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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1889
Page
7
Millfeed and cottonseed meal show quiet or steady demand with prices for sack and bulk options. Malt and hops markets are quiet or dull, with six rowed Canada and State varieties priced per bush or per hundredweight, including New York hops quotes for 1888 and 1887 vintages.
Receipts show mixed butter quality with firm demand for fine flavored fresh creamery and Western creamery varieties. Prices range from 15c to 30c for various grades. oleomargarine and eggs also listed with steady to firm activity across Cincinnati, New York, Baltimore, and Chicago markets.
The market remains quiet with prices for Marrow squash 60 per ton Turban squash 60 per ton Hubbard 70 per ton Savoy cabbage 0.75 to 0.90 per head Cabbage 0.75 per head Ree cabbage 2.25 per head Onions 1 25 per bushel Havana 2 per crate Bermuda 2 per crate Spanish 1.50 per crate Beets 0.40 to 0.50 per bush Carrots 1 per bushel Lettuce 0.50 to 0.75 per bush Turnips 0.40 per box White French turnips 1 12 per bushel St Andrews 0.70 per bushel Radishes 0.50 per dozen Long radishes 1 per dozen Celery 1.00 per box Parsnip 0.50 per bush Spinach 0.75 per bush Box Native dandelions 1.25 per bush Norfolk spinach 2.25 to 2.50 per barrel Kale 0.50 per barrel Parsley 2.50 per bush.
Chicago provisions begin firm with advance buyers, then ease as they cease, ending dull. Pork and pork products show steady demand. lard quiet but steady. Prices listed for long cuts, backs, lean ends, sausages, and various hams. New York and Cincinnati markets show mixed movements.
A market report notes improved sentiment in fresh beef with higher demand. Prices for choice steers range around 74 to 75 cents, good steers 64 to 65 cents, light 50 to 56 cents, and various heavy cuts from 44 to 12 percent. Lamb and mutton demand remains quiet at old prices with lambs around 91 to 91. Lambs from Chicago and Brighton show 6 to 7 cents for choice, Eastern markets 6 to 7 cents, with ranges for common and fair quality.
Stock Yards Kansas City reports cattle receipts at 3463 with prices mostly steady. hogs at 4014 receipts open active and close higher. Chicago cattle receipts 14 000 shipments 4500 steady with beeves 4 to 4 30 and hogs 17 000 receipts strong and higher. sheep receipts 2431 steady at 2 to 4. Sheep and hog prices vary by region with regional shifts noted.
Apples show slack demand with Baldwins at 1.125 per barrel and Tallman sweets 1.75 per barrel. Oranges and lemons are well supplied with steady quotes for Messina Lemons 2.325 and Messina oranges 2.25. Valencia and Florida oranges list higher box prices, mandarins and tangerines noted. Cranberries demand quiet with sales at 8.9 per barrel for choice and 5 to 7 per case.
H Harris & Co to auction 3068 boxes Sorrento oranges 135 boxes Sorrento lemons 6704 boxes Palermo oranges 3125 boxes Palermo lemons Tuesday Snow & Co sold Florida oranges at 1.6242 per box and Almeria grapes at 1.4 per box with eggs at 7 42c per dozen Their sale Tuesday includes 500 boxes Florida oranges.
Sugar markets show steady demand for raw sugars with firm refined prices. Notes cover crude sugars, grades from Manila to Java, and refined items from pulverized to confectioners. Molasses demand remains steady at old prices with regional price ranges for Porto Rico, New Orleans, and Cienfuegos products.
Cotton prices in New York show middling uplands at 100 ec and low middling at 91 1/16 ec with steady to dull trading. Futures opened quiet and closed steady as Liverpool and other U.S. markets report varied receipts, exports, and stock levels across Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and consolidated U.S. ports.
The report shows a well supplied Tallow market with quiet demand and mixed U S prices for rendered and grease. New York poultry sales total 164 birds at 5 5 c. Turpentine and petroleum values appear steady with resin and tar ranges and petro leum at 7.10 7.25 c. Coffee remains strong in New York at 17 c. Whiskey markets unchanged in the West.
Boston and Albany Railroad lists receipts of 43 bales cotton 2750 barrels flour 120 barrels cornmeal 1035 barrels oatmeal 14240 bushels corn 6160 bushels oats 550 bushels wheat 2450 bushels malt 1050 bushels barley 50 tons feed 46 boxes bacon 2 barrels tallow 54 tierces 75 packages lard.
The fragment lists vast consignments across multiple railways including Grand Junction Boston & Providence New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine and Boston Maine systems. It records quantities of pork butter eggs beans corn wool cotton flour leather hides and numerous other goods in bales barrels boxes and cars. The itemized figures suggest a broad, era-spanning commerce snapshot with extensive agricultural and manufactured product movements.
Readable fragments show cargo items and consignments including spices such as sumac, fustic, and codfish. vessels mentioned include Schooner James H Woodhouse and Steamer Dominion. Locations include MARACAIBO and YARMOUTH NL with multiple firms like J G Hall & co and F L Clements & co named in the entries.
Shipping export cargoes from Port Williams Windsor Port Antonio Glasgow and Liverpool include flour cornmeal refined oil beef pork hominy onions salt lines cerealine lard clothes hats steel and hardware harness glass stoves pine oak and spruce timber cottonseed meal and other goods. Numerous vessels carry items such as flour bagging dairy goods hardware leather and agricultural products totaling hundreds to thousands of units.
A long shipping list from PEMERARA HULL LIVERPOOL and other ports details steamer cargoes. Commodities include sugar coffee hides wool rags leather woollen goods and hundreds of cases and casks from merchants such as Baring Bros Co J B Moors Co and Stone & Downer with many named consignors and buyers.
From Foreign Markets in London and Liverpool on February 25 prices show wheat steady to firm with modest demand and flour firm. California wheat quoted at 338s 6d to 38s 9d, mixed American corn up for some contracts, with Liverpool quotes for winter wheat 7s 7d and spring 7s 10d. Provisions and fats mixed with pork 65s, bacon 31s, lard 35s Sd, cheese 56s 3d, and tallow 29s 6d.
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