Connecticut western news., 1890-01-22
MARKET REVIEW OF THE WEEK

DOS1ON, Jdu. ~, lCJU.
 The feeling in the wheat market Is steady to almost positiyeness. The export demand is rather light at this time, with the foreign markets generally dull. For the week the total receipts of flour were 19,165 bbls. and 19,072 sks; last year, 17,041 bbls and 37,221 sks.
 The cornmeal market is quiet, with the position easy. Oatmeal does not vary in the matter of prices, but trade is dull. Rye is about steady, with rye flour steady. Corn is easy in the West, from the fact of heavy receipts, and a trade rather slow. The demand for export is dull. On this market trade is not as active as previously noted, and the tendency is little toward the easy, owing to liberal offerings. Still, the condi- tion of the corn coming is good deal im- proved. For the week the total receipts of corn were 3sS,45O bu; last year, same week, 95, ,4SO bu.
 For oats the market is about steady. For the week the total receipts of oats were 79,- O9O bu; last year, 67, 75O bu.
 The receipts of hay are still moderate, but the tone of the market is too quiet for any change in the situation, which is dull and easy. The best lots of prime hay are wanted, still slow. Straw is in quiet request Winter weather does not come in sufficient volume, and it does not stay long enough to increase the demand for straw. Millfeed is quiet in request, with the market about steady;
 Pork provisions are in steady demand, with are busy. The total kill of hogs for the week was about 23,50O; previous week, 21 1,5O0; same week last year, 2O,5O0. The export request for Boston packed meat is good. The noted, though that part of the market is still as dull as any. Fresh has improved in re- quest. and prices are steady. The quotations are fully retained. and the prospects are that any change, or the next change, will be toward higher figures.
 The rocpiDtS of heef are very heavy the total for the week being 199 cars. Previous week, 194 cars last year, 129 cars. The sup ply is very full, and though the trade has been fairly good for few days and the position taking hold. They take what beef they are obliged to have-nothing more-and they do not pay the recent stronger prices willingly. The request is much better for hind quarters than it is for flores.
 The supply of muttons, and especially lambs, is light enough, so that buyers are ready to supply their wants without hag- gling, and at about full market quotations. The poultry market is not particularly firm. The supply of western turkeys is full, while northern are scarce, with the market firm. Chickens are quite firm on choice lots, but off lots and lots long time held have to be sold very low.
 There is no particular improvement in the butter situation unless it be that the colder weather has shortened the make of fresh | little, and hence made little better demand. The winter has been very favorable to the | production of butter thus far, as indeed was the summer, and the problem Is as to how to | get rid of the holdings without actual loss. l There is some call for the better kept June and 1 September buffers for export, but the butter | that goes in that way goes at very low prices. | For the week the total receipts or butter were 12,653 pkgs; last year, same time, 12,- | 492 pkgs.
 The cheese market is very quiet. Trade is l small and ent-ely in the way of certain small lots wanted by the jobbers and retailers.
 Eggs were rendered little more firm by the change to cooler weather, but somehow this frmness is not very seriously felt, since the supply is ample, with the demand only fair.
 For the week the total receipts of eggs were SS bbls and 7526 cs; last year 112 bbls and 5S3S cs.
 Beans continue about as dull as anything on the list: If there is any deline, it comes ill slow dragging way, with the market ap- | parently about steady.
 The receipts of potatoes are not heavy, and | the market has lately been stronger on the 1 light receipts. The total receipts for the week were 45 cars, against S4 cars for the same week year ago. Bnt still the situation has been a little easier on the arrival of some IT cars of western.
 Trade in apples is rather quiet, and yet the supply of the best winter fruit is not heavy, and the market is firm in that direction. The supply of seconds and fall apples is working | off without great loss in the way O: rotting, though the weather has been mild, with the supply of such fruit large. There Is fair request for export, with good prospects of a better one.
 For the week the total receipts of apples were 3704 bbls; same week year ago, 4276 | bbls.
 Cranberries are in good request, with the supply limited. Prices are high, especially for choice. Oranges are selling quite freely, though pretty fair prices are being realized. Lemons are in very light supply, and the market frmer.
 There has been a better demand for fish with very firm prices. The receipts are light, and the old stock is being rapidly dis posed of. The market on mackere Is strong. The receipts of codfish will be small for some time to come, as no considerable quantity is looked for til after the arrival of the spring fleet from Western bank.