Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-28
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Butter Of All Grades Keeps Drifting
to a Lower Level.
EGGS IN BETTER SUPPLY BUT FIRM
Cereal Market Quiet and Tendency To-
ward Lower Prices.
AN ACTIVE MOVEMENT OF GROCERIES
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH, I
TUESDAY, May n, 1S9O.
Country Produce-Jobbiug Prices.

Country Produce-Jobbiug Prices.
All grades of butter are very dull and
tendencies are toward lower prices Creamery
and country rolls have been scarcely as low in
the memory of the Oldest inhabitant as they
are now. Strawberries are in ample supply
and improved quality, and prices are lower
than at any time this season. Receipts of
eggs were larger to-day than for a week past,
but prices are well sustained for choice nearby
stock New potatoes are coming in freely from
the South and the drift is downward. Good
old potatoes are steady at quotations. In
tropical fruit lines oranges are the strong
factor. Good stock is very firm at quotations.
Lemons are barely steady. Prospects are that
our markets are to be crowded with all season.
able articles in fruit and vegetable lines for
the balance of the week. Four carloads of
strawberries are due from Tennessee to-
morrow, not to speak of large quantities due
from Virginia and MARYLAND:
BUTTER-Creamery, Elgln, lS@19c; Ohio do.
l5@l7c: fresh dairy packed. ll0l3c; country
rolls, 94l0c.
BEANs-Navy hand-picked beans, 81 sO02 90.
BEEswAx-25@2Sc y n for choice: low grade,
lS@2Oc.
CIDER-sand refined. 81 so: common, 50 Oo@
90; crab cider, 81 5O@S 90 q barrel; cider vim
CHEEsE-New Ohio cheese, 91S@l0c; New
York cheese, 10hc; Limberger, l41sQl5c: do
nestle Sweitzer. DC; imported Sweitzer, z76c.
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duck eggs. 1sc; goose eggs, 35Q40c.
FRUITS-Apples. fancy 81 5OQ5 90 y barrel;
Strawberries, 11@l5c box.
FEATHERs-Extra live geese 50@60c; No.
do. 40@45c; mix ed lots, 30@35c % b.
MAPLE SYRUP-New, 9OG95c a can. Maple
sugar. l@l2c y d.
HoNEY-l5c % b.
POULTRY Live chickens. 75@90c pair;
dressed, l4@l5c pound; dressed spring chick
ems, SOC pound; ducks 75c@Sl 90 a pair; live
turkeys. lac pound.
SEEDs-Clover, choice, 62 ms to bushel, "a 90
p bushel; clover, large English, 81 MS. "a $50
4 90; clover Alsike, s. 90; clover. white, SO 90;
timothy choice, As ms, 81 COOL 20; blue grass
extra clean. IA MS 81 25@l 80; blue grass. fancy.
IA bs 81 30; orchard grass. IA ms. 81 40; red top,
IA Ds 81 0G; millet. 50 ms. 81 90; Hungarian
grass, so ms, 81 90; lawn grass mixture of fine
grasses, 81 50 p bushel of IA rs.
TALLow-Country, SIC; city rendered, 4c.
TROPICAL FRUITs-Lemons. common, 81 rs
@3 90; fancy. s. 5O94 so; Messina, 81 5O@5 OO
Rodi oranges. SIS 10; bananas 81 0O@2 so
firsts. 81 rs good seconds, y bunch; cocoa
nuts, "a 00@4 so p hundred: dates, 615@7c
p lb; lay figs 1216Q1511c; pineapples. Ssgl2
hundred.
Observation-Disclosures. from store, 750
Soc; on track, 55@65c; new Southern potatoes.
81 0O@4 so per tarrel; Bermuda potatoes, S6 50
barrel; new cabbage, SO 25@3 so for small crates,
IS 5O@5 75 for large; Bermuda onions, 81 500
z 70 pe- bushei crate; green onions, 15Ql20
dozen; parsnips. 81 20 2 barrel: onion sets,
So 5004 90 % bushel; asparagus. 25@50c p large
bunch; rhubarb, 20@3Oc q dozen; green beans,
81 256l so Sa box: wax beans, 81 50G3 90 p box;
green peas 81 1908 90 y basket.