St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-04
THIRD NATIONAL BANK.
Produce Exchange.

The sharp, cold weather we are having
now has caused prices in some articles to ad-
vance very decidedly. Several days ago the
prices of butter were advanced and it now
stands very strong indeed at the figures
named below, with a disposition to still
further advance Cheese is firm but prices
are stationary. Onions and maple sugar are
steady. Green stuff quiet. Apples are &C
tive and in good demand at the advanced
prices of $3@3.50 per barrel. Domestic
Flordas, which have declined to $40
4.50. oranges are steady. Lemons
are firm. T1e poultry market presents
no specially new features. The supply is
getting to be large, and stocks are gradually.
though not very rapidly, increasing. Prices
have not changed. The swindling operations
of men who go out into the country and
claim to be commission merchants from St.
Paul still go on. In order to gain credit these
men get price list printed, and put the
price of poultry up to more than double
its market price in st. Paul. and
then. by representing themselves as
dealers in st. Paul, they gain a
credit which enables them to buy dressed
poultry on time. 1t makes no difference 10
them how much they pay. They do not in
tend to make any returns but to sell the stock
and get out of the country before their obli-
cations become due. They come back here
from the country and sell for whatever they
few days ago that he had made 81, 700 clear
of his expenses in three weeks in this way.
Dealers in the interior ought to know who
the responsible commission men OF st. Paul
are. Eggs are firm and higher. The call:
Butter-Choice to extra creamery, 25@26c;
gilt edge stock, 27@2Sc; medium to good,
lSG122c; choice to fine dairy, 20Gl22c: medium
to fair, liz l3c; roll and print, 12016c; fresh
packing stock. 7Q8c; gre Use butter, 2156D3c.
Cheese-Young Americas and fancy, 1870
15c; full cream, 13@131ac.
Onions, 81 per bu. .....
Minnesota maple sugar l2913c; Eastern,
100llc; Vermont, 111a0i5c i'm 26-ib cans.
California pears, $500 per box.
Maple Syrup-Per gal. $l31.10.
Honey-Slow at quotations; fine white
lover, 140I5c: buckwheat, I00l2c.
Malt-70c per busheI.
Wool-Unwashed. 17019c; washed 22@124c.
Green Stuff-Cabbages. S5IS per 100; pota-
toes. 40Q60c per bu.; carrots, -per-bu., 40c;
celery, 4U@t6Oc; beets per blu. soc: rutabagas,
per bu.. 25c;turnips, per bu., Csc; Hubbard
squash. Sl.2j per doz. - .-.-.-
ApDies-Hard firm stock. fancy eating,
3S03.5O.
Domestic Grapes-1O ID baskets, 6O965c;
Concord, CSC; Catlwba T5c; California To-
kays, whole cases, S3.5004; Malaga, $500
$50 per Dbl.
Oranges-Jamaica, Sc per box; in bbls.
$3.50; FIoridas, S4It4.50. -
Lemons-Foreign Inconsistency, s7Q750;
choice, S6.5007; Malaga, $3.50.
Nuts-Pecans, Texas polished, medium to
large 90D12c per 10; almonds. Terragonas,
17c;. California soft shelled, 15c; flberts,
Sicily. 9012c; walnuts, new California, 1Sc;
cocoaputs, $3.50 per 100. -.-
Dates-Persians, 96c10c: dates in mats,
SIC; figs. 14@1Sc; new, 1Sc.
Bananas-Yellow, per bunch, s203: red,
$I.50g2.50, as TO size ,
Dressed Poultry Turkeys. 7@9c; chick
ems, 526c; geese, 7@Sc; ducks, 7GSc per
pound.
Cider--Choice Michigan. legal. kegs,
S2.7593.25 per keg; choice refined legal.
kegs, 1904 per key: choice refined 52-gal.
bbis., $5.5006.50 per bbl. Ohio cider, ST per
half bbls., 81 for full bbls.
Sweet Potatoes-Baltimore S2.5O92.75;
Jerseys, s. per Dbl.
Game Pheasants, saaa.e5 per doz; Nal
lard ducks, $3.50 per doz.; teal and black
ucks. Sl.2oeDl, 50. Wild geese, 50@60c each.
Rabbits, 81 per dez,; squirrels, zoe per doz. {;
venison, saddles, S@1Gc; hides on, 10G11c;
carcass, 516c.
cranherries-By the Dbl, s7.5O9s.a5; by the
bu., S2.5063.