St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-02

| to carefully observe the following irstruc-
| lions, which will be advantageous to both the
| shipper and the commission merchant:
All articles should be packed in clean
packages, and care should be taken to pack
| articles as neatly as possible.
Articles which are sold by weight should
have tho gross and tare marked plainly on
each package, and those sold by count should
have the number
In shipping dressed poultry and game, mark
each package with the various kinds and
amount contained in each package.
The address of the commission merchant
should be marked plainly with marking ink
on each package, also from whom consigned
nail or tack an invoice on each package, and
| also send an invoice by mail
Country shippers should also make 1t their
aim to send none but choice articles to this
market if they wish to obtain ready sales.
Poor lots, not at for use, and such Wn1cn
country shippers would not use themselves
they being good judges-should not be sent
here to trouble and poster our merchants.
Fancy Vicar pears, 5 boxes or more
S2.75 / to boxes IS; California ounces,
fine quality, 8 boxes or more SITE, 1 to s
boxes So.
Lemons-Choice per box S4.5O15; good, per
box $494.50; oranges 81 to Sc per box.
Grapes-Concords, 10 10 baskets 45050c;
20 ID baskets 30c0S1.25.
Bananas-Yelow, per bunch 81 .5OQ2. so:
red, $1.5002.50.
Apples have settled down into good solid
winter qualities, while the stock is abundant
and increasing. Choice winter fruit is
quoted at S2.1002.35 for car lots; for nice
selected, small lots, So. 50@2.T5; eating or
stand apples, So. 50dD2.75; cooking, So 300
$50; Illinois, 1902 10.
Cranberries-It is now understood that the
supply of cranberries will be sufficient and
much better than was at first expected
Prices are firm at $202.25 per blu. and $50
Z per Dbl.
Cocoanuts-Per hundred S505.50.
Dressed Poultry-The weather is so mild
and the stocks of turkeys and chickens are so
large that dealers are glad to take whatever
is offered. Prices are really nominal at to
&c for turkeys and 2 to &c for chickens.
Game-Wild duck-Teal, S1.@1.25 per doz;
mallard, S2D2.25 per doz; brant, Csc each;
geese, 35@75c; pheasants. So .2502. 80.
Cider-Choice Michigan, legal. kegs, $50
3.75per keg; choice refined legal. keg, So
"a per kegs choice refined, 32-gal barrel
S5.50@6.50 per Dbl. Ohio cider, 81 for "a bbls,
81 for full bbls.
Butter-Extra creamery, 25c bid, &c asked;
extra firsts, zoe bid, 22c asked; fresh made,
sweet dairy, Is to zoe: choice stock, 16 TO 1Sc.
[NOTE-Care should be taken in packing and
shipping; country shippers and dealers are in
the practice of sending roll butter to this mar
ket in every conceivable package including bar
rels, pine boxes, etc. The above named pack
ages should be entirely avoided, as pine Will
have tendency to affect and flavor the but
ter, while barrels are too large and not easily
handled, besides the weight brushes the roll.
New tubs or hardwood boxes are the most de-
sirable, while half barrels or kegs will do
equally as well, and these only should be used.
Care should also be taken before putting the
butter in packages, that all the sides and ends
Of the package be lined with new white mus
lin, thus keeping the butter from DETACHMENT
by touching the wood. Another bad practice
is in putting the butter up in paper; this
should not be done, as the paper sticks to the
butter and damages the appearance. Each
roll should be separately placed in piece of
new muslin cloth washed in warm water to
take out the starch, and thoroughly wet in
good brine. The rolls should also be of mod
crate size and not too large. Then again, the
rolls should be of uniform color, not packing
the light and fresh-made with other that has
been colored
Cheese-Fancy, 10c; fine Sc; fine, partly
SKINNED. 5@6c; Young America, 12c asked.
Eggs-Firm at 1sc bid. zoe asked.
Onions, per Dbl, So to 1928
Potatoes-65c asked per bu. by the car
load; sweet potatoes, Muscatines, SO to
$3.50 per Dbl; Jerseys, $3.50 to 81 per bbl;
Bermuda, $3.50.