Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-20
General Trade.

The dullest and most plentiful ar
ticle in the feed line at present is hay.
The supply up the country is reported
abundant, and influenced by liberal
arrivals, with very light demand,
sales are very difficult to effect, es.
pecially for medium and low grades OF
Ohio river qualities. Strictly choice
Illinois timothy would find buyers,
but little or none of this kind offers,
In bran, there is very little in the
hands of second dealers, and sales to
arrive have been made at SIS per ton.
Oats are meeting some inquiry, be-
cause of scant receipts and gradual
reduction of stocks, but the demand
for the article named is very little
more than local. Corn is in ample
supply for the demand, which is also
light, though there is a limited request
for plantation and levee builders use.
The large portion Of the supply now
used here, because of easy freight
rates, comes to US from along the
railway hence TO Paducah. The
Madrid bend river region, from
whence supplies largely came in for>
mer years, is now shipping direct to
New Orleans and sending nothing
here. Cornmeal is very fat, the de-
mand being extremely limited aud
prices appear to weaken more and
more. Flour is fairly active, with a
steady feeling for the better classes,
but Low grades are not moving. Meats
continue scarce and firm. An active
movement is progressing in cotton
seed products and large sales of oil
and cake have been made for German
account, and liberal shipments 20
South by almost every boat, while the
barge line also handles freely. In
poultry the leading interest centers in
chickens. Ducks, turkeys and geese
are not coming in, and if they we're,
sales would drag. Good chickens, and
young spring especially, sell freely at
at full prices. The egg market is un-
settled with downward tendency. :
FLOUR AND MEAL-Dealers sell
single bbls of -four from So 75aG 90 per Dbl
as per grade ranging from common to
| choice family, aud So 2)a7 60 per Dbl for
patents, Cornmeal Is dull at " 45a2 &C
per Dbl
FEEDSTUFFS-Corn, in SKIS shelled,
5laG0c per bu as per dryness and quantity;
in bulk, per carload, 4Sa5lc; in ear in SKIS
b0a55c; in bulk, 46a47c; in shuck, 44a46C
per bu. Oats, 5la55c per bu. Bran pei
ewt 81 for wheat and 76c for corn do, the
Halter per ton is Sl4; cotton seed meal 81
peF ewt; hay ranges as per quality al
] from So 10 SO 90 per ton, the few sales
,ranspiring ranging from Sl0al2 90 pei
Ton. strictly choice ILLINOIS timothy would
command Sl5 or $50 so per ton but nont
Of this class IS coming in at presnpt
dealers sell per cwt at S0a9Oci prairie hay
ld1il at 81 per ton and 45c per cwt.
| FSCULENTs- Potatoes dull at 81 75'
2 Is per Dbl for p bs, as per quality new y
| Ia. 81 5Oa2 % per 3 peck box, and SO 81
ner hi, sweets, 81 76a2 per Dbl; onions
~ 25aS co per Dbl for sound unsproqted
cabbage, $Sa4 50 pel crate BEANS " 20
3 Va per bu; pens 75ca@ per bu,
BUTTERAND CHEESE- Butter un
settled at l2a2Oe per ID for Western AM
SOaS5c for creamery; country do, lSa26
per ID. Cheese, 01Ial6c per ID, as pc
FRUITs-Apples, 81 5Oa4 90 pc
Dbl, as per soundness; dried do, 6ha7
per lbi do peaches, dull AZ Sha0c Lemons sd !.
81 b0a8 90 per per box; oranges, $8aS D
POULTRY AND 'EGGS-Chicker