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Agricultural Prices 



BUREAU OF MARKETS REPORTS ON LIVE STOCK MOVEMENTS. 



(000 omitted) 



Hog receipts at 54 markets 

 Shipments of stocker and 

 feeder hogs from 16 mar- 

 kets 



Cattle receipts at 54 markets 

 Shipments of stocker and 

 feeder cattle from 35 mar- 

 kets 



Sheep receipts at 54 markets 20,434 18,671 21,720 



1916. i i;)17. I 1918. 



43,11 



44,534 



142 

 17,553 



3,843 



640 

 22,210 



4,705 



683 

 24,977 



4,688 



1919. 



43,780 



617 

 24,313 



4,900 

 25,862 



1920. 1921. 1922 



At this date, in early 1920, the Bureau of Markets is reporting for 

 about 69 markets. Hog receipts as given are 97 per cent of receipts at 69 

 markets; cattle, 98 per cent; sheep, 95 per cent, stocker and feeder cattle, 

 93 per cent; stocker hogs, 69 per cent. 



^ARGENTINE WHEAT PRICE. 



(Per bushel) 



'ARGENTINE CORN PRICE. 



(Per bushel) 



♦Prices for both wheat and corn are taken from the Year Books of 

 the Rosario Board of Trade. Rosario is the Chicago of Argentina. The 

 Argentine unit of weight, the quintal, is taken as equivalent to 3.67 bushels 

 of wheat and 3.936 bushels of corn. The Argentine dollar is taken as 

 equivalent to 42.6 cents. After July of 1918, prices are taken from the 

 International Institute of Agriculture. 



