Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-29
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Watermelons and Cantaloups to the
Front---Fruits From
THE TROPICS In ACTIVE DEMAND.
Cereal Situation Unimproyed---Corn Scarce
and Rirmer.
coFFEEs LOWER - SUGAR LOOKS UP
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
FRIDAY, June 2S, 1889.
Country Produce-JobbIng Prices.

Country Produce-Jobbing Prices.
Watermelons and cantaloups from the sunny
South are in good supply. The end of the
strawberry season is at hand, and the few COM
ing to market are of inferior grade. The first
blackberries Of the season appeared to-day from
Baltimore. New potatoes are moving out
freely, but the drift of prices is downward.
Tropical fruits are active and tending upward.
A leading jobber whose talk has been generally
blue of late said to-day: "Stuff is going like
hot cakes at better prices than for some weeks
past" Last week markets were glutted with
over-ripe fruit, now the situation is re-
versed and demand is fully mp to sup
ply. Demand for cabbage has improved. Eggs
are very firm at quotations. Butter is quiet.
Cheese is steady In general, produce men re-
port fair Fridays trade.
BUTTER-Creamery, Elgin, 19@2oc; Ohio do,
17@lSc; fresh dairy packed, 12@lSc; country
rolls. 10Rl2c.
BEANs-s1 z5@1 90
BEEswAx-2S@30c p b for choice; low grade,
1S@2Oc.
Queensland refined, So 5O@7 50; common;
cider vinegar, l0@12c y gallon.
CHEEsE-0hio cheese, S1Sc; New York, 1O@
lo19c; Limburger, S0sc; domestic sweitzer
CAL1FoKNIA FRU1rs-California peaches.
81 OO04 so y box: cherries, So OO apricots, "a 90
"a so: plums, 81 0o@4 90.
GG0S-loYlO19C - uOzen IOr SLrlcLly 1reSn
goose eggs, 30c y dozen.
FRUTTs-St 701Oc p quart; pine
apples, 81 00@l 25 ~ dozen; red raspberries. "a 90
@5 0O a bushel; black raspberries, So 00G3 so a
bushel; wild goose eplums, s2 50 crate; cur
rants, $5 2-bushel stand; watermelons, $3.50
81 per hundred.
FEATHERs-Extra live geese, 5O@6Oc; Mol,
do. 46@45c; mixed lots, 3OQ35c p b.
PoTAToES-Old3 3564Oc n bushel; Early Rose
81 5O@2 IS barrel; Peerless. 81 25 barrel
PoULTRY-Llve chickens, 65@75c per pair;
undrawn chickens, lO@12c y h; drawn. 14@
15c p d.
SEEDs-Cloyer. choice, so bs to bushel, IS go
y bushel; clover, large English, 81 bs. S6 00;
clover, Aliske, IS 50; clover. white SO 90; timo-
thy, choice, As ms. 81 IS; blue grass extra
clean, IA ms, 9oc; blue grass fancy, IA ms, 81 90;
millet, so MS, 81 90; German millet, so ms,
81 so; Hungarian grass 90 Bs, 81 20; lawn
grass mixture of fine grasses, 81 so per bushel
of IA Ms.
TAILow-Country. H4@5c; city rendered.
@51c. -
so q box: Messina oranges, S. 00@5 so p box;
box; bananas 81 5003. frsts; 81 0O, good seconds.
y bunch; cocoanuts, 81 0O@4 so q hundred;
new figs. S75@9c y pound; dates, 57d@611c y
pound.
VEGETABLES - Tomatoes, fancy F1oridas,
50 90 crate; Mississippis. four-basket cases.
81 1892 90: beans, round wax fancy, 81 so
crate; beans, round wax medium. So 90
crate; beans, round green. 81 25@2 90; new
beets, 2OQ25c " dozen; cucumbers, 25@3Oc f3
dozen, 81 75G2 90 a crate: radishes large
white and gray. 30035c y dozen; cabbage,
two-barrel crates, Louisville and st. Louis 81 so
az 20; Eastern, single barrel crates, 81 00Q1 25;
new celery 5O06Oc dozen.