Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-14
CREAMERY GOING UP.
Choice Grades of Butter Advancing
and Markets Very Active.
PEACHES SUPPLANTING. BANANAS.
Wheat, Rye and Flour Are All Higher, and
Oats and Hay Weaker.
THE GROCERY TRADE is FEATURELESS
OFFICE OF PIrTsBURG DISPATCH,
THURSDAY, August l3.

COUNTRY PRODUCE (Jobbing Prices)-
There is an unusual scarcity of choice
creamery butter in this market and all over
the country, and our prices are again ad-
vanced in accordance with sales reported.
Some dealers report sales of fancy Elgin 1c
per pound above our outside quotations
Ohio creamery is not in as good shape as
that from Elgin. The difference in quality
is greater at this time than is common.
Choice cheese is firm at quotations. Eggs
are still quiet, and only the very best are
sold in single cases at outside quotations.
In tropical fruit lines there is a stronger
market for lemons, but bananas are as weak
and draggy as ever. Peaches are so plentf-
full and low in price that bananas have De-
come very poor stock. The average con-
sumner appears TO prefer the peach to the
tropical fruit or ut least desires change of
fruit diet. The peach has the Held at tpresent.
APPBEs-as95oc a bushel, 75cf@1 IS per barrel.
BUTTER-Creamery, Elgin 23924c; Ohio brands,
2o@a1c; common country butter. 12@lac; choice
BEASsoNeiw Ne work York and Michigan pea. g sa@2 4o
marrow, e. So92 60; Lima beans: 544@6e: .,u,,.
s5c@s1 90 pail. s@1oc box; Concord grapes, 79Sc
BEEswAx-aaaa5c p 10 for choice low grade. 2a@
CIDER-sand refined. 90 5o@1o 90; common. 8 50
@s 90; crab cider s12 o0S1s 90 barrel; cider vim
CHEEsE-Ohfo cheese. new, S150SAc: New York
cheese. new, 9@9xc; Limhurger, 109llc: new Wis:
consin Sweitzer full cream, 1313@l4c; imported
Sweitzer, T@2sc.
EGGs-161sa17c for strictly fresh nearby stock:
Southern and Western eggs, 15c.
FEATHERS-Extra live geese, 57G5Sc; No. i, 4S9
soc y 10: mixed lots, 3GG40c q 70.
HONEY-New crop white clover, 1S@90c; Califor-
mia honey, I9dl5c q b.
MAPLE SYRUP-f5d9Oc q gallon.
MELoNs-Cantaoupes, 81 5002 50 a crate: Anne
Arundel melons, S 90 sugar barrel; watermelons,
SIS OOG1S 90 hundred.
PEACHES-50cdS1 90 per basket, 81 cool 25 per
bushel. Pears-S2 500f 90 per barrel 75cds1 90 per
basket. Plums-Damson,S 81 so crate; wild plums,
T110c per box.
MAPLE SUGAR-10c p ID.
Chickens, 65675c pair; spring
chickens, 46950c a pair. Live turkeys. &c 2 10.
Dressed-Turkeys, 15c q fb; ducks, la913c 2 10;
chickens, 12@l3c p 10; spring chickens, AG15c q ID.
TALLow-Country, &c; city rendered, sc.
TROPICAL FRUITS-LemOns, 50 5CG4 10; fancy,
IS 0GG5 25 Sorrento oranges, a 1904 50 box; Rodi
oranges 8 50d6 CO., California peaches, 81 5O92 3
box; California pums 81 5t@2 3 a box; bananas,
81 25@1 80 frsts 81 90 good seconds bunch; sugar.
loaf pineappes SIS 0Ea20 90 2 100; California Bart
lett pears s. 50G2 % box.
VEGETABLES-Cabbage, 75c@S1 90 large crate;
beets 2SG35c dozen: Southern onions. - 25(14 80
per barrel; Egyptian onions S 90 a basket; South
ern potatoes, 81 25(11 30 per barrel; home-raised,
400c per bushe; sweet potatoes, s. so per barrel;
tomatoes, 75cdf1 10 per bushel box; h0me-raised
tomatoes, 81 % bushel: cucumbers 81 503 90 bar
rel: celery, 293Oc per dozon egg plants 75c@Sl 90
dozen.