evidence we have to the German in it is also an irony that there should be an Effort made to select the immigrants coming to us from great and at the same because people have Money to on the other the building i Bur land to permit indiscriminate undoubtedly be available for farm by James March bump for the cattle vat Renever the situation shows temporary improvement something invariably Hap this week brought in few More cattle and prices promptly climbed the packers Are unusually their obvious policy being to keep on a Handt Mouth decreasing hide and grease values necessitate placing a larger Burden on which this would be equitable to partly covered by a both the old system of it using cattle by the head is also a relic j of the Celine 348 proven Cher left yesterday for and Camille Aad their five of 11 m Selling per hundredweight Bej visited their friends in Bonifaco Low is Pound Bacon this in route for indicates a return to prewar Condi in a As Domestic con blather of redemption lists has Lieen appointed by his Grace at Boniface vicar of Anna Dew As successor to the Lata father Trudel brother assistant director the new agricultural col lege at Swan Lake waa in Boniface and a leaving of today for Sumers demand Light cuts and Bacon a big Ham is the hardest thing to sell packers the hog crop is a fact that will be Rea ii2ed a few weeks hence sheep and lambs both sheep and lambs Are still Selli ing High lambs at to and sheep s14 to Fine wools Are but Low grades have no regu Lar no attempt is being made to contract the new clip on the sheets As growers have definite ideas of the value of their shutting the practical middleman out of what wag once a lucrative a firm of London tailors has a representative to Chicago taking orders for clothing at prices 30 to 48 per Archt Shup under local you place your order one Day the suit is Cut i Canon Dom Monnet of the in London the measurements being sent by and within two weeks the garment is on you nothing slow about old Lunnon of the rate of Exchange favors the the Riith Bishop of and very Xton Signor Canon of Quebec were the guests of Aroh Bishop Bellveau and have left foe Edmonton to attend the funeral of has the logical elect of curtailing what the cattle Indus try needs at this juncture is material accession to the ranks of a diminish livestock the honorable min ister of agriculture for has completed arrangements whereby the Canadian department of agriculture is providing Liberal Cash prizes for boys and girls under 17 years of age who exhibit pigs or calves at their local fair and who comply with the rules governing the competitions known under the title of the Cana regular canons of the immaculate and belonging to general Headquarters at visited in Boniface and is now visit ing the clergy at notre Dame de he has just from Peru and visited on his my Here the Parish of Tho Annon Catlon in the diocese of Mont where the clergy belong to con overseas club the weekly whist drive and dance tinder the auspices of the Over social i Mecl Lite la Vic Wilc Diane Bankers the the i programme and other work in cities indicate a great demand for labor and a corresponding shortage of available the railways Are planning very considerable construction and this they by is contingent on the labor j work in cities and work on railroads has always been More popular than work on not Only because the hours Are usually but because of the companionship of Camps or railways and the greater social attractions of the in j immigration from the not the least troublesome of the alien enemies during the War were those who had come to Canada in the Guise of naturalized seed a complaint has reached this desk that in some of the municipalities in Manitoba people who require seed Grain Are finding it almost impossible to an inquiry at the department reveals the fact that not Only have the municipalities the same Powers for making seed Grain Are for a very Loans that they possessed last receipts there were Only 5 sheep and lambs for material decrease in the acreage of j but the amount which they Are Al to Good Tlle West this receipts the Price of hogs remains about per weighed off j i Lowed to loan to the individual Farmer i the amount of summer allow done j last taking the West As a was Small owing to the extreme dryness of the Toronto March live Stock receipts came exceptionally Early and Toronto values top sales included nine ing j steers averaging pounds at i practically off by the end of managing 10th grading tenders Morici falsity of Roc Ricoul May july May the undersigned Vrell receive ten Ders marked tenders for up i noon on april for the i ditching and grading of roads in the mar municipality of As follows i Yav tender 24 Miles 7ul in townships 15 and hangs 1 and i to be completed by november 1921 1 tender 77 miles1 in township ranges 1 and and May township ranges 2 Atid to be j july completed by november sept tenders must be accompanied by a tracked Cheque or Cash representing 5 per of the amount of the a and specific i tons May be seen Asid form of tender May be see used from Highway or municipal the lowest or Auy tender not necessarily 1 dated at this St a july m i ribs j May r july amb Icax Minneapolis 83i 513 528 518 528 sos 516 505 505 510 523 510 523 Minneapolis Chicago 153i 155ai Issei l162 1454 145 Chicago 84 85 to 77 80 69 70 69 6fl Chicago 154 154 152 Chicago 174i per hundreds one extra Choice j the first week in excepting pounds at Perth Al it receipts Trade the oct Good Quality bulk to Little fall ploughing was a com receipts Trade this Means that the Are 515 501 503a to receipts Hok Trade prices 25 cents to 50 cents has been the difficulty seems to be that in some of the municipalities the number of Farmers who actually require this seed is very Small and the municipal officials Are oth to undertake the work on that this is certainly not As it should if there is one Man in a municipality who requires seed he is absolutely entitled to obtain it through his the pro Chicago March receipts Ono bulk to top i ii Eavy to medium to i fret to age ready for seeding is smaller than even with the Best of i it will be the end of March Vinci Al government has done All in its or the beginning of april before it i Power to facilitate this and it i will be possible to to anything on i is unfair that municipal be 152u 141 153vi lights to heavy pack ing to pack ing s12 to pigs 13 to receipts weak beef medium and Choice and to medium and Good to common to Good and to si5 common Butcher to cows to runner a and cutters to vea1 calves Chicago so municipality of Rock acc 1 to feeder steers to i Stocker steers to receipts lambs j s57 to culls and common 14 to Brood si3 to culls and common s6 to the land perhaps a Little harrowing of summer allowing or fall so that even were help it is highly improbable that so Large an acreage As has been sown in the last two years can be got with the shortage of labor and the exceptionally the reduction Jik Elv to be High wages in acreage is and this is a cause they do not wish to be both should put any difficulties in the path of the Man who really re quires seed correspondence the editor free i watched the labor situation very care full for the last two and it matter of very great importance to has suddenly dawned on me the pro As to j position of How i am going to pay the present wages together with the tenders for of Library books coarse Grain markets ii sealed tenders addressed 10 the san committee on Library and Public win be received at the office of the undersigned up to 4 Oclock on i april for the Baird March Supply of books required for the Public Market Strong an Library for the fiscal year ending Dei higher but business volume was serious Comber j by hampered by crippled wire Servio produce markets single Bushel j3 00 510 bushels 2 75 beets 4 Sqq carrots a00 3 Sqq s50 Ontario Creamery jobbers to retailers Dairy to country shippers dwellers in the City As Well As a reduction in the Cost of Machen Lage Means reduced supplies both feed and seed Grain j Home consumption and for 1 i another Factor which is Likely to i have some is the shortage of farm if wonk does not j commence until april it is possible that sufficient supplies to meet the Are protesting at retail while no stable basis for live cattle a to per hundredweight and Vance in fat cattle late in february and Early in March was regarded so optically developments this week demonstrated that this doubt was warranted the moment they had Access to a few More cattle than they actually killers took prices 50 to 75 cents per the situation and the Prospect Are alike As usual at this fat and Stock cattle Are not on speaking As killers Are grab Bing near beef at prices the country cannot afford to Good heavy cattle afford to Good sold around this while feeders paid As High As for Pound steers to go on obviously the gambling instinct is still Canadian Supply advices from Alberta and Sas sent Long caravans of Stock cattle across the line last Are that few will be who was a heavy oper Ator last year in the Edmonton coun has concluded the available sup ply at present will not justify a Pur chasing Iowa Bavins passed through the crucial financial test of March when farms changed hands in that is again taking an interest in Stock but most feeders Are afraid of the Wisconsin is pay fag to for mature steers to go on grass that Cost s14 to a year ago when they burned the fingers of everybody touching Little has been done in the South West in Stock cattle Texas stockmen Are apparently unaware that the War is but the strategic position of the breeder cannot be con e auspices of the overseas Lub held last night in the was a decided and largely the whist miss Marker and arrangements have been Renado by the club to hold in Aid of convalescent at the Royal Canadian Bankers competitions Are Irr proving of no Little value in teaching future livestock producers the value of Type and Quality in and these competitions should therefore receive the support of All livestock associations and As Well As of individual full information regarding the prizes can be obtained from the manager of any Branch Bank in the locality where a fair is and boys and girls Are urged to get in touch with the Man who will Supply on application Charity Homes and Alexander hotel on april the com Mittee in charge of arrangements miss Sisters Sisters Sisters miss miss miss miss Misa miss wheat copy of the rules and other the number of fairs in each pro Vince which participated a the com petitions during 1919 compared with 1918 was As follows 16 41 provinces British Columbia Alberta Saskatchewan 55 81 Ontario 183 Quebec 3 s new Brunswick Nova Scotia Prince Edwd Island 28 473 191s 18 175 5s 4 u 417 Davidson and g a masquerade in Aid of the Blind will to held the last Friday in the total prize Money paid out Dur ing the year of 1919 was that i sit ton cos amount being subscribed to equally j gauge by the Canadian Bankers association j three and the department of i n tenders for Industrial railway j Rural municipality of Dauphin i ceased Wii be received up j until March for All or i any part of the following equipment i 7 Miles 20 21 Inch with j and without steel 4 t Inch 40 radius 7 24 Inch feet or 24 in gasoline 4 Boniface notes Antoine Gauvin and Gau who for the two months Holiday Sally accepted de at Ocean have re my 24 Gauss i with or tit Tamouc roller 4 live ton flu 24 j 1 shovel or capacity 1 of bucket to 1 cubic any of the above equipment May be new or second the lox Psi or any tender not Neces an employee of Boniface has left on visit Texas is revelling in feed while j to neither the situation nor the Prospect warrants current demand for last i a House on the Dawson of years Texas is under no Nei coupled Iby Camilie tit Gat and six a Esbitz to the result being that Kansas and Oklahoma practically All under contract a year is going the system of rent tag grass on a per head basis for was completely destroyed by fire during the blizzard yesterday the inmates escaping in their night and receiving Shel Ter at a tit Gat is Finnigan Flat and Mcguire of july Cele bration a comic song record for Patricks the season is hence a away working in the there is proposition to base prices on a gain no fire Protection in this the of tender May be obtained up due Chicago Market was j to ii Sain the strength Leader and gave Conj jobbers to i clench to holders for higher All i storage markets showed a reaction Carnegie William each tender must to accompanied by an accepted Cheque or Cash Deposit for tendency from the High prices no j the lowest or Auy tender not necessarily i City City clerks March tenders for Road grading i Rural municipality of Swan River Swan March tenders country ship pers live in geese applications will be received by the undersigned tip to 30 Oclock in the Soad or Ard or die i Forenoon on saturday the 17th Day of or fifty two Milch of Road in Pic ulunic1 for the position of in Pality will be received by the Iii for Rumely Oil pull Eer signed up to six Oclock on the Road overseer or and first 4th t this work includes and second grader As follows about cubic Yards of Earth Exea Vaj but Quantity shown is approximate tractor Engineer Sirull take or the Cotton 491 sacks requirements will be hut at the present time dealers admit great Scarcity of farm implements and some difficulty in securing immigration i the country from end to the i other is being stirred up by mayor of Jle Dicine and his associates in the matter of a Campaign for securing immigration to develop the land of the Prairie j this immigration cry has a very j familiar it was heard abroad i in the land from 1900 Onward until the outbreak of the we must work to be completed in specifications and tender forms May Boob trained at the office of the Good or from the a certified Cheque for live per of the s accompany each tender submit the lowest or any tender not necessarily Cerk of the Rural Hual Copal by of the Rural municipality of Dauphin tenders for tenders Wii be Ryoei soon on March with working knowledge of and Vance Rumely Oil pull lust be Able to overhaul and keep tractor in running head grader Man Wideawake not afraid of hard a Man with working knowledge of leaning wheel graders second grader Man with some knowledge of grader to follow instructions of head grader Road overseer or Foreman must be a Man with Road grading capable of handling the is and it Cotton i lays emphasis on the fact that we two sacks a fit four ale no better prepared for the profit sacks efi7a four sacks be Cash Carload White 98 ibs 1 500 straight 98 4 75 dark 98 ibs 575 Rve 98 ibs 4 no Holled Oats Able handling of increased immigration than we were Twenty years to All the Twenty in spite of every pressure that could be brought to Bear on the the Dominion government has not made any Agri j cultural Survey of the we have no soil we have to pre bran and Winnipeg pay in am i going to be Able to pay even my running sex let alone my own living i am not a professional or am i kicking about paying the extra wages or in fact on anything that i have to but what is worrying the Farmers in this including is the question of after put Ting the crop in and harvesting it on the present basis of prices Are we to take chances on the Price we Are to receive for the Grain and pro Duce we have to Market if this is the then will it pay to nut the crop in at All from what i can see it works out this Way we work All the season on the boosted expenses and at the finish we have to take a Price taht is slumped to lower the so called High Cost of lev a serious and does the present government realize what this will mean As regards production and immediate action should be taken to give a guarantee to the Farmers that there will be a set Price on All grains and so that it will leave him some margin of Herbert March nubs of news shorthorn the shorthorn Sale at March and Swan april should be attended by those who wish to improve their cattle the Dominion shorthorn association is behind them and no Effort has been spared to get together the class of Eattle that will work capitation we have no map inhere is a Large proportion of St u j v i with calves at foot or Well along in my Mali lab at what depth water can cake anal bred heifers that Are carry j found Over the various i ing the service of some of the Best i in the Only additional knowledge Western a number i of n inn turf q which we have of our and Mustbe Able to read and Sra calling Miles of i stand police applications Iov Ilc Pality of Ijo Simato yardage Lender forms and Nav had at the office of the Kuril Mun t the Highway com not nec6s must be mailed i forwarded to i Rural municipality of Swan River i r Joseph Swan Box Portage a Prairie Brandon Moose Medicine Calgary j Portage la i 35randon Medicine hat country is j that in the past Twenty years Rcck e which Are there Are Calgary i hundreds of people have been to open heifers and Young bulls of serviceable that will do and these Are clean they notice re Gordon school l the uness of the architect an time v tenders on uie been to c Tuttle and a cations Engineer Jica Rthur win ipes ton quantities at Lii door per notice notice is hereby Given that Kipp intends to apply to the of the province of Manitoba at the expiration of four weeks from the publication of this notice for an ordering Council changing its name to Kipp dated at this 16th Day of Coyne Jim vicar Martin solicitors for the applicant wholesale prices to producers a Atje 1 Timothy 2 Timothy to 1 red top 2 red 1 Upland 24ioo 2 Upland 22 of 1 Montreal i i have not been but Are just in j rated on land in Southern Alberta Thrifty and while is is not and Southern Saskatchewan which to advantage of the seller it makes it should never have been broken into a the sock Llano of these people in the Tion to make these districts a Sale i last three years have left this land i Centre and those who buy can feel j assured of a Market for their product which is a matter worthy of there is now a Western Field Man who will spend All his time in the interests of shorthorn breeders and March for some Export business in flour was More encouraging and Mill feed led Hay weak egg Market Ging Strong quotations choicest Cream 65c to 66c 62c to 62c Pota per Jand gone to the Northern part of the j and in a number of in stances have gone Back to the United Are other Farmers from the United anyone who contemplates making a states or overseas to be allowed to Start be issued of his Heartiest i come in and Purchase these lands the terms of the Sale Are half and repeat the store of crop failures i if and bankable notes ind necessary government assistance with sp5f cent per and necessary government assistance the attitude of come and let us get in settlers is All right from the standpoint of manufacture who want purchasers for their i due a Liberal guarantee and a Good association behind it should make this a desirable place to buy get a study the and attend the give your new shoes the Protection they need by always wearing rubbers on wet rubbers prevent the shoes from getting soaked through and pressed out of rubbers help to retain the trim Shap Liness of those Nice new shoes by making them Waterproof in Stormy Dominion Rutizer system rub feers Are stylish and make the feet look Small and Are made in every size and shape to fit the smart Spring styles in footwear for women and you can get economical rubbers when you insist on having Dominion rubber system the Best shoe stores sell Dominion rubber system 51 a i i i ;