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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1889
Page
7
The market shows dull to steady activity across rye flour Graham flour cornmeal oatmeal rye millfeed and cotto nseed meal with light to moderate demand. Quotations hold steady with exports and bagged goods priced, receipts reported for cornmeal and malt, while hops remain dull and unchanged in New York market ranges.
Butter receipts today 5068 pkgs and 2048 cases of eggs. oleo 110 pkgs. cheese 576 boxes. beans 257 barrels. potatoes 12 cars. hay 21 cars. straw 1 car. Compared with last year butter 10743 pkgs, eggs 31 cases, cheese 1332 boxes, potatoes 32 cars. Markets: butter steady to dull with liberal supply. oleomargarine quiet. cheese well supplied and quiet. eggs weak in Chicago. beans steady. potatoes unfolding as scarce then rising receipts. Poultry steady, hay and straw quiet.
The market is well supplied with fair demand. Prices include onions 2c per bunch and 60c per bunch for native onions, beets 2c per bunch, carrots 2c per bunch, lettuce 50c per box, turnips 4c per bunch, Long Island yellow turnips 150 per barrel, spinach 40c per bush, cucumbers 1.25 per 100 count, parsley 50c per bush, beans 125 to 150 per bush, wax beans 81 per bush, green corn lice dot per crate, Norfolk 1 per crate, Providence 2 per half bush, Chicago 1 per crate, cabbage 3.4 per 100 count. Native peas average 1.25 to 1.50 per bush, Florida marrow squash 1.50 per barrel, Norfolk lots 1.50 per barrel, native marrow squash 1.75 per barrel, summer squash 2 cents each, crook necked squash 2 cents each, cauliflowers 1 per dozen.
The report lists numerous fruit prices and market conditions by item. Apples show mixed quality with varied prices for Jerseys Norfolks and Georgia Le Contes. oranges lemons stay steady. Pears, blackberries, peaches, cantaloupes, currants, blueberries, raspberries, pineapples, watermelons, California fruits, bananas, and huckleberries are quoted with region and unit details.
Snow & Co conducted a fruit auction in California selling peaches at 140 150 per hundredweight, Bartlett pears 345 3 75, plums 150 3 25, apricots 15th s 650 31 05. Plans show Monday sale of 83 boxes Bartlett pears 92 boxes Buerre Hardy pears 212 boxes peaches 21 apricots 199 plums.
The Savannah boat due Monday carries 37 carloads of melons distributed among C E Morrison & Co 18, Chapin Bros 6, Curtis & Co 3, Farnum & Co 2, J C Chamberlain & Co 2, J D Mead & Co 2, L W Sherman & Co 1, Gleason & Kimball 1, Boston Produce Co 1, Simmons Amsden & Co 1. Boston Produce Co adds 30 rail cars, bringing the total to about 75 cars.
The steamer Sif is due Monday with Baracoa bananas for WW & CR Noyes. Howick carries 1700 boxes Mesina lemons and 1900 half-boxes Palermo oranges plus 13 200 boxes. Palermo lemons passed Gibraltar July 4 bound for Boston. Ponca passed Gibraltar July 7 with 400 boxes Messina lemons and 14 600 boxes Palermo lemons for Boston. Lorenzo D. Baker due with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit Co. Dithmarschen arrived with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit Co. Olympia passed Gibraltar July 7 for Boston with 300 half-boxes Palermo oranges and 13 300 boxes Palermo lemons. Savannah boat due Monday with 45 barrels, 800 crates vegetables and 37 cars melons.
The receipts today list tallow 1 package, pork 90 barrels, lard 199 packages, hams 2 barrels, bacon 307 boxes, with no beef or preserved eats. Compared with last year the mix shifted: pork 163 barrels, lard 410 packages, hams 1 barrel and 75 tierces, bacon 687 boxes, preserved meats 100 cases.
The general market remains steady with no change since last report. New York-Tallow strengthens to 45 cents. Pork quiet to easy with varying prices for mess, extra prime, and bellies. Beef quiet, hams firm, cut meats firmer, lard weak then steady, and regional quotes from Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati show mixed but stable levels across pork, lard, and bacon products.
Market reports show slow shipping steers and steady sheep at Kansas City with cattle receipts 4232 and hogs 4700. Chicago cattle receipts 8500 with steady tone. hogs 8500 up to 4.70. Cincinnati hogs steady 3.65 to 4.65. lambs 4.50 to 5.50. Trade notes include range of prices for beves stockers cows and mixed.
In New York cotton is quiet and steady with 563 bales moved across uplands and Gulf classifications. Futures opened steady and closed quiet while Liverpool reports a broad set of prices, with weekly American and export totals, stocks, and forwardings for July through January futures.
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