Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-09
THE MARKETS.

From Boston Journars sCity Articles" |
Jan. 4th: The receipts and exports of |
butter and cheese for the past year indi-
cate some falling off in the produce trade
as compared with the year previous, but
the decrease was owing mainly to the re-
duced make in the country and the high
prices, which stopped shipments to for
eign parts. So far as the home trade is
concerned the results are quite Satisfac
tory The sales have been somewhat
larger than the year previous, and fair
profits have been realized, The new year
opens with q promising outlook, and deal
ers are looking forward to steady mar
ket for month or two, at least. Last
year butter was scarce and high until new
lots began to arrive in March and April,
and there is every prospect that the mar
ket will take pretty much the same course
this year. The total stock in first hands,
as made by the Produce Exchange, is .26,-
O76 tubs against SO, $50 tubs year ago,
just about 10000 tubs less. Dealers have
| been buying very sparingly for a month
past, so that their supplies must be very
| small, and if receipts from the interior do
not materially increase we shall certainly
run short on desirable grades. AS it is,
| there is good demand for Western
creamery at 3S to 40 cents, with some of
| the fancy brands selling at 43 cents. For
| small boxes 40 cents can be obtained.
Some parties think that this grade of but
ter will go higher this month, but it is
| high enough for healthy trade, as it now
costs the consumer As to so cents a
pound. Over half of the supply on this
market is Northern dairy, the figures be-
ing 1895 tubs. OF this quantity only a
small portion is fine, and the balance is
probably medium quality, worth from
% to % cents pound. Strictly fine fall
dairy will command 80 to 80 cents in lots
to the trade, and 35 cents in jobbing
way. In fact, fine butter, whether dairy
or creamery, will bring at least ten cents
pound more than the second quality,
and some butter that is called choice by
country shippers runs down to fifteen
cents below the top price. With the ex-
when June product comes in, creamery
runs three to five cents pound higher
than the best dairy; and to-day there is 8
difference of 10 cents pound between
: the best dairy winter and creamery make
This is fact which farmers should make
3 a note of. One of the most striking fea
lures of the butter trade during the veal
has been the great falling off in the re
ceipts of Western ladle packed. 1t seem:
that the farmers in the West, instead o
churning their cream, sell it to the cream
cries, whose product takes the highes
;. rank in the market most of the year
This has cut off the large supply of medi
UNI butter which used to come here, ant
has materially curtailed the business o
some of our largest receivers. 1t ha
also absorbed class of butter whic
made up large portion of our exports
!. Oleomargarine has taken the place of thi
grade, so far as our local trade is concern
ed, and we understand that most of tn
peddlers, whose wagons supply the sui
urban and manufacturing districts with
; ten to thirty miles of this city, load u
nearly altogether with the manufacture
article, which is selling wholesale at Is
90 cents pound. For few weeks pas
hardly any butter was exported from here
i The following statement gives tn
stocks of different kinds of butter in Boz
n ton January 9, 1882, as made up by tn