St. Paul daily globe., 1884-04-05
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 nc
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 firmer 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-Rece1pts liberal; grease, &c. packing
stock off flavor 7@8c; dairy, common to fair, 10
@I15c; choice roll and prints 16@1Sc; creamery
29@32@37c.
BEANs-Commo, S1.65@1.s5; medium, $50
So. navy 81. 500 2.65.
BACON AND HAMs-Long clears bacon, 10Ac;
dry salt 10c; shoulders, SA@9c; hams, 1917
OLD.
CHEEsE-skim, 6A@7Ac; part cream, $40
9Ac; full cream old, 0A@12Ac; full cream, fall
made, 14@141ac.
DRESSED MEATs-Beef, country dressed, 6l@
&c; city dressed, S@10c; mutton, country
dressed, 607c; city dressed, 909Hc; veal, 10
oil.
FLoUR-Patents S5.75@6: straight S4.75@
500 Bakers xxx, $4.25D5.O0; low grades
$275@3.0O; Rye flour $3.50 per barrel !;
graham S404.25 per barrel; buckwheat -four
S6.75@7.OO.
HIDEs-Green, salted, ~ l@SAc; ; green, 6@7c; :;
dry flint, 12c; calf, dry, 124c; green lie; deer,
dry, 20@25c; antelope, 20@25c; elk, 2O025c !;
buffalo, S@10cr damaged q Off
WooL-Unwashed, 1S021c; washed, goo CSC.
WI. ANn.
16@1Sclb.
HoPs-Washington Territory, soc; New York
CSC. Wisconsin, 25c.
MALT-75c@1S0c per bushel.
LINsEED On.-Raw, SIC; boiled SOC. Lin
seed meal S21@22.
PoULTRY-Chickens, dressed, 15@16c per lb ;
turkeys, dressed, 1SQ19c; ducks and geese, 13
@G15c. These prices are nominal, for scarcely
any birds are offered
RooTs-( (Medcina) ginseng, S1.7501 IS; SEN
eca snake root, 35037c per b.
FRUTs-Apples, 9.OO@55O; peddler's stock
S2.5003.00; pears, Easter Burre, 2.7503.25 per
box; Winter Nells, S4.5O@5O0; oranges,
Valencia, SS.000S.50 per case; Messinas
4OO Florida, S5.OO@6.OO; Messina and
Palermo lemons, $3.OO@3.5O; Cranber-
ries, 9.50@11 90; Malaga grapes, so b., SOS.
so; Figs, new, 16c, 1Sc, 20c per b.; dates,
black in trails 7c@Sc, fard in boxes, 12c per
h.. bananas, S2.25@5.S0 per bunch.
NUTs-Hickory, large, S1.O0; small, S1.25
walnuts, 15c; almonds, 1S@2sc; Barcelona ha;
eel (flberts) lac; pecans, la@1Sc; Brazil, 14c; ;
peanuts, s@13c; Cocoa nuts, S5,OO@7.Oo per
100.
FURs-Mink, 5Oc@1OO; coon, 6o0soc; lynx,
25O@4.OO; musk rat, winter 1Oc, spring 12c,
kits 9@4c; red fox, 1.a501.50; kits, 3O@4Oc
silver fox, 2O.OO@4O0O, cross 2.5O@6O0 otter
6OO@IO,OO; fisher, 6.0O@9.OO; skunk, 3O@75c;
badger, 50@75c; wild cat, 50060c; house cat, 10
@25c; marten, 1858. 90; wolverine, 4.OO@5 90 ;
wolf, 100000; prairie wolf, 75c@1OO bear
7OO@12. 90; cubs, 4.OO@6.OO; beaver, Lake Su-
perior, 800 @4,OO per lb.; Hudson bay, 3.OO@
400 per b., Dakota, 2.00@3. COPPER lb.
SWEET PoTAToEs-Illinois, S4.50@5.O0; Jer-
seys, S5.50@6.00