Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-03-13
Late Markets.
CHEESE.


The stock of cheese in Boston is run
ming low, and the indications are that
high prices will prevail before any new
can be looked for The sales of dairy
and factory have been principally at 15@
lie per pound, with occasional lots of
poor and medium at 12@14c per pound.
The trade have been buying more freely
and the market closes with a strong
tone.
There is no change in quotations, but
there is an advance in both the cable and
gold, with a good English demand. The
market is firm on both sides of the water,
with an estimated stock IN New York of
40, 900 boxes.
The receipts at New York for the
week ending Saturday last were 1924
boxes, and the exports were II, 1886
boxes. The cable was 72s. Gold closed
at 1855, and the highest quotation for
cheese. was lie. The receipts for the
corresponding week last year were g.
9ff boxes, and the exports were 1851
boxes. The cable was 70s. Gold closed
at 110B, and the highest quotation for
cheese was 19c.
Last year, cheese reached its highest
figure during the second week in March,
and commenced declining during the
first week in April. If, under the pres
ent high price of gold, the high cable
(2s higher than last year, and the good
English demand, prices do not go up
during the current week, we do not
think any further advance can be reas-
onably looked for Six or eight weeks
hence, new cheese will begin to appear
in market. The time is short, therefore,
in which holders can manipulate the
market, and every week diminishes their
chances for getting up corner The
SHOW is deep now, and the weather I'M
promising for an early opening of fac
tories but this spring can hardly prove
more unfavorable than last, while the
prospect of beginning the season with a
clear market will stimulate exertions to
get milk to the factory instead of using
it for butter--not that the butter market
is not promising enough, but that it saves
work for the family to send milk to the
factory.
Last year our receipts exceeded our
exports by 23,481 boxes, this year our
exports exceed our receipts by 10, $40
boxes-a difference of 43,O21 boxes. In
view of the diminished exports last fall,
this increased English demand is to us
no surprise. Perhaps the fact will come
to light that by the end of the dairy year,
on the first of May, the English have tax
en- as much of our cheese as they did the
previous year, and that we can reason
ably expect them to take about the same
amount of our cheese each year, for
some time to come. Our impression is,
however, that the year just closing will
show minimum demand.
BUTTER.
The receipts of butter at Boston Tor
the week were 1860 packages against
., 323 packages for the corresponding
week last year. There was an improy-
eel demand from the home and country
trade the past week and prices are deci-
dedly firmer- For fine fall lots of Yer
mont and New York 370B38c was readily
obtained, and occasional extra lots COM
nand 40c and upwards. The supply of
his kind was very small, and but little
more is expected this season. Good to
choice diaries have been selling at 300
soc per pound, and at the close holders
we're Indifferent about selling straight
OTIS of choice under &c. Common to
air sold more freely at 18@25c, and on
Thursday and Friday several lots were
old to New York buyers at these fig