Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-10-26
Late Dairy Markets.

CHEEsE.-Fully 5000 boxes Of cheese
were offered at Utica, Monday, though
only 3,70o were registered. No sales were
made that we could hear of. Buyers bid
13c. freely, and 13ic. was offered for one
lot and refused. Probably 1910. would
have bought large proportion it not all
that was put upon the market, bat to
&c. was an impossible gulf between buy
err and seller.
The receipts in New York for the week
ending Saturday, were 26,252 boxes and
the shipments were 10,072 boxes. The
cable was 55s., gold closed at 1923, and
the highest quotation for cheese was 1870
For the corresponding week last year, the
receipts were 2S.279 boxes and the ex-
ports were 1902 boxes. The cable was
67s. Ga, gold closed at 113, and the high
est quotation for cheese was 153o.
The low price of cheese at the present
time, as compared with that of last year.
is owing to the lower price in England
whatever may be the cause of the lower
price there. Possibly it is the large cup
ply of American cheese sent forward, or
the large make of English cheese, or the
10 W price of provisions, or q combination
of dealers, or all of these causes combined.
But all this does not alter the fact that
cheese is low in England-worth only
about 56s.-and that our dealera can not
pay thu present prices here and save
themselves without An advance in the
the English market. Daring the paet
week, we have been shown letters from
New York, naming dealers and buyers,
which said that most of the cheese bought
at Little Falls aud Fort Plain week ago
was sold for shipment for fnlly one half q
cent less than it was reported was paid
for it in the country.
This fact shows one Of two things
that money was lost on the cheese, or that
that there was some understanding by
which the prices quoted were not received
by the manufacturers. Certain it is that
buyers can not pay - to lac. for cheese
and sell it for Sos in England, without
losing money. And this fact brings our
factorymen to face the alternative of
taking less or holding for a rise in the
English market. The home market, it is
calculated, will take about 1000 boxes a
week from now until the LIST of May, or
between $4,000 and 10000 boxes. This
is supposing our home dealers have laid
in their winter supplies. Many proba-
bly, have done go, under the apprehension
that cheese will rise in price. Some pro-
baby have held back, and we will sup
pose that we can dispose of 100000 boxea.
This will leave not far from 100000 to be
shipped in the next six months, or an
average of about 10000 thousand week.
The shipments from this time last year to
the lat of May were about 100000 boxes.
This is a rough calculation which any one
oan make for himself from the figures
which we furnished last week, and to
which he can attach whatever importance
he thinks proper.
There seems to be no doubt that the
right kind of cheese fetches a good price
in England. At the butter and cheese
fair held at Frome OF the 9th ult., most
of the cheese, accordin, to the Mark Lane
Express, sold at G5s to 75s, and some of it
went as high as Sos But in London, on
the 28Ih, tie finest faotory-made Ameri
can oheese sold readily at 5Ss., and inferi-
or qualities went as low as AS, and was
not in good demand. In Glasgow, on the
the 9Th, fancy Cheddar cod at 3d., and
frot-class at oG,. to 6ls.
BUTTER-Prime and fancy grades are
in de,nand-are always in demand-at
paying figures. Other grades are plenty
and slow of sale. A really fue article |
will bring here % to 30c., but little that
is offering will go at more than 90 to 28c.
We see that fancy half-frkins and tubs
are worth in New York 30 to 35a apd the
best Welsh tubs bring 80 to 32a. Prime
State goes at % to 30o, and prime Weleh
at the me f1ures.