Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-31
A SLUGGISH TRADE
In Produce Lines Will Be Stimu-
lated by a Cold Wave.
PACKAGE COFFEE DROPS AGAIN,
And Jobbers Think There's Bear Move
ment in Green Ferries.
ALL DAIRY PROJECTS BARELY STEADY
OFFICE OF THE DIsPATCHs !
PITTsBURG, December 80. (

COUNTRY PRODUCE Jobbing prices -
Receipts in this line are light, but demand
corresponds, and trade is reported slow.
Receipts of poultry are small as compared
with a week ago, but notwithstanding
small receipts, the movement is far from
active. The weather of late has not been
helpful to trade. Dairy products of choice
grade are barely steady, and common grades
are exceedingly dull, with prices nominal.
Country butter has been drug OH the mar
ket for weeks past, and only fancy stock is
in demand. The average consumer prefers
oleo to butter that is not first quality. Eggs
are in better supply than for some time
past, and markets are weak at the reduction
already noted. The article most longed for
by produce commission merchants is spell
OF Sharp, frosty weather. with the mercury
descending to the zero line.
APpLxs-sI 5Uae 90 per barrel.
BurTER-Creamery Elgin. Sl@3ec: Ohio brands.
27G39c: common country butter, 16e9l7c; choice
'YF BEaSsNNew York and Michigan pea. 81 eo@2 %:
mar5owfat s. I5@s 25; Lima Lima od beans 4a4'sc 10
BEEswAx-C Choice, 5sG25c p 10; low grades 2a9
Bi5ckwuEAr FLouR-New. e.s@es6c p 10.
CHEEsE-Ohio choice, liGl11sc: New York
cheese IL 1lsG1l1Ac; Limburger. l2l4@13l5c; Wiscon-
sin, Swetzer, full cream iaa@llc; imported sweit-
CIDER Country cider. S 5c@5 90 2 barrel; sand
CRANBERRIEs-cPer box, s. oo@2 50; per barrel,
y 000S 90.
EGGs~strictly fresh nearby stock. 25@eec; can
died eggs. 29G23c cold storage eggs, 21c.
FEATHERs-Extra live geese. 57g5sc; No. ], 4s(9
Soc p ib: mixed lots. sad+Cc.
DRIED FRUITS Peaches, halves, SIC: ev8por-
ated apples, SG9c: atricots. 99lOc biackberrles;
@5Nc; raspberries, 171712c; dried grapes. 4@G4Ac;
huckleberries. 71s(dSc.
GAME-Wild turkeys, 81 5o92 90 each: maIlard
per dozen pheasants. s. 75S 90: quail 81 25Gl 80;
squirrels, 81 GOAL so: rabbits, S@35c per pair;
whole deer 1aDI5c p ib: saddles. lSd20c b
HoNEY-New crop white clover, lSc; California
honey. l3al5c p ID.
MAPLE sYRuP-TN9scc p gallon.
MAPLE SUGAR-10c q ID.
PoULTRY-Alive-Ch Chickens. 6NGS5c pair, large:
3o65Oc medium; live turkeys. l2@l3c q 10: ducks.
5G0S0c pair: dressed chickens, 1lGGl5c ID:
dressed turkeys, Df16c ID; dressed ducks. 1A9l5c
Rb.
POTAToEs-Carload lots. 3sd4Oc track: from
store 4GGl45c bushel: southern sweets, 81 5O01 20
a barrel Jerseys. 50 OOGS %
SEEDS-Western recleaned medium clover job
bling at IS 20; mammoth IS 80: timothy. 81 45 for
prime and 81 50 for choicest; blue grass, 81 652 So
orchard grass 81 10: millet. 81 %; German: 81 l5
Hungarian. 81 10; fine lawn 25c per ID; seed buck
wheat 81 4N91 80.
TALLOw-Country, &c: rendered, SC.
TROPICAL FRUITS Lemons. - 0TG4 50; Florida
oranges: 81 0Nd2 % box: bananas, 81 1902 90 rsts,
81 2Nd1 20 good seconds per bunch: Malaga grapes,
s. 5GdIO 90 half barrel; new layer figs, 1A916c
per 10.
VEGETABLEs-Cabbage s. Cc04 co hundred:
yellow Danver onions. s. C0d2 D barrel; toma-
toes, s. 90 per huslel: celery, 25930c per dozen;
turnips, 9OGs1 90 a barrel.