Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-02
A REVIEW OF TRADE.
A Quiet Week in All Produce Lines
With the Exception Of
POULTRY AND FRESH LAID EGGS
Stock Of Flour in Jobbers' Hands Large, but
Market Steady.
DECEMBERS HIDES ARE REDUCED
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH, |
SATURDAY, November 30, 1889.

In general produce lines the weeks trade
has developed few marked features. Vege-
tables and fruit have moved slowly without
any change in prices worthy of note.
Thanksgiving brought a good degree OF
activity in poultry. and the stock of choice
turkeys was short Of demand. Other poul-
try and game was in excessive supply, and
buyers found markets in their favor.
A slight advance in Elgin creamery but
ter at the beginning has been fully sus-
tanned by firm markets. Country butter
has been in poor demand, and peddlers have
found it very difficult to unload stock.
Butter limitations are freely and openly
handled, and this fact has no doubt had much
to do with the depressing markets for the gen.
uine article. The law against oleo is no longer
a terror to dealers.
Good Eggs Hard to Get.
Fresh laid eggs are scarce and tending up
ward. A peddler whose beat covers the section
OF country between Clinton and New Cumber-
land, and who brings two wagon loads Of stuff
weekly to the Pittsburg markets, thus gives
his experience for the past week:
Il have never known country roads in a
.
even after sailing through seas of mud was
not able to get anything like the amount of
stuff needed for my regular customers. Last
Thanksgiving / brought over 400 turkeys to
Pittsburg. This week my stock consisted OF %.
All had this year were taken by customers
before came within the city limits. The same
was true of my supplies of eggs. Through the
section where travel all kinds of poultry and
eggs are scarcer than they have been for many
years.
Potatoes on the Top Shelf.
Potatoes, too, are very scarce and are selling
in Clinton stores for 75c to 90c per bushel.
About the only article there is too much OF in
our section is butter. So cheap has butter
been the past month that many have been buy
ing 1t up at the low prices, and bringing it into
the city to find themselves stuck in their bar
gains. The recent failure of a Frankfort
creamery, has taken away good market from
farmers throughout large section, and hence
many more than usual have turned their atten-
tion to butter making"
One of our leading jobbers of dairy products,
thus reports the weeks trade: Markets have
been active and firm for creamery Dutter and
the better grades of cheese, and prices are
shade higher than they were last week for all
choice stock. But all kinds of country butter
and low grade cheese are drug, and prices
give no signs OF improvement"
Light Receipts of Cereals.
market column that receipts are very much
lighter this week than for some months past.
In the last week of October receipts were 359
car loads. This week the total is l54 loads. In
the past few days oats have taken sharp up
ward turn and are at least &c per bushel higher
than at the beginning of the week.
The stock of -four in the hands of our jobbers
is much larger than at the beginning of sthe
month, as rise in freight rates between here
and Chicago equivalent to that which took
place between Minneapolis and Chicago was
anticipated. Receipts are falling OF. and mar
kets have steadied up within few days.
Moreover Northwestern millers are holding
their stock more firmly than they were
week or two ago. A stifening of prices is pro-
bable soon after holidays.
Dull Market for Hides.
The market still rules dull, particularly for
bull hides While quotations have not changed
the past week, stock is hard to sell. Calf skins
are in better demand, but there are no signs of
an advance. The approach of cold weather is
felt on heavy steer hides for December de-
livery. Chicago packers are offering Decem-
ber hides 13c below spot prices. This is ex-
planned by the fact that the hide taken off in
winter, having longer hair than that taken of
in milder weather, accumulates a suficiency of
dirt to depreciate its value 1c per pound.