Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-24
FEATURES OF TRADE.
Seed and Agricultural Implements
Moving Out Freely.
PL0WS AND HARR0WS IN DEMAND.
WCOlen Goods Very Active for the First
Quarter of the Year.
IMPORTED CLOTHS LEAD DOMESTIC
PLOWS AND HARROWS IN DEMAND.
IMPORTED CLOTHS LEAD DOMESTIC
OFFICE OF PITTsBCRG DISPATCH,
TUESDAY ADTil % 1879


The seed trade,was slow opening up this
season. being two weeks behind its average
time The trade was not fully on until the
middle Of March. Since then all lost
ground has been recovered, and trade gives
no signs thus far of falling of. A leading
dealer in garden and field seeds and agri-
cultural implements thus puts the situa-
ton:
Our trade this spring has been better
than any former season. and we are not over
half through nth the springs business.
Prospects for good harvest are so promis-
ing that the trade in agricultural impie-
ments has received great stimulus in the
past few weeks. L do not remember when
demand for plows and harrows was so active
as it is at the present time. 1 have already
sold this spring 500 spring tooth harrows,
manufactured at Auburn, n. Y, winch were
only introduced here last season. and orders
are still coming in freely. Our seed trade has
been far beyond calculations. Orders for field
seeds have come to us from east OF the moGn-
uains as well as from all parts OF PIttSburg S
natural territory through Western Pennsyl-
vania, Eastern Ohio and West Virginia
The seed Outlook.
Prices of seeds have been steady most of the
season. Clover has been unusually high. limo
thy seed has fuctuated most At present 1t
shows an upward tendency The trade in
clover and timothy is now less in the hands of
seedsmen than it was in former years. Whole
sale grocers Of late years have been encroach-
ing more and more upon this department OF the
trade.
Whatever depression exists in country pro-
duce trade-and II must be admitted that this
has been poor season in this line, both to the
H1,n III f1ae dam and for
the wherewith to produce new crops, and the
implements needed by the agriculturists was
never better at this stage of the game than
now. II is to be hoped that they who sow 1t
NAV be. sin tears NAV in autumn time "come
AGAIN rejoicing bringing their sheaves with
them" In this faith and hope the farmers of
Pittsburg's territory are evidently laying in
bountiful supplies.
Wo0lens and Other Goods.
Our jobbers of woolens are agreed in the
statement that the first quarter of the year
showed an increased volume of business over
the corresponding period of last year, which
was better season than the one which pre-
eeded it. For some reason. which dealers do
not ATTEMPT to explain, April shows an unex-
pected decline.
The falling of in the jobbing trade has come
a few weeks ahead of its customary time.
The iobber should still be at his busiest ac-
curdIng to past experiences. But if there
should be no improvement between now and
May Day, the DrSJ 1Our months OF 1853 Will De
a falr standotf to the same period for
1855 which was "a good year for
the trade. An equal volume of goods
has already . been placed by Pittsburg
jobbers. Foreign goods manage to keep the
lead by a small majority. The domestic article
is gaining with certain classes because of its
bright colOrs. In plain worsted goods, imported
woOlens manage TO keep the lead In this mar
ket Notwithstanding heavy duties amounting
in some lines to IS per cent A consignment of
English cloths received not long since through
our Custom House, by one Of our jobbers.
amounted to S7.000-of which $1,000 went into
the Golfers of Uncle Sam And yet. with this
heavy tax, the same jobber says that considera-
bly more than one-half Of the wOOlen goods ne
handles are imported. IN goods that are at.
tracIive to the eye the domestic is ahead of the
imported. The imported goods. however, have
received more of the time, patience and work
that is demanded to bring the highest results
for real elegance and wear.