Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Cool Weather Braces Up the Spirits
of Produce Dealers.
CHOICE BUTTER In GOOD DEMAND,
Hay Weak, Oats Firm, Good Corn Readily
Brings Its Price.
AN ADVANCE OF PACKAGE COFFEE
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH, I
SATURDAY, January l9, 1889. s
Country Produce. Jobbing Prices.

Produce commission merchants still sing the
old song of quiet trade. Cooler weather has
had a bracing influence and a more hopeful
feeling prevails. But SO far, improvement is
mostly in anticipation. The value of eggs is a
mooted question. While some dealers are re-
luctant to drop below the 20c per dozen line
others claim that Ice is the outside jobbing
rate. There is no let-up to the frmness OF
cheese. OF tropical fruits, bananas are shade
firmer. Country butter keeps accumularing in
the hands of commission merchants. Some re-
port that grocery stores here had such quaint.
ties showed on to them by country people that
numbers have unloaded stock on the jobber.
Unadulterated creamery and fancy country
rolls hold their own because of their scarcity.
Advices from the East indicate an improved
demand for butter, and the effect is already
seen in our markets by frmer feeling. All
signs point to an improvement in general pro-
duce markets at an early day if the blizzards
will but get in their usual work from now till
spring.
BEANs-Navy from store, prime hand picked
81 0O@2 10 per bushel; medium, 81 90: Ohio and
Pennsylvania do. prime and medium, 81 UO0
2 10; imported do. 81 90@2 90: Lima, SIC per d;
marrowfat, s. 75@2 so per bushel.
BUTTER-Creamery, Elgin, 2SQ3Oc; Ohio do,
24@27c: fresh dairy packed, 2O@2Sc; country
rolls, ls@22c; Charters Creamery Co. butter, 26
@29c.
BEEswAx-2s925c per II for choice; low
So 5O@4 90: crab cider, IS OO@s 80 q barrel;
cider vinegar. l0@12c y gallon.
CHEESE-Ohio cheese, fall make, 12@l21ac;
New York, fall make, l215@lSc; Limburger,
1lx@l211zc: domestic Sweltzer cheese, 13@lS18c.
Dried PEAs-Sl 45@l so q bushel; split do,
2A@314c p h.
EGGs-i6@lsc q dozen for strictly fresh.
FRUITs-Apples, 81 10 to 81 so p barrel; evap-
grated raspberries, 25c p fb; cranberries, S. 90
p barrel: 81 1902 so y bushel.
FEATHERs-Extra live geese, 50G60c; No.
do. 40945c; mixed lots. 90@S5c q Ii.
HoMINY-SS 30G3 40 p barrel.
HoNEY-New Crop, 16@l7c; buckwheat, 800
PorAroEs-Potatoes, a5@4Oc - bushel; 81 so
az IS for Southern sweets; 50 2503 80 for Jer-
sey sweets.
dressed chickens. 13@l5c q pound; turkeys, IL
@l5c dressed p pound; ducks, live, S0@5c u
pair; dressed, 1S@l4c q pound; geese, LOG
lie ~ pound.
SEEDs-CIover. choice, 60 fbs to bushel, So per
bushel; clover, large English, 81 MS, Sc 25:
clover AIsike IS so; clover, white, 50 90; timo-
thy choice, 45 Ss, 81 80; blue grass, extra clean
IA Ms. 81 90; blue grass, a So. fancy IA Ms 20: &
millet so lbs, 81 Is; German millet, so lbs, 81 90;
Hungarian grass, 4S lbs, 81 90; lawn grass. mix
ture of fine grasses, 25c per II.
SHELLBARKS-Sl 50Gl IS.
TALLow-Country, A5@5c; city rendered.
5@51c.
TROPICAL FRU1Ts-Lemons, ss 0O@3 50 q
box; Messina oranges, 81 5OQ3 90 p box;
Florida oranges, 81 1903 90 box; Jamaica
grapes. IS 5O97 90 keg: bananas, 81 80
frsts, 81 5O@2 90; good seconds q bunch; cocoa
nuts, S4 90 p hundred; new figs I2@14c y pound;
WEeTTSBIaEs~teiery, GfttB1aE 4o@5oc doz punches;
cabbages, So OO@5 90 Y 100; onions, SOC p bushe:
Spanish onions, 75Q9Oc q crate; turnips 30
@40c p bushel.