Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-04
AMONG THE GRocERs.
Some Facts OF Interest 10 the Dealers in the
Neeessarfes OF Life.
New York star. January 9.

oO8be FdtlS VI Interest 10 tAS DfStioIe IL tiie
Neeessaries OF Life.
New York Star, January g
Among the tradesmen who can show
balances on the right sides of their ledg-
ers, for the year that has just come TO an
end, none have more cause to be salts
fed than the wholesale grocers. The
following statistics gathered from the
trade records give some idea of the ex-
tent of the business in the United States:
The consumption OF sugar last year in
creased between 4 and ; per cent.
On the New York coffee exchange the
sales were nearly 81 900 900 bags, or
about double the whole world s produc
ton
The tea business was not very profita-
bic TO importers, and there was an esti-
mated deficiency of receipts of u 600, 600
pounds
Canned goods have shown an increased
supply and a consequent decline in price.
Holland Patent, n. Y, the former
home of Grover Cleveland, supplied
l 200 goo pounds of cheese last season.
Hutchinson, Kan, is manufacturing
salt at a cost of y cents barrel.
The grocery trade Of ST. Joseph, Mo,
Baltimore packers are charged with
labels, and California dealers are indig-
nant at the attempt to flood the country
with such bogus goods.
Protests have been sent to packers of
raisins in Spain against the present raisin
box decorations which are considered i'm
modest and Objectionable
The raisin product of California for
1883 reached q total of 904 900 boxes, of
which 400 600 came from the Fresno dis
trict
Considerable attention is being given to
the canned goods industry in the state of
Virginia, where 100 establishments are
now engaged, one of which has capacity
of %, 900 cases Il season.
A condensed milk factory has recently
been established at Sioux Falls, Dakota.
Clam juice is growing in popularity.
1t contains iodine, phosphorus, lime,
magnesla and albumInoids. Nursing
mothers, dyspetics, and infants ana the
aged find it to possess rich nutritive quail
tiles
A grocers' exchange is talked of by the
Detroit merchants. They propose to rent
d hall in which to hold permanent ex-
hibition of grocers goods for the benefit
city and country retail groeers.
The use of solid paraffne for washing
perfumes is growing in England.
Condensed buildings are manufactured
to a very large extent by the Unadulter-
ated food producers company of Nyaclz,
Ny.
For the last four months of 1888, LAT
carloads of walnuts, dried fruits, plums,
honey and beans were shipped from Santa
Col & 10
A three-days' meeting of the Western
canned goods association viii be held at
Chicago, commencing February 10.
The California production during 1888,
according to carefully prepared esti-
mates includes 5 1000 900 pounds of
honey, 3 600 900 pounds French prunes,
2 900 900 pounds each of dried grapes
and sun dried peaches, 2, 800 ,000 pOunds
bleached apricots, and l 200 1000 pounds
of walnuts.
Some idea of the fishing trade of GlOu-
cester, Mass. may be had from the fol-
lowing figure OF receipts for December
last: Goldfish, 2 500 $50 pounds; hall
ibut, l49 200; salt herring 1900 barrels.
Illinois Gamers are discussing the sub
ject of building a tin can factory at
Bloomington Over ten million cans are
annually used by the packers of that
state.
Alaska produces superior quality of
salmon On the Karluk river last year
200 900 cases were packed.
The stock of pickles in the hands Of
packers and salters west of the Allegha-
MES on January y, according to the re-
port of F. A. Waidner & Co. of Chicago,
was 157 900 barrels.
The imports Of oranges and lemons at
the port of New York in 1888 were &c.
$40 boxes, 123 200 cases oranges and
l ,42S 1928 boxes lemons.
Out of 40 900 oranges shipped in bulk
by rail from Florida to Philadelphia re-
Gently, but 1000 reached their destination
in a worthless condition. Rail shipments
are expected to supersede transportation
by ocean in the near future.
The adulteration of milk in Philadel-
phia is carried on to such an extent that
application viii be made to the legisla-
ture to remedy the evil.