The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-29
CANNED GOODS.
The Supply and Probable Future of
Prices.

Prices.
These wares are in high demand and
are bringing very good prices. Owing
to the ample profits made in the canned
goods trade in former years much capital
was invested in the interest last year, and
as a consequence the market was over
supplied and prices went down. The
falling off in prices discouraged many of
the new hands at the business, and many
of them dropped out. This experience
led old Gamers to conserve their supply
to the probable demand, and as a con-
sequence of this course Coupled with
the cessation of many factories) the mar
ket is a little short, and good prices are
the result. At the opening of the mar
ket buyers bid very low, in fact so low
that all were convinced no further de-
cline was possible As soon rs green
fruits and vegetables began to disappear
from the market a marked advance was
noticeable, and the probability is that
the present prices will further advance.
TOMATOES.
Advices from every section show a
much less packing than it was expected
would be done in tomatoes. This Is
largely owing to the fact that many who
put up tomatoes last year have packed
only peaches this season. In Maryland
the country packers have confined them
selves entirely to peaches. In Delaware
about one hundred thousand cases of to-
matoes were packed last season, and this
wear we cannot find over fifteen thou
sand cases as an outside estimate, even il
frosts hold off late. In New Jersey,
where the bulk is always put up, there
will scarcely be One-half, and as the
heavy and continued rains early in the
season, succeeded by extremely warm
weather, greatly injured the quality OF
the crops, thus cutting short the eX-
pected quantity of fine tomatoes, we
learn that some packers are filling part OF
their cans with peaches. In consequence
prices Of old crop carried over from last
year have advanced ten and fifteen cents
per dozen, while for new, packers are indlf-
ierent about making prices as yet. The
range, as near as we can learn, for prime
goods, new packing, is now from one
fifty to one seventy-five dollars for three
pounds.
PEACHES.
The supply just at present is less than
the demand. The entire failure OF the
fruit crops in the west has caused an I'M
precedented demand from that quarter,
and as this was met by packers with
very low opening prices the sales have
been the largest ever known within the
same lenght Of time Although the
west has bought heavily, thereby nearly
satisfying their present wants, still
further demand is expected, as the
canned article is already passing into
consumption much earlier than usual on
account of the want of any substitute
in the way Of green fruit. Most of the
Baltimore packers are sold ahead or up
to and including the weeks packing, and
for the present refuse other orders until
present orders are filled.
CORN.
Most of the article which is canned in
Maine, finds its way to New York as a
market. As yet the supply Is not full,
but very good prices are expected.
SALMON.
The market in salmon is higher now
than it was at this time last season, as
the following quotations will show: For
one pound, two dollars and twenty cents ;
two pounds, three dollars and forty cents,
and two and one-half pounds, three dol
lars and sixty cents. The great scarcity
and continued good demand will cause,
it is thought, a still further advance;
The stock here and on the way IS small
and will 90 but a short way to supply
the demand, Late adyices from the
Pacific coast state that salmon is get
ting very scarce. On September 3, there
was not more than thirty thousand cases
in first hands among the packers on the
Columbia river, and part Of these were
needed to finish up contracts for export
already made and partly filled. At San
Francisco on September s, there We're
barely five thousand cases of all Sizes
Nc1C York Herald.