Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-10-19
Chr Markets.
AUGUSTA WHOLESALE MARKET.
Dealers Purchasing Chicago Dressed Reef
Pork Higher-POtatOes Unsettled.
Wednesday Morning, October rs

wednesday Morning, October 70.
One of the features of the beef trade which is ex-
citing considerable comment now is the bringing
East, of Chicago dressed beef in refrigerator cars.
Many of our dealers now buying quite heavily of
i U sc esers saw ha syes much
better satisfaction TO their customers than the do
nestle article as it is fatter and thicker according
to its weight and cuts up more advantageously.
Little Jumps, just right for roasts, can be sliced
out of the Chicago beef where the local beef would
be too thin for this purpose. After having been
the road from five to seven DAYS the Western beef
upon arriving is "rpe and just in a condition to cut
up whereas the other has TO be hung up in the
meat room week or more before lifting.
Good butter continues scarce, and really choice
article readily commands SOC. There were more hay
and wood teams in Market Square Monday fore:
noon than we have seen there for II long time, and
sellers were plenty. Most of the sales made were at
Sl4 a ton for hay of prime quality. That brought
in this year shows good color, il having been Sc.
cured in good order. Farmers looking for a
good demand for hay from Boston, but whether their
expectations will be realized or not remains to be
seen. Choice new hay is meeting with good sale
in that city at the present time and is bringing from
SIS to so.
Round hog is high. higher than it has been before
since the war, and since last week has gone up
cent on pound, being worth lOc now. What the
cause of the prevailing high prices of pork products
is has not been satisfactorily explained as yet,
although they doubtless the result OF the dear
ness Of corn. Very few dressed hogs are brought
into market as the season for them has not arrived
Potatoes are still easy, and the sale of large lots
at prices quoted weuld be difficult Three carloads
of ArOostOok potatoes have been unoaded in Au-
has just arrive home from the Aroostook region.
The same gentleman has recently shipped car
load of tubers TO Lynn, Mass. from Aroostook
county, and has two thousand bushels purchased
there now He has a buy err at work for him in the
potato growing section now, and will what he
can.
APPLES-Green. eating, 75casl 90; cooking, 30
d50c; evapOraed, l4dl6c.; dried, 5G6c.
BEANS-Pea. $3.50; Yellow eyed. S2.75dS3O0
BEEF-Small, case. OK, 9dl0c.; Chicago dressed
Ole
BEETS-lic per pound.
BUTrER-Soid, 25a2sc.; ball, 25a30c. common,
l6d20c.
CABBAGES-3c per pound.
CRANBERRlES-$2.50d 3.t per bushcl.
CHEESE-Factory and domestic, l2dl3c.
EGGS-26c. per doZ.
HIDES AND Subsidies over 90 pounds, Sic:
UNDER &c; calf skins, l2c per pound; deacon SKINS
25d5oc. apiece; sheep SKINS SOC LOO.
HaY-New loose, $l2aS14; old $l5dS l6; pressed
Sl6aS1S; straw, $7d$9.
HONEI-Box, 2Oc. per pound
LARD-Domestic, Halle; western, 15c.
LAMB-7asc.
ONIONS-Yellow Danvers, 81 per bushel.
OATS-4sn50c.
PORk-Round hog, l0c.
POTATOES-7Oa75c.
POULTRY-Dressed, spring chickens, Is a2s g. ;
fowls. l2d5c.
SQUASHES-ac. per pound.
TONATOES-Green, rs as 90 per bushe
TURNIPS-llc per pound.
WOOI-Washed, 35c.; unwashed, 25c.
woodbury. hard, IS d$6.6O; prepared for stove
$500 per cord; soft, $500.