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Condensed Correspondence—Continued. 
King County, Washington.— Hay mak¬ 
ing is in full swing and a heavy crop is 
being secured. The hop louse is causing 
some little trouble to the hop growers in 
this part of the State. B. R. 
Charlevoix County, Mich.— This has 
been the driest season remembered in this 
portion of Michigan. Meadows are burned, 
hay less than one-fourth of an average crop; 
peas and potatoes, the staple crops, are 
nearly a failure. There has been but one 
rain for about 10 weeks. Scarcely any fruit 
—the third successive failure—although 
very fine fruit is usually grown. Except 
for the hemlock bark and lumbering bus¬ 
iness, the outlook for farmers would be 
dismal indeed. Our great potato crop of 
last year is exhausted and potatoes are 
being shipped in from abroad. L. s. B. 
Chester County, Pa.—I am trying the 
Bordeaux Mixture with Paris-green on my 
potatoes, and so far they promise well. 
_ w. s w. 
LATEST WHOLESALE PRICES 
COUNTRY PRODUCE. 
New York. Saturday, August i, 1891 
Beans are dull, with some kinds a little weak. In¬ 
ferior lots are hard to sell at any price. The receipts 
are light. 
Marrows—New, *1 60082 50; Now Mediums choice, 
#2 40; Pea, #2 35; Red Kidney, *2 75®*2 90; White 
Kidney, choice, #2 40®$2 45 ; Foreign Mediums, #2 15® 
#2 20; do Marrow, #2 35®$2 40; do Pea, #2 20g#2 i5; 
Green Peas. #1 15®#! 20 California Lima, #2 55382 60. 
Butter Is unchanged except for Western dairy, 
which Is a trifle lower. Prime stock Is fairly steady ; 
all else Is dull. Both tho export and home demand 
are light and liberal receipts combined with the hot 
weather made the trade drag. Tne quality of the re¬ 
ceipts this season is said to be above the average and 
there Is less shrinkage in the receipts than usual. 
Creamery.— Elgin, best, 18®-c; State and Penn¬ 
sylvania, 15!4®18>4c; Western, best,17)4318(5; do prime, 
16®- 0 ; do good, 14)4®15o ; do poor, 14®-c ; West¬ 
ern Imitation Creamery, prime, 14®—c: do fine, 18 
®—o; do poor, I2®12^c. Dairy.— State, best, 17®18c; 
do prime, 15!4®16)4o; do good, 14J4®15c; do poor, 14c; 
Western, prime, 13®14c ; do fair, 12)4@—c ; do poor, 11 
®ll^c; do factory, best, 13)4814(5; do prime 12®13o; do 
good, 11 @—c. 
Cheese has dropped a couple of points on most 
grades. The light demand with heavy receipts are 
accountable for this. Most holders will sell at inside 
quotations rather than lose a customer. 
Best factory, colored, 8)43854(5 ; best factory, white, 
8)4@894c; good factory, 8 ® 8 J^c; fair factory, 6 ( 4 ®794c, 
part skims, best 5)436)4e; fair skims, 4®5c: com¬ 
mon skims, 3®854 o , full skims, 2«2>4c; Ohio flat, 5)4 
@7kc. 
Eoos area trifle higher unler decreased receipts 
and good demand for prime stock. Inferior eggs are 
dull and must be sold low. There are altogether too 
many of the latter class In market. 
Near-by, fresh, 18)4®— 0 ; Canadian, —®—c; South¬ 
ern, 16®17o; Western, best, 17)4818(5. 
Fruits.— Choice apples are in demand at Increased 
prices, but there are few such. Pears are lower and 
extremely dull. All lower grades sell very slowly. 
Peaches are plentiful, but the most of them are of a 
quality that there Is little demand for. Southern 
grapes are becoming plentiful, but the poor quality 
of many of them, combined with the difficulty of 
shipping in good order in hot weather renders many 
of them undesirable. Good ones sell well at good 
prices. Another glut of water-melons this week and 
many have been refused and sold by the transporta¬ 
tion companies to pay freight. Musk-melons doing 
better If of good quality. The trade In dried fruits Is 
dull owing to the abundant supply of fresh fruits. 
Apples, per crate, 25@75c; do per bbl., 75e@#2 50. 
Pears, Le Conte, per bbl., #!00®#4 00;do Bartlett, 
per crate, 75c@#l; do Harvest, per bbl., #2U0; 
do Clapp's, per crate, 75c®#l; do Bell, per bbl., 12® 
#2 50; Huckleberries, 5@10c per quart; Lemons, per 
box, #2 25®#4 50; Peaches, per crate, 25c®$l 25; Plums, 
Wild Goose, per basket, 45@50c. Blackberries, per 
quart, 5®10c; Musk-melons, per barrel, $l®#4 50; 
Water melons, per 100, #8®#14. Raspberries, per 
pint, 3®7o. Currants, per lb., 639c. Grapes, S. C„ 
Niagara, per lb., 10@l5c;do, do. Champion, per lb., 
3®5c; do, do, Delaware, per lb„ 10@20c; do, do Moores, 
I 0 ® 12 c. 
Dried.— Evaporated apples, fancy, 9)4®10c; prime 
to choice, 8)439c ; good, 7)4«8)4c ; sun-dried sliced. 8 
09c; cores and skins, 1)4®—c; chops, 2^®3J4c; cher¬ 
ries, new, 10c ; raspberries, 13@16c ; blackberries, 354 
@4c: Callfo nia peaches, unpeeled, 10@llc: apricots, 
9® 12c. 
Hay Is moderately active and unchanged. 
Choice, #1®#-, Timothy, No. 1, 9i)@—c ; do No. 
2 75080c: shipping, 69®70c; Clover Mixed, 60 365c. 
Straw—No. 1 rye, 75®80c.; short rye, 50®75c; oat, 50c. 
Poultry.— Fowls and chickens are a little lower on 
account of heavy receipts. Turkeys are not very 
plentiful. 
Poultry—Live.— Chickens—Spring, per lb., 14c@ 
18c; Fowls, near-by,per lb 13®l3!4c, do Western,per lb, 
1391314c; roosters, old, per lb, 80 ; Turkeys, per lb, 
10011c; Ducks, Western, per pair, 65®80c; Geese, 
Western, per pair, #1 25®#1 65 
Poultry.—Dressed— Turxeys, mixed, per lb. 12® 
13c; Fowls, western, choice, 13®13!4o; do common to 
good, ll®13e, nearby, 1414015c; Ducks, good, 8®17; 
Squao: white, per dozen, #3 25®#-; do dark, do,#2 00 
Chickens, 16®23c. 
Vegetables.— Potato’s unchanged. Market firm 
with moderate receipts and a good demand. Onions 
are lower with supplies plenliful. Tomatoes have 
been a glut on the market, but are firmer at present. 
Most green vegetables are plentiful and a trifle lower 
and as the bulk of them come from nearby points 
they are of very good qualify. 
Potatoes-L. I., per bbl. #1 50®#2 00; do Norfolk, per 
do.,75c®#l 75; Eastern Shore, do, #1 50®#i 75. Onions— 
Potato, per bbl, #2 50®#3; do per basket, #125@#150; 
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do Jersey Yellow, per bbl., #2 5)®#3 00. Cabbage, L. I 
per 100, #3 00®#5 00; Squash, per bbl., #1 00@#1 25; 
Turnips, Russia, per bbl., 75c 3*100, Egg Plant, South¬ 
ern, per bbl., #1 503*2 50, Cauliflower, per 100, —®— ; 
String Beans, per bag, $ 1®$1 25; Cucumbers, per bbl., 
#1®*2 00. Tomatoes, per crate, 65c®*2 25. Beets, per 
100 bunches, #1 50382 00. Corn, per 100, #1 00@#1 50. 
Wool.— A good many small lots of wool are selling 
at a steady range of prices, but the demand Is not 
heavy, and large buyers cau ouly be Induced to 
operate extensively by a slight shading on values. 
Medium washed has sold at 35c, quarter blood wash¬ 
ed, 31c; fine unwashed, 2l®2IJ4c; shearlings, 22c; 
Montana, 2!c; Spring Texas, 18@21c, and Territory, 
1814022c. 
GRAIN MARKETS. 
WHEAT.—Bradstreet’s reports an increase of 1 525,- 
000 bushels east, and 84,950 bushels on the Pacific 
coast for the week. The spot market declined, with 
an unusually brisk business reported. Sales. No. 2 
Chicago Spring, *1 0i; No. 2 MUwauke", 8103; Un¬ 
graded Winter Red, 95c®*l 05; No 2 Red, afloat #1® 
81 01 14 ; special July and August, do f. o b., $1 0))4® 
#1 02!4, as to delivery , No. 1 Northern nominal, 81 09; 
No. 2 July, 9Sj!4c 4#l 0054; do August, 97®9844c; do 
September, 97«989*)C ; do October, 9 : 943939 * 0 ; do 
November, 9894'399>4e; do December, 9954c 3*1 0i44 • 
do January, *10154381 02; do May, 81 04948*106. 
RYE —Neglected and nominal, because of the man¬ 
ipulation and excitement at the West. BARLEY.— 
The first sample of new crop Western (Iowa) was ex¬ 
hibited on’Change Wednesoay. It Is of fair quality 
and good weight, and In color slightly below the 
grade of No. 2 Milwaukee of last year. The lot was 
offered at 80c for October delivery. CORN.—More 
favorable weather West, larger receipts, and lower 
cable advices, all tended to weaken the market. 
Bradstreet’s rep >rts a decrease of 384,000 bushels for 
the week in available stocks east of the Rockies. 
The offerings of spot lots were quite moderate, and 
the market ruled comparatively steady, despite the 
weakness in options. Trade, however, was slow. 
Sales-Ungraded Mixed and White, 70 372c; No 2 
mixed, 7054871c elevator; 72c afloat; No. 2 July, 703 
07094 c : do August, 679436394c; do September, 6594 ® 
6694c ; do October, 6394 *65)4c ; do December, 55 ®554c6. 
OATS.—The spot market declined with a dull trade 
and free offerings. Sales—No. 3 mixed, 39V4c elevator ; 
No. 3 white, 45c elevator; No. 2 mixed, 40)4 t41c ele¬ 
vator ; 4154842c afloat; No. 2 white. 46)4®47c elevator ; 
No. 1 White, 52c elevator; No. 2 Chicago, 41J4@42c; 
track mixed, 87!4@4?c; track white, 47359c; No. 2 
July, 3304054c ; do August, 33V4®3394c ; do September, 
32J4®S3>4c. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
BEEVES.—It was impossible to maintain prices even 
on best grades. Texans sold at the range of *2 75® 
*3 75; Colorado steers at $3 85; Kentucky and Ten 
nessee "Scrubs ” at 83 383 25; common to very prime 
native steers at 83 50@$5 85; one car of extra Chicago 
do at $6 25 ; stags, oxen and mixed stock at$ 20 ') 4 ® 
$4 85 ; bulls at 82 25 3*3 ; cows and heifers at 81 50® 
#3 70. There was a fair demand for prime city dressed 
beef, but common quality sold at low figures. Texas 
and Colorado sides are quoted at 4?4®6c ; Inferior 
native do at 506!4c, and decent to choice at 7a9t4c. 
Cable advices to date quote a decline of Me per pound 
in refrigerated beef. American steers slow at 11 * 4 ® 
12J4o, estimated dead weight. 
MILCH COWS.-Slow at #25®|45 per head. 
CALVES.—Yearlings and grassers sold at 2 ! 4 ® 3 c; 
buttermilk < alves at 3>4«3)4c, and some of the best 
up to 394 ® 5 , mixed and fed calves at 394®494c, and 
common to choice veals at 5® 694c, four head (extra 
selected) bringing 7c. Prices were well maintained 
on veals and about steady for all other sorts of 
calves. Dressed buttermilks sold at 5)4®6)4c; country 
dressed veals at 6^4@9c jetty dressed at 8010c (extra 
10)4c) and dressed Westerns at 6a854c. 
SHEEP AND LAMBS.—Demand more active with 
out any quotable change in common and medium 
stock, but good sheep were firmer, and prime to 
choice lambs sold at a small fraction advance over 
Monday’s figures. Ordinary to prime sheep sold at 
81 50®*5 50; selected export wethers at #5 763*6; 
common to choice lambs at 85®$7 culls at $ 46$4 50. 
Dressed mutton steady at 8210c; dressed lambs sell¬ 
ing fairly at 8®lie. 
HOGS.—Feeling weak and the few reported sales of 
State hogs were at $5 80@*6. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Wheat flour from the new crop was ship¬ 
ped from Iowa last week. 
Several car-loads of assorted California 
fruits are sold at auction, daily. 
On one day recently 350 car-loads of water¬ 
melons were In the Philadelphia market. 
The first car-load of new oats was received 
at Baltimore, Wednesday, from Illinois. 
They were prime white and sold for 45 
cents. 
And now after escaping frosts, the June 
drop and other drawbacks, we are told that 
the yellows threatens to seriously diminish 
the peach crop. 
Advices from India state that there has 
been a great improvement In the farming 
prospects. There has been a good rainfall 
throughout the whole country. 
The first bale of California hop 3 of 1891, 
has just been received by express. They 
were of good quality and sold for 75 cents 
per pound. It must be remembered, how¬ 
ever, that this is a fancy price paid for the 
sake of the name of securing the first bale 
and is no indication of the regular market 
rate which is far below this. 
Is the ordinary half bushel basket the 
best package for peaches? G. G. G. 
For this market, yes. Most of the half- 
bnshel baskets hold from 12 to 14 quarts; 
but are called half-bushel, by courtesy, we 
suppose. The round basket is the most 
generally used and has usually a slatted 
cover. Some come In market baskets but 
these are not so convenient to pack in cars 
or on trucks as the others. Many of the 
earlier peaches from the South come in 
crates, but these do not show off the fruit 
so well and are not desirable. Few baskets 
are now returned to shippers. 
Reports from the northern part of New 
Hampshire say the hay crop all through 
the section is the heaviest for years, and of 
the first quality. Barley and oats are look¬ 
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The fields are not large, but the crops are 
excellent. Farmers remark that potatoes 
never looked better at this season of the 
year. 
Reports from Iowa say that in the south¬ 
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mostly harvested and thrashing has begun. 
In the northern districts harvesting is in 
progress. Making due allowance for dam¬ 
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favoring conditions for securing the crops, 
the State will this year produce at least an 
average amount of hay, oats, barley, flax, 
wheat, and potatoes. Pasturage is un¬ 
usually good. Corn is late, and to make 
an average crop must have warm weather 
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