Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-26
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Berries Scarce Potatoes Quiet---Re.
liable Eggs Steady.
CHEESE AND CREAMERYlN DEMAND
Full Supply of Apricots, Pears and Peaches
From Pacific.
BAKERS SPRING FLOUR Is SCARCE
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH, |
THURSDAY, July rs. 1889. ;


Country Produce-Jobbing Prices.
Commission merchants report quiet trade,
with a scarcity of berries. Potatoes are easy
at quotations. Homegrown potatoes are now
in full supply. Tomatoes are firm. Country
butter is slow, creamery active. Eggs are firm
at Quotations. The buyer who expects to get a
reliable egg under 15c will find himself left.
job lot was sold to-day at l414c to wholesale
dealer. Reliable eggs in single cases will read
lily bring l516c to l6c and no kicking at this
price. A leading cheese jobber reports very
active sales at old rates. His output for to-day
will reach almost 600 boxes and the weeks
record will pass 1000 boxes. The supply of
berries Is scarcely up TO demand. Homegrown
blackberries will have the field for the next
few weeks. A carload of peaches from Califor-
MIA consigned to q Liberty street commission
merchant will be due here Friday or Saturday.
Delicious apricots, pears and green gage plums
are in full supply from the Pacific slope.
BUTTER-Creamery, Elgin, 1SQl9c; Ohio do.
l7@lSc; fresh dairy packed, l2Ql3c; country
rolls, l00l2c.
BEANs-sl 1901 80
BEEswAx-2GaOc q n for choice; low grade,
1S@2Oc.
CIDER-sand refined, 60 5o@7 50; common.
So 5OQ4 90; crab cider, IS 00G8 so q barrel;
cider vinegar, l0Ql2e y gallon.
CHEEsE-Ohio. S1lc; New York, 1O@l0oHc;
Limburger. S@sc; domestic sweitzer, e1a0
1211c; imported Sweitzer, 211c.
CALIFORNIA FRUITs-California peaches,
81 90 a L-bushel box; cherries, s3 90; apricots,
81 90 a 4-basket case; plums. 81 76g2 90 4
EGGs-l5@l51bc y dozen for strictly fresh.
FRUITs-Apples, 81 0O@3 90 q barrel: pine
apples. 81 OoGl q p dozen; red raspberries. 8
whortleberries, 75c@Sl 90 y pail; blackberries,
508c Fa quart; wild goose pIums, S2 50 T crate;
currants, IS p 2bushel stand; watermelons.
SIS O0@25 90 y hundred; sickel pears, 81 00@
5 y 6ushel crate; Alabama peaches. 6-basket
cases, So 90.
do, 4O@45c; mixed lots 30@35c p D.
PoTAToEs-sl 25@l so p barrel.
PoULTRY-Iive spring chickens. 50G60c q
pair; old, 7OQ75c ~ pair.
SEEDs-Ciover, choice, 6Z rs to bushel, S. 90
% bushel; clover large English, 81 ms, s. 90;
clover, Alsike. s. so; clover, white 50 90; timo-
thy, choice, 45 rs, 81 s.: blue grass, extra
orchard grass, IA Ms. 81 65; red top, "A Ds 81 Is;
millet, 50 MS, 81 90; German Millett so Ds
81 so; Hungarian grass, 90 rs, 81 90; lawn
grass, mixture of fine grasses. 81 so y bushel
Of IA bs.
TALLow-Country. 411@5c; city rendered, s
@5xc.
TRoPIcAL FRuITs-Lemons, fancy. IS OO@
so y box; Messina oranges. IS 00G5 80 y box;
rodl, 81 50G5 90; California oranges. 81 5O@4 rs
p box; bananas, 81 90 firsts, 81 10 good seconds,
q bunch; cocoanuts. "a 0004 so p hundred;
new figs, S13@9c p d; dates, 5114611c p n.
observation-disclosures Mississippis, four
basket cases, 81 75G2 90; beans, round wax
fancy, 81 so % crate; beans, round wax medium,
81 90 " crate; beans, round green, 81 25@2 50;
81 90 q bushel box; radishes large white and
gray, 30@35c y dozen; homegrown cabbage,
81 25Ql so q barrel; new celery, 5O@60c y
dozen. ...