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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1890
Page
7
Hand-picked and choice screened peas listed with varied prices. Canada peas and foreign peas noted. Poultry prices show steady demand for turkeys and fowls, with limited fresh supplies. game and game birds quoted with regional price ranges. Potatoes and hay/straw markets described as steady but dull, with multiple regional varieties and price bands.
Receipts today include butter 4765 pkgs 1481 boxes oleo 1626 pkgs cheese 71 boxes eggs 935 cases beans 241 bbis potatoes 10 cars hay 27 cars straw 1 car. The Western market shows easier tones due to large supplies and quiet demand. Butter quotations range from 12 to 26c for various grades with firmer prices for fancy old butter and lower for common lots. Cheese and eggs show steady to firm prices with limited supply and unchanged tones in New York Chicago and Liverpool markets.
The market shows steady demand with detailed pricing for onions, beets, carrots, lettuce, radishes, cabbage and more. Prices cover Western onions at 5 and 6 per barrel, Valencia 8.50, Havana 3 to 3.50 per crate or box, cucumbers and tomatoes in crates, beans and peas per crate, greens per bush, and rhubarb and spinach per barrel or crate.
The report covers multiple fruit markets with firm apple prices and small receipts. Baldwins and russets show varied wholesale ranges. Mediterranean, Florida, and Valencia oranges are steady with large supply for some sizes. Lemons mandarins scarce, grape fruit steady. cranberries firm but high prices limit trade. Evaporated apples and dried fruit demand remain modest amid steady to firm quotes.
The steamer Athens passed Gibraltar March 19 with 6000 cases Valencia oranges 3400 boxes Messina oranges 2000 boxes Messina lemons 3500 boxes Palermo oranges and 8200 boxes Palermo lemons for Boston. The steamer Bessarabia carries 24700 boxes oranges and lemons bound for Boston. The steamer Thomas Anderson sailed from Palermo March 82 with 12750 boxes oranges and 15500 boxes lemons for Boston. The Viking is due Friday with bananas for WW and CR Noyes. The Kong Frode is due Friday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Norfolk boat due Friday has 1650 bbls
Harris and Co sold the Brunel cargo at auction with Palermo lemons at 1 12 4 37 percent, Messina lemons at 1 65 8 40, Palermo oranges at 87 20c, half-boxes at 74c, Messina oranges at 1 15 2 70, half-boxes at 90c. Venice cargo in New Orleans yielded oranges at 75c and lemons at 140 405 per dozen.
Receipts today show tallow 86 pkgs, pork 45 bbls, lard 1125 pkgs, hams 16 bbls, preserved meats 426 cases, bacon 576 boxes. Last year comparisons listed. Pork market is steady with quotations across long cuts 12.50–13.00, short cuts 12.60–13.00, backs 12.50–13.00, and various pork products priced from 10c to 17.50. New York pork active, beef strong, lard firm to dull. Chicago notes mess pork 10.50–10.55, lard 61.5, dry salted shoulders 4.40–4.50, short clear sides 44.5–45.0. Cincinnati pork firm at 10.62, bulk meats firm, corn beef and tongues not very active, ample supply. Fresh beef in an easier market.
The report notes lower prices across beef items with a well supplied market and steady demand. Prime steers and other cuts are quoted with varied figures, including light and heavy hinds, loins, and rounds, while lambs and mutton show modest activity and Eastern markets hold steady. Tallow demand remains subdued in city markets, with New York tallow steady to firmer.
Kansas City after cattle and hog trade shows weak cattle demand. Cattle: steers 3.50 to 4.30, cows 1.85, stockers 3.30 to 3.85, hogs 4.07 to 4.12, Yorkers 4.07 to 4.10, sheep 3.40 to 4.00. Peoria hogs slow, prices firmer 4.05 to 4.25. St Louis hogs steady, Yorkers 4.04 to 4.20, packers firmer butchers up to 4.20. Cincinnati hogs active 3.65 to 4.20, packers 4.15 to 4.35. Chicago cattle receipts 16,000, hogs 21,000, lower close. cattle steers 3.80 to 4.60, cows 1.70 to 2.80, Texas steers 2.90 to 3.80. Hogs strong to closing weak, mixed 4.05 to 4.35, sheep active lower. Receipts and shipments noted for each city.
New York cotton closes steady after a strong open with for uplands and middling mixed by grade. Futures show firm to steady. Birmingham and Liverpool tests push middling up, with American exports totaling large and stocks rising across ports including New Orleans and New York.
Shipping list records items from various ports with sugar, mahogany, cedar, hemp, wool, and molasses. Vessels include Bluefilms Nic Steamer Rowena Malanzas Cuba Kepler sugar cargo at Hamburg and Welbourne Australia. Bark Star of the East and Bark Martha Davis list wool hemp and hemp bales with associated firms.
A dated shipping export list from March 26 1890 records a diverse cargo for Surinam DG and Joun NB and Ber Bics BG. Items include drums of flour bread and oil, fish and meat products, tobacco, fur furniture and clothing, grain and hay, and various perishable goods. Contains quantities such as 75 bbls picked fish 2799 bbls pork 125 half-bbls 2725 ths bitter and 900 cans. It lists brig Canadian 265 drums 75 bbls and brig Stockton 10 bats 5 bbls apples 60 ths butter among others.
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