Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-09
WEATHER AND TRADE
Produce Men Complain That Business
is Entirely Too Good
FOR UCHAHEATED SPELL AS THIS.
Creamery Butter offered Fails to Come
Up to Standard.
TROPICAL FRUITS MOVING FREELY
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
Tuesday July 8. lS9Q J

OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
TUESDAY. July s. lSSO
The principal question under conslders-
tion among our trade'speople TO-DAY was
How to keen cool? With the mercury traV-
cling up close to centennial line, it was not
at all easy to solve the problem. Notwlth-
standing the tropical weather produce men
were kept busy, and many complained that
business was entirely too good. Tuesday is
usually one of the busy days of the week IN
produce lines, and this Tuesday was no ex-
ception to the rule. There was a good de-
mand for ali good stuff offered. From early
morn we'll up to noon. Liberty street from
Fifth to Seventh street was crowded with
retail grocers' wagons seeking the needful
supplies. At the Grain Exchange fans were In
demand and the operators found it necessary
TO shed all surplus garments. There was con-
spicuous absence of coats and presence OF 1ans
at the Exchange.
the market editor as he wentto and fro among
tradesmen. as it hot enough for your was
dinned in his ear ad nauseam. When the last
man said it-a man who deals in dynamite and
other explosives very eXtensively-this editor
was on the point of wishing him in the country
where sulphur and dynamite abound, nut
sober second thought held him back. Sufhce
1t to say, that the pursuit of trade items to-
day was under great difficulties, and II the
reader IS disposed to think that this column
amounts TO little let him cultivate the grace OF
charity ana remember the exalted flights of
the mercury
Creamery Butter Not First Class.
One of our foremost jobbers in dairy products
in an interview to-day said: 1.-The creamery
butter coming to market of late is not up to the
standard, for q good and sufficient reason,
namely. that frst-class stock cannot be pro-
duced such weather as we have been having
the past few weeks, except in isolated cases,
where there are cool. bubbing springs OF water
or ice abounds. In the butter region around
Elgin the mercury has been above lOO0 OF late,
and with such a temperature 1t is Impossible
for the producer to turn out nrSt-class Stcck.
The price of good stock is well maintained on
account Of its scarcity. But the bulk Of the
creamery butter on the market the
past few weeks lacks in good keeping qualities.
Nor can there be any change for the better un-
til we have cooler weather"
- Il OF weather has also had the effect of very
much diminishing the crop of fresh eggs
Hens as well as tradesmen and market editors
have lost their grip, and find it about all they
can do to keep cool.
The small Fruit Crop.
A produce dealer thus expressed himself to-
day to the small fruit crop: Cultivated
raspberries and blackberres are much below
their average this season in quantity do not
think there will be above one-half the usual
quantity. But from the best advice / can get
the crop of wild berries is larger than usual.
The strawberry season proved much shorter
than usual this year, and preservers this
region failed TO lay up their expected supplies.
California preserved and dried fruits have ad-
vanced l15c pound in the past few days, and
the upward movement in my opinion has only
started.
In the Eastern sections of the country the
fruit crop will be light. and we will be more de-
pendent on the Pacific slope for supplies in
this line than for many years"
Active Demand for Tropical Fruits.
In tropical fruit lines this promises to be one
of the most active weeks of the year. Demand
weather, and sharp advance is reported by
dealers. Pineapples are on the wane and will
soon be a thing of the past Receipts of
previous records in volume, II carloads having
arrived on Monday. Notwithstanding heavy
receipts prices of good stock are well sus-
tained, and demand promises to be equal to
supply. As we are now in the midst of the pic
mic season tropical fruits and canned meats
have the call, and dealers in these lines are
happy over the situation.
The current number of the North Western
Miller, of Minneapolis, takes more cheerful
view of the situation and outlook of wheat and
-four than it has done for few weeks past. 1t
reports trade as very much improved the past
ten davs, and wheat suitable for milling pur-
poses as &c higher. The general tone of its
editorials, and news from its correspondents, is
that the worst is over, and that from now better
markets and better prices may reasonably be
looked for. The change for the better has not
yet made any marked impression on markets
here but our millers and flour jobbers are more
hopeful of the future of trade.