People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — Chicago Produce Market. [ARTICLE]

Chicago Produce Market.

The following quotations are for large lots only; small quantities are usually sold at advanced prices: Vegetables—Asparagus, home-grown, 60@75c per doz; beets, 25@40c per bu; cauliflower, [email protected] per crate of 1 doz; cucumbers, 40@65c per doz; green on-

1.25 per bu; lettuce, home-grown, 500750 per tub of 4 dos; new cabbage, $3,500 4.00 per cratt; onions, Michigan*, SI,OOO 1.75 per brl; pieplant, 25c per 50 lbs; radishes, 25075 c per bu; string beans, green, $1.2501.50 per bu box; wax, $1.50 02.25; turnips, rutabagas, 18023 c per bu; tomatoes, Floridas, $3.0005.00 per case of 7 baskets. Butter—Creameries, extra, 16c per lb; firsts, 14@15%c; seconds, 15c; third, 12c; dairies, extra, 16c; firsts, 15c; seconds, 10c; Imitation creameries, extra, 15c; ladles, extra, 10@12c; firsts, 9c; seconds, 7c; packing stock, fresh, 7c; grease, 3@sc. Cheese—Young Americans, choice, 9@9%c; bricks, choice to fine, 11%@12c; Llmburger, 7%c; Swiss, new, 10011 c. Live Poultry—Turkeys, choice, B%@ 9c per lb; fair to good, 7@Bc; ducks, fair to choice, 7@9c; geese, s3@4 per doz. Apples—s2.soo3.so per brl. Potatoes —Hebrons, 45050 c per bu; rose, 45048 c; peerless, 45048 c; Burbanks, 50054 c; sweet potatoes, Illinois, $2.75 per brl. Eggs—Salable at ll%c per doz when cases are returned; 12c case included.

Lite Stock. Chicago, May 15.—Cattle—Receipts, 115,000; calves, 500. Cattle weighing 850 to 1,550 tbs sold at $406, few lots going above $5.75, and fair to good 1,0500 1.250-tb steers sold at $4.7505.25. Butchers' stuff was fairly active and steady, and there were good sales of cows and heifers at $1.7505, the bulk selling at $2.5004. Bulls sold at $2.50 04.25, and veal calves were again in good demand at $4.25 05.50 for good ones, the bulk selling at $505.25. Hogs—Receipts, 38,000. The offerings included a large proportion of superior hogs, and sales were mostly made within a rather narrow range, the bulk going for $4.40 04.50. Sales were made of common to choice heavy hogs at $4,250 4.60; light and mixed at $4.3004.60, and culls at $204. Light hogs of a choice quality and fat medium weights /sold the best. Sheep—Receipts, 14,000. Prices averaged 26c per 100 lbs higher than at the close of last week, inferior to choice sheep selling at $2.5004.65, with a few as high as $4.86. The bulk were western. Utah, Texas and Mexican sheep. Wooled Mexican lambs weighing 65080 tbs found purchasers at $506. _ Spring lambs that weighed 50 to 55 lbs brought $5.5006 per 100 lbs.

Wheat and Corn. Closing prices of wheat and corn at the following named cities were: Wheat—New York—May, 69%c; July, 70%c; September, 70%c. St. Louis— May, 67%c; July, 65c. Duluth—July, 70c; September, 67%c. Minneapolis—July, 68%c; September, 65%c. Baltimore —May, 70c; July, 69%c. Toledo—Cash, 69%c; July, 66%c. Detroit—Cash, 69%c; July, 67%c. Corn—New York—May, 66%c; July, 68%c. St. Louis-May, 48%c; July, 60c. Baltimore —May, 56c; July, 66%c. Liverpool. Liverpool, May 15.—Wheat —Spot, No. 2 red winter, 5s 2%d; No. 2 red spring, 5s 6%d; No. 1 hard Manitoba, 6s 7d; No. I California, 6s 2d. Futures, May, 5s 2d; June, 6s 2%d; July, 5s 3%d; August, 5s 3%d; September, 6s 4d; October, 6s 4%d. Corn—Spot, American mixed new, 4s 9d. Futureß, May, 4b 7%d{ June, 4s 7%d; July, 4s 7%d; August, 4s 7%d; September, 4s 7%d; October, 4s 7%d. Flour—St. Louis fancy winter, 6s 6d. Peoria. Peoria, 111., May 15.—Corn—No. 2, 60%c; No. 3,60 c. Oats—No. 2 white, 30@30%c; No. 3 white, 30%@30%c. Rye —No. 2,63064 c. Whisky—High proof spirits, $1.24; finished goods, $1.23. Receipts—Wheat, 4,200 bu; corn, 68,000 bu; oats, 81,000 bu; rye, none; barley, 1,400 bu. Shipments—Wheat, none; corn, 24,700 bu; oats, 39,600 bu; rye, none; barley, 700 bu. New York. New York, May 16.— Butter—Receipts, 16,677 pkgs; western dairy, 7012 c; western creamery, 11017 c; Elgins, 17c. Eggs—Receipts, 8,171 pkgs; western, 13%@14c. Coffee—Steady. Toledo. Toledo, Ohio, May 15.—Wheat—Cash, May and June, 69%c bid July, 67%; August, 67%c; September, 67%c; No. 3 soft, 68%c. Corn—Cash, 61%c. Oats—Cash, 30c.