Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-16
THE TREND OF TRADE.
Sweet Potato and Florida Orange
Trusts to Loom Up.
PRODUCTS OF FARM AND GARDEN.
Fine Prospects for Large Produce Yield in
this Region.
WEEKS WORK AT THE LIBERTY YARDS
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DIsPATcH,l
THURSDAY, August Is, 1889. !

THURSDAY, August Is, 1889. !
Among the newest of the trusts are the
Sweet Potato Trust, of Baltimore, and the
Florida Orange Trust, of New York City.
Both have been organized within the past
three weeks.
A leading Liberty street commission
merchant said to-day: "The Sweet Potato
Trust has succeeded in sending the Southern
product into our market in better shape and at
reduced prices
''The preliminary meeting for the Florida
Orange Trust has been held and the organiza-
ton will be perfected the LIST of September.
Already representatives have been sele cted in
this and all trade centers. The idea is to dis
tribute the fruit at places where it's wanted,
and prevent the gluts which have proved a
bane to orange shippers in years gone by"
Products of Fnrm and Garden.
Advices from all Pittsburg's natural terri
tory confirm the fact already mentioned in this
column that the wheat. oats. hay and vegetable
crops for 1889 will be the largest gathered for
many years. Corn, too, which had backward
start. and did not promise well in the early
stages, has been making up for lost time Of late
by the aid of seasonable showers, ana prospects
are immensely improved for the corn crop the
past so days.
The Weld of potatoes this season in Western
PENNSYLVANIA and Eastern Ohio will break all
former records. Said peddler from Clinton,
who pays weekly visits to our city, and whose
route embraces large part OF the Panhandle
territory of Yves: Virginia: ION my beat farm
products are unusually large, and in some lines
larger than / have known in 10 years of ped
ding. Such large yield Of potatoes have
never known. Wheat, oats and hay are far
above the average in quantity. As to fruit.
while apples will fall below last years yield. we
will have an average volume. Peaches and
plums are almost a total failure. In ITO miles
travel this week did not see dozen plums on
the trees which were loaded down last season.
''One of my principal difficulties this season is
TO procure enough poultry to meet demands.
1t is next to impossible to get any nearer the
city than Charters with any poultry left
''The demand for country butter has also i'm
proved very much in the past ten days. In
weeks ago, it now goes like hot cakes. The
activity in butter has started much sooner than
usual
Eggs also have taken an upward turn, and
reliable stock sells readily at outside quota
tions."
The evidence of abundance in cereal lines is
seen in the large receipts. Since Monday
morning 20 carloads of oats have been bulle-
tined at the Grain Exchange.
Local Live Stock.
The week has developed a healthier tone to
live stock trade, and choice grades of cattle
and sheep are commanding better prices than
for some weeks past. The supply of good,
smooth butcher cattle has not been up to de-
mand. Low grade cattle, of which the proper
ton was unusually large in this weeks sup
plies were off in price and slow OF sale.
The demand for export has been so active Of
late at the West that our market here has suf-
fered a lack of desirable grades.
Following is the-report of transactions for the
week at the East Liberty Stockyards:
RECEIPrs.