The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-06-10
ST, CLOUD MARK ETS.
JOURNAL OFFICE. June TO- I

JOURNAL OFFICE, June 10, 1875.
For the week just ended. we can only say
that trade has been moderate, with decline
in most articles Of farm produce. Holders
are unwilling to sell, and buyers are 10th
to buy. The only article brought to mar
ket to any great extent is butter, and now
that the butter-making season has fairly
commenced, we think we cannot 10 better
than call the attention of dealers in gener-
al to the following article from the Mime
apolis Tribune Of June 9th:
BUTTER-Thc receipts Of Butter are more libcr-
al but much that arrives is poor and In bad order
The fault Is to certain cStnnt with the country
merchant In not asserting hy butter rs he takes it
in. There are a large number of good butter ma
kers in this State who take the utmost pains in the
making and handling their butter and take It to
the country store In the best order. They get no
more for their choice butter than their careless
neghbor for her filthy grease and when 1t Is taken
In 1t 10 thrown into tho common receptacle, good,
bad and Indifferent, one conglomerated mess and
sent to market here 1t shares the fate Of all poor
butter tho poor commands no better price for hav-
ing some good mixed with It, and all goes 1t low
grade prices, when If the deale. hsd carefully A.
sorted that butter when 1t came In and properly
handled II he would have received f:om 10 to Is
cents per pound more for his good butter and
no less 70: his poor. In this way he is loser Pc
cuniari]y and takes away all lnducement to butter
makers to take pains in making and handling their
stock.
Wheat comes in slowly and we cannot
expect otherwise while prices remain so
low, yet on comparing the prices paid in
this market at the present time, with the
prices paid in eastern markets, farmers will
see that wheat buyers in this vicinity are
not making fortune. The following arc
the quotations for June 9th, for No. wheat
New York, s1.l0; Chicago, &c; Milwau'
kee, oslo; Minneapolis, 90c; St. Cloud, SIC
Let the farmer now deduct the freight from
these figures and he will see that St. Cloud
is not very far behind as wheat market.
The only change in our retail list THU
week is butter which is quoted at 123@20c
Other goods remain about the same:
Four-Patent Process, per sack $3.50.
xxx, 1925.
xxx, 1880.
Salt-$2.75 per Dbl.
Pork-$25.00 per Dbl.
Potatoes-55c "a 6oc per bush.
Rutabagas-2oc q 3oc "
Beets-3Oc @ 4Oc "
Beans-$l.4o O. $500 per bushel.
Onions-$1.oo q 1.25 per bushel.
Conference.-The q l5c per quart.
Butter-l24c q Csc per ID.
| Eggs-12}@15c per dozen.
| Wood-Maple, $500 $500 per cord,
Hay-$7.50 per ton.
| Beef cattle-3c g Sic on foot.
| SIC a. 7c dressed.
Cut Meats-5c @ 12Ac per ID.
! Pork-63c @7c
Lard-18 a. zoe
Chickens-Dressed, 1oc
Turkeys l23c
Hams-City cured, 15c
Country" lOc CD 123c
| Cheese-15c @ Zoe per ID.
Honey-1n comb, 25c q SOC per ID.
| " strained, zoe @ Csc
LUMBER.
Clear, per ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Common. ............... 1200@14.0
Stock boards.................. 13.oo@15.0
/ siding.......................~ 2o.00@22.0
Fencing. ..................-. 1870
| Matched flooring. 20.00@25.0
Dimension....."............ 12.50@14.0
Shingles, No. l............-. is
K ...........-. 80
Xxx .............. 40
| Laths. 20
| Pickets...................... 100
Lime P. B. white$1.75@1.90 per Dbl. :.
Cement-$4.o0@4.25 per Dbl.
Hair-50c per bushel of pounds.