Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-19

the past week has been meats. al
classes Of hog productions, including
lard, have fallen ] to 10 per h., though
values are still 80 per cent. above las
year at this date. Active packing
operations are progressing at all West.
ern packing points, and live hogs rule
$3.50 per cwt. above last years prices
at this date. The packing season is
considered as half over, and prospects
indicate as large a total as last year,
while the quality, though not quite
equal to last year, is much better than
anticipated. Up to Thursday last the
total number Of hogs packed at all
points summed up 3,050,OOO, being
65O,O0O less bar last year and 30O,O 600
less than the year before at the same
time. After this date last season
100000 hogs we're packed, and there
is no reason to believe that the yield
will exhibit a decrease this season.
The demand for export has been
light and continues to rule so. The
foregoing affords good reason to be-
believe that prices will yet drop lower
than at present. Heavy receips Of su-
gar and molasses have been going into
the New Orleans market, aud prices of
some grades of sugar have declined /
to &c, though molasses is no lower.
The Louisiana yield this year is still
set at 100000 or 10000 hhds, against
2lS,OOO hhds last Year and 10000.
hhds as the annual production in the
last years of slave labor. Coffee and
rice rule steady aud unchanged. Nails
are unsettled and in some cases lower;
while hides are demoralized, sellers
claiming they cannot realize the quo,
t%ations buyers report. Flour has fallen
5to25c per Dbl and wheat &c per bush
ell in Western supply markets during
the week, while meal is zoe per Dbl
lower and corn is easier
with prices slightly reduced.
Oats, hay and bran exhibit
but little change. Cotton seed has
advanced and is in active demand.
Coal fell 10 cents per barrel to steamers
early in the week, but to the city con.
sumers no decline has occurred; pota.
toes are quoted firm, though holders
complain that prices further South are
above those ruling here. tits report
ed that the people of the Ohio valley
are holding back large quantities Of
potatoes, and many who earlier in the
season believed in a strong market
are now weakening considerably.
Some fifteen or twenty thousand bar
rels Of New York rose have been
stored here in expectation of
higher prices about seeding time.
The apple market has been
active, with a brisk demand for all
arrivals.
FLOUR AND MEAL-Jobbers quote
-four as follows Common S4 rs per hi:
family, IS so to 800 choice and fancy
81 IS to 7 55; patents, So 25 to U.s. Corn.
meal, 10 = to 3 90 per bbl in drayload
lots, small dealers ask Zoe higher.
FEEDSTUFFS-Corn easy at 7Sc for
sheiied and ear in lots and so to SIC in q
small way; bulk corn per carload 73c per
bu; oats b6c and firm; bran unsettled al $23
per ton and 81 20 to | % per cwt; hay easy
at $l8 to q 90 for Western and So to per
ton for Southern prairie. Tho former sells
at retail for 81 20 to 70 per cwt and the
latter at Goo.
POULTRY AND EGGS.-Chickeps.
slow at 81 50a2 50 per doz for live and
81 6Na2 so for dressed, the latter for strict
ly choice; turkeys slow at Gallo per doz.
only the best bringing outside prices:
dressed do, BALL for inferior ducks, S2a250
per dtzi geese very dull at SO per doz:
eggs, dull at 32a33c per doz.
GAME Quotations rule as follows /:
Rabbits 81 2ial so per doz: quails, Slal 25
per doz; wild ducks, $la2 per doz; tur-
keys, zoe each; y%enison, 6a6c for whole
and 6a7c for saddles; Reelfoot fish, 6a7c
per III.
MEATS.AND LARD-Jobbers quote
as follows for cash: Bulk clear sides 9Ma
95sc do c r 9a9Hc; shoulders 65sa6Ac;
no bacon moving; smoked hams, liza
l2Ac breakfast bacon, 12Hal3c; mess pork,
Sl8 DO. Lard, ll%a1l%e in les; l2al2kc
in hf bblsi l21Sc in pals, and l25s1 in
hf do.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES potatoes In
lots quoted at So 90a3 10 per Dbl: jackson
whites S2'66a2 IS; Peerless 81 9Oa8 90, and
from store at Is to 60c higher; sweets re-
tail at SO 20 per Dbl; turnips. 81 25 ner
Dbl; onions 81 75a8 so per Dbl in lots and
at retail; beans, IS 60a3 80 per bu; peas.
~ l5a2 Is per bu for ~blackeyed and dried
greeni celery plentiful at S0a36c per
bunch.
BUTTER AND CHEESE-Creamery
bubIuA pcI pOuHu tEd4tCi 10 NestCfn
qualities, 28aS6c per ID; fresh country, l8a
Zoe; butterine, 2Oa22c, the latter for rolls.
Cheese 9al6c per ID. as. per quality.
FRUITS.-Apples are firm at So 50a
5 90 per Dbl, as per quality; died do, dull
At 6a7c per ID; peaches slow at Babe per
ID; lemons weak at 50 76a3 TO per box;
oranges, Sllal6 per Dbl for Florence and
Louisiana bananas, Sla2 per bunch;
grapes, "a for kegs and s. rs for half bbls
Of Malaga %raislns; 50 25a3 60per box.
HIDES AND W0OL-Dryhintno NOM
inally l5a1Gc per ID for Mol, and l2al3c for
No. 2; d:y salted, l0al3c; green, SAFE;
green sailed, 7a8kc, Tallow, 6Ha7c;
beeswax, l8a20c. Wool, tub-washed, 3a-
35c per ID; do unwashed, l5a25c; bury.
l0a20c. Coon skins 10 to acc each; mink
do 20a40c each.
BAGGING AND TIES-Bagging
quiet. On orders 9Kal0Ac rs in quality;
iute, 91lal0Ac t9ine lac per bundle;
ties, $l3ial 60 per bundle.
NAILS-Quiet at So 40 rates.
SUGAR AND MOLASSES-Sugar.
quotations are SHa8%c for y. c.;
8Ha99sc for white clarified; 81 for off
A, l0Acfor granulated, and llallAc for
powdered crushed and cut loaf. Molas-
ses weak at 40a60c per gallon.
COFFEE-Steady at 10Kal6c for Rio
and 24a26c for Java.
SALT-Steady at 81 35a1 60 per sack
for coarse and fine Liverpool, and 81 55a
| so for Ohio river