Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-02
A SURVEY OF TRADE
In Produce Lines, Too Muchness,
the Main Trade Feature.
PEACH SUPPLY is NOW AT ITS BEST
Cereal Trade Afflicted With Too Muchness
--0ats Heavy.
QUALITY OF NEW WHEAT VERY FINE
OFFICE OF PITTsBURe DIsPATcH,
SATURDAY August ri 1880


The marked feature Of the weeks trade
has been the oyer-supply of peaches. The
Southern Ohio peach eropis month earlier
than Last season, and a large amount has
been brought prematnrely to our markets
from that source. The strong probabilities
are that peaches touched their lowest price
for the season this week. Late crops will be
light, according to advices from all quarters.
In this section the peach crop is practically
failure this season. The same is true of plums.
II Pittsburg were dependent on home supplies
of peaches and plums this season our pantry
the coming winter. Delaware, Maryland and
Southern Ohio have come to our rescue. and
the housewife who will take advantage Of her
opportunities for the first half Of September
will find all she needs in fruit lines at reason
able rates There were days the present week
when choice peaches could have been bought
at the rate of slper bushel. 1t is not likely
that such opportunities will come again this
season.
Sweet potatoes are plenty and steadily drift
ing towards lower level. Prospects are good
for bountiful grape crop. Northern and
Central Ohio will be sending in their grape crop
6y y. next week, and all signs point to plenty in
Apples are drug owing the abundance Of
other fruits. Later on the apple, orange and
banana will come to the front, but for the pres
cut these fruits are forced to take back seat.
Cereals.
The situation in grain and hay lines may be
summed up in word, stuff is too plenty and
sales are only made by concessions. The entire
drift of things for the week past has been
towards lower level of prices. The oats crop
this season is the largest on record, and the re-
suit is seen in steadily lowering prices. One Of
our leading -four jobbers said to-day: while
prices of spring patent flour are nominally un-
changed, there is not a little cutting going on.
This Is the great trouble with Pittsburg
flour markets. When prices give the least
symptom of weakness there are always dealers
ready to drop prices in order to affect sales
The result is we have one of the meanest, -four
markets in the country.
"At other trade centers prices 60 up or down
at once in accord With New York or Chicago
Exchanges. Here we are likely to hear of a
drop very promptly, but when there comes
rise we seldom get the benefit of it. About the
time our jobbers here are ready to catch on to
al advance it has spent its force, and the reac-
tion has come" One of our heaviest -four job
bers said to-day: II do not remember season
when the new spring wheat and -four were of
such fine quality as this season.
by the middle of September the new wheat
crop will have passed through the sweating
process. and after that time we will have as
good spring wheat flour as was ever made.
The quality of wheat grown in the Northwest
this season has never been surpassed, and the
volume is IS per cent of the average.
Taking into account the improvement in
quality the crop of wheat this season is no
doubt full average the country over. In
Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio the
crop is as large as any on record, and quality is
equal to anything in the past"
A Clinton peddler, who pays weekly visits to
our markets with two wagon loads of stuff said
to-day: Il have not, in an experience of Is
years, seen oats and hay as cheap as they are
this season. Within the past week was Of
fered 600 bushels of the choicest oats at 20
cents per bushel, and never knew them to be
below 25 cents before. A neIghbor of mine
proffered to deliver three tons of No. hay in
my barn at SIS, or Sc per ton A farmer from
near Clinton brought a load of hay to the Pitts
burg market this week and spent a couple of
days trying to sell at Sl1 per ton. 1t was worth
s. to haul it. and the expense of the two
days trip knocked out all profits. The wheat
crop in my section this season will average up
close to % bushels to the acre, which is 10
bushels better than last year. The yield OF
vegetables grain and hay, for 100 miles west of
Pittsburg, this season, will break all former
records. Fruit of all kinds will fall below the
average. Such yield of potatoes never saw
as that we will have this season, and this on
top of good crop last year."
The consumer has a second year Of plenty
and low prices. There is no place for the grum-
bier in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern
Ohio this season. Nature has second time
been unusually bountiiul in her gifts.