Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-19
General Trade.

The only article in feedstutfs slow to
sell AID in plentiful supply is hay.
The quantity offering is in excess of
the demand, and buyers appear shy Of
any quality, though strictly choice
timothy is salable, while other classes
drag heavily. Holders are asking S22
per ton by the carload for The chest, but
$40 is about as high as it will sell, and
the tone is droopy with prospects Of
lower prices. Southern prairie is sell
ing very slowly at $12 per ton, with
inferior and mouldy stuff Offering as
low as So. Bran is quiet and easy,
while oats are firm and command
ready sale at full quotations. Corn is
steady and in good jobbing damand.
Cornmeal is a shade lower, millers
coming down 90 per Dbl for round
lots. Flour continues tn rule easy,
with sales dull, while meats are very
strong with an advancing tendency.
The chicken market is droopy, and it
takes an especially fine lot to COM
mand over 50 so per dozen. Eggs are
declining, with more liberal supplies
and lighter demand than has pre-
vailed here for some weeks.
FLOUR AND MEAL-Tho feeling in
flour is easy with an ample supply and
slack demand. Jobbers' orders are as
follows: Common to good family, So to
6 80 per Dbl; choice TO fancy, Sc rs to
I 25; patents. 81 rs to 8 25. Cornmeal in
lots from the mills, "a Is and on orders
10c per Dbl higher.
FEEDSTUFFS.-Corn steady, SO to
90c in lots and 91a92c from store for
mixed feed, and 9la92c in lots for white;
Oats, scarce at 66c, in carload lots and
67a6Sc. in a small way. Bran, SD per
ton for wheat, and 81 70 per cwt, corn do
60 to 70 per cwt and So per ton; seed
meal 81 70 per cwt; Hay plentiful at SIG
to % per ton for Western, and 81 10 to
| Is per cwt; Southern prairie $1l per
ton, and 60 per cwt.
ESCULEETS-A few old potatoes ar
rived and sold at landing at S925 per Dbl,
season for this class is over except in the
small jobbing way, and prices from store
are $34Oa3 70 per Dbl; home growth are
coming in slowly and command rather
fancy prices Louisiana are In liberal offer
ing at 20 % to 4 90 per Dbl; sweets SO 75a4
per Dbl. No cabbage has offered for Q v
eral days, quotations range from S5a8 per
100 head as per quality; onions easy at
IS 80 to 400 per Dbl; snap beans are
scarce at 81 so to 2 90 per box; ucum
bers 30 to 40c per doz; squash 40 to Coo
per doz; beans, 80 60a4 per bu; peas, 81 to
2 50 per bu, as per quality.
FRUITS-Strawberries per case; So to
4; plums, S0a50c per hd bu box; lemons,
81 25a4 IS per box; oranges s. to 6 90
per box; bananas, 81 50a2 90 per bunch;
raisins, SO TO 4 per box.
POULTRY AND EGGS-Chickens,
more plentiful and easier at So to 8 rs per
doz for old, and 81 to 3 90 for young,
very small not salable except at very low
Figures; ducks, turkeys and geese out OF
season. Eggs easier and more abundant
at Is to 19c per dVz.
BUTTER AND CHEESE The but
ter market inclines downward and sup
plies of fresh grass come in freely. Tenn.
Ky. and Ark. ranges from 10 to 2Sc per
ID; Western Is to Soc. Cheese, 1910 per
ID; fer new hf cream; old nominal ut 8
TO lac per ID.
PROFESSIONALISM shoulders are
jobbing at 9Ac; c ribs, l11Sc; clear, 1l%c,
packed; Bacon, shoulders, 9Ac; c r,
l2Ic; clear, 1910, packed. Loose meats.
&c less. Hams, 14Aal4%c. Breakfast
bacon, l8Aal4c, Mess pork, $2l per Dbl.
Lard, 1lMl2e in %tierces, 1873 in kegs and
hf bbls, and u tohc higher in pals.
SALT-0hio river salt, ST. 40 per Dbl;
carloads, l0c less Liverpool, IL Sbal %
in sacks for coarse and fine.
CANNED GOODS-Dull and romi-
nally as follows; Strawberries, 81 40al 90
per doz. cansi peaches, 81 70 TO 2 rs for
2 ID cans tomatoes, 81 l0al As for 2 and
8 ID cans; seconds, 81 05a1 35.
HIDES AND WU0L-Dry fint