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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 14, 1890

Page

7

Flour and meal trade shows firm demand and firm prices

Receipts today include 6500 bbls and 4082 sacks of wheat flour plus 125 bbls and 14%0 bbls of oatmeal. Buyers resist top miller asks while sellers resist concessions, keeping a firm market with an upward tilt. Prices span fine to winter patent flours from 2.50 to 6.25 per bbl, with export grades at 4.65 to 5.95 and rye and graham flour showing steady activity at 8.50 to 8.80 per barrel and 2.25 to 2.56 per bbl respectively. Oatmeal and cornmeal demand remains steady with banded prices.

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Grain Trade Receipts and Prices Reported in Market

The grain receipts today included 720 bush cottonseed meal 24 240 bush corn 43 450 bush oats 91 tons milkseed 1 120 bush barley and 2 450 bush malt. Inspections totaled 139 cars 122 corn 17 oats. Prices show fair demand for corn with steamer yellow limited trading around 45c per bushel and No 2 mixed at 38 39c on track. Oats remain firm with No 2 white at 38 39c, clipped oats at 38 39c, rye No 1 New York 68 70c, six row Canada No 1 72 75c. Millfeed in fair demand with sack bran at 18 19 per ton and Michigan bran at 18 50. Middlings sold 17 50 20 00 per ton. Cottonseed meal firm at 25 50 to arrive and 26 25 on spot.

New York Canada Michigan

Produce Trade Receipts and Market Quotes Across Goods

The day's trade covers butter, oleo, cheese, eggs, beans, potatoes, sweet potatoes, hay, straw, and poultry with mixed receipts and prices. Butter shows steady demand with varied creamery quotes. cheese demand steady with small arrivals. eggs firm with limited supply and high outside prices. beans and peas show firm domestic demand and rising jobbing prices. hay and straw in firm position. potatoes improving with steady Mag nums. sweet potatoes weak. poultry steady with steady live fowls and fresh-killed quotes. truck items include onions, beets, carrots, lettuce, radishes, turnips, squash, and cucumbers with regional price ranges.

Northern Choice Western New Hampshire Vermonts New Brunswick Nova Scotia Michigans Islands New York Vermont California Lima Choice Canada White Alsike Lucerne Red Top Jersey AI Bent Bush Orchard Bermudas Houlton Hebrons Houlton Rose Aroostook Hebrons Aroostook Rose Vermont Rose Hebrons Burbanks White Star Tennessee Floridas

Market Report on Palermo Messina Fruits and Steamer Arrivals

Palermo and Messina lemons and oranges priced by box and count with various grades. Valencia fruit brings nominal values. strawberries, Delaware varieties, and Norforks listed with recent sales. Steamer arrivals include Naranja Pontiac Dodona Espana Flamborough Starlight Gambetta with cargoes of oranges bananas and lemons for Boston and Seaverns Co.

Naranja Boston Gibraltar Pontiac Palermo Dodona Boson Espana Seaverns & Co Flamborough Jamaica Boston Fruit Company Starlight Gambetta Ww&cr Noyes H Harris & Co

The Provision Trade Today in the Market

The receipts today show tallow 125 packages pork 15 barrels lard 1149 packages hams 200 barrels 294 tierces pearl meats 1238 cases bacon 1683 axes. Last year same day listed tallow 100 packages pork 6 barrels lard 1889 packages hams 22 barrels 232 tierces preserved meats none bacon 351 boxes. The general provision market remains unchanged from prior report.

Sugar and Molasses Market Listings

Sugar markets show steady raw sugar at 4 8c for 89 test and 96 test centrifugal at 5c, refined sugars steady at older prices with various grades quoted. Molasses market unchanged with slow trade and New Orleans sales at 40 48c. Fancy Ponce 36 38c per gallon, Cienfuegos 25 28c, Barbados 30 32c, boiling grades at 19c.

Belmont New Orleans Ponce Cienfuegos Barbados

Cotton markets show steady gains amid varied futures

The New York cotton market eased then steadied with closing quotes near opening. Upland grades ranged from 9 1/2 to 12 cents with middling around 12 cents, while Gulf and Liverpool values varied and futures opened quiet and closed steady. World-wide activity noted 27,272 bales net receipts over four days, with exports to Britain and France and a stock total of 230,446.

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