Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-18
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Mid-January Lull in Produce, Worse
Than Bargained For.
NO ABATEMENT OF BUTTER SUPPLY
Cereal Markets Give No Sign of Rally From
Depression.
HAY KEEPS DRIFTING DOWNWARD
OFFICE OF PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
TUURSpAY January IL. 1889. 1

OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DIsPATcH.l
THURSDAY, January H. 1852
Country Produce. Jobbing Prices.
AS it was in the beginning OF the year, it is
now-and it is fervently hoped shall not ever
be-in produce lines markets are very dull.
The quietness of trade, generally looked for
through January, is thus far more than was
barganed for. The mid-January lull has been
intensified by the spring-like weather. Any
announcement of cold waves from the Signal
Service is hailed with delight by produce COM
mission men. The accumulation of country
butter gives no signs of abatement. Eggs, too,
are still coming TO the front in quantities too
large for demands of trade. 1t will require a
goodly number of Manitoba billiards.. well
heightened out from now till spring. to save
produce markets from the Generalization
which has prevailed through the first half of
winter.
BEANs-Navy from store, prime hand picked,
So 00@2 10 per bushel; medium, 81 90: Ohio and
Pennsylvania DO, prime and medium, S2 OO9
2 l0; imported do, ST 9O@2 90: Lima, SIC per b;
marrowfat, 81 75@2 so per bushel.
BUTTER-Creamery, Elgin, 2s@90c; Ohio do,
24@27c: fresh dairy packed, 20@23c: country
rolls. lS@22c; Charters Creamery Co. butter, 26
@30c.
BEEswAx-23@25c per for choice; low
grade, 1601Sc.
CIDER-Sand refined, s6 5O@7 50. common.
So 5O@4 90; crab cider, IS 0O@s so % barrel;
CHEEsE-Ohio cheese, fall make, 12@1215c;
New York, fall make, 121a@13c; Limburger,
1115@121ac: domestic SweitZer cheese, 13l131ac.
DRIED PEAs-s1 45@l so ~ bushel; split do,
EGGs-is@aOc ~ dozen for strictly fresh.
FRUITs-Apples, 81 90 to 81 so q barrel; evap-
grated raspberries, 25c ~ B; cranDerries, S8 90
y barrel; 81 4002 so y bushel.
FEATHERS-EXtra live geese, 50lD6Oc; No.
do. 4O@45c; mixed lots 30@35c q h.
HoMINY-S3 30@3 40 u barrel.
HoNEY-New Crop, 16@17c; buckwheat, 100
15c
PoTAToEs-Potatoes, 35@4Oc ~ bushel; 81 so
az IS for Southern sweets; So 25@3 so for Jer-
sey sweets.
PoULTRY-Lve chickens, 55@7Oc ~ pair;
dressed chickens. l3@l5c "a pound; turkeys, Ii
@15c dressed ~ pound; ducks, live, S0@5c ~
10 % pair.
SEEDs-Clover, choice, 50 Bs to bushel, s6 per
bushei; clover. large English, 81 TBS, So 25:
clover AIsike, S8 so; clover, white, 50 90; timo-
thy, choice, 45 lbs, 81 80; blue grass extra clean
IA lbs. 81 90; blue grass, fancy, IA bs 81 20;
millet, so lbs, 81 %; German mllet so fbs So 90:
Hungarian grass, 4S bs, 81 90; lawn grass, mix
ture of fine grasses, 25c per B.
SHELLBARKS-S1 50@1 70.
TALLow-Country, 419@5c; city rendered,
5@51&c.
TROPICAL FRUITs-Lemons, So OO@S so p
box; Messina oranges. So 50@3 so p box;
Florida oranges, 81 756l3 00 ~ box; Jamaica
oranges, fancy, 81 50@5 0O q barrel; Malaga
grapes. S. 5O@T 90 q keg: bananas, 50 so
firsts, 81 5O@2 10; good seconds y bunch cocoa
nuts, S4 90 q hundred; new figs, 12@l4c p pound
dates 514@619c y pound.
VEGETABLEs-Celery, 4O150c doz. punches;
cabbages So 0O95 90 y 100; onions, SOC y bushel
Spanish onions, 75Q90c q crate; turnips, 30
@40c y bushel.