Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-11-16
' Gather Bulletin.
Tbe @arkets.
AUGUSTA WHOLESALE MARKET.
Apples Scarce-EgGs HiKher-Not Much
Doing In POrk-Petatoes Rather Firmer
Turkeys for Thanksgiving not Abund.
ant-Furs.

Wednesday Morning. Nov. IS.
GLOW apples?" queried our scribe OF dealer.
81 can't get any," was the reply. mo one Is
bringing any in
The truth is, the apple market IS sort of between
for fall frui is at an end and is too early for win
ter What apples there are rule poor scrubby.
delapidated things. few weeks ago the stores
these are scarce. The great ditbculty with apples
this year is that they mostly of inferior quality
Choice winter fruit !. good property and can be held
with confidence. A Manchester farmer recently
sold two barrels Of "Kings" to Boston buyer at
400 a barrel.
Eggs are going to be high" said grocer yestcr
day. II offered man aoc dozen for a lot to day.
and he refused it. why said he Il can sell them
for that right AT my door, sold 10 dozen yesier
day to a brother groceryman at nc" Eggs are
silva, scarce just before Thanksgiving. The cold
weather pinches the old hens and puets
rule do not get to laying until later in the season
The price of corn, which is much higher than last
fall Influences the prices OF hen fruit 1t looks now
as though Thanksgiving eggs would be worth &c
apiece, if not more. Dealers are laying in stocks
ahead and the country is alive With buyers who
snap up all they can find. In Boston, fresh eggs are
worth from "a to 35c.
Butter is little easier and is rather more plenty
One dealer said that he had just refused nice lot at
2sc. The weather for the past few days has been
very unfavOrable for the round hog business. La
purchasing hogs to pack, buyers must necessarily
dispose of the lean parts by retailing In the muggy.
warm atmosphere that has prevailed it has been al
at 70 Tha
trade in meats was very large, have been wary
about buying. 1t has been wirolesaling at and
ole. The live hog shipping business has come to an
end. The buyers did very sure business. They
made their terms with the Boston packers for a
week in adva9c ,t They the hog on that
Merry of North Arson who In few weeks forwa d.
ed 800 head.
in for several day. past and some grocerymen can.
not procure enough to supply their customers II
looks as though the Augusta Spectator, who
short time since purchased several carloads of
Aroosfook potatoes for this market, did not make
very big strike. The first of this week he picked
out and threw away 10 barrel. o, dscaysd ones from
grocerymen at s5c a bu-hel. Sweet potatoes are
abundant of very large size and ofexcellent quality
Country store are Selling them at &c. In Boston,
mond at - 90. and New Jersey at q IS
The Thanks giving turkey is now being talked
about, notwithstanding the day when that bird lie TO
be devoured is some distance off. Remarked
dealer yesterday: "There are very few turkeys in
the country, and 1t looks though they going
to be high. As yet there have been very few tur-
keys offered here this fall-a less number than in
former yesrs. have already engaged several lots
ahead for Thank giving the market price that
dav.''
As the season advances and cold weather ap-
proaches, the trappers commence work and already
quite a large nunlber of furs are being marketed.
More muskrat furs are sold in Augusta than Of any
other kind. These are mostly caught in the many
ponds which abound in this county. This fur is low
now. The time has been when good skins would
fetch two shillings. Last week one Of our dealers
bought 10 VOL tklns from Dakota- rive OF tnem
were of the Hudson Bay variety. He paid 435 for
the lot. We quote furs in this market follows
Fall rats to lie; small and culs, TO &c; kits, Be-
mink, large and fine, rs to e0c; small. S, TO 75c;
skunk, 10 to 75c. the latter price being for prime
black; fox, tl25; coon. SOC; Louise cat SC; otter,
81 to -.
APPLES-Green, eating, 75cd$ 90; cooking, 20
assoc winter fruit, $2.5oasz75; evaporated, i4dI6c
dried, SAFE
BEANS-Pea. sa.ooasIo; Yellow eyed. sa7sa
&3O0.
BEEF-Small. asc.; OF. eaiOc.; Chicago dressed,
9lc.
BEETS-Ilc per pound
BUrTER-SOhd, 25a2sc.; ball, 25a30c.; common,
l6d2oc.
CABBAGES-2c. per pound.
CRANBERRIES-42.75a3.to per bushel.
CHEESE-Factory and domestic, l2dl3c.
EGGS-32c per dog.
HIDES AND SKINS-Hides over 90 pounds Bic
under. 7lc calf skins, l2c. per pound; deacon SKINS
2Sa50c. apiece; sheep skins, SOC. at1.0o.
HaY-Nev loose. 4l2d4l4; old, 1l5a4l6; pressed
t16a4ls; straw, &7aS9.
HONEY-Box. 20c. per pound.
LARD-Domestic, 1fd16c.; western, l5c.
LAMB-7asc.
ONIONS-Yellow Danvers, a1al.2s per busheI
OATS-sa50c.
PORK-Round hog, Qo0lc.
POTATOES-7SaeOc,