Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-16
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Country Produce Accumulating Be-
yond Needs Of Trade.
AN OVERDOSE OF COUNTRY BUTTER
Tone of Cereal Markets Weak---Hay Re-
ceipts Still Too Big.
FLOUR MUST HAVE ANOTHER FALL
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH, I
TUESDAY, January Is, 1889. !

OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH
TUESDAY, January Is, 1889.
Country Produce, Jobbing Prices.
The old story of quiet trade in produce lines
grows monotonous, but this is still the situa.
tion. Markets are overstocked with country
butter, and prices are merely nominal except
for a very choice article. A cash customer
with an offer of 19c for the best eggs would not
be permitted to 60 away empty. There is no
let up to the firmness of cheese, which shows
more vlgor than anything else in produce lines.
A Liberty street commission merchant thus
puts the situation: "Stuff keeps accumulating
on our hands far beyond the demands of trade
Our mail is daily crowded with offers to con-
sign butter, eggs, vegetables and fruit, and we
are forced to answer. hold. enough. The open
winter has upset all calculations, and our only
hope now of relief lies in a good spell of old
fashioned winter weather. There is no end to
the country butter coming in. A great deal
more is coming in than is going out.'
BEANS-Navy from store, prime hand picked
81 0O@2 10 per bushel; medium, s. 90; Ohio and
! Pennsylvania Co. prime al and medium, 81 Oo@
2 10; imported do, 81 9@2 90: Lima, SIC per o;
marrowfat, 81 75@2 80 per bushel.
BUTTER-Creamery. Elgin, 31@33c; Ohio do,
25@2Sc: fresh dairy packed, 20@23c: country
rolls, lS@2Oc; CHARTERS Creamery Go. butter, 2S
@32c
BEEswAx-2S@25c per for choice; low
grade, 16@lSc.
50 5O@4 90: crab cider, S. 0O@s 50 p barrel;
cider vinegar. 10@l2c q gallon.
CHEESE-0hio cheese, September make, 120
l2Ac; New York, September make, 121a@13c;
d5a L5imburgeg, ,ll14@l2Hc; domestic Sweater
DRIED PE1s~sl 45@l so % bushel; split do,
2A@3Ac Pm.
EGGs-l9@9Oc - dozen for strictly fresh.
FRUITs-Apples, 81 20 to 81 80 y barrel; evap-
grated raspberries, 25c ~ b; cranberries, IS 90
q barrel; 81 70 y bushel.
FEATHERs--Extra live geese, 5O@6Oc; No. l
do. 40@45c; mixed lots. 90@35c p b.
HoMINY-S3 9O@3 40 q barrel.
HoNEY-New Crop, lSc; buckwheat, 13@15c.
az rs for Southern sweets; 50 25@S 80 for Jer-
sey sweets.
y POULTRY-Live chickens, 55@7Oc p pair:
dressed chickens, 13@15c % pound; turkeys, B
@l5c dressed ~ pound; ducks, live SO@5c p
pair; dressed, l6c q pound; geese, 81 oO@
10 p pair.
sEEDs-Clover, choice, 81 lbs to bushel, So per
buShel; clover. large English, g. bs, S6 25;
thy, choice 45 tbs 81 9O blue grass, extra clean.
IA lbs, 81 90; blue grass, fancy, IA Bs, 81 20;
orchard grass IA lbs, 81 90; red top, IA fs, 81 90;
millet, 50 Bs 81 25; German milet, so lbs, 81 90:
Hungarian grass, 4S lbs, 81 90; lawn grass. mix
ture of fine grasses. 25c per b.
SHELLBARKS-S1 50@1 TO-
TALLow-Country, 414@5c; city rendered,
5@5lc.
TROPICAL FRUITs-Lemons So O0@3 50 p
box; Messina oranges 81 5O@3 so % box;
Florida oranges, 50 oo@S 50 o. box: Jamaica
grapes. S. 5O@7 90 p keg: bananas, 81 50
irsts, 81 5O@2 20; good seconds q bunch; cocoa
nuts, 81 0O y hundred; pineapplcs, $40 00@lS 90
4 hundred; new figs, l2@l4c q pound; dates,
,15@615c ss pound.
)ages, So 00@5 90 % 100; onions, 5Oc % bushel:
spanish onions, 81 COOL Is y crate; turnips, 80
I40c p bushel.