Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-18
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
A Review Of the Week rs seen In the Pro-
duce Market.


The Omaha produce market Of the past
week has not been entirely barren Of feat
mcs Of interest to shippers. At the same
time the market has not been very active,
both receipts and demand being only moder-
ate
In some lines of produce there has been a
tendency toward moro liberal receipts
Butter is coming more freely than was the
case a short time ago. \ good feature about
it is that it is selling fairly we'll, the demand
being Just about large enough to keep II
cleaned up in good shape. For that reason
prices during the week have not shown any
material change but the general market re-
m aims practically steady
Chickens have also been coming more
freely and the light demand has weakened
the market. AS the holidays draw near
the popular demand is for turkeys while
chickens are more on less neglected. 1t
was unfortunate that just at the
time when the market was the least
prepared to stand II the receipts
should increase as they have done.
The demand for turkeys has been increasing
more rapidly than the receipts and the mar
kct has been firm all the week At the same
time prices have not been unreasonably high
but arc bound to advance unless there is an
increase in the receipts very soon, Dealers
are very much in hopes that shippers
will profit from their Thanksgiving ex-
pcricnce and ship early for Christmas
1t is the late shipments that glut the market
and that have to be sold ut sacrifice. 1t
has been observed that station agents at
shipping points are many times to blame for
the late arrival of shipments, as they repre-
sent that IL will only take u certain length
of time to reach the market, when owing to
delays it frequently takes from one to three
days longer A shipper who puts too much
dependence on the promptncss of the rail
roads is very apt to have his produce on the
market too late.
Ducks and geese have also been in pretty
good demand, and being in light supply have
| commanded good prices all the week
Eggs have experienced IA slight decline
| since the opening of the week. Strictly
fresh laid eggs have been very scarce, and
the market ON such ought to be very firm,
! but there are large arrivals of country-stored
eggs, many of which sell for fresh stock, and
| thus weaken the market.
The game market has been in pretty good
| shape all the week. The receipts of quail
have been quite large but the market has
| held up under the influence of Il good de-
| mand, both LEGAL and shipping.
| As result of large receipts the hay mar
! ket has not quite held up to opening prices OF
| the week.
Produce Pointers.
The Minneapolis Produce Bulletin is com.
| planning about the low price of egg in that
market owing to the placing of so much cold
storage stock The Bulletin says: There
should be some law requiring storage eggs to
| be branded the same rs oeomargarine. This
| is necessary for the protection of the public
who have absolutely no way of knowing until
| the eggs are put on the table for consumption
whether they are getting the stock for which
they pay. Then should they claim the stock
TO be storage there would be an opportunity
for controversy, which affords no relief. If
there isn't something done sooner or later
there will be noinduccments to produce fresh
eggs during the winter months.
1t is claimed that the trial shipment OF
,.,,t
very satisfactorily. At the time the fruit
reached London the market was very low
and yet the prices obtained were about tho
same as in the United States
Fruit trees in New York are said to have
been heavily damaged by the recent fall OF
snow in that state.
The Minnesota law forbids the handling OF
venison after December 10 but the courts
have recently decided that this applies only
to venison taken within the border of the
state. Under that decision dealers car
handle venison that is shipped in from Other
states.
The trade in Christmas greeneries ha:
come to be quite an important feature of the
years business. Many commission mer
chants in this and other cities make a spe
cialty of handling greens that are in demanc
at this season. Christmas decoration ha:
vastly increased of late years in America
while the furnishing of the foliage ant
bright berries has become an extreme
ly profitable industry, employing
many hands All sections o
the country, from Lake Superior to Florida
as well as foreign lands, send their gotta o.
local vegetables to grace our Yuletide. One
of the most popular evergreen plants is the
red-berried holly, which on this side of the
Atlantic attains the greatest perfection
in South Carolina. Mistletoe is also handled
to a considerable extent in som'
southern states, though the true Englisl
mistletoe is to be had in the markets. Tropi
cal palms are included to some extent amOnI
Christmas greens, although some varietie
droop very quickly when exposed to dry fur
mace heat. In this city the trade is larges
in Christmas trees which are sold by tn
wholesale throughout the whole territoy
tributary to Omaha. The trade in Christina
trees is of quite recent origin. 1t is SAT-
that Mark Carr sturdy woodman livin
among the foothills of the Catskills, origin
ally conceived the idea of sending Christina
trees to the New York market. He hat
heard of celebrations in the metropolis whe
churches and houses We're adorned wit
pine hemlock and holly, and it occurre
to him that the young fin trees covering tn
> mountain side might be made profitable
Early in December of 1851, Mark and hi
boys drove two oX-Sleds loaded with youn
trees through the deep snow and over tn
rough roads to the river at CatSkill, whCnc
the father started with them for the city
, One old-fashioned silver dollar secured
strip of sidewalk on the corner of Greenwic
, and NeScy streets, and there the Ions
sighted countryman set forth his mountai
: novelties Customers speedily appeared
soon buying all his wares at price
which seemed to him positively cXorbitant
The following year, he came again with
much larger stock, and from that time !
, this, the business mas continued to increaSt
! until the New York market now demand
!, trees by the hundred thousand and for
few days previous to each Christmas Mar
, Carr's old corner commands rental of $ll
instead of 100 cents. The trade in Christina
> trees is not all confined to the land of Ri
: Van Wrinkle, although that region furnishC
something like 200, 900 trees annually. Man
a schooncrs come every December to Ne
!. York heavily laden with black spruce fro
4 the swamps of Maine, and other localities.
. FACTORY FACTS.