Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
OF TRADE.
Iowa Produce Dealers Seeking an
Outlet for Potatoes.
UNPRECEDENTED YIELD OF OATS.
The Upward Movement of Dairy Products
Comes to Stand.
CEREAL SUPPLIES ABOVE DEMAND
OFFICE OF PITTsBpRG DISPATCH,
SATURDAY. October 10, 1889.


. SATURDAY. October Is. 1889.
A member of the firm OF Lattig Brothers,
Anita, Cass county, Iowa, has been In the
city day or two, trying to make arrange
ments for the disposal of the over-supply Of
potatoes. Mr.. Lattig reports as follows con-
cerning the crop situation in Central Iowa:
"The potato crop is full average in vol
ume, and the quality is very fine. Farmers
are glad to sell their product in Anita at 10
cents bushel by the wagon load, and take
goodly portion of proceeds in store goods.
The corn crop is good average and prices
range from 15@20c bushel. Oats were
never more abundant. The section between
Des Moines and Council Bluffs yielded from
90 to 60 bushels to the acre of oats, and
prices are 12@15c bushel. and slow at that.
1t hardly pays the farmer to produce oats In
such season as we have had.
Poor Wheat Country.
''Ours is not good wheat country, and,
this seasons yield is below the average,
seldom reaching five bushels to the acre.
Apples are about the only reliable fruit
raised in our section, and this has been
splendid year for the crop. The finest
apples ever grown. are sold from wagons in
Anita at 35@40c per bushel.
1.-THE potato surplus, and how to dispose
of it, is one of the problems which is per-
picking the farmers of our region. Last
seasonwe found good outlet for the crop in
Kansas and Nebraska, where there was great
scarcity on account of drought In some sec
tions Of those States, Irish potatoes were sold
az at
Western neighbors have a full crop, and we
are obliged to turn to Eastern markets to dis
pose OF our stuff"
Breaking All Records.
It was gathered from this interview that the
yield of potatoes in the West breaks all pre-
vious records, and that. In many sections, farm
ers are feeding them to their cattle and hogs
rather than take the low prices which are
offered at village stores. Another Cass county
producer was visiting our Liberty street COM
mission men to-day, with view to placing To-
600 bushels of potatoes of his own raising. A
few weeks ago the fear was expressed freely by
dealers here that we would be compelled to
draw on Ireland before winter, as was the case
two years ago. The fear Of potato famine has
melted away since the great West Is heard
from.
Dairy Products.
The feature of the,week as to dairy products
has been the arrest Of the upward movement
which has been going on for a month past
Creamery butter is from 1c to &c lower than
it was last Saturday
Cheese has come to standstill, and prices
are likely to remain as they are for the balance
of the month. With weakening markets stuff
does not move out 50 freely as Tor several
months past.
Poultry and eggs lose nothing of their firm
ness, and through Pittsburgs natural territory
are reported unusually scarce this season.
In af "a mt
Supply is large, quality fine and demand good.
The supply Of late comes chiefly from Cen
tral Ohio.
Large Receipts of Cereals.
By reference to our domestic market column
it will be seen that the receipts of grain and hay
have been unusually large this week, and
would have been still larger bnt Tor the diff
Guilty of securing transportation. Oats are the
weak factor Of markets, and are lower than
they were a week ago. Advices from all
sections of the Northwest are that the oats
crop this season is unprecedented in volume
and quality and the truth Of this is attested by
the liberal supplies coming to market. Hay,
continues firm. The -four situation is practi-
cally unchanged, but markets are quiet.
Not Quife So Cheap.
The view, as given in this column a short
time ago, that the best spring patent -four in
wood coold be laid down in Pltrsburg for less
than s., is denied by another leading -four job
ber, who says that at the date Of this statement
IS Is was the lowest possible lay-down price in
carload lots The difference of view, no doubt,
springs from the divergence Of opinion as to
what constituted the best brand Of -four. 1t
should always be kept in mind that the prices
given in our quotations are for carload lots on
track.
The grocery feature of the week has been the
frequent drops in sugar, and now at the close
of the week markets rule quiet, notwtthstand-
ing the decline.