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Show BUSINESS 15 BETTER 01 PR0D0CE MARKET Dealers Report Good Demand for Meat, Vegetables and Fruit Saturday. Business on the produco market. Satur- day was much better than it has been before In many weeks. Of course It was tho day when housewtves do their weekend week-end shopping, but the conditions of tho weather also had considerable to do with tho change, declared the dealers. Tho demand for meat and fresh vcpotables was tho best and fruit also sold well. There was little call for poultry, owing to the high price. Poultry Is rather scarce, and the demand, small an It Is, Is being supplied with eastern birds. A consignment of chickens wa6 received from Kansas Saturday mornlnc. Dealers offered a good line "of frosh vegetables Saturday. Lettuce, radishes, green onions and other spring vegetables which have been shipped ln from Moapa, Ida,, and California, were moderately plentiful and met with a ready ante. There was a good demand for oranges Saturday. This fruit Is now at Its best and Is. offered at prices ranging from 20 cents to 50 cents a dozen. Bananas sold well at 25 cents a dozen. Apples arc rather scarce at the present time, but dealers expect several consignments during dur-ing tho coming week. Cotton Letter. James A. Pollock Si Co., bankers and brokers, 6 West Second South street, furnish fur-nish the following, received over their private wire yesterday afternoon:- Logan Si Bryan Cotton Letter, New York Liquidation of long cotton bv people peo-ple who were In tho stock market, a slightly less favorable visible and spinners' spin-ners' takings than expected caused a weaker cotton market today. This was brought about despite the failure of the weather man to provide any rain ln tho southwestern section and was without any particular reason or logic, other than the tired-out feeling of some of the bulls, who are lmpationt for action. The essential es-sential facts, however, still remain that cotton is from 5c to 3c below the average cost of production, where average vlelds are obtained, and the incentive toward decreasing tho acreage and devoting a larger area to the cereals and market gardening Is the greatest In many vears. The statistical position of cotton grows stronger every week, but the spinner Is unwilling to take on all of the visible ln any one week and the speculative forces now at work In cotton don't want the spot cotton Itself, as thev seem to fear March tenders. Tho certificated stock In New York, however, shows 60.-000 60.-000 bales loss during the month of January, Janu-ary, and It is quite probable that verv llttle, if any, added shipments will show up. Liverpool corrects their salo of yesterday yes-terday to 15,000 bales. This. If continued, would be a very bullish proposition. New York Flour and Grain. NEW YORK, Feb. 20. Flour Receipts, 14,400 barrels; exports, 13,400 barrol3. Higher, with a better demand. Minnesota, patents. $5.40(5.75; winter straights, $5:10 5J!5; Minnesota bakers, $4.25(5'4.50: winter win-ter extras, $3.854.40; winter patents. $5.255.60. winter lower grades, $3.30 4.30: Kansas straights, S5.00(75.25. Wheat Receipts, 21.600 bushels: exports, ex-ports, 4900 bushels. Spot, Irregular: No. 2 red, $1.21 elevator; No. 2 red. 1.21 f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, $1.24 f.o.b. afloat; No. 0 hard winter, $1.24 f.o.b. afloat. Bulls ran May wheat up c abovo yesterday's yes-terday's record this morning, but later withdrew support and allowed prices fo react a little. The market closed unset tled and ic net higher. May closed at 51.19 and July at $1.09. Now York Produce. NEW YORK, Feb. 20. Butter Steady, unchanged. Cheese Firm, unchanged. Eggs Unsettled and lower; western firsts, 2Sc; seconds, 27Jc. New York. Sugar, NEW YORK, Feb. 20. Sugar Raw, firm; fair refining, 3.113.140; centrifugal. .96 test, 3.61(gi3.64c; molasses sugar, 2.S6 2.S9c: refined, steady: crushed, 5.25c; powdered, pow-dered, 4.65c; granulated, 4.55c. |