Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-19
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Cooler Weather Brings Better Tone
to Produce Market.
A REVIVAL EXPECTED VERY SOON.
Cereal Markets Awakening From Their Rip
Van Wrinkle Sleep.
CORN AND OATS IN BETTER DEMAND
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
FRIDAY, January Is. 1859.
Country Produce, Jobbing Prices.


The drop of the mercury has elevated the
spirits of produce commission merchants, but
it can hardly be said that trade has improved.
Eggs are slow. While some dealers claim that
choice article in single cases brings 2Oc others
profess readiness to furnish the best in the
market at lSc. Large quantities of cold storage
eggs have been of late forced on to markets at
a loss to holders. This with the fact that hens
do not know that we are in the midst of winter
and keep on laying has knocked the bottom out
of trade. Country butter still keeps coming in
quantities far beyond demand Only wild win
ter weather can lift produce trade out of the
ruts in which it has been moving the past few
weeks. The supply of poultry is good, but de-
mand does not keep pace with supply. The
general situation in produce lines is one of
great expectations, but thus far expectations
have not materlaliZed.
BEANs-Navy from store, prime hand picked,
81 OO@2 10 per bushel: medium 81 0O: OHIO and
Pennsylvania do, prime and medium, 81 UOD
2 10; imported do 81 1902 90: Lima, SIC per b;
marrowfaT, 81 75@2 so per bushel
OVERWHELMINGLY, Elgin, 2S@30c; Ohio do,
24@27c: fresh dairy packed 20@23c; country
rolls, lS92c; Charters Creamery Co. butter. 26
@30c.
BEEswAx-23@25c per II for choice; low
CGDERSsand refined. ss 5O@7 so. common.
s$ sdsT SOd co. crab aa eds s5 IS OO@S Darre
New York, fall make, 1215@l3c; Limburger,
11%91212c: domestic Sweitzer cheese, 13@1315c.
DRIED PEAs-s1 45Gl so u bushel; split do,
EGGs-is@2oc q dozen for strictly fresh.
FRUITs-Apples. 81 90 to 81 so q barrel; evap-
grated raspberries, 25c p fb; cranDerries, S. 90
% barrel; s. 1902 so p bushel.
FEATHERS-EXtra live geese, 50060c; No. l
do. 4o@45c; mixed lots. 3O@35c q II.
HoMINY-S3 30@3 40 u barrel.
HoNEY-New Crop, l6@17c; buckwheat, 100
15c.
PoTAToEs-Potatoes, S5@4Oc % bushel; So 80
OF 75 for Southern sweets; So 25@3 so for Jer-
sey sweets.
PoULTRY-Live chickens, 55@7Oc y pair;
dressed chickens, 13@l5c q pound: turkeys Ii
@l5c dressed - pound; ducks, live, S095c u
pair; dressed, 13@14c y pound; geese, 100
lie y pound.
SEEDs-CIover, choice, 50 Hts to bushel, Sc per
bushel; clover. large English. 81 lbs, S. %;
clover, AIsike, SS so; clover white, 50 90: timo-
thy choice, 40 lbs, 81 80: blue grass, extra clean
IA lbs. 81 co.; blue grass, fancy, IA rs, 81 20;
orchard grass IA bs 81 90; red top, "A TBS, 81 Co;
Hungarian grass, As lbs, 81 90; lawn grass, mix
ture of fine grasses, 25c per b.
SHELLBARKS-S1 50@1 75.
TALLow-Country, 4a@5c; city rendered,
5@51Sc.
TROPICAL FRUITs-Lemons, So O0@3 so n
box; Messina oranges, So 50@3 so 70 box;
Florida oranges, 81 1903 90 q box; Jamaica
oranges, fancy. 81 5O@5 0O y barrel; Malaga
grapes, IS 5C@7 90 keg; bananas, 81 so
nuts, S4 00 q hundred; new figs, 12914c p pound;
dates, 515@615c ~ pound.
VEGETABLES-Celery, 40@50c doz lunches:
cabbages, So 0O@5 90 p 100; onions SOC p bushel:
Spanish onions, 75G90c y crate; turnips 80
@40c q bushel.