Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-09-18

pound. The stock of fine cheese IS
small, and likely to continue so until
prices improve, as very little can be
bought in the country and laid down
here under IA cents per pound.
BUTTER.
At st. Adams, on Tuesday, the offer
erings were not equal to the demand,
and there was an advance in prices on
all better grades. I'VE quote: Common to
fair 20 to % cents; medium to good, 20
to 30 cents; choice, 81 and 81 cents;
selected 81 and 50 cents. But few
small lots sold at the latter figure.
At Richmond, on Monday, 200 boxes
of cheese were sold: Farm diaries, 10
to 10 cents; sage, 15R to 16. Two hun
dred tubs of butter sold: Choice, 80 to
81 cents; fair, % to 80 cents; ordinary,
20 to % cents.
At Brandon, on Friday, the price
ranged from 81 to 80 cents pound.
Amount sold last week, about 1000
pounds.
At Utica on Monday. there is no
change to note. Quotations remain the
same. Fancy and creamery are worth
S3@35c in New York, fine State sells at
30@32c, and Welch tubs go at 27@30c.
The Producers Price Current says:
The market for State butter generally
has been rather quiet since our last.
The Inquiry for local consumption has
been fair and the supply of the fine re-
tail qualities has been about equal to re-
uuirements. The southern inquiry has
been fair and steady; we think the
business with the South will show a
material increase this year over last.
The crops in that section are good and
the the people more prosperous than
heretofore since the war. The colored
peoplc who, before the war, consumed
only pork and bacon in the way of food
supplied by the North, now, as free
men, have larger means and more wants,
and consume a far wider range of our
products, including some butter and
more cheese. WEIGH tubs have been in
fair request from the eastern buyers; the
quality of these arriving here is not first
rate, they are generally coming from
the northern counties and are apt to be
very high sailed. Medium and ordinary
grades of State are dull and accumulate,
being most in competition with western.
OF very choice grades of Michigan and
western reserve tubs the supply has been
rather less than required, as they seem
more and more in favor with buyers for
local table uses. Some marks of west
| ern, heretofore fine, have run little off
in quality laterly, probably from the eff
fects of hot weather. We are informed
that the shippers of fine grades of west
ern intend to continue throughout the
fall. One of the secrets of the improv-
ed quality this season of this butter is
that it is sent forward regularly and
steadily as fast as made, so that it re-
tains its fresh flavor on arrival. We
again call the attention of State dairy
men to this quality of western and its
continued arrival here so late in the sea-
son. 1t must seriously affect our mar
ket for the bodies of daries of State, in
fact all but very fine grades and those
used for the southern markets. We
learn from Canada that the demand
there for shipment to England is good
and, though the scale of prices is low,
| holders are rather free sellers and the
surplus of of the country is likely to be
all used for export.
The receipts of butter at Boston, for
the week have been ten thousand nine
| hundred and uinety-three packages,
against twelve thousand five hundred
and ninety-two packages for the cores
ponding week last year. There contin-
ues to be a scarcity of strictly fine butter,
and with an improved dem and prices
have advanced about one cent per pound
several new lots from Vermont having
been sold at 30 to SO cents per pound.
This range can be obtained only for the
very best quality, and we cannot quote
New York diaries over 80 cents per
pound, with sales of good to choice
ranging from 25 to 30 cents Western
butter has been coming in rather spar
ingly for a few weeks past, and the
stock of common and medium grades
has slightly diminished. We noticed
sales of few fancy makes at 26 to 2S
cents, but most of what is here is of an
undesirable quality and slow of sale at
from IS to % cents per pound. Very
low grades are in comparatively small
stock and nothing here can now be quot
ed under Is cents, with sales to bakers
at Is to Is cents per pound. The mar
ket closes with good demand for the
best and poorest, and dull for all inter-
mediate grades.