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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Shorts or search for Shorts in all documents.
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Schedule of prices.
A schedule of prices agreed upon by the Commissioners of the State of Virginia for the ensuing months of April and May is published by the Secretary of War.
We give below the prices fixed for the most important articles:
Wheat — Red and white, per bushel, $25.50.
Flour — Fine, $123 per barrel; superfine, $125; extra, $126; family, $128.
Corn, $20 per bushel.
Corn meal, $21. Rye, $29. Oats, $15. Wheat bran, $3. Shorts, $4. Brownstuff, $5. Shipstuff, $8.
Bacon, hog round, $4 per pound.
Salt pork, $3.25. Fresh pork, $2.75. Lard, $4.
Horses and mules, first class, $1,200.
Wool, washed, $10 per pound; unwashed, $8.
Peas, $30 per bushel.
Beans, $30.
Irish potatoes, $20 per bushel; sweet potatoes, $20. Onions, $50. Peaches, $20; peaches, unpealed, $15. Dried apples, $15.
Hay, baled, per one hundred pounds, $7; unbaled, $6. Oats, baled, $11; unbaled, $10. Fodder, baled, $10; unbaled, $7. Shucks, baled, $7; unbaled, $6.