The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-23
FRUITS, NUTS, VEGETABLES POU LTRY
GUTTER AND EGGS.

In letter to the Milwaukee Sentinel from Ell
gin, ll'nois, the correspondent SAYS: Quite n
sensation was produced in this butter and
cheese center the past week, by the discovery of
the TACT that the agent Of Chicago Dutterne
establishment. had been canvassing among the
grocers. taking orders for artificial butter. That
no should come to the very headquarters Of the
putter and cheese trade of the west to dispose of
ms bogus wares, was astonishing to the citizens
He Went to nearly all the prominent grocery
houses, ana whether he succeeded in getting or
uers from them remains TO be seen. One mer-
chant who had been solicited to handle the CON.
pound, gave away" the canvasser His plan
was TO go to meTchsnt and tell him caudidly
what he was selling, and to reassure him, would
oiiei guarantee that neither the INGREDIENT nor
my oil his customers could detect this butter
from me hnest quality of the genuine The ex-
amples he exhibited were said To be fine They
were in rolls packed in regular buiter.paiis,
had me havor were clean and sweet-look--
ING, and, 10 make the deception more COM
pietc. tho rolls were not uniform in
shape, making 1t appear that each pail
cummings The butter could be furnished
10 the Elgln merchant, the agent said, at a little
less than 20 GEMS per pound at the present time,
Whleh price would include freight and carriage
As me qualities of dairy butter, with which
We compound was supposed - rank, are selling
u, 20 ana 37cents at retail, the inducement of.
Tered TO 20 into the business was hard u with
stand. One Of the arguments made by the agent
W NuNc tlIc incICnhItS 10 t1ke nOl0 Of III was
That The manutactoy with when he was CON
necledw was DESTROYS of liking the handling of
the raw material out of the hands of farmers
who were running the trade by wrong mixing
with genuine butter. His establishment was
purchasing the choicest creamery butter. he
stated, which they mixed In fair proportions
with the raw material, and thus were enabled /,
produce an article much superior to that mixed
by farmers. The agent further astonished the
merchants by alleging that he knew of farmers
III the vicinity of Elpiu-- lairvn,np--vhN
posed OF their milk TO factories who were know
ingly using aduterated butter on their tables in
preference TO the genuine because 1t cost only
ABOUT halt a. much; As they sell all their milk
they are Obliged TO buy their butter and get the
adulterated AZ triiie above one-half the cost of
the genuine. Other farmers, he knew were
using IL without knowing il was not genuine
ne conHuered II a strong argument In favor of
lhe quality o! his compound, when farmers who
| made business of handling milk and butter
could not detect 1t.
To-DAY's QUOTATIONS..
GREEN kpPLEs-New, 81. O0@60O per Dbl.
| CuRRANTs-Sto SIC.
| PEAcHRs-None In market
SAlifoRNiA PEARs-5,5o@6.0O per box
oRAsoEs-Messina, boxes, 8 Oo6i5 30: Valencia
| oranges, cases OF 40, sl0Gll.
,,LhMoNs@per box Sicily, 5)a5,0o per box;
| BANASAs-2.50@l 90 per bunch.
| SRAPRs-Malaga, 6 .OO(d6 90 half barrel
| BASANAs-2, 50pi GO.
pATKs-ln trails, l21l5c
sios-kegs lSc, layers p 10 &c per pound
,Nuis-Amonds, &c per pound; Braxil iUspl9
nloerls, ioG Naples .walnuts, lSo III ohostnnt.
inpui.eu' none on the MARKET peanuts, Ten
| 5, bO69. 20. ~ NN'0'"'
SWIFT PoTAroKs-l 90 to IS nor bushel
oNloNe-Red, per barrel, 500; yellov. On
per bushel. ''' ''''''' o."
porAIoxs-pcr bushel, 81 so and firm; choic,
New York early rose, 3 90C04 90 per bbi,
uAbbAeE-New, 2,5C61S Gu per dozen, old . M
per dozen or tet5c per pound. WIZ -'''
largo bbls $3.50. WIS 70 20
uikoys 606nel co. w WI "'Aoi'
kGee-i0c Der uoren
is, country. 2(l2S NV0N''s' 'os