Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-28
FARMS AND DIARIES.
Prospects for Small Fruits in This
Section Now Very Good.
PEACHES AND APPLES SCARCE.
Abundant and Cheap Dairy Products are
Already Assured.
AN UNPRECEDENTED BERRY CROP SURE
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH, F.,
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OFFICE OF PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
TUESDAY. May q, 1890.
The prospect for sn all fruits was never
better in this section than low. Strawber-
rles, huckleberries and blackber promise
an unusually large yield in the territory
tributary to Pittsburg. AS to large fruits
prospects are not so good. Peaches are
almost an entire failure, and apples do not
promise we'll at this date. The same is true
Of cherries and pears But our country is
ig, and there is little doubt that the fruit sup
ply Will be ample for all needs the coming sea-
on.
For the next ten days our markets are likely
to be glutted with strawberries. The first of
the homegrown crop have appeared this week.
and supplies are coming in very freely from
Baltimore and norfolk
All signs point to a glut in the market before
the week IS out. A leading produce commits
sion merchant said to-day: The prospect for a
splendid crop of small fruits is rarely good
at this time of the wear as it is right now. The
continuous rains which have hindered garden
ers and farmers so much have been a help to
the small fruit crop. Strawberries are already
coming to market in quantities too large for
our ability to handle. Our firm received $50
crates this morning, anc all our neghbors were
literally supplied, so that berries were drug,
and prospects are that they will be greater
drug before the week is out"
Interviews with other commission men de-
veloped similar views to small fruit pros
poets.
Peaches and Apples.
As to large fruits there is a general agree
ment that crops will be far below average in
this section. Said an old-time dealer: There
will be scarcely any peaches in the territory
for 100 miles around Pittsburg. Apples will
fall far below tie average. But our advIces are
that New Jersey and Delaware will be able to
furnish all in the peach line needed and from
the Northwest comes favorable reports of the
apple crop prospect The croakers are around
as usual to tell us that there will he famine
of fruit this season. We have the croakers
with us always as have the poor. But from
the best information can gather after dilgent
inquiry there will be fruit enough and to spare.
While the crop of large fruit will not be large
this will be offset by a large yield of berries
and all small fruits. The opportunities for lay
ing by canned fruits for the next few weeks
will be as favorable in my opinion as they have
been for years. Tney who watch the markets
viii hnd their money 60 as far as ever before
In providing jams and jellies."
As to Dairy Products.
twill be seen by reference to domestic market
column that butter is on the decline, and that
prices are lower than for many years, The
season, SO far, has been an exceptional one for
grass all over the country.
Farmers and gardeners deplore the continu-
Gus rails, for,the reason that they cannot break
mp the ground and get in their crops
But all the time tie pasture fields have been
yielding bountifUl supplies, and dairy products
are abundant The result is an unusual butter
crop. Good country butter has been begging
for customers at lOc per pound the past lev
DAYS. Large quantities of old stock were closed
out by dealers within few days at figures far
below this.
At Elgln creamery butter is now lower than
at any time since the Butter Board was organ
lied. The abundance of milk and cream has
not yet affected the cheese market. which con-
tinues very strong, with supply below demand.
There is little doubt, however, that cheese
will feel tile effect Of the good grass season
later on.
All signs point to an abundant year in the
line of dairy products
The flour situation is anomaly at this
time and is calculated to nonplus the shrewdest
speculatOr.
Operators are as far apart as the poles IN
their view of future prospects. Latest advices
from the scenes of supply are by means en-
couraging to bulls. Our iobbers here are gen.
orally well stocked up, having laid in heavy
supplies on the late rise. On the other hand |
prices are well maintained. and holders show |
no inclination to make concessions.
1t must be admitted, however, that North |
western millers are by means as firm in
their views as they were a few weeks ago.