Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-04-16
Tbr Markfts.
BOSTOy MARKET,


SATURDAY, April II.
FLOUR-There has been no change to note in
the demand to-day and the market is quiet and prices
unaltered. We quote supers at ~ Ooai u per bb
low extras at ~ 75,4 20; medium at 81 2jai 20
choice ut - 15a6 90 including choic. brands al the
latter figure. Ohio, Indiana and Michigan hours ut
~ .jaj 20 and few brands at higher figure 81.
Louis, Illinois and Indiana hours at - 25ad %; win
ter wheat patents, 40 25a1 10; fancy Minnesoas nj
81 25ls % per bbl, and two brands sell little
higher.
CORN-Therc has been limited request and the
market is steady at 46,a4. &c per bush.
oAT>-Ihere is no change to note, and sales nave
been made at prices within range of our quotations.
We quote AT 34c for No whites; 35!c for No do;
36lc ior No do and 37a5c per bush for extra hiie
MILL FEED-The demand is light, and the
ket rules quiet, with moderate sales Mt quoted rates
We quote at Sli 30 for shorts, and SIG % per ton
for Middlings, with good supply offering.
PRONISlONs-rork is quiet, and the demand
of the trade. Lard remains unsettled, and
the market is quiet Mt unchanged prices. There
is il, steady % demand for moderaie sized lot,
at quotations. There is no change to note in Beef,
and we make no change in quotations. We quote
mess AZ Sll 90. and extra prime ~ - 2ja9 80 per
bb Lard at dla6icper ID for Western steam, and
7a7l lc per lb for kettle city rendered AT 6ia7c Ma
pals, Ole for ID do. 9c for b. SIC for 10 ID, and
e!c for / ID cups. Fairbanks kettle rendered leaf
lard at DC for ID pals DC for lbs do sc for 10 lbs
do e3cfor lb cups, loc for lib pints. Western
smoked Hams at saslc per b for plain and 81 a9ic
per b for fancy covered city at saSic Reef at ~ so
al0 90 per Dbl for Western mess; sl0ai0 80 for
extra, aud $40 75ali SO per bb for plate
BUTTER-rhcre is fair market for the best
grades of new butter, aud prices range from l.alsc
for choice dairy and factory and Hu2Jc for choice to
good creameries. A good deal of the new butter
coming forward is of ordinary quality and but little
is dull and there is but little of it suited groccrs'
use. We quote new creameries at 20a25c per ID
choice new dairy ut l6asc; fair TO good at l2al5c
! old daires at gal2c; common butter at eagc; old
creameries AT i5a sc per 10. There is choice
old tubs that sell nj Halle but not enough to hardly
CHEEsE-Thc market remains unaltered, and
prices are without change. There is fair trade but
mostly in small lots. Wequote choice factory at SC
per ID for New York and Vermont, and Gaze, for
Western, while good factory is sold at 5ia6c fair Il,
4a5c and common AT Sale per Id.
| EGGS-lhe market is steady at ljc for Eastern
l4lc for Northern and Western, and l4c for Tennes
POTATOES AND ONIONs-The market contin
ues excited, and prices have advanced fully &c per
bush to-day. Dealers have sent out their agents
wherever there are any potatotoes, and have tele.
graphed to their agents in the country TO buy There
is Il small stock here, and with brisk demand from
New York the trade are excited and prices tend up
wards We quote Eastern Rose at 81 10 per bush
Northern at O5 Jacksons mt 90c for the best East
and s0as5c for Northern Proliics at slal 05 for
choice Eastern and 95c for Northern; Davis Seed
ngs sell at 90a.i5c Connecticut onions offered
at 81 so per Dbl, and York State at 80. New Bermu
das sell at 90 per crate, and native onions at 81 pei
bbl
MAPLE SUGAR-There is "a fair demand for SUI
III Ill sidIi cdkts, anu odsc Ill syrup
sells at 15a90c per gal.
| APPLES-The market is firm at 81 per bbl fol
common fruit and : 25al 80 per bbl for choice do.
| BEANS-The market is scarcely so firm, and pri
ces for both pea and medium beans easier Choc,
mediums sell at 81 35al 37lc per bush, and fair t'
good at 81 30al 30; pea beans sell at 81 bal so pei
bush for Western and occasional sales of Northern
hand picked pea beans have been made at 81 80 pei
bush. We quote yellow eyes at 81 70al s5 pei
bush. Jobbers prices are lOal5cc per bush higher
than the above quotations.
HAY AND sTRAw-There is no special change
| to note in the market. except that choice lots %
coarse hay are not plenty, and the market is
firm. Straw is in demand and firm at quotations
We quote prime hay at $l5 00al6 10 per ton; good al
Sl3 OOl4 90 poor at 80 O0al co. and occasional sale
of fancy lot at $l7 per ton. Straw at Sil OOal2 "
per ton.
SUGAR-Raw is In moderate inquiry, and W.
note sales of lo5 hhds Cienfuegos and 81 hhd'
ST Croix all on private terms. We quote tair an'
good refining at 6la6sc perlb Refined is steady at quo
tations, with rather more demand We quot'
standard cube at SIC per III powdered at sdc granu
lated at siasic confectoners' at &c. standard 4 a
&c: extra G at 75c extra yellow at 6Sa7ic; yellow
G at 6,a6s and golden yellow at &c per lb. Whole
sale grocers ask iaic per b above these prices.