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

classes. Meats and lard are wholly
unchanged in price, while whisky is
the same as a week ago. An active
demand has sprung up for higher
classes Of -four. Meal has been short
of the demand all of the week, and
grinding corn is also offered in lighter
quantities than desirable. Receipts
for the week include 5000 bbls of
-four, nearly 5000 bbls. meal, $500
scks corn, 800 scks. oats, 600
SKIS bran and 200 bales hay. The
week has been dry, a few light
showers falling several days ago, and
rains are needed in many neighbor-
hoods. Our entire rainfall last month
was but two inches and eighty one.
hundredths, a decrease from last May
of one inch, and nearly three inches
less than the May previous. New po-
tatoes are in fine promise, and a few
wagon loads have arrived from neigh.
boring fields. Shipments north are
expected to begin in a few days. Sales
of wagon loads open at $2.75 per bar
rel measure. The strawberry season
is over, having lasted barely three
weeks. Cold weather in April nipped
the blooms, and the berries came in
later and quit earlier than any pre-
vious season. The yield was the
shortest on record, and is estimated
at from 800 to 1000 quarts to the care.
FLOUR AND MEAL-Low grades
of flour neglected; upper classes active;
round lots of XIX, A25 per Dbl; family,
choice and fancy, S. 00G6 rs; patents,
So 1907 %; jobbers charge 25c higher.
Cornmeal in active request and irregular
at SO 10 to 50 20 per Dbl in lots and 10c
higher in a small way.
FEEDSTUFFS-Corn firm and in de-
mand at SO TO Coo per bu for yellow and
mixed and 81 to &c for white; iobbing at
3 TO &c per bu higher. Oats firm at 49 to
Soc per bu in lots, and jobbing at 81 to 53c.
Bran quiet at Sl4 90 per ton, and so to
85c per cwt for wheat, and $11 per ton for
corn bran. Hay weak and slow at SIT to
$40 so per ton for western, as in quality,
and 81 10 to 81 70 per cwt; no prairie offer
ing, but arrivals of new expected.
ESCULENTS-New potatoes 81 IS per
Dbl measure for home growth and So % to
SO so in a small way; stock peas, 81 IS to
So Is per bu from store with only moder-
ate local request; new onions, S. to So per
Dbl; cabbage, 81 to "a 80 per crate.
POULTRY AND EGGS Chickens
are 81 80 to So % per doz for old, and
81 so to 81 so for young, with laberal
offerings Of small size and good demand
for well grown. Ducks dull at 81 so per
doz. No demand for geese or turkeys.
Eggs easy at 10 TO lac per doz.
BUTTER-Quiet at Is to 20c per ID for
fresh grass country, II to 15c for common
cooking; western, table and dairy, II TO
22c creamery, 26 to 2Sci butterine, l6 to
lie.
MEATS AND LARD-Bacon; shout
ders jobbing for cash 6A to 6%c; do c
ribs ~ TO 9Hc do c sides 10 to 10%c;
hams IL to llHc; breakfast bacon lie;
country hams Toto lOI4c; do sides 9Ac;
do shoulders 81 to &c; bulk shoulders 81
65ci do c ribs so to SIC; do sides 9 TO
9Ac; mess pork $lS so per Dbl. Lard,
ll% to l155c for ties, Ike kegs and hf
bbls and II to 121c for pals.
FRUITS AND NUTS-Raspberries
sell at 81 70 per "A quart case. Lemons
range fiom 81 90 to So 90 per box. Oranges
81 50t to So for imperial and Messina in lots.
and Soc higher in a small way; Palermo
fruit not wanted. bananas 81 50 TO $50 per