Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-06-13

and mess pork is ashade lower. other
meats are without change of value.
Lard is a shade higher. Flour has
also advanced a little on the better
classes. Corn has ruled firm, with
prices from | to &c per bu higher, and
a carce supply of white for grinding.
Meal is in active movement, with lib
eral arrivals and local mills busy, the
demand taking up all the offerings.
Oats are quiet but firm. Hay slow,
with sales at low figures and but little
demand. The sugar market continues
to show an advancing tendency, prices
being from ] to &c higher than a week
ago. La. sugars are scarce, the stock
at New Orleans being reduced to a To-
csl supply only. Receipts Of feed and
breadstuffs in this market during the
week include $3.50 sacks of corn, 1900
SKIS of oats, $50 SKIS bran, 800 bales
hay, including a couple of carloads
new Ark. prairie, $500 bbls meal and
$500 bbls -four. A leading feature Of
business for the week was the active
shipping movement in new potatoes,
half a dozen firms sending liberal con-
signments to western cities. The
crop is generally good, while prices to
growers have ruled from 81 so to 50 80
per Dbl measure delivered here in
wagons. A few green apples have
been shipped northward, farmers
realizing. 81 so per Dbl measure.
FLOUR AND MEAL-Better classes
of -four are in steady demand and firm.
Little movement in lower grades. job
bers' prices are "a 80 per Dbl XXX and
So 25@6 80 for family, choice and fancy,
while patents are ST 00@7 80 per Dbl.
Oornmeal is SO 10 to IS 10 per Dbl in
drayload or larger lots and l0c higher
in asmall way.
FEEDSTUFFS-The market for corn
is firm at 90 TO Coo for mixed and in lots,
and 81 to 63c in a small way; white scarce
at GA to 65c in lots. Oats firm at 49, to
40 per bu by the carload, and 81 TO 53c
in a small way. Bran quiet at $l4 90
per ton, and Is TO Soc per cwt for wheat,
and $11 per ton for corn bran. Hay
drags, western timothy being from $l8 TO
$40 90 per ton and hard to dispose Of
small orders 81 10 to 81 10 per cwt; new
Ark. prairie offers at SIS per ton, the first
arrival last Thursday selling at SIG.
ESCULENTS-New potatoes " SO To
So on per Dbl measure from wagons, and
So 25 to So 50 from store. Cabbage, 81
per crate for home growth. Onions, rs Ia
Sc with light receipts. Stock peas, 81 70
TO 81 IS per bu, as per quality
POULTRY AND EGGS - Old
= chickens are dull and slow at 81 80 tC
50 90 per doz; young spring, 81 rs tC
SO per doz.. God frying size being in de-
mand at 81 to 81 70 per doz. Ducks
dull at 81 30 per doz. No demand for tur'
= keys or geese. Eggs have met ready sale
mt IL to l4c per doz for western and up tC
l6c for fresh country.
BUTTER-Fresh grass country is in
: fair demand ut 10 to lSc per Id; prairie
= Is to zoe; common do, II to 15c; western
slow at l6 to DC; creamery, rs to DC
I butterine. l6 to lie and duh.
MEATS AND LARD-Jobbers' casl
= prices are for smoked shoulders 6B to &c
: do c ribs pa TO csc; do c sides 9% {,
: 9Ec, hams III to 1l5sc; breakfast bacor
Ii to Ike; mess pork SlS IS per Dbl
bulk shoulders 81 SIC; do C ribs So Il
SIC; do sides 9 to9H; country meats, -
{ less Lard, ll9s TO ll5sc for ties, llM.
kegs and hf bbls and II to l2l5c for pail.
FRUITS AND NUTS--Lemon