Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-21
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Eggs and Choice Creamery Butter
Firm at Prices Quoted.
POULTRY OF ALL KINDS SCARCE.
Cereals Are Still on the Boom, but Re-
action Is Feared.
GENERAL GROCERIES UNCHANGED
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH, Z
MONDAY, April 20.

OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH
MONDAY, April 20.
Country Produce-Jobbing Prices.
The egg market opens this week shade
higher than it closed last week. Supplies are
large, but cold storage men are ready TO take
all that comes at present prices. There is a
great scarcity of creamery butter. The coun-
try butter, arriving the past few days, lacks in
Keeping quality, owing to warm weather and is
o drug on the market. The first new Ohio
cheese of the season arrived on Saturday, and
all offered was promptly taken at 111f to 12c.
One firm disposed of al l its receipts, so boxes,
the day of arrival Poultry of all kinds is
scarce and prices are very firm. Lemons and
bananas are tending upward, under the infu-
ence of warm weather.
APPLEs-S6 0OQ6 50 barrel.
BUTTER-Creamery. Elgin, 2S@29c; other
brands, 25026c; common country butter, l50l6c;
choice country rolls, lS@20c.
BEANS-New crop beans, navy S2 30G2 80;
marrows, 81 3502 40; Lima beans. 51a@6c.
BERRIES-Strawberries, 40G50c per quart.
BEEswAx-2SQ30c y Tor choice; low grade
22Q25c.
CIDER-sand refined, SO 5O@lO %; common.
S. 5OG6 90; crab cider. Sl2 00lg13 " q barrel:
cider vinegar. l@l5c y gallon.
cheese, i215@i8c: Limburger, lS15G14c; domes-
tic Sweitzer. 150l6c; Wisconsin brick Sweitzer,
l6c; imported Sweitzer, 2711G2Sc.
CRANBERR1ES-Cape COu, % Z0D5 0U D01s
s11 5O@l2 0O barrel: Jerseys, So SO a box.
EGGS-140l41&c for strictly fresh;goose eggs,
30@35c; duck eggs. 1Sc.
FEATHERs-Extra live geese, 50@60c; No. /,
40645c; mixed lots. 30@35c ~ b.
HONEY-New crop white clover. 20022c y b;
California honey. 12@15c q b..
MAPLE SYRUP-New, S5@9Oc ~ gallon.
NEW MAPLE SUGAR-1Oc 7R D..
NUTs-Shell bark hickory nuts, 81 25@l so a
bushel; peanuts. 81 5O1l 70. roasted; green, ~
@6c Ta b; pecans, 16c y b.
ONION SETs-Fancy Erie, 81 5O@8 O0 per
bushel; Ohio and Pennsylvania. S. 0O@7 90.
PoULTRY-Alive-Chicke 81 OO@l 10 pair;
geese. choice, 81 90 a pair. Dressed-Turkeys,
1S@20c pound; ducks. l5@l8c pound, chick
ems, l50lSc: geese, 12@l3c.
TALL3w-COuntry, 4Ic; city rendered, SIC.
SEEDS-Recleaned Western clover, S5 000
20; timothy, 81 50@l So: blue grass So IS;
orchard grass, 81 70; Millet 70075c; lawn gr ass,
Csc y b.
TROPICAL FRUITs-Lemobs.s "a 5O@5 20. fancy,
S8 90; Messina oranges. 81 5O03 90 a box: Florida
oranges So 50Q3 rs box; California oranges.
81 1898 20 box; bananas. So 10 firsts So 90 good
seconds. ~ bunch; figs, I5@l6e % b; dates, NO
SIC ~ b; pineappes, 30Q40c apiece.
VEeETABLEs.Potatoes. 81 SO@1 80 y bushel;
So 5O@3 IS; cabbage, s506 p hundred German
cabbage, sl0l112; yellow danver onions, S6 O0Q
so barrel: celery, 75c@sl dozen punches;
carrots, 35c dozen: parsley, 15c dozen; tur-
nips. 75c@s1 per barrel.
NEW VEGETABLEs-Cabbage So 25@2 so for
small crates, 81 75@13 90 for large: kale, 75clsl
a barrel; spinach, 81 259l so q barrel; beans
So a bushel; beets 50@65c a dozen; asparagus
40c a bunch; cucumbers. 75cQSl 90 a dozen:
BERN uda onions, S3 bushel; tomatoes, 81 500
50 per case; lettuce, 5OQ75c a dozen; radishes
S5c dozen; rhubarb. 5O@75c dozen.