COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Note.—The quotations for the articles named in the following list are generally for commission lots of goods and from first hands. While our prices are based as near as may be on the landing or wholesale rates, allowance must be made for selections and the sorting up for store distribution.
Beans.—Hand picked mediums $2 00@2 10. Hand picked navies, $2 15@2 20.
Butter.—Dull and without change. Choice to extra creamery, 32@35c per lb.; fair to good do 25@32c; fair to choice dairy, 23@28c; common to choice packing stock fresh and sweet, 18@22c; ladle packed 10@13c; fresh made, streaked butter, 9@11c.
Bran.—Quoted at $11 87½@13 50 per ton; extra choice $13.
Broom-corn—Good to choice hurl 6½@7½c per lb; green self-working 5@6c; red-tipped and pale do 4@5c; inside and covers 3@4c; common short corn 2½@3½c; crooked, and damaged, 2@4c, according to quality.
Cheese.—Choice full-cream cheddars 13@13½c per lb; medium quality do 9@10c; good to prime full cream flats 13@13¾c; skimmed cheddars 9@10c; good skimmed flats 6@7c; hard-skimmed and common stock 3@4c.
Eggs.—In a small way the best brands are quotable at 25@26c per dozen; 20@23c for good ice house stock; 18@19c per pickled.
Hay.—No 1 timothy $10@10 50 per ton; No 2 do $8 50@9 50; mixed do $7@8; upland prairie $8 00@10 75; No 1 prairie $6@7; No 2 do $4 50@5 50. Small bales sell at 25@50c per ton more than large bales.
Hides and Pelts.—Green-cured light hides 8¼c per lb; do heavy cows 8c; No 2 damaged green-salted hides 6c; green-salted calf 12@12½ cents; green-salted bull 6 c; dry-salted hides 11 cents; No. 2 two-thirds price; No. 1 dry flint 14@14½c. Sheep pelts salable at 28@32c for the estimated amount of wash wool on each pelt. All branded and scratched hides are discounted 15 per cent from the price of No. 1.
Hops.—Prime to choice New York State hops 25@26c per lb; Pacific coast of 23@26c; fair to good Wisconsin 15@20c.
Poultry.—Prices for good to choice dry picked and unfrozen lots are: Turkeys 13@14c per lb; chickens 9@10c; ducks 12@13c; geese 9@11c. Thin, undesirable, and frozen stock 2@3c per lb less than these figures; live offerings nominal.
Potatoes.—Good to choice 37@40c per bu. on track; common to fair 30@35c. Illinois sweet potatoes range at $3 50@4 per bbl for yellow. Baltimore stock at $2 25@2 75, and Jerseys at $5. Red are dull and nominal.
Tallow and grease.—No 1 country tallow 7@7¼c per lb; No 2 do 6¼@6½c. Prime white grease 6@6½c; yellow 5¼@5¾c; brown 4½@5.
Vegetables.—Cabbage, $8@12 per 100; celery, 25@35c per doz bunches; onions, $1 00@1 25 per bbl for yellow, and $1 for red; turnips, $1 35@1 50 per bbl for rutabagas, and $1 00 for white flat.
Wool.—from store range as follows for bright wools from Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Eastern Iowa—dark Western lots generally ranging at 1@2c per lb. less.
| Coarse and dingy tub | 25@30 |
| Good medium tub | 31@34 |
| Unwashed bucks' fleeces | 14@15 |
| Fine unwashed heavy fleeces | 18@22 |
| Fine light unwashed heavy fleeces | 22@23 |
| Coarse unwashed fleeces | 21@22 |
| Low medium unwashed fleeces | 24@25 |
| Fine medium unwashed fleeces | 26@27 |
| Fine washed fleeces | 32@33 |
| Coarse washed fleeces | 26@28 |
| Low medium washed fleeces | 30@32 |
| Fine medium washed fleeces | 34@35 |
| Colorado and Territory wools range as follows: | |
| Lowest grades | 14@16 |
| Low medium | 18@22 |
| Medium | 22@26 |
| Fine | 16@24 |
| Wools from New Mexico: | |
| Lowest grades | 14@16 |
| Part improved | 16@17 |
| Best improved | 19@23 |
| Burry from 2c to 10c off: black 2c to 5c off. | |