St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-23
Produce Exchange.

NoTE.-Parties sending poultry to this
market should observe the following: Poultry
should be kept twcnty-fOur hours before
killing without food. Full crops injure the
appearance and are liable to sour. which
causes lower prices. Remove intestines and
crop. Never kill poultry by ringing the
neck; kill by bleeding in the mouth or open
ing the veins of the neck. Hang by the feet
until properly bled. Scalded chickens sell
best to home trade, and dry picked best to
shippers, so that either manner of dressing
will do if properly executed. For scalding
chickens the water should be as near the
boiling point as possible without boiling; pick
the legs dry before scalding; hold by the head
and legs and immerse and lift up and down
three times; if the head is immersed it turns
the color Of the comb and gives the eyes a
shrunken appearance, which leads buyers to
think the fowl has been sick; the heads and
legs should be removed; stock sells
better without them: the feathers and
pin feathers should then be removed imme-
diateiy, very Clearly, and without breaking
the skin; then plump by dipping ten Sec
onds in water nearly or quite boiling hot,
and then Immediately into cold water; hang
in cool place until the animal heat is en-
tirey out. To dry-pick chickens properly
the work should be done while the chickens
are bleeding; do not wait and let the bodies
get cold. Dry picking is much more easily
done while the bodies are warm. Be careful
and do not break and tear the skin.
Banuanas-Yelow, per bunch $1.50@25O;
red, S1.5092.50.
Lemons-$405.
Oranges-Floridas, s3@3. rs.
Apples-Choice winter fruit is quoted
at $2.1O42.35 for car lots; for nice
selected, small lots, So 50@2.T5; eating or
stand apples, So. 5O@2.75: cooking, $2.250
81. 80; Illinois, 1902 10.
Nuts-Hickory nuts, large, $1.50@1.75 per
l.ia H. oil hI1 al
monds, Tarragona, 18c per b; chestnuts, 81
per blu or &c per b; almonds, California,
l7o; walnuts, California and Naples, 1870
14c; hlberts, Sicily, 12c; pecans, medium, 10c;
peanuts. hand-picked, &c; roasted, Sc.
CranDerr1es-Prices are quiet at S2G2.25 per
blu. and $607 per Dbl.
Cocoanuts-Per hundred S5@5.50.
Dressed Poultry-The weather still contin-
ues warm and muggy, with the worst Of pros
poets in regard to poultry. There is large
supply of chickens on hand, with the proba-
biltiy Of large arrivals. OF turkeys there are
not so many on hand and the demand for
them Just at this Christmas time is better
quoted at from 2 to sc, but dealers will sell
for what they can get and at less than these
figures; turkeys, rose.
Game-Pheasants. 81 5000. e5; venison sad
dies with hide on, 10@11c with hide off, 1860;
whole deer, little sale for 3@4c; quail, $2@2.25
per doz.
Cide-Choice Michigan, legal. kegs, $2.75
@3.25 per keg; choice refined, legal. keg, So
o. per kegs choice refined, 32-gal. barrel
s5.5O06.5O per Dbl. Ohio cider, 81 for "A bbls,
81 for full bbls.
Butter-Extra choice, fresh creamery, ESQ
Csc; extra creamery, &c bid, 25c asked; extra
firsts, Tic bid, 19c asked; fresh made, sweet
day, Is to l9c; choice st ock, 16 TO 18c:
roll and print, choice, 13@15c; common to
fair, S@10c; packing stock, 5@6c; grease, 30
4c. Most of the butter coming in is Of the
lower grades.
INOTE-Care should be taken in packing and
shipping; country shippers and dealers are in
the practice of sending roll butter to this mar
keith every conceivable package including bar
rels, pine boxes, etc. The above named pack
ages should be entirely avoided, as pine will
have q 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