St. Paul daily globe., 1884-04-03
Among the Commission Men.

| Business remains quiet with prices about
steady The supply of good grades of butter is
very limited and the demand good; there is no
improvement in common grades. Beans are
weakening and have a downward tendency.
Bacon and hams are steady and firm; dried beef
scarce and higher. Cheese is a shade higher for
creamery with limited stocks. Dressed meats a
little unsettled on account of large shipments
from Kansas City. Flour is quiet and weak
Hides are firm and in demand. Linseed oils and
flax products are firm. Poultry nominal. Fruits
are frmer and in better demand; apples scarce
and higher; oranges firm; lemonds increasing in
demand and prices strengthening; bananas in
good supply with fair demand. Following are
prices current:
BUTTER-Recelpts liberal; grease, sc; packing
stock off flavor, 7@8c; dairy, common to fair, 10
@115c; choice roll and prints 16@1Sc; creamery,
| 29D32037c.
BEANs-Commol 81 .65@1.S5; medium, $40
81. 25 navy 81. .5O@ 265.
BACON AND HAMs-Long clears bacon, 10Ac;
dry salt 10c; shoulders, SH@9c; hams, 1917
@14.
CHEEsE-Skim, 6A@74c; part cream, $40
9Mc; full cream old, 10M @12Ac; full cream, fall
made, 14@14Hc.
DRESSED MEATs-Beef, country dressed, 6%@
&c; city dressed, S@1Oc; mutton, country
dressed, 6@7c; city dressed, ,9@9Ac; veal, 10
Oil.
FLoUR-Patents s5.75@6; straight s4.75@
500 Bakers xxx, S4.25@5OO; low grades
S2.75@3.O0; Rye flour $3.50 per barrel; ;
graham $404.25 per barrel; buckwheat flour,
$6.75@7.00.
HDEs-Green, salted, 71a@sAc; green, 6@7c;
dry flint, 12c; calf, dry, 121ac green lie; deer,
dry, 20@,25c; antelope, 20025c; elk, 20025c;
buffalo, S@10c, damaged q off
WooL.-Unwashed, 1S@21c; washed goo Csc
ITO H.. NTrn1 1yurha aof
16@1Sclb.
HoPs-Washington Territory, 30c; New York
2Sc. Wisconsin, 25c.
MALT-75c0DS0c per bushel.
LNsEED On4-Raw, SEC; boiled 52c. Lin
seed meal S21@22.
PoULTRY-Chickens, dressed, 15@16c per lb;
turkeys, dressed, 16@19c; ducks and geese, 13
@15c. These prices are nominal, for scarcely
any birds offered
RooTs-( (Medcina) ginseng, S1.75@1.8 .85; sen.
eca snake root, S5@37c per lb.
FRUITs-Apples, 3.O005 50 peddler's stock
$25O@S.0O; pears, Easter Burre, 2,7593,s5 per
box; Winter Nells, S4.50@5.O0; oranges,
Valencia, $8.OO@s.5O per case; Messinas
400; q Florida, S5.00@6.00; Messina and
Palermo lemons, $3.O0@3.5O; Cranber-
ries, 950@11.0 90; Malaga grapes, SO h., S0S.
SO; Figs, new, 16c, 18c, zoe per lb.; dates,
black in trails 7c08c, fard in boxes, 12c per
lb. bananas, S2.25@D5. so per bunch.
NUTs-Hickory, large, S1.OO; small, S1.25,
walnuts, 15c; almonds, 10000; Barcelona ha;
eel (flberts) 14c; pecans, 12@13c; Brazil, 14c;
peanuts, 8@13c; Cocoa nuts, $5.OO@7.OO per
100.
FURs-Mink, 5Oc@1 90; coon, 6o@soc; lynx,
2.5OO4.OO; musk rat, winter 1Oc, spring 12c,
kits 3@4c; red fox, 150; kits, 3014Oc;
silver fox, &c. .O0@4OOO, cross 2.5O@6OO; otter,
6.OO@IO.OO; fisher, 6.O0@9.00; skunk, 3O075c;
badger, 5O@75c; wild cat, 5O060c; house cat, 10
@25c; marten, 1.25@3.O 90; wolverine, 4.OO@5 90;
wolf, 100000; prairie wolf, 75c@1.OO; bear,
7OO@12. 90; cubs, 4.OO@6.OO; beaver, Lake Su-
perior, 800 @4,OO per lb.; Hudson bay, 5000
400 per b., Dakota, 2.00@3.0 .00p.er lb.
SWEET PoTAToEs-Illinois, S4.5O@5.OO; Jer-
seys, S55006.00.