Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-19
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Heavy Receipts of Strawberries and
Demand Active.
NEW POTATOES MOVING FREELY
The Cereal Situation Continues in Favor of
the Buyer.
LUMBER is In FiRsT-RATE DEMAND
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH, I
WEDNESDAY. June Is, 1890.
Country Produce-Jobbing Prices.


Country Produce-Jobbing Prices.
New potatoes are moving freely at quota
tions. Supply of strawberries was large to.
day, but all good stock was promptly taken at a
range of to 10c per quart RaspberTies are
SLOW The first blackberries of the season put
in their appearance from Baltimore today. and
sold at l5c per quart. Guaranteed eggs are
firm at outside quotatlons. Country butter is
dead stock. but choice ElgIn creamery is firm,
and an advance Of lc per pound will be due on
Friday Quality of cheese coming to market
of late has very much improved, and for this
reason prices are steady. Eastern and West
ern m arkets are shade frmer. Grass cheese
is beginning to show up and is in good demand.
An advance of Nc per pound is reported from
the West on account of improved quality
Supply of Swiss cheese is not up to demand
and markets are very firm. Prices of domestic
Sweitzer are usually 8 to 4c per pound below
present rates at this time of the year. The
season Is fully three weeks behind the average
time on account of backward spring. Lemons
are active and firm and prices tend upward.
Oranges are steady and bananas easy.
BUTTER = Creamery. Elgin. 17c; Ohio do,
l6c; fresh dairy packed, 10Ql2c; country rolls,
7@9c.
BERRIEs-Strawberries 5@10c box: 81 5O1
5 so n two-bushel stand; gooseberries 81 2S@
so a bushel box; black raspberries, 10@12c y
quart; red raspberries, 15@l6c; blackberries,
u
BEANs-Navy hand picked beans, 81 00@2 10.
BEEswAx-2S@S0c q for choice;low grade,
20@22c.
CHERRIEs-Red. 9@lOc p quart.
CANTALoUI Es-s4 5O65 so "a crate; water
melons. $50 0O@60 90 " 100.
CIDER-Sand refined, 81 90; common, So 0O0
4 0O; crab cider. 81 5OQS 90 p barrel; cider vim
egar. 10@l2c p gallon.
CHEEsE-New Ohio cheese. SIC: New York
cheese. 9]4Ql0c: Lin berger, 5G1z15c; domcs-
tic Swettzer. I5@16c: imported Sweitzer, 2415c.
EGGs-l44@15c q dozen for strictly fresh.
FEATHERS-Extra live geese. o0Q60c; No. l.
do. 40Q45c; mixed lots, 3OG35c p b.
MAPLE SYRUP-New. 75@95c a can; maple
sugar. lO@11c ~ D.
HoNEY-l5c % d.
PoULTRY-Lfve chickens, 50c0&1 90 pair;
dressed, l2Q14c pound.
SEEDs-Clover. choice, 81 MS to bushel, "a 90
y bushel: clover. large English, 50 MS, 81 $50
20; clover. Alsike, IS 90; clover. white, So 80;
timothy, choice As Bs 81 65l1 10; blue grass
extra clean, IA Ds, 81 25@l 80: blue grass, fancy
IA ms, 81 30: orchard grass. IA bs 81 40; red top
IA ms, 81 90; millet, so rs 75c; Hungarian
grass, % ms. 75c; lawn grass. mixture of fine
grasses, 81 90 y bushel of IA MS.
TALLow-Country, 3Ac: city rendered. &c.
TROPICAL FRUITS-Lemons, common 81 90
"a 25; fancy, S. 0O@5 50; Messina oranges, So 90
at so: bananas, 81 1892 90 firsts. 81 so good
seconds y bunch; pineapples S90l2 hundred;
California peaches, 81 0OQ2 so y box; Califor-
mia apricots, 81 5O@4 90.
VEGETABLES = New Southern potatoes,
crate; Bermuda onions, 50 25 p bushel crate:
greer onions, l5920c y dozen; asparagus, 25@
SOC 8 bunch: green beans. 81 50@1 rs p half
barrel basket; wax BEANS 81 0002 25; green
peas. 81 7502 90 % basket; cucuinbers, 81 00@
2 10 y box; tomatoes, 81 25@2 so y box.