Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-24
A PLETHORA OF FRUIT.
An Over-Supply Of Home Farm and
Garden Products
FORCES DOWN THE PRICE THEREOF.
A Speculative Advance in Oats Lacks Profit
able Staying Qualities.
NO NEW FEATURES IN GROCERY LINES
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH. I
THURSDAY. july %,

COUNTRY PRODUCE (Jobbing Prices)-Re-
ceipts of fruits and vegetables continue to
be in excess of demand, and the whole drift.
of markets is toward lower prices. A daily
reduction on our quotations of farm and
garden products has been a necessity all this
week. The best Southern potatoes are sell
ing on track al 81 80 to 81 IS per barrel and
at 50 to 50 90 from store. Homegrown vege-
tables are now coming in so freely that mar
kets are thoroughly demoralized, and prices
of cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers and apples
are simply what they will bring. Home
raised ca bbage was drug to-day at 4Oc a
bushel basket or baskets for 81. Last week
bushel basket. To-day they were down to
81 %. Apples are slow at 40 to SOC per bushel.
Home-raised eggplants are to the front this
week, and are good stock at $5 per basket.
Demand for choice dairy products has i'm
proved the past few days. Ohio cheese is
steady at the advance noted yesterday, and
choice creamery butter is very firm at q quota-
tions New Swiss and Limburger cheese Is
coming in freely, and quality of offerings was
never better at this season of the year.
Strictly fresh eggs are shade higher, as our
quotations will disclose Poultry is firm,
with an upward tendency.
APPLEs-85a5Oc busheI, 81 O092 GOA barrel.
,-BUITER-Creamery. Elgin, @9Ic: Ohio brands,
BEANs-Nsyy: g 1902 IS; marrow. 81 5o@2 80;
BERaIEs-Gooseberries, 7@sc quart: raspber-
ries, 1O0.11c box red raspberrfeS. 1l9l2c a box:
huckeberries, 81 % pail; currants. 79se; black.
berries, 75c pail.
BEEswAx-5O@S2 q tb for choice; low grade, %
CIDER-sand refined, 80 5N@i0 90; common S. 50
@6 co. crab cider, s2 00l3 % q barrel; cider vine-
gar. 1+G15c per gallon.
CHEESE-Ohio cheese, new, S9slkc; New York
consin, Sweitzer, full cream, 13H@14c; imported
SweitZer, Zdl2Sc.
EGGs-i7@i71kc for strictly fresh nearby stock;
Southern and Western eggs. 16916kc.
FEATHERs-Extra live geese, S@5sc; No. 1, 4a9
SOC q 10 :mixed lots. 5sC@4Oc p fb.
HONEY-New crop white clover, 1S@20cI Cali
fornia honey, 19G15c p lb.
MAPLE SYRUP-75G90c p gallon.
MELoNs-Cantaloupes, 81 lO02 % a crate; water
melons. SO 0O0l5 90 hundred.
PEACHEs-S1 90 a basket; 81 80 box: Bell pears.
sS OO@3 50 a barrel. Plums-Damson, 81 so a crate;
wild plums, S0e10c per box.
MAPLE SUGAR-10c p lb.
POULTRY-Alive-Chic 70(175c pair; spring
chickens, 5N96Oc pair. Live turkeys, &c 2 lb.
Dressed-Turkeys. 15c p lb; ducks, 12a.13c p lb;
TALLow-Country, 4c; city rendered. SC.
TROPICAL FRuITS-Lemons. a 0C94 25; fancy,
81 50G4 IS; Messina oranges. - ONd4 25 a box:
Jamaica oranges. IS 00GS 80 per barrel: Rodi
oranges, S. 0N5 50; California peaches 81 5O91 IS
box; California plums, g c6d,2 25 box; BAN
sugar-loaf pneappes. sl5 O09o0 90 q 100; Califor-
mia Bartlett pears. 81 50@2 IS box.
VEGETABLES 81 00@1 25 large crate;
beets, 25(l35c dozen; Southern onions $ 0OI5 25
per barrel; Southern potatoes. s2 0o92 50
per barrel; tomatoes, 75c@s1 90 per bqshel
5O(175c crate; green onions, 15t620c dozen;
peas, 81 90 per half-barrel basket; wax BEANS 75c
(dS1 80: green beans. 50675c box; celery, 25G35c
per dozen; egg plants 81 ONan 25 dozen.