Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-24
A SURVEY OF TRADE.
Leading Features of Our Home Mar
kets During the Week.
GREATER ACTIVITY In PRODUCE.
Flour Moving Freely and Firmer--Corn
and Oats Advance.
PROVISION TRADE IMPROVES NOT
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,l
SATURDAY, June q, 1889
Country Produce,

OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH
SATURDAY, June q 1883. I
Country Produce.
In country produce lines we note better
tone and more hopeful feeling than week
ago. Liberty street commission men report
q larger volume of business. We quote
from few, A representative of one of the
leading produce firms said: 'Trade has
been better this week than last On Tuesday
we handled over 800 crates of strawberries and
to-day over 100. On the whole we have no rea-
son to complain, as we sold more goods than
last week" Another reported: I'VE have not
had as active Friday for long time yes
terday. To-day has also been good with us and
the week all through shows an improvement
over any week for month or two past" One
of our leading jobbers of cheese, butter and
eggs said: "Stuf has been moving out
freely. all the week and we have no
reason to complain of trade. If for the remain
ing week of June we do anywhere near as well
as we have done the past three weeks this will
be the best June we have had The value of
our sales will exceed any previous June so far.
and this shows greatly increased volume Of
business, as our goods are 20 to 20 per cent
lower"
The noteworthy feature of the weeks trade
in produce lines has been the low grade of
much of the stuff coming to market. Continu-
Gus rains have lowered the quality of fruits
especially. Strawberries have had a pretty
outside, but large quantities did not hold up to
the external promise.
A great deal of the field and garden products
arriving this week were what a commission
man called ''water-soaked," and required to be
used up promptly, as the close, sultry weather
between showers soon knocked them out.
There has been a glut of cabbage all the
week Old stock is now well cleaned up, and
as the new will take the field from now on,
better demand is expected The home-raised
strawberry approaches its fms for this year.
Raspberries will have the field next week. To
day there were few in the market, because
Eastern shippers had tailed TO get their prices
for few days past.
Grain and Flour.
The marked features of the cereal market
the past week were the upward tendency Of
corn and oats, and the increased activity of
spring patent -four. The supply of corn has
been below demand all the week. Good oats
are also scarce. The receipts of cereals have
Spring patent -four in jobbing way is fully
SOC per barrel higher than its lowest point a
week or two ago. There was a time when it
could be laid down here in wood at So 30 This
week the best the lobber could do would be to
Law it down at s. 60.
The tone of trade is very much improved
When prices were drifting downward the hand
to-mouth policy was pursued by buyers. Now
that the tide has turned upward. buying is
more active. A leading joDber reports, ''My
sales of -four this week were double those of
last week."
Another reported 50 per cent increase this
week in volume of sales.
The increased activity. said one jobber sis
partIy due 20 the approach of harvest 1 have
always found trade better Immediately preced-
ing harvest"
one thing is certain. that the -four trade has
decidedly improved in the week past.
Provisions.
The week started with an advance in hams
and decline in lard. The time is here when
cured meats should be at their best. Weather
has not been helpful TO trade and truth COM
peis the statement that provision markets give
few signs of improvement Pork packers COM
plain that prices Of their goods are lower here
than AT other trade cepters. and that margins
Of profit are scarcely discoverable.
Hog products in large quantity have recently
been sold in Chicago by Pittsburg packers for
the reason that they could do better there than
here.
Hams were advanced to-day, and are still too
low 70 furnish fair profit to the packer. ,