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be subject to great risks in transportation 
and handling. Immense quantities of fruit 
have been left to rot upon the trees and in 
the orchards during the present season, be¬ 
cause the owners were foresighted enough 
to see the condition of the market. We are 
disposed to think that the commission mer¬ 
chants are as honest as the majority of men 
in other occupations. They certainly are a 
hard-worked class. Many of them refuse 
to advertise their business in agricultural 
papers because they do not wish for more 
business. They already have more during 
the trait season than they care for. We 
have been outrageously assailed in the past 
because commission men whom we had 
recommended failed to do as well for ship¬ 
pers as the latter thought they should have 
done, hence we do not any longer recom¬ 
mend any one. We will, to accommodate our 
friends, furnish them the names of men 
making specialties of different products. 
That is all we can do. 
Fancy plums are wanted. 
Don’t ship inferior fruits. 
Butter is strong—in price. 
Hay is likely to go higher. 
Ship the live poultry soon. 
The supply of grapes is large. 
Venison sells for 20 to 22 cents. 
Gift packages help sell all produce. 
Don’t sell winter apples at present prices. 
September strengthens the demand for 
meats. 
The demand for other fruits than peaches 
increases. 
From 4,000 to 5,000 barrels of apples are 
exported weekly. 
The heaviest shipments of California 
Bartletts are over. 
Much American flax seed is being export¬ 
ed, principally to Antwerp. 
An unknown insect is devastating the 
sugar beets at Watsonville, Cal. 
Canada is shipping large quantities of 
produce direct to the West Indies. 
One vessel from San Francisco brought 
6,670 bags of beans, principally Limas. 
Extensive cranberry marshes in the Wis¬ 
consin district have been destroyed by fire. 
American apples sold last week in Liver¬ 
pool for $2.19 to $5.84 per barrel, the latter 
for Kings. 
The Almeria grape crop is estimated at 
5d0,000 barrels, a considerable falling off 
from last year. 
LATEST WHOLESALE PRICES 
COUNTRY PRODUCE. 
New York. September 19, 1891. 
Bkans are dull and weak under liberal receipts for 
the season and good prospect for the new crop. 
Marrows—New, $1 60<382 30; New Mediums choice, 
$2 30; Pea, $2 30; Red Kidney, $2 693*2 65; White 
Kidney, choice, $2 40»*2 45 ; Foreign Mediums, 31 95® 
•2 15; do Marrow, $2 203*2 30; do Pea, $2 10 3 $2 <5 ; 
Green Peas, $1 053*1 10 California Lima, $2 40382 50. 
Butter still continues Its upward way. Limited 
receipts p re vent much accumulation. The best quali¬ 
ties are In good demand and sell briskly at top prices, 
but lower grades are in large supply and tend to drag. 
Creamery.— Elgin, best, 2532546c; State and Penn¬ 
sylvania, "2532546c; Western, best, 25 3 c; do prime, 
21323c; do good, 18320c j do poor, 16 317c; West¬ 
ern Imitation Creamery, prime, 18320c; do fine, 15 
317o; do poor, 143- c. Dairy.—S tate, best, 22 323c; 
do prime, 21@22c; do good, 18319c; do poor, 14c; 
Western, prime, 17@18c; do fair, 14@15c; do poor, 
12313c; do factory, best, 1546c; do prime, 1431446c; 
do good, 1331346c. 
Cheese Is a trifle higher and held firmly though the 
market Is quiet and trade moderate. Present figures 
are too high for much export business. 
Best factory, colored, 9 >63-c ; best factory, white, 
946@996c; good factory, 8%3946c; fair factory, 7463846c; 
part skims, best 6 3746c; fair skims, 536c; com¬ 
mon skims, 435c; full skims, 2®3c; Ohio flat, 63846c. 
Egos are firm for fresh, which are not in large sup¬ 
ply, but there are large quantities of held stock to be 
disposed of which will tend to prevent any Immediate 
material rise. 
Near-by, fresh, 20321c; Canadian, —3— c; South 
ern, 18319c; Western, beat, 1946320c. Ice house, 18319c. 
Fruits.— Applfs are dull for all but choice fall fruit, 
the preference being for the red varieties. The few 
winter varieties received meet but little demand. 
Peaches are not In large supply, but a little higher 
prices have checked demand and the sales are slow. 
They are nearing the end of the season and dealers 
are not sorry. Pears are plenty, dull and slow of sale. 
Plums are doing fairly well Grapes selling freely. 
Cranberries more plenty and steady. Fine musk- 
melons are doing better. Water-melons are a drug; 
they are a warm weather fruit; the demand is lim¬ 
ited at this season. 
Apples-Fall varieties, 75c3$2 25 per bbl.; Baldwin, 
do, $1 00381 25; Greenings, do, $1003*125; Pears, 
Bartlett, per bbl., *2 0034 00; do Seckel, per bbL, 
$1003$4 00; do Flemish Beauty, per bbl., $1 253$1 50 ; 
Lemons, box, $3 253*6 ; Peaches, per basket, 25c3$l ; 
Plums, Green Gage, per bbl., $3 503*4 50; do Egg, 
per bbl., $3 503$4 00; do Reine Claude, per bbl., $3 50 
3$4 50; do Damsons, per bbl., $1503*4 00; Musk- 
melons, per barrel, 50c 3*2 50; Water-melons, per 100, 
$3 U03$7 00. Grapes, Niagara, per lb., 336c; do, 
Concord, per lb., 233c; do, Brighton, 238c; do, 
Delaware, per lb., 436c; do, Worden, 33346c. 
Cranberries, Cape Cod, per bbl., $53*7 50; do, per 
crate, $1 503*2 50. 
Dried.— Evaporated apples, fancy, 896 39c; prime 
to choice, 83896c; good, 738c; sun-dried, sliced, 4 
36c; cores and skins, 14632c; chops, 23246c; cher¬ 
ries, new, 8310c; raspberries, 14317c ; blackberries, 3 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
34c: California peaches, unpeeled, 9310c; apricots, 
846311c. 
Hay is a trifle lower under liberal receipts and a 
moderate demand. New hay sells for a little less 
than quotations. 
Choice, $13$-, Timothy, No. 1,80385c; do No 
2 703—c; shipping, 60 3—o; Clover Mixed, 55®65c. 
8traw—No. 1 rye 65^75c.: short ’•ye. 503551: oat, 45c 
Hops are unchanged and the market Is dull with 
little doing. 
State, l->9 crop, seedlings, "6317c; do 1891 crop, 
prime and choice, 16317; do do, low and good, 13 3 
15c; Pacific Coast, 1890 crop, best, 17; do, fair and 
good, 14315 
Nuts.— Peanuts are steady ; new fancy hand picked 
quoted at 43-c, farmers’ grades at 246336c for 
prime. Pecans-Straight lots of ungraded are quoted 
at9311c. Hi jkory nuts, *1 50. 
Poultry.— Firmer for all kinds, both alive and 
dressed. Live poultry has been in light receipt. Nice, 
fat young dressed turkeys are wanted to weigh not 
less than seven pounds. There Is too much poor 
poultry arriving. Bones are not wanted in the poultry 
market. 
Poultry— Live. —Chickens—Spring, per lb., 10c3 
12c; Fowls, near-by, per lb 1231246c. do Western, per 
lb, 1231246c; roosters, old, per lb, 646370; Turkeys, 
per lb, 11<312o; Ducks, Western, per pair, 50375c. 
Geese, Western, per pair, $1 003$1 40 
Poultry.— DRESSED— Turkeys, mixed, per lb. 83 
17c; Fowls, western, ohoice, 13 a-o; do common to 
good, 9312c, nearby, 113 -c; Ducks, good, 8319. 
Squao: wuite, per dosen, *3 003*3 25, do dark, do, 
$2 00; Chickens, 11321c. 
Vegetables.—P otatoes are dull and lower though 
having been higher early in the week. The supply is 
liberal. There Is little change in the position of other 
vegetables, all of which are In good supply. 
Potatoes—L. I., per obi. *1 25 3*1 50 do Jersey, per 
do., 75c 3*1 15; do, Sweets, *1 59 s$2 50. Onions-White, 
per bbl, *2 753*125; do Jessey Yellow, $1 253*1 50; 
do Connecticut Red, $125 *$175; do Orange County 
Red, $1 3$1 50 ; do State Yellow, $1 503*1 75. Cabbage, 
per 100, *2 503*3 00; Squash, per bbl., 60c3*l 00; 
Turnips, Russia, per bbl., 50 375c, Egg Plant, 
per bbl., 75c3*l 00 ; Cauliflower, per 100, —@— ; Lima 
Beans, per bag, $13*125; Cucumbers, per 1,000, 
75c3*l 25. Tomatoes, per crate, 25345c Beets, per 
100 bunches, $—3*—. Corn, per 100, 35c3*l IX). 
Milk and Cream.— The dally average receipts dur¬ 
ing the past week have been 17,663 cans of milk, 223 
cans of condensed milk and 502 cans of cream. The 
average price for the surplus was *1 80 per can of 40 
quarts. 
Wool.— In better demand, and held very steady by 
dealers. Sales—XX fleece, 3133’c ; spring Texas, 173 
25c, fall do 16o2lc; scoured flue spring do, eight 
months, 62364c ; medium scjured do, 50 358; Georgia, 
26463 27c; fine delaine, 85c ; medium washed fleece 
36c , fine unwashed do, 2146322c. 
GRAIN MARKETS 
WHEAT—Sale#—No. 2 Red at *1 02460*1 04 In ele¬ 
vator, *1 03463*1 0546 afloat, *1 03963*1 0646 L o. b.. 
No. 3 Red, $1 Oi; Ungraded Winter Red, 93c3*l 0746 ! 
No. 1 Northern Spring, $1 0646; No. 1 Hard Spring) 
$1 079fi : No. 2 September, $1 024a3$l 0446 ; do October 
$1 03463*1 0546; do November, *1 053$t 07; do Decem¬ 
ber, *1 07 7-16 4*1 0896; do January, *1083*1 10; do 
February, *1 09463*1 1146 ; do March, $1 1396) do April, 
$1 1346; do May, $1 1246381 1496. CORN.—The spot 
market was dull and lower. Sales. -No 2 mixed, 66c 
elevator. 67c afloat, 636c for special October delivery 
62c for special November delivery ; Ungraded mixed, 
6146367c; No. 2 White, 6446c elevator: No. 2 Septem¬ 
ber, 643 65c ; do October, 6046362c ; do November. 5896 
35946c; do December, 53463 5446; do January, 5135146c; 
do February, 5146c ; do May, 509635146c. OATS.—The 
spot market was moderately active, though very 
irregular, closing steady. Sales.—No. 3 3i46c; do 
white, 8346334c; No. 2, 32463324sC; do white, 35e; 
No. 1.38c; do white. 87c; Ungraded Western mixed, 
30333c; white do, 33331c; l>o. 2 Chicago, 334633346c ; 
No. 2 September, 3246332%c; do October, 3296333c; 
do November, 3396331c: do December, 349633446c ; 
No. 2 white September, 34963 3646c : do October, 3496 3 
3546c; do November, 3546c; do December, 36 33646c. 
RYE.—Firmer, quiet; quoted at 98c for Western, c. f. 
and i. BARLEY—Firm ; more demand but no busi¬ 
ness reported. Quoted at 73 $74c for No. 2 Milwaukee. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
BEEVES.—Good to choice native steers were in fair 
demand ; but common natives and all kinds of range 
cattle were very dull. Slaughterers are filled up with 
Texans and the market is extremely baa for that 
kind of stock. Texans and half-breeds sold at *3 3*4 
per 100 pounds and good Colorado steers at $4 153 
*4 20 ; ordinary to choice native do at $3 90 4 * 6 , in¬ 
cluding four car loads of very prime Indiana do at 
the outside figure; oxen and stags at *2 503*5 1216 ; 
bulls at *150 3*2 50; cows at $15246383 10. Latest 
cable advices quote refrigerated beef steady at 49ftd, 
or scant 946c per pound, and American steers lower at 
1131246 c per pound, estimated dead weight. 
MILCH COWS.—Market dull, with sales of poor t 
good cows at $203*45 per head. 
CALVES.—The market ruled steady, with sales at 
2463346c for grassers and buttermilk calves ; 34634c 
for fed do: 5 3796c for veals, and 3163196c for Western 
calves. Dressed grassers, 435c , dressed buttermilks 
sold at 435c: country dressed veals at 7311c (little 
calves at 44636c), and city dressed at 9312c. 
SHEEP AND LAMBS.—Good stock sold fairly at 
about steady prices, but common and medium grades 
were generally rated lower, and buyers were very in- 
0 ilferent purchaser *. Poor to gooi sheep sold at *3 50 
3*5 12 >6 per 1X) pounds • a few selected for export at 
*5 504*5 75; common to choice lambs at *5366 6 246 ; 
culls at $4. Dressed mutton slow at 739c; dressed 
lambs quiet at 8310 c. 
HOGS.—Market a trifle firm, with sales at $5 753 *6 
for good to choice medium and light-weight cornfed 
hogs. 
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