Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-09
MIDWINTER MARKETS.
The Supply of Game and Poultry
Light and Prices Higher.
BEST CREAMERY FIRM AT RISE
Cereal Receipts Still Light, but Markets
Are Spiritless.
CHOICE HAY ADVANCED AND STRONG
OFFICE OF THE DISPATCH,
IITTSBURG, FRIDAY, Jan. 8.


I'TTTsBURG, FRIDAY, Jan. s.
COUNTRY PRODUCE - Jobbing prices
There has been scarcity of choice poultry
and game since the holiday season passed.
and markets are firm at shade better prices
than haze been obtained since the beginning
of winter. Dressed chickens are particu-
larly scarce. Choice grades of creamery
butter readily command outside prices, but
/ anything below fancy drags. As for coun-
try butter there is little demand, quality of
offering being for the most part below stand
ard. Cheese is firm at quotations. The egg
market is reported quiet at the decline al
ready noted. 1t is rare that fresh eggs are
so low at this season of the year. Job lots
are not active at 24c per dozen. Florida
| oranges are firm at the advance, and bananas
| are quiet. Vegetables are still dull and slow
| at old prices.
| APPLEs-s1 5On2 90 per barrel.
| BUTTER-Creamery Elgin. 32633c: Ohio brands.
2SaSlc: common country butter. 16917c; choice
country roll, 19@22c.
marrowfat. s. 15s2 25 I Lima ssn leans, z zSl2c fb:
| hand picked medium, 81 9Gds2 90.
BEEswAx-Choice. Sa9s5c p ID; low grades, 229
BucKwHEAT FLouR-New: 2!l@elzc ? II.
cheese iik@iiae: LimbargeT t1'i i2zS1s1c: wiscon-
sin Swetzer, full cream, 1S]5914c imported Sweit-
|
CIDER-Country cider. 50 5o@5 90 p barrel; sand
| refined. IS O0f06 so: crab cider. 81 5Ndgs 90.
| CRANBERRIEs-Per box, s. OO@2 50; per barrel,
| s. 006S co.
| Eggs = Strictly fresh nearby stock. 24925c: cold
| storage eggs, e062lc.
| FEATHERs-Extra live geese, 57@5sc; No. ]. 4s@
| Soc 2 ID; mixed lots. 3964Oc.
DRIED FRUITS-Peaches, halves, 6I5c; evapor-
ated apples. s@9c: aprlcots, galoc: blackberries.
66G6Ac: raspberrles, 17d,l7ac; dried grapes, I1a9
| A c: huckleberries. 74@Sc
| GAME-Wild turkeys, 81 5cf92 90 each: mallard
ducks. 81 90 per pair teal ducks. 81 75l3 90 per
dozen; pheasants 81 . per pair; quail: s2 so per
pair: whole deer, 1idi2c p fb saddles. 16Glsc p 10.
| HoNEY-New crop white clover, 16GS17c; Califor-
| mia honey. 1aGb15c p fb.
| MAPLE SYRUP-75t69Gc p gallon.
MAPLE SUGAR-10c p tb.
| POULTRY-Alive-Chicken 6yd7oc pair 1irge:
50G6Gc, medium; live turkeys. l2(113c p ID: ducks
| 60@70c pair dressed chickens I5f0l6c p ID;
dressed turkeys 16Glsc q b dressed ducks, 16@1l7c
p ib.
PoTAToEs-Carload lots 3y04Oc on track: from
store, 4O645c bushel: Southern sweets 81 5O0I 70
barrel. JERSEYS. So OO93 25.
SEEDs-Western recleaned medium clover Job
bling at s. %: mammoth, s. 55; timothy 81 45 for
prime. and 81 80 for choice; blue grass % 652 so
orchard grass 5! IS; miIlet. 81 20: German. 81 Isl
Hungarian. q 10: fine lawn, &c p lb; seed buck
wheat 81 40G1 So
TALLow-Country, 4e; city rendered, &c.
TROPICAL FRUITs-Lemons, "a 0NGf so: Florida
oranges. " 5Ud2 70 box: bananas 81 75G2 90 irsts
IS 5GGl0 0O half barrel; new layer figs, 14618c
per ID.
VEGETABLEs-Cabbages So 0oG4 90 a hundred:
yellow Danyer onions, So 25G2 so Il barrel: toma-
toes. g 90 per bushel: celery, 25G30c per dozen;
turnips 90c@s1 90 a barrel.