The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-20
PACKING STOCK
SHOWS FIRMNESS
ACTIVE BUYING BY LADDERS
HAS FORCED PRICES UP.
Creamery Extras Score Quarter Cent
Advance-Eggs Still Show De-
cIining Observation-Disclosures More
Favorable for Fruit Trade-Good
Demand for Poultry.

General fruit trade has been better
since berries became less plentiful.
The berry season this year was about
the limit for length, there being
steady supply of strawberries for five
months People did not seem to tire
of them, and the fruit list was more
or less neglected. Blueberries are
cleaning up fast and another week
will see their close at popular prices.
They are now quoted at $3.50 per
case, and the supply will rule lighter
and prices higher from now on. Mod
crate offerings of blackberries are
coming in, but the call has been COM
paratively light and values sagged 25
cents per case the closing days of the
week. Sour cherries are about out OF
| the way, and good stock cannot be de-
pended upon.
The weather has been more favor
able this week, and has caused more
activity in lemons and melons Or
ders are double those of a week ago.
Quotations show little change, altho
gems and cantaloups are lower.
The early crop of apples is an album
dant one, and the local market is
heavily loaded at present. Arrivals
are showing a wide range as to dual
! ity, and prices vary accordingly. Best
stock is selling around SO per barrel,
while common to poor are unloaded
anywhere from 81 to 50 per barrel.
| Varieties are mostly Duchess, Veal
thy, Red Astrachan and Grimes Gold
en-. Some few lots of early crabs are
coming in, but the call is nominal,
and stock is inclined to lay around
until shrunken.
Oranges are selling unusually well
for the season of year. Some scarcity
is noticeable on many sizes, but values
| have held to an unchanged basis for
the week. Bananas are about the
cheapest fruit on the list, and will
continue to be so until the two COM
panies get together or one leaves the
field vanquished. West. coast fruits
are arriving steadily, but not enough
peaches are arriving and values are
considered too high to make them
= popular thruout the northwest for
canning or preserving. Pears are
fairly reasona BILE, but plums are high
on most varieties. Grapes are arriv-
ing more freely, and values are grad
) ually settling to a popular basis. Ar
rivals of southern peaches have fallen
off, and values are much higher on the
few cars now coming.
The butter market is firm, altho
not showing undue activity. Cream
, cry extras show an advance of Is
cents per tub, and reflects good tone
, at the higher figure. Daily receipts
are heavy, but this fact seems to have
no influence in holding down values
Diaries are selling better, but not
enough to warrant any advance. This
may develop, should top grade cream
cries show any further upward ten.
dency. Since the higher range de-
/, veloped on packing stock, a consid
cradle quantity of dairy frsts have
3 sought that channel for an outlet
Eastern leaders report an improved
t foreign demand for their product, ane
f this is responsible for the better tone
r prevailing on low grade butter.
t A decided shade of weakness still
q hangs over the egg market, and 1t has
e been matter of surprise to a grea
Q many interested that quotations have
y not eased off at least a full cent
e Nothing but the fact that large
8 that the trade generally did their ut
f most to prevent a slump, headed i
e off. The call has at no time equalet
II arrivals, and more or less Of an accu
# mutation has prevailed for ten day
past. Paying prices are lower at out
side points, owing to the indication
| evident of decline. AS the declin
did not develop, shippers on com
mission realized more for their good
than cash sellers b, their station
\. Choice new cheese is a shade highe
In price, but more largely due to tn
y fact that offerings are lighter than t
any noticeable improvement in tn
,o QendnQ. Average Uuye1S are IdhiIl
sE fancy twins or flats at current prices
Brick and limberger show no pric
g. changes. In general the call TO
n, u, cheese Is not what it should be a
el present prices. The people need
n. be educated up to point where the
a 1e will understand that a pound c
OF cheese contains as much nutriment a
IS. pound of meat, and is much cheape
IT, Receipts Of poultry continue com
ds paratively moderate, which has hel
er values to an extremely firm basis o
mt all lines except turkeys. Hens ar
~ particularly scarce, and the marke
ct has at times been bare Of biddie
ir Young ducks are also good sellers an
to average some higher than a wee
40 ago. Veal is higher and arrivals hav
IT. sold readily all the week. Owing
tn the moderate offerings, medium an
no. low grade veal have sold better tina
TO- usual.
er Potatoes are a nickel per BUSH
ne lower The demand is good, but loo;
AS marketings proved large and boz
ed down quotations to that extent. Dr.
ts onions are lower, with cabbage VI