St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-04
Produce Exchange.

Produce Exchange.
In produce there is fair degree of activity.
Lemons are a little higher. Oranges are
steady. Apples are in the same condition as
they have been in for the past two months
except that the condition has grown some
what worse. There is fairly active demand
for live poultry, though the supply is only
moderate. Butter is the same. Cheese quiet.
Eggs steady and unchanged. The call:
Oranges, Observation-Disclosures, selects
S3.T5G94.25; paper rlnds, @4.50; Mediterran-
can sweets, S404.50; Washington navals,
$5.50@6; budded and seedlings, $3@3.50;
St. Michaels sweets, $3.25@3 so.
Foreign OrangeS-ValencieS, 40 in case,
81: Messinas, 200 to 240 in case, So. so.
Lemons-California, Eureka and Lisbon,
s.. 7594.25. Foreign Inconsistency, $3.50;
choice, So; prime, 81 so.
Grapes-Malaga, SIS per Dbl.
Nuts-PecaDs, Texas polished, medium to
large, 9N12c per b almonds, Terragonas, lie;
California soft shelled. 15c: flberts, Sicily
9@l2c; walnuts, 12915c; cocoanuts, Sc
per 100.
Dates-Persians, &c; dates in mats, SC; figs,
14@DlSc.
Bananas-Yellow, per bunch, ss.5O@a.5o;
red, 81. 50@2. so as to size.
Apples-Choice winter fruit is quoted
at $1.5001.75 for car lots; for nice
selected, small lots, S2@2. rs; eating or stand
apples, So. so; peddler's stock, 5Oc@S1.
Live Poultry-6@Sc for chickens and 100
12c for turkeys.
Game-Quail, So. 25@2.5O; squirrels, S1@1 .25
per doz. Malard ducks, $2GD2.2
Cider-Choice Michigan, legal. kegs, $2.75
@3. 25 per key; choice refined, legal. key, SO
"a per key; choice refined 32-gal. barrels,
S5.50@6.5O per Dbl; Ohio cider, 81 for u bbls,
81 for full bbls.
Butter-EXtra choice, fresh creamery, soc;
extra creamery, 23c bid, Csc asked; extra
firsts, lSc bid zoe asked; fresh made, sweet
dairy, Is to 19c: choice stock, Is to 16c; roll
and print, choice, 1O@121ac; common to fair,
50Sc; packing stock, 4@5c; grease, 2@3c.
Most of the butter coming in is Of the lower
grades.
Cheese-Young Americas and fancy, 11@
12c; October and late made full cream, $40
10c; August and September full cream, $40
9hc.
Onions, per hbl S2.75 to So; new Bermuda
onions, S3.2503.50 per blu.
Potatoes-Sweet potatoes, Muscatines So to
So SO per Dbl; Jerseys, S4@5 per Dbl; Ber-
muda, $3.50.
Oysters-Select, 400 per can; New York
counts, 45c per can.
New Minnesota Maple Sugar, 12@13c; East
ern, 10@11c
Strawberries-50c per quart.
Green stuf-Bunches onions, Is to zoe per
doz; lettuce, 25 to soc per doz; punches
radishes, rs to soc per doz; punches pie-plant,
3 to &c per pound.
Pineapples- to $50 per dozen.
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The following prices are for round lots
only.
Pork, Bacon, Lard, etc.-Pork. mess, 50 80;
pork, butt, SO so; hams, S54c; shoulders. SC;
dry salt long clear, SIC: smoked long clears,
&c; breakfast bacon, 7slc; long spiced rolls,
nc; short spiced rolls, TIC; tierce lard, 614c;
keg lard, 61ac; 3 10 tin pail, &c; 5 10 tin pail,
SIC; 10 b tin pail, 634c; 20 b wood pail, 6Hc;
10 b wood pail, SIC.
Flour-Patents, 81 5000. rs; straight, S4.25@
$50: bakers, So. 5003.75; rye, $303. 50.
Buckwheat, $5.5006.
Beans-Common. 5o@75c; mediums, sOc@
81; hand picked medium, 81 .2501 40; hand
picked navy, 81. 5O@1.75.
Dressed Beef-Prices are nominal at
the following quotations: Fancy dressed
steers from 500 to 900 lbs, 6@7c; choice
dressed beef, 57a@5%c; COWS and
41a@515c; bulls, S1a@4c; country dressed
beef, from 3@5c; hindquartets, 6@7c; fore
quarters, 219@3@c; veal, 6@S1ac; extra heavy
mutton, 5051ac; mutton, ranging from 80 to
40 lbs, 405c; country dressed mutton, 20
41@c.
Fish-Black bass, 1slc; halibut, zoe;
smoked halibut and smoked salmon, 15c; stur-
Founders, 1shc; whitedsh and nd trout rou
Lake Superior, A No. 1, SC; wall-eyed pike,
&c; herring, salt and fresh water. &c; perch
and sea bass, skinned, 7c; cod fish. market,
&c; steak. Sc; pickerel, extra choice, sc;
salmon, Oregon fresh, zoe; red snappers,
12%e; bluefish, 1215c; extra bloaters, 65s,
$1.75; extra bloaters. zoos, $3.50; Holsters:
per %, zoe; mackerel. eah, 1001219c; celery,
per doz., 45c; pigs feet and tripe, kit, S1.4O;
keg, So. 40.
Maple Sugar-No. in 1-pound bricks, 12c
per ID; strictly pure, 2-pound bricks, 1910
per ID.
Honey-Dark, 12c; white clover, 16@I7c;
California white sage, 130I5c.
Hops-Washington territory, 121lc; choice
New York, 1870; Wisconsin, 10c.
Linseed Oil-Raw, 43c, boiled, ACC; Improved
Oil meal, ST. Paul Linseed Oil company. $50
@21.
Malt-75c per bu.
Wool-Unwashed, 16c; washed, 2O022c
Furs-Black bear, $9@13; cubs, S365;
badger 65@S0c; wild cats, 40c; fisher, S5@7;
red fox, $1@1.25; cross fox, $2.5004; kid
fox, 40c; silver grey, S25050; lynx. S3@4;
raccoon, 60@65c; stripe skunk, 30@l4Oc; black
skunk, 100000; wolverines, S3@4; timber
wolf, $1.5002; prairie wolf, 81; muskrat
fall, 1850; winter, 607c; spring, Sc; kits, 2c
beaver, $2@2. SO per ID.
Hides, Pelts and Skins-Green hides, 71ac:
green salt hides, SIC; calf skins, 1Oc; dry
flint hides. I3@14c; dry salt hides, 1O@01lc:
tallow, No. 1, 4Ic; sheep pelts, wool esti-
mated, per q, 25@27c: deer skins, per ID, dry.
15@20c.
MESSER BROS,
General Produce and Commission Merchants
627 Jackson Street,
Sell Baled Hay in car lots; also Butter Eggs
Poultry and Game, as follows: Creamery, 25M
26c; dairy, good, 14D15c: fair. 1O@12c; eggs
11G11l1nc: dressed chickens. zl9c Ib. dressed