St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-29
Among the Commission Men.

With the continued spring weather business
steadily improves. There is no change in buffers
which are receiving fair amount of attention
both for local trade and eastern shipment, prices
| are about steady with liberal supply. Beans are
dull snd quiet; bacons and ham in better de-
mand; dried beef very scarce; cheese in good de-
mand and firm; dressed meats slower; no country
dressed in the market but considerable poor
southern meat imported at se@SAc. Flour quiet
but firm; hides scarce and a shade higher; fruits
in good demand and frmer; apples very scarce
oranges in good supply but prices frmer; lemons
slow and weak. Following prices CURRENT
BuTTER-Recelpts liberal; grease, SC; packing
stock off flavor, rose; dairy, common to fair, 10
| @115c; choice roll and prints 16@18c; creamery,
| 2S032@37c.
BEANs-Commo, S1.65@1.85; medium, SEQ
1928; navy S2.5O@ 2.65.
BACON AND HAMs-Long clears bacon, 1O%c;
dry salt 10c; shoulders, $4,000; hams, 1917
old.
CuEEsE-skim, 6A@7Ac; part cream, sA@
9Ac; full cream old, 0A@12Ac; full cream, fall
made, 14@141ac.
DRESSED MEATs-Beef, country dressed, 6%@
| &c; city dressed, S@10c; mutton, country
dressed, sore; city dressed, 9@9Ac; veal, 10
| gil.
FLoUR-Patents s5.75@6: straight s4.75@
500 Bakers xxx, $4.25@5.O low grades
$2.75@3.00; Rye flour $3.50 per barrel
graham $404.25 per barrel; buckwheat flour,
$6.75@17.OO.
HIDEs-Green, sailed, 715@SAc; green, core;
dry flint, 12c; calf, dry, 12Ac; green lie; deer,
dry, 20@25c antelope, 20@25c; elk, '20@25c !;
buffalo, 8@10c, damaged q off.
WooL-Unwashed, 1S@21c; washed, 900 &c.
| HoNEY-White clover, $4,000 ID; buckwheat,
16@18clb.
oPs-Washington Territory, 3oc; Nav York
Csc Wisconsin, Csc.
MALT-75c0S0c per bushel.
LINsEED OH-Raw, SEC; boiled SIC. Lin
seed meal $21@22.
PoULTRY-Chickens, dressed, 15@I6c per lb ;
turkeys, dressed, 1S@19c; ducks and geese, 10
@15c. These prices are nominal, for scarcely
any birds are offered.
RooTs-( Medicina) ginseng, S1.75@1. IS; sen.
eca snake root, 35@37c per ID.
FRUITs-Apples, 3.00GD550 peddler's stock
S2.50@3.00; pears, Easter Burre, 2.75@3.25 per
box; Winter Nells. S4.50@5.OO; oranges,
Valencia, SS.00@S.50 per case; Messinas
400; q Florida, S5oO@6.OO; Messina and
Palermo lemons, S3.0O@3.5O; Cranber-
ries, 9.50@11.OO; Malaga grapes, so h., s@S
so; Figs, new, 16c, 1Sc, zoe per b.; dates,
black in trails 7c@Sc, fard in boxes, 12c per
lb.
NUTs-Hickory, large S1.Oo; small, ST.
walnuts, 15c; almonds, 10000; Barcelona ha ;
eel (flberts) 14c; pecans, 12@13c; Brazil, 14c ;
peanuts, S913c; Cocoa nuts, $5.00@7.00 per
100.
FURs-Mink, 5Oc@1oo; coon, so@sOc; lynx,
2.50@4O0; musk rat, winter 1Oc, spring 12c,
kits 3@4c; red fox, 1.25@1.50 kits, 3O@4Oc;
silver fox, 20.00@40.0 90, cross 2.50@6.O0; otter,
6.00@I0.00; fisher, 6.00@9.00; skunk, 3O075c
badger, 5O@75c; wild cat, 5O@6Oc; house cat, 10
@25c; marten, 1858 90 wolverine, 4.OO@5 90 !;
wolf, 1.OO@S.OO; prairie wolf, 75c@1OO; bear,
7.Oo@12. 90; cubs, 100000; beaver, Lake su-
perior, 800 @4,OO per b.; Hudson bay, 3.oO@
400 per h.. Dakota, 2.00@3.00p. er lb.
SWEET PoTAToEs-Illinois, $4.50@5.O 90; Jer-
scys, $5.50@600.