People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — Chicago Produce Market. [ARTICLE]

Chicago Produce Market.

The following are the prices realized er lots an additional charge is made by for unbroken consignments. For smallmerchants: Butter Creameries Extras, 18c; firsts, 16@17c; seconds, 14@15c; imitations, fancy, 16@17c. Dairies—Extras, 17c; firsts, 14® iSc; seconds, B@loc. Ladles—Extras, 12® 13c; firsts, 9@loc. Packing stock—Fresh, grassy, sweet and streaked, &@>7c; roll butter, B@9c. Cheese—Young America, 10%@10%c; twins, new, 9%-@lo%c; Cheddars, new •JM>@lo!4c. Skims and special makes— Brick, ll@ll%c; Limburger, 9%@11c: Swiss, 10V2@llc; choice 1-lb skimmed, 7@Bc. Poultry—Turkeys, fancy, 10@10%c; turkeys, fair to good, 9@9%c; chickens, good to choice, 8%@10c; ducks, ll@13c; geese, poor to choice, 8V&@10e.

Eggs—Really fresh, loss off. cases returned, 14%c; free caj?es, recandied, 15q. At pies—Extern sloc»t salable at troifi $2.50 to 53.5 b per brl; western. $2.75® 3.55; Canada, s3©4. t Vegetables—Asparagus, Illinois hothouse, $5 per % bu box: beets, old, 50'7 75c per brl; new, 40063 c per do*. Celery, home grown, 254143 c per doz. Cucumbers, fancy hothouse, si.?s@2 per doz. Lettuce,- home grown, 15c per doz. Old cabbage, home grown. ss<gS * per 100. Onions. Michigan, [email protected] per brl; bulk, 50c©$1 per bu. Spinach, Illinois, 75c@$l per box. Sweet potatoes, $1.5002 per brl. Potatoes—Burbanks. Wisconsin, 630 65c: Hebrons, 60063 c; rose, 53@S0c' peerless, 55@60c. New potatoes, Bermudas, quoted at S6OB per brl. Live Stork. Chicago, March 7.—Cattle—Receipts, 11.000; calves, 400. There were several bunches of choice 1,400 to 1,600 lb steer 3 good enough to bring [email protected] and the bulk of the steers sold at better than 54.50. Trading in cows and bulls was principally at $2.5003.75; they were fully steady. Stockers and feeders were quiet and easy. Hogs—Receipts, 38,000. The top as was the case yesterday, was $4.45, but there were more sales above $4.25 than on either of the preceding days of this week. Few sales of heavy hogs were made below $1.20, and the popular prices for lightweights were $4.0504.15. Common light and rough mixed sold at [email protected], c.vl culls and skips were peddled to city butchers at [email protected]. Sheep—Receipts, 9,000. Buyers insisted upon lower prices, and the day's work was done at about 10c off. Sheep sold principally at [email protected], and $2.5Q@ 4.50 was the range of quotations for poor to choice. Lambs were quoted at" [email protected].

Wheat and Corn. Closing prices of wheat and corn at the following named cities were: Wheat—New York—March, 58? c; May, 59c; July 59%c. St. T ' -—March, 52%c; May, 52%c. Dulu ’ " .1, 58%c; May, 59%c. Minneap - <l, 58%c; May, 57%c. Baltimo - -• h, 58%c; May, 59%c. Toledo—t 'Vic; May, 55%c. Milwaukee—Cash, f.i%c; May, 55%c. Detroit—Cash, 55%c; May, 55%c. Corn—New York—March, 49%c; May, 49c. St. Louis—March, 41c; May, 4P%c. Baltimore—March, 47%c; May, 48%c. Liverpool. Liverpool, March 7.—Wheat—Spot No. 2 red winter, 4s 8d; No. 2 red spring, 5s 2%d; No. 1 hard Manitoba, 5s 2d; No. 1 California stocks exhausted. FuturesMarch, 4s 7%d; April, 4s 7%d; May, 4s 7%d; June, 4s 7%d; July, 4s 8d; August 4s B%d. Corn —Spot American, mixed, new, 4s. Futures—March, 4s ll%d; April, 4s %d; May, 4s %d; June, 4s %d; July, 4s Id; August, 4s l%d. Flour—St. Louis fancy winter, 5s Bd. Peoria. Peoria, 111., March 7. Corn—No. 2, ll%c; No. 3,41 c. Oats—No. 2 white, 30%@31c; No. 3 white, 30%@30%c. Rye —No. 2, 52%@53c. Whisky Spirits, 51-28; basis for_finished goods, 51.25. Receipts—Corn, 4i,600 bu; oats, 24,209 bu; barley, 3,500 bu. Shipments—Wheat, 600 bu; corn, 7,800 bu; oats, 54,700 bu; barley, 2,100 bu. Toledo. Toledo, Ohio, March 7.—Wheat—Cash and March, 55%c bid; May, 55%c; July, •5%c; No. 3 soft 54%c bid. Corn—Cash, 12%c; May, 44%c; No. 3 yellow, 42%2c; No. 3,42 c. Oats—Cash, 31c bid. ——ts New York. New York, March 7.—Butter—Receipts, 1,785 pkgs; western dairy, B©t’l4c; western creamery, 13@20c; Elgins, 20c. Sggs—Receipts, 5,016 pkgs; western, 20e. Coffee—Firm.