St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-26


for the week have been:
Receipts. Shipments
Wheat bushels. ..............13,5O 500 1890
corn ..--........... NIL NIL
Oats 80 ........,..... $500 7,700
Barley " ........... nil $50
Flax Sc ............... nil 4,4OO
The trade in corn has been confined solely to
the new crop and principally to the lower grades
of new corn; the demand has been fair and re-
ceipts light being 2 cars less than in the previ-
GUS week.
Oats have been quiet, the elevator receipts and
shipments showing the whole extent Of the trad
ing. There were but 80 cars received, all going
to the elevators, and about cares were shipped;
prices have ranged steady and firm. No barley
has been shipped to this market during the week
and only $50 bushels bave been shipped
out Of the elevators. The flour trade
has been little better for
the previous week. The mills report local trade
larger than for three or four months, with the
eastern business steady and regular. The rail
road returns show slight increase Of shipments.
The demand for ground feed has been much
greater, the shipments being nearly half more
than for the previous week; prices
have ruled steady. Hay has also held
its own and the shipments
have been little in excess of the previous week.
The increase Of business in products is attrib-
utable to the mild weather enabling shippers to
reach points before difficult of access. There
has been considerable improvement in buffers
the past week, good fresh stocks Of role print
and dairy packed have been in good demand with
more liberal supply. There is also a
steady demand of packing grades at about &c.
for eastern markets. Poor, badly worked butter
is still coming in freely from shippers who ask
for it out side dairy prices which Of course they
do not get. This class of butter accumulates
and hangs hand till it loses its flavor rather
strengthens its flavor and in small and is at last
shipped east as grease.
In speaking of butter it may be information to
some to state that the eastern markets quote
western buffers as creamery, western imitation
western factory, western dairy. OF course all
know what creamery buffers aye, and that they
are churned, worked, sailed and packed in the
factory or creamery and made from cream either
raised by settling milk or collected from the far
mers. But there are not so many, perhaps, who
do not believe that Limitation creamery is not
butter at all. II there are any that SO believe
let them disabuse their minds at once Imita-
ton creamery is genuine and true butter and
but little different from real creamery, the only
difference being that it is sent to the dealer
fresh from the churn. unworked and
without SALT the latter working salters and pack
ing it. Factory butter, or 'ladle packed is
butter collected from various sources in roll,
lump, or print, worked over by the dealer, re-
sailed and packed. 1t was thought necessary to
make this explanation as some have COMPOUNDED
Limitation creamery with butterine. The lat
ter is made of any animal fat--in Chicago of lard
and little good butter, with some other ingredi-
ents. When suet or tallow is used, cotton seed
oil is added to soften and give it the consistence
of butter; this latter is generally called oeomar-
garine, and can be made from any
refuse fat, and even, it is said,
from the mud of rivers draining large
cities. Hotel and restaurant keepers prefer man
ufactured artificial butter to real because itlooks
we'll and stands the heat better. Hams and ba-
con are quiet but firm with supply about equal to
demand. Dried beef is very scarce and high.
Mess pork is a little easier being quoted at $751;
50@S1S.75 Beans are very slow with liberal re-
ceipts and will hardly sustain quoted prices. The
demand for cheese is increasing
and the market has anupward look. Hides are a
shade higher; light hides being very scarce, and
in good demand; further rise must be expected
Honey is quiet and weak. Linseed oils and
fax seed procucts are firm. Poultry is about out
of the market; there is nothing coming in but
old birds; wild ducks are being shipped from the
south, and but little else than
feathers; Teal sell for S1.25@1.5 so
per dozen; Malards from $3.50
800 per dozen. There is better movement
of fruit the weather being such that they can be
shipped without fear of freezing Apples are in
good demand with rapidly decreasing stocks and
higher prices. Oranges have advanced both in
the eastern markets and here. Lemons are I'M
changed, the crop this season is larger and the
demand will not be heavy until hot weather sets
in. Furs are quiet, prices have advanced consid
erably for lynx, otter and some others but the
winter trade is about over. There is but little
change in eggs notwithstanding the warm wealth
er, dealers holding on in hope that the Easter
demand will keep up prices and very material
reduction till after Easter can hardly be expect
ed. Following are prices current:
BUTTER-Rece1pts liberal; grease, SC; packing
off 70 fair
@15c; choice roll and prints 16@1sc; creamery,
2S@32@37c.
BEANs-Commo, s1.65@1.s5; medium, SEQ
S2.25; navy 81. 500 2.65.
BACON AND HAMs-Long clears bacon, 10Ac;
dry salt 1Oc; shoulders, $4,000; hams, 1871
gid.
CHEEsE-skim, eA@7Ac; part cream, sA@
9Ac; full cream old, 10A @12Ac; full cream, fall
made, 14@14Hc.
DRESSED MEATs-Beef, country dressed, 6H@
&c; city dressed, s@10c; mutton, country
dressed, 6@7c; city dressed, 9@9Hc; veal, 10
Oil.
FLoUR-Patents S5.75@6: straight S4750
500 Bakers xxx, S4.25@5.OO; low grades
S2.7593OO; Rye flour $3.50 per barrel;
graham S404.25 per barrel; buckwheat flour,
$6.7507.0O.
HIDEs-Green, sailed, 7K@sAc; green, 6@7c;
dry flint, 12c; calf, dry, 12hc; green lie; deer,
dry, 2o@25c; antelope, 20@25c; elk, 2oG25c;
buffalo, S@10c, damaged q off.
WooL-Unwashed, 1s021c; washed, 26@ csc.
HoNEY-White clover, 10000 lb; buckwheat,
16@1Sclb.
Washington Territory, csc; New York
3Oc.
LINsEED on-Raw, SEC; boiled soc. Lin
seed meal $21@22.
PouLTRY-Chickens, dressed, 15@16c per ID;
turkeys, dressed, 18@19c; ducks and geese, IL
@l5c. These prices are for choice birds dry
picked; scalliwags sell for what they are worth
RooTs-(Medicina) ginseng, $1.750t.S5; SEN
eca snake root, 35@37c per ID.
FRUIrs-Apples, s.O0@5.50; peddler's stock
SS5o@3.00; pears, Easter Burre, 2.75@3.25 per
box; Winter Nells, S4.500500 oranges,
Valencia, $s.OO@s50 per case; Messinas
400: q Florida a lQa6 %. Messina and