Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
A Strawberry Glut Brings Lowest
Prices of This Season.
EGGS AND BUTTER ARE ACTIVE.
Corn Weak---Oats Lower---FIour is Drifting
to a Lower Level.
SUGAR ADVANCED 80 COFFEE STEADY
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
FRIDAY. May 81, 1859.
Country Produce-Jobbing Prices.

COuutry tfOOuCe-JODOiuB EEhCcos
The marked feature of trade in this line is
the strawberry g,ut. Maryland and Delaware
seem to be dumping their surplus of berries
into this market. Upward of 5000 crates, or .
capacity of 25 to 30 cars. were received yester-
day and to-day, and good berries are selling at
to SC. One large dealer said he would be glad
to get freight out of lot that came to hand
yesterday. No strawberry buyer is permitted
TO escape to-day if he will bnt make a cash Of
fer Sixty quart crates sold for 81, and the
fruit was all right for preserving purposes.
New potatoes are drifting downward. Apples
are scarce and higher. Butter and eggs are
active and firm, without any change in prices
Cheese is 111c lower tha'1 at this time last year.
and is quiet at the low figures.
BUTTER-Creamery, Elgin, 19@2Oc; Ohio do,
17@lSc; fresh dairy packed. l4915e; country
rolls, lS@l4c; CHARTERS Creamery Co.. l9c
BEANS--Sl 75@l 90.
BEEswAx-2s@3Oc q for choice; low grade,
CIDER-Sand refined, So 5O@7 so; common,
So 5O@4 90; crab cider. IS 0O@8 so q barrel;
cider vinegar. 10012c p gallon.
new, lO14G11ci Limburger, 9@l0c; domestic
Sweitzer cheese, 913Q1219c.
CALIFoRNIA FKUITs = California peaches,
81 O0@4 so p box; cherries, s. %; apricots, "a %
"a 50; pluns, 81 00Q4 so.
DRIED PEAs-Sl z5@l 35 q bushel; split do,
2A@314c q h.
EGGS-15tIl4c ~ QOZe1 IOT SLr1cLlY IEeSu,
FRU1Ts-Apples, So EJG4 90 p barrel; evap-
Grated raspberries, 25c y b; cranberries, $4@5
p barrel, 5dc0$l 90 q bushel; strawberries, 5Q
12c y quart; pine apples, 81 25@1 75 y dozen.
FEATHERs-Extra live geese, 50@60c; No.
do, 4Ol45c; mixed lots, 30@35c - h.
HoNEY-New crop, 16Ql7c; buckwheat. 13
@l5c.
HoM1NY-S2 65@2 rs y barrel.
PoTAToES-35040c n bushel; new Southern
potatoes, 81 50@5 20 q barrel.
PoULTRY-live chickens, 65075c per pair;
undrawn chickens, lO@l2c p b; drawn, l4@
l5c p b: turkeys, 15c dressed p b; ducks,
live, 60@70c - pair; dressed, 13Ql4c q n; geese,
live, 81 O0@1 25 p pair.
SEEDS-CloveT, choice, 50 rs to bushel S. go
p bushel; clover, large English, 81 MS, So 90;
clover Aliske, IS so; clover, white, 50 90; tim
othy, choice, IS rs, 81 65; blue grass, extra
clean IA Ms 90c; blue grass, fancy, IA MS, 81 90;
orchard grass IA bs 81 IS; red top, IA bs 81 25;
millet 50 Bs, 81 90; German millet, so Ms,
81 so; Hungarian grass. so MS. 81 90; lawn
grass mixture Of fine grasses, 81 80 q bushel Of
IA MS.
TAIIow-Country. 416@5c; city rendered.
5Q51zc.
TROPICAL FRUITs-Lemons, fancy IS 5O@
90 p box; Messina oranges, 81 50@5 so -
box; Valencia oranges fancy, 81 50G9 90 q
case; bananas So 90, frsts; 81 %, good seconds,
p bunch: cocoanuts, 81 50@5 90 p hundred;
new figs. S16@9c q pound; dates. 576Q611c y
pound
VEGErABLEs-Radishe 25@30c p dozen;
marrowfat peas, 81 25 p crate; new cabbage,
two.barrel crates. 81 5003 U0; Bermuda onions,
81 1901 25 y bushel; string beans 81 00 tomatoes,
So 0063 80 n buSheL