Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-01
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Stock Taking is Adverse to Activity
in Trade Movements.
NEW YEARS TURKEY EXPENSIVE.
Supplies of Cereals in Excess Of Demand
and Market Weak.
GENERAL GROCERIES ARE UNCHANGED
OFFICE oFPTTTsBURG DISPATCH,
TUESDAY. December 81. 1889.

Country Pr0duce-JObbinG Prices.
The only strong factors of markets in this
line are poultry and tropical fruits. The New
Years turkey is much more expensive than was
the Christmas one. Oranges are moving up
ward. Apples are quiet and potatoes steady
Cabbage are firm at quotations. The year
winds UP with slow markets in nearly every
jobbing department of trade. Stock taking is
the principal business Of this week. and retail
ers aim to have as little on hand at this time as
possible, especially when, as it is this season,
the general drift of markets Is toward lower
level of prices. Dealers are apt to pursue the
hand to mouth policy when markets are on the
decline, and especially SO when settlement time
is here. Hence our present quietness. Stocks
Will require to be replenished soon after the
turn of the year, and active trade is anticipated
by produce men.
BUTTER-Creamery, Elgin, SO03lc; Ohio do,
271l@9Sc: fresh dairy packed. A@26c; country
rolls, 23@24c.
BEANs-Navy hand-picked beans, 81 25@2 30;
BEEswAx- 2S@8Oc q for choice; low grade,
1S@20c.
CIDER-Sand refined So 50@7 so; common,
So 5O04 90; crab cider IS OO0S 50 y barrel; cider
CIEsTN1Ts-$5 6O@5 80 q bushel; walnuts,
CHEEsE-Ohio. 1lQ111Sc; New York, 1I16e;
Limburger, 9%@11c; domestic SweitZer, 11@
1870; imported SweItzer, 2314.
EGGS-A@25c S9 dozen for strictly fresh.
FRUITS-Apples. fancy, 81 5003 90 q barrel;
cranberries, $lI 000012 90 p barrel; Malaga
grapes, large barrel. IS 50@10 co..
GAME-Squirrels7 75c@Sl p dozen; quail, 81 rs
p dozen; prairie chickens. "a 5005 00 p dozen;
pheasants, IS 0005 so p dozen: rabbits, ,30@35c
pair; venison saddle, 10@l2c q pound; venison
carcass. 709e q pound.
FEATHERS-Extra live geese, 5G060c; No. l,
do, 40@45c; mixed lots, 30@35c q h.
PoULTRY-Live chickens, 50@65c a pair;
dressed, 1l@12c pound; ducks, 65Q75c p pair;
geese, 81 25G1 30 q pair; live turkeys, l30l5c p
b; dressed turkeys, 1S@20c q h.
SEEDS-CloveT choice, 81 lbs to bushel 81 200
40 y bushel; clover large English. So MS, 81 300
60 clover, Alske. IS co. clover, white, So; timo-
thy, choice. As Bs 81 so; blue grass, extra clean,
Il bs 81 25@l 80; blue grass fancy, IA ms, 81 80;
orchard grass IA bs. 81 40 red top, IA rs. 81 25;
millet, so MS 81 90; millet, 60@70c q bushel;
Hungarian grass, so Bs Csc, lawn grass. mix
ture of fine grasses, SO 90 y bushel of IA MS.
TALLow-Country, 4lc; city rendered, ~
@5c.
TROPICAL FRUITs-Lemons, common, So so
as 90; fancy, 81 0005 90; Florida oranges, So 90
@3 %; Jamaica oranges, So 00@6 90 p barrel;
bananas, 81 so firsts, 81 90 good seconds, 9A
bunch; cocoanuts, "a 00@4 so y hundred; figs,
81S@9c p n; dates ,515G611c q h; new layer
figs, 12110l515c; new dates, TIC q b.
observation-disclosures from store $4,000;
on track, 45@5Oc; cabbages, 81 O0@S 90 hum
dred; celery, Acc y dozen; Jerseys, 81 00@4 25;
turnips, 81 O001 SO barrel; onions, 81 70 bar
rel.
BUcKwHEAT FLoUR-2IG25zc q pound.