Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-02
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Elgin Creamery Butter is in Short
Supply and Very Firm.
MARKET FLOODED WITH POTATOES.
Shell Corn Keeps Climbing Down, Owing to
Large Receipts.
WHEAT, OATS AND FLOUR ARE STEADY
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
THURSDAY, May !, 1890.
Country Produce-Jobbinz Prices.


The supply of Elgin creamery butter has been
short for day or two past and stock is very
firmly held at quotations. A week or two ago
markets were very slow and stock was disposed
to accumulate. Now the reverse is true. There
are over ], ,000 tubs of Elgin creamery received
in this market every Friday. Receipts of last
Friday failed to hold out, and all dealers report
a shortage. Country rolls are in abundant sup
ply and markets are fairly steady at quota
tions Potatoes are weak, and only the best
stock brings quotations. Markets are flooded
with poor stock, and for this prices are only
nominal. A tolerably good potato is like toll
erably good egg, no good; and. as there has
been large run of this inferior grade the past
week OF two. prices are dropping. Choice
stock, however, manages to hold its own, and
on this grade holders are not disposed to con-
cede. There is strong undertone of confidence
in the future of markets for good quality of
potatoes.
BUTTER-Creamery, Elgin, 2l@2l15c;Ohio do,
l9020c: country rolls, l4@l6c.
BEANS-Navy hand-picked beans, 81 S0@2 90.
BEEswAX-25Q2Sc % b for choice; low grade,
1S@20c.
90; crab cider, 81 5OaS 90 % barrel; cider vim
egar, 10@l2c u gallon.
CHEEsE-ohio, lie: New York, 12c; Linn
berger. 141&@l5c; domestic Sweitzer, 1614@l7ci
imported Sweitzer, 231ac.
EGGs-l2@1215c p dozen for strictly fresh;
duck eggs. lSc; goose eggs S5@40c.
FRUITS-Apples, fancy, 81 5095 90 % barrel;
Strawberries 15@25c box.
FEATHERS-EXrra live geese. 5O960c; No, i.
do, 4O@+5c; mixed loss. 30@35c % b.
MAPLE SYRUP-New, 90095c a can. Maple
sugar, 110l2c % ID.
HoNEY-15c p h.
PoULTRY-Live chickens. 75c@Sl a pair;
dressed. l4@l5c pound; ducks, 75c(lS1 pair;
dressed turkeys, 1S@20c q h.
SEEDs-Glover, choice. 81 MS to bushel. 81 90
p bushel; clover, large English, 81 Ms "a 359
80; clover, Alsike, IS 90; clover. white, SO co.
timothy. choice, As nhI 81 6O@1 70: blue grass,
extra clean IA rs. 81 25@l 30: blue grass, fancy,
IA lbs 81 30 orchard grass IA fbs, 81 40; red top,
IA lbs. 81 90; millet, so Ds. 81 90; Hungarian
grass. 80 MS. 81 90; lawn grass, mixture of fine
grasses, 81 80 " bushel of IA lbs.
TALLow-Country, 3Nc; city rendered, 47zc.
TROPICAL FRUITS-Lemons, common, SO 90
Gl3 so: fancy. S4 0014 so; Florida oranges 81 so
40 90; Valencia S6 509S 90 for 420 case, jamaica
S. 00G8 so q barrel; bananas 81 75@2 rs tirsts,
81 so good seconds. % bunch; cocoanuts. 81 00@
so ~ hundred; dates, 615@7c % Id; layer figs.
1215@l511c: pineapples, s3I4 dozen.
VEGETABLEs-Potatoes, from store, 65@75c:
on track, 45@60c; Bermuda potatoes, 30 90
a barrel; new Southern cabbage, So so for
small crates, 81 so for large: Jersey
sweet potatoes. IS 25@5 rs a barrel; Ber-
muda onions, 81 40@2 70 per bushel crate;
green onions, 20Q25c a dozen; parsnps, 81 90
y barrel; onion sets. So 50Q4 90 q bushel
kae, 81 00@1 25 p barrel; asparagus soc p large
bunch; rhubarb. 20@30c y dozen; green beans,
S4 50@5 90 ~ box.