Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
TRADE MOVEMENTS.
Features Of Interest as to Situation
of the Cheese Trade.
QUALITY is GOOD, SUPPLY SHORT.
Too Much Low Grade Sweitzer on Markets
to Hold Prices.
HIGH GRADES ARE IN GOOD DEMAND

OFFICE OF THE PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
SATURDAY, January l9, 1889.
The following cheese items are gathered
from recent interviews with leading job
bers:
While the quality of New York and Ohio
cheese is above the average this season, the
quantity is below the average. Visible sup
ply at the worlds principal distributing
points is upwards of 100, 900 boxes below what it
was at this time last year. Though there has
been a depression and downward drift in al
most all produce lines for the past month or
two, cheese has ruled firm, and is now, if all
signs do not fail, on the verge of rise. With
in a few days there was an unusually large sale
for this time of the year at New York for e1-
port purposes. The amount purchased was
close to 5000 boxes.
In the past 10 days there has been an advance
of Is Cd in England, with markets firm at the
advance. Shipments of cheese on foreign &C
count are good for this season, especlaIy 1or
for the East India trade. 1t is seldom that low
grade cheese is as well cleaned up at TINS time
of the year as now.
grades the outlook tor fine cheese was never
better than it is at this time. II Is ABOUT as
certain as anything future can well be, tnat
good article in the cheese nne wll CON, Somnsho .h
visible supply so much less than year ago, ana
inferior grades SO well worked of, the good
article can hardly fail to be at premium from
now till spring.
sweitzer Cheese.
Jobbers of Sweitzer cheese tell very differ
ent story as to the quality of the product this
season. Wisconsin has in recent years
become a great source of supply for
this line of cheese, and produces
the very best Wisconsin sweitzer is now
well up to the imported article, having OF late
wears passed Ohio for its production In this
line. For the past season, owing largely TO
unfavorable weather in the distant West, Wis
consin has dropped below its standard, and
sends a large amount of low grade sweitZer to
the markets. The old time Ohio factories,
which had the lead in days gone by, have re-
covered some of their LOST prestige this season
by sending a larger proportion of fine grades to
the market than Wisconsin.
Low grades, or what is known in the trade as
solid, holeless sweitzer, is coming in such large
volume to markets that prices on these grades
are little more than nominal Large Quantl-
ties of this inferior stuff is stocked up in the
hands of jobbers and goes begging for custom
grades. The scarcity of fine grades makes
them active at outside quotations.
Never was there better illustration of the
value of good article in country produce
lines than has been furnished through this
winter. With markets in every line so over
stocked. fancy article has the winning card
every time.
Certain it is is that high grade cheese, both
aE regards the regular article and Sweitzer, has
held up well in price all the winter, while other
products have been hard to give away. All
signs point to higher prices on good grades of
cheese before the coming crop can be har-
vested