Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-05
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above last weeks prices, aud the mar
kets close excited at all points. The
tendency has been strong and upward
for ten days, and on Friday last a
sharp advance occurred at the leading
points Of supply. The number packed
for the week ending Thursday at chief
packing points was $40, 900, and 10000
more than for the same week last
year. The total packed aince Novem
Der LIST sums up 4,955,O 900 hogs, and
within 10000 hogs Of last year at the
same time. The market here * sery
unsettled, with dealers charging all
sorts Of prices, many varying from 10
to 10 per ID. On Friday and Sat>
urday some houses filed orders here
at a lower figure than was quoted at
some Of the upper country markets
The latter closed Saturday rather ir
regular, though less so than on the
evening previous, and prices at the
several points as per kilograms gave
the range Of pork at from SIS to $l8 Is
per Dbl; bulk shoulders, $50 to 7bc; c
r sides, st to 9.4Oc; clear do, 8! to 9ic;
bacon shoulders, "a to &c; clear rib,
lOl to l0ic, and clear 100 to lie, while
lard varied from IL to ll.3O per cwt.
The -four market is ruling firm, with
quotations the same as a week ago,
though wheat in the west has advanced
to 20 per bushel. Receipts Of hout
for the week includes 300 bbls.
Corn meal is irregular, local mills
charging $500 per Dbl for
drayload lots, though would
make concessions for large quantities
The demand is chiefly satisfied BY
local mills, aud receipts for the week
have been only 280 bbls. Corn has
ruled fairly active, with a moderate
demand from levee bidders and a few
valley plantations, where the quantity
grown last year was small. tn city
demand is so small that two or three
hundred sacks per week fully satisfies
it. Receipts Of corr for the week
1900 SKIS, including fifteen or more
carloads Of bulk corn, and prices are a
cent or two per bushel over last
weeks figures. Oats are moving
rather freely, nearly 2OOO SKIS having
arrived during the week, and prices
have been fully sustained. Several
carloads Of black seed have sold at
50a53c per bu; do rust proof at 70a72c,
and feed oats at lSa49c. Hay arrived
in excess of demand, 2400 bales coming
on the market during the week, and
the classes offering range from prime
to good timothy, and sell slowly at $l4
to SIS per ton at the track, while
prairie goes slow at 81 per ton.
ton. No bran has arrived for nearly
a month, except a car load or so,and it
is quoted firm with none in first hands,
at SIT per ton. Receipts of potatoes
during the week include $500 bbls, all
of which found ready takers at $3.50
and 29O per Dbl. for seed potatoes,
and 1925 for table in lots on the land
ing. Onions ruled firm, and the mar
ket was bare until Friday, when q car
load came in. They we're quickly
taken by small dealers. Apples move
sluggishly, and a car load OF two GOV
ers the weeks receipts. The supply
in first hands is m,inly on Rays fat
boat now nearly closed out. Good
poultry Of all kinds has been IN d.
msaa throughout shc week. Game also
found free takers. aud eggs we're very
irregular, stale being plentiful and
sold at 10 to loo per dozen, while
fresh arrivals metfree demand at from
II to 100. The weather was soft and
unfavorable for dressed meats, poultry
aud game until yesterday, when it
turned cold and wintry and influenced
a ~stiffening tone to values generally.
FLOUR AND MEAL-Dealers quote
single barrels of -four at So 75a4 o. for the
lower qualities; "a 75a5 IS for good to
choice fami y and f6 25a7 10 for patents.
Cornmeal y 60 at the mills and ~ 65 in
a small way.
FEEDSrUFFS-COrn, in first hands
is firm at 54a55c per bu for shelled in
SKIS as per quality ind 56aS8c in q small.
Oats are 4Sa49c for feed Glasses by the car
load and 60a52c in a small way; seed do
are TIC in q small way for red rust proof
and b5c for black. Bran scarce at S5a90c
per cwt; corn do Sl4 60al5 CO per ton.
Cottonseed meal SIS per ton and 81 per
ewt in a small way. Hay, weak and
plentiful, at 8ja99c per owt for Western
and 45a50c per cwt for prairie
Observation-Disclosures retail at $50
s 50per Dbl for seed classes as per quality
: and 2 so for table varieties. Sweets,
. 81 T5a2 per Dbl. Onions, 81 50a8 per Dbl
at wholesale and retail Cabbage $3at pei
Q crate for La, and 6alOc per head iol
q Ohio rivers. Kraut, 81 75a250 for hf, ant
S400a4 50 for whole bbls. Beans, 81 40
0 9 rs per bu in lots as per quality 10
q white, and 81 75a3 % at retail. Peas, 81 2
| al Is per bu as per quality.
a FRUIT-Apples sell from 81 50a4 81
2 per Dbl; as per quality. Dried apples firm
!. ut 6a61Sc per ID; peaches dull at 3Na4c
: Oranges, 3 60a4 90 per box for Messin.
and ST 50a9 90 per case for Valencia
Lemons So 60a4 W per box. Raisins, 70
4 per box, as per quality.
!, BUTTER-Creamery butter steady q
88a40c; other classes plentiful, duh an,
: lower, cooking lhal8c per 10; medium an
dairp, 2Oa25c per ID; butterine, l7a20c pc
d ID; country in oversupply at l2a2Oc, tn
latter for extra yellow,
CHEE5E-Market is quiet at 7Na9
for flats and factory in round lots an
;, at retail; l41fc in a retail way for fu
cream and ltc per ID for Y. A..
D.. GAME-Wild ducks 81 t0a3 90 pc
n doz, the latter for mallards; squirrels II
/ q per doz; quail 81 75a2 90; rabbits 81
3 NJ 25 per doz; venison, Zoe whole, an
10 l2hal3c for saddles; Reelfoot fish 5aI
!; per ID.
! POULTRY AND EGGS-Choice fu
ct grown Si2ia4 90 per dog; large younI
l. So b0a4 90 and active small slow at $40
- 2 so; dressed, 50 50a4 80. Ducks 50 t0a4