Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-07-19
Oseneral Trade,

The potato shipping season is virA
tually over, and on the whole has been
very unsatisfactory. While few
shippers have cleared barely enough
to pay them for their trouble, others
are more or less loser, besides having
labOred for nothing. The growers arc
equally dissatisfied with the results,
and have been lily paid for their toll.
A few in the immediate vicinity of
this city have plowed up a part Of
their crop to use the ground for other
purposes, and thus let their potatoes
go to waste. The apple shipping
season is also about over. The crop
was very light, but prices realized
have been much more satisfactory to
the producer than have potatoes. Trade
is in moderate volume, and several
leading articles show an improved de-
mand. Meats are higher and have
been tending up for several days.
Flour is in ample supply and quiet.
Sugars are easier and holders of lots
have been accepting shade lower
prices to effect sales. Corn is in de-
mand; a few hundred SKIS have ar.
rived this week and met ready sale at
60 to Gle per bushel, the market being
almost bare, but a shipment of one or
two thousand SKIS would drive values
down. The tone 10 Northern markets
| is weak and tending lower. Cornmeal
| is tending downward under the infu.
en0e of liberal receipts and free ship
ments under way. Round lots at the
landing offer as low as 80 20 per Dbl,
while drsy loads are quoted at 20 rs to
$3.50 per Dbl. But little movement is
reported in either oats or bAn. The
latter sold to arrive at $3.50 and oats
or.> quoted at 45c for choice. No move
ment in lay and no inquiry except for
strictly choice, which is scarce. A
steamer, the Central CITY, is under
way from st. Louis with corn, oats,
meal, -four and other stuff for this
market, loaded at 1Oc per owt, aud a
few small lots have arrived BY other
boats at the same figure. This cut
below the regular rate has had . some
what demoralising effect on values.
FLOUR AND MEAL-Dealers quote
single bbls OF -four at 81 5Oa6 90 for family
| brands and Sc 60a6 70 for patents Corn
meal easy at ~ 80 per Dbl in small way,
FEEDSTU FFS-Csrn 69a64c per bu
al wholesale and retail with light sup
| ply and Arm feeling; oats quiet at dads,
in lots. and 46a501 in small gay; bran
8ta90c per cwt; hay unchanged
and dull at S0aI2 per ton and SQa90e pei
cwt. Prairie hay " per ton.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES pay t0a76t
per Dbl measure for potatoes; packed
! 81 GOAL Is per car load, and 81 Rjal 81
lin single bbls Tomatoes, tor ship
ping, are 60a60c per bu measure. Onion
S2 per Dbl measure loose and ~ rs packed
Cabbage, no movement. Beans aqd pea
are nominal
FRUITS-Apples from wagons 76c Il
81 50 per Dbl measure, outside fgures fol
choice emily. Watermeons $40 peF 100
Canteloupes 81 75a2 90 per dSE
lemons Sj50a7 per box for single
boxes repacked. Cal. oranges 81 81
a6 pes box; Rodi do, Sc so per box. DrieC
APPLIES 6a76 per lb Peaches nominal.
BUTTER--lpfsrior and cooking, IL
15c per ID; medium oefoice dairy l6a22c
. creamery 25a27c; country grades l6a2OC
the latter for best prairie. Noihjnl
doing Ia cheese.
CHICKENS AND EGGS-The chick
/, On supply is W excess Of demand,s an
apces are weak Old range from S2to 81 2
: per doz, andy young from 81 TO " 0
4 per dozen as per size and freshness egg
3 loalle per doz, few small pkgs going a
high as l2c.