Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-17
PRODUCE
Wholesale Market Quotations.

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WHEELING, May 10. 1898. !
There are a number Of changes to re-
port under this head this week. The prices
in produce are weaker and the demand
stronger. The only noticeable change Is
in potatoes, the quotations being SUN, with
a fair demand. Eggs remain about the
same. with a moderately fair demand.
Strawberries are still firm, although the
demand is good.
Butter, creamery, strong at % to 3Oc and
plentiful; country choice l215al5c; country
good Sal0c: country fair 4a5c.
Eggs at l3al4c per dozen.
Navy Beans, hand-picked, 81 75a2 % per
bushel.
Cheese. prime Ohio factory, 1l1la12Sc;
New York, l2al2Hc: Limberger, l5c;
Sweitzer, l21Sc; maaket nominal, demand
good, supply limited.
Poultry, old, live chickens, 50 50a4 90 per
dozen; scarce. Chickens, hens per Mound,
lOc, spring chickens 50 5Oa4 W per
Ducks, SO JOa4 OOper dozen. Geese, 5Oa55c
each.
Lard. country prime, 15c; very scarce.
Home grown onions, 81 30 per oushel.
New cabbage, 81 15a3 90 per crate.
Potatoes, 60a75c per bushel.
Apples, So 25s9 80 per barrel.
BeetS, 80 per buShe..
Green Onions. 20a25c per dozen.
CauliAower, 2 80 per dozen.
Spinach, 81 0Oa3 per barrel.
Onions, 81 80 bushel.
Turnips, 81 75a2 90 per barrel.
ParsnipS, 81 75a2 % per barrel.
Carrots, 81 90 barrel
Lettuce 81 GOAL % bushel.
Rhubarb, 25c per dozen.
New Kale. 81 GOAL 30 per barrel
Radishes, 25c per dozen.
Asparagus 60c per dozen; per bundle
10c.
Bermuda Onions g 90 per crate.
Green Beans, per bushel box, % w.
Pine Apples l0al5c each.
Florida tomatoes, 6 basket crates 50 GOA
$50
New peas. 50 90 per bushel crate.
Strawberries, 15a20c per quart.
Cucum bers, 81 90 per dozen.
Pntsburg Produce Market.
PITTsBURG. May l6.-There is fair
demand for choice butter, but as lower
prices are expected, retailers as well as
large consumers are carrying very small
stocks. Eggs frmer, especially for fresh
nearby stock: southern eggs are beginning
70 be regarded with more or less suspicion.
Poultry in fair request at prices quoted.
BUTTER-Elgin creamery. 21a2oc; Ohio
fancy creamery, 22a23c; fancy country
roll. 1Sa2Oc; low grades and cooking, 1Oa
l2c; grease, Sa4c.
CHREsE-Ohio, September and October,
IlISal2c: New York, l2al2L.c; fine fall,
make, new Ohio, 10al21Sc; Wisconsin
Swiss, in tubs, 16al7c; Limoerger, fall
make, l4al415c.
EGGs-SrIctly fresh Pennsylvania and
Ohio. in cases, 145Sal5c; goose eggs, 3Oa35c
per doz; duck eggs, 2Oaa2c per doz
PoULTRY-Largel live chickens, 9Ocatl 10
per pair; live chickens, small, 6Oa5Oc;
spring chickens, 90caSl 90; ducks, 5Oa65c
per pair, as TO size; geese, no sale:
turkeys, 12alSc per pound; dressed
fowls, 14al5c per pound; chickens, loa
lie per pound; ducks, 14al5c per pound;
turkeys, 19a20c per pound.
POTAToEs-Car lots on track. white stock,
95caSl 90 per bushel; from store, choice
stock, 81 GOAL 10 per bushel.
ONION SETs--Erie. 81 00a4 so per bushel;
other kinds. - 50a3 90.
EARLY MISUNDERSTANDING potatoes,
S. soar 90 per barrel: southern potatoes,
81 50s5 90 per barrel: Bermuda onions,
81 9Oa2 90 per crate; Florida cabbage. 81 50
az 90 per crate; Mobile, ~ 00a2 80 per
2-oarrel crate; Fl0riua tomatoes, s. 50a5 0O
per crate: spinach, 81 GOAL y per barrel;
kale. 81 GOAL %; radishes. l5a25c per doz;
greenonions, 12al5c psr doz; cucumbers.
81 GOAL rs per doz: @Ras- ~ O0a2 90 per