Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-17
Courier's Markets of World
SHARP DECLINE IS
REGISTERED TO-DAY
LOCAL PoRkERs SHOW FALLING
OFF OF TWENTY cENTs-oLD
OATS LOWER.

The local hog market showed a slump
Of twenty cents all along the line. Old
oats are also lower today Slight
changes are also seen In the other
lists. The quotations arc:
Hogs-(Corrected daily by John Nor
reli & Co.l-l2o@l4o. $500: 14o@lso,
$7.o5: 100000. $7.o5; 2oO@24o. $s.s5;
24o@soo. Ss.25; 500 and over, 1890;
packers, $5.ab@5.5s.
sheep--Choioe spring lambs $7@7a5:
fair to good spring lambs, 3s@6.bo;
yearlings lambs. 1907; choice ewes,
$4,000; fair to good ewes. 50: culls,
$150@2; bucks, S2.50@3.
0ttumwa Hay Market.
No. timothy, 312@16: No. 2 timothy
and No. light clover mixed. SIS; No.
timothy and No. 2 mixed. $12: clover
lay, $12@14: oat straw. 81; wheat
straw, IS.
Corn-75 to SOC; rye. 7o@76c; oats,
old. 424 45c; new oats, so@33c.
Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Sutter fat-No. 1, 24hc; No. ., 22hc;
country batter, grocers pay 2O@25c.
Poultry These prices are paid to
producers): Hens lie; geese, &c; ducks
cocks, &C.; old toms. 10c springs lac
Eggs-Doz., 14c; cand1ed count.
Wool and Hides.
Wool = Bright, medium, 24@2sc:
semi bright medium. 2o@24c; An. De-
lane. 1S@2sc: fine Msrino, 11@14c;
bury, 2R3hc less; chaHy and bury.
to &c less; sheep pelts. 50076c: lambs
$50 soc.
Hides-Cured. INC; green. No. l..
Iohc: No. Z, SIC; No. horse hides.
RETAIL PRlcEs-Flour and Feed.
Flour and feed-Graham flour. per
sack, 45c: corn chops, per cwt., $500:
shorts, per cwt., $1.75; bran, per cwt..
sl55; corn. per bu., $1.oo: hay. per cwt.
So@9oc: straw, per cwt., 5000 SOC: meal
per sack, Csc: corn and oat chop per
cwt. $1.S5; corn chop, 20 lbs. 40c; oil
meal. per cwt.. $2z5; wheat flour. per
sack. $1.75@2.s5.
Butter, Eses and Poultry.
Creamery butter. s5c; country butter
Eggs. candled. 3oc
Poultry-Geese. dressed h., zoe: tur-
l,eys, dressed 27Mc; chickens. zoe:
ducks. dressed. CSC; spring chickens,
Fresh and Salt Fish.
zoe: , h.li PVT. 1se; salmon: zoe; PIE;
lchsters, 6oc each: white nsh, zoe h.;
| crabs, hard shell, 15c each; soft shell,
soc each: perch, 12hc: shrimp, 35c
each; native mackeral 4oc each; shad,
80c each; shadroc. 4oc pair; frog legs,
35c pair: Spanish mackerel. zoe III.
Salt flsh--Mackerel 10@25c; herring,
for 25c; Goldfish, 10000: lake fsh,
pail, Zoe: salt mackerel, 10@25c: salt
blue fns, 10 to &c lb. salt cod 100
CSC lib.
Smoked fsh-spiced herring, s for
1ec; smoked white hsh, 25c h.: sar-
dimes. 5@26c; spiced sardines, 3 for
10c: box cod, 12h@2O fancy smoked
bloaters Csc ID: smoked boneiess her-
ring. 25c lb.; smoked herring. SIC ID;
smoked salmon. 25c h.; smokeu halibut
Csc lb: smoked sturgeon, 26c lb.
Fruits.
F'ruits-Bananas, 2o@25c; lemons,
soc; oranges, 30@70c doz; apples, 15@
CSC PIX: grape fruit, 2 Csc; cantaloupe
for Csc; blackberries, 15c at. box; cur
rants, 15c; California pink cantaloupe.
15c each; blueberries. SOC; blackberries
qt 16c; 81 crate; peaches. 1o@15c bas-
ket; $1.50 blu.
Vegetables.
Cabbage head, 5@10c; turnips, for
&c: onions, 2 punches for &c; mangoes,
&c; cucumbers. SC: tomatoes 10000;
parsley. and 1oc; shallots. 2 for &C.;
oyster plants. 2 for 1bc; celery, and
Ice bunch, leek. s and 10c bunch; en-
dive, 2 for &c; potatoes, peck, 20c; bu.,
old 75c mushrooms, SIC; green beans,
1Oc: peas 1oc; horseradish root 10c:
beets, h., sc; lettuce, for &c; egg plant
zoe; asparagus, 15c; cauliflower. 200
SOC; roastinK ears, doz., 16c; beets, zoe
peck: turnips. zoe PIX.