The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17
Weekly Market Review.
VERMONT PRODUCE.

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to lie per pound; eggs, 1Sc per dozen; pota-
toes, 80 to Coo per bushel; beef, to &c per Id;
pork, 8 to 55c per pound lamb, 81 to DC per
pound; mutton, % to &c per pound Fine
new-milk butter is worth 20 cents, but must
be strictly gilt-edge.
wATERBURY.-The following are prices
current at this market: Butter, in tubs,
Is to 25c; in boxes, % to 26c; in fancy prints,
20 to &c per ID. Factory cheese sells at s
to SIC per lb; eggs, 1Sc per dozen; potatoes,
SOC per bushel; oats, Acc per bushel; maple
syrup, GO to &c per gallon; maple sugar, 6
to &c per lb fowls, 9 to Sc per lb; hay, S13
per ton; meal, S1,05 to $1.10 per hundred
pounds
VERGENNEs.- Late butter sells at 10 to zoe,
and October at 20 to pc per ID. Eggs are
worth 1Sc per dozen; beans, 81 to S1.25 per
bushel; apples 81 to $1.50 per barrel; pota-
toes, 30 to 40c per bushel; beef, to &c per
ID; pork to Ole per Id; hay, $40 to $13 per
ton; straw, $40 to S13 per ton.
WATERFOWL AND BRIGHTON
LIVE STOCK.
CArrLE.-The receipts were 1,079 head
Prices were steady and moderate at to 79c
per Id for common grades and Sc per Id, live,
for fancy lots. Mich cows were in fair de-
mand at steady prices. Among the sales we
note the following: By A. n. Monroe, tif-
teen steers, average ,291 lbs, at $40 per
hundred lbs, live weight; by j. ID. Hosmer,
one pair of oxen, girthing six feet and six
inches and weighing $500 lbs at S105 Tor the
pair; by Libby & Son, one Jersey COW, too
thin in flesh to be marketable, at $50; by
Wills & Richardson, four springers, at from
$25 to SAG per head; by j. S. Jersey, fifteen
mich cows at from $50 to S55 per head; by
A. Stone four new-milch cows, at $50 each;
by A. Worthen, one Ayrshire COW at $3.50.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-The receipts were
4,49 head. Prices ranged the same as
quoted last week, but the market was dull.
Sheep sold at q to 5fc and lambs at to 6Ic
per 10, live weight.
SwINE.-The receipts were II ,525 head.
Prices were 4c higher, Western live selling
at to and Northern dressed at to 65c
per pound.
VEALs.-The supply of veals was 416 head,
and the market firm and steady. Sales were
made at q to &c per pound.
PoULTRY.-There was no live poultry in
market this week.
HIDES, TALLow, ETC.-We quote hides at
n to Sc per ID, calf-skins at lie per Id, pets
at Toe to 81 10 each, dairy skins at 30 to 75c
each, Brighton talow at - to 4c and coun-
try tallow at % to pc per Id.
BOSTON COUNTRY PRODUCE.
BUTTER.-The market is gradually i'm
proving. Stocks of good to choice table but
ter are being steadily reduced and receipts
of fresh-made meet with ready sale at quo
tations. Most of the Northern dairy offer
ing is of ordinary quality and meets with
slow sale. A few scattering tubs sell at 20
to 2Sc. We quote as follows: Vermont fall
made diaries sell at 20 to 22c, selections at q
to 29c, common to good at 10 to 20c and win
ter-made diaries at 10 to 18c, as to quality.
Extra fresh Western creamery is worth 80
to 34c per Id. Jobbing prices are l to &c
higher than these quotations.
CHEEsE.-There has been only a moder-
ate business doing for the past week and
| . 1,n, rly tp1n with at a
quote extra Vermont at 10c, good to choice
at s to Ole, common at to &c, extra sage at
| II to 121c, good to choice sage at 9 to 1Oc and
skins at to &c per pound.
EGGs.-There is very little improvement
in the demand as yet. Trade has been gen.
orally dull and the market in buyers favor.
Extra Vermont sell at 20 to 21ac, good to
choice held stock at 10 to zoe and Eastern
lined at Is to 19c per dozen.
BEANs.-The market is unchanged. Hand
picked Pea sell at S1.70 to S1.75, common to
good at S1.55 to SLIGO and choice screened
at $1.35 to S1.40 per bushel.
PoTAToEs.-Th market is doing well,
trade being fairly active. Vermont Hebrons
and Prolifcs bring 60 to 65c and Rose sell at
the same price per bushel.
HAY AND STRAw.-Choce hay is in COM
paratively light supply, and there is not
much here that will bring more than $40,
but A No. will bring $50, and occasionally
fancy car commands little more Medium
grades are plenty and dull. Rye straw
is quiet. We quote as follows Choice prime
sells at $40 to 500 fair to good at $500 to
$500 and poor at S13 to S14. Rye straw
sells at $50 to S20.50 and oat at S11 to S12
per ton.
BOSTON FLOUR AND GRAIN.
FLoUR.-The market remains quiet Buy
ers see nothing to justify purchases on adj
vance account and so trade runs along in
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ers. Fine grades sell at $3.50 to S2.S5, SUI
perfine at $500 to $780, common extras at
$3.50 to 1886, Michigan roller at S4.65 to
$3.50, st. Louis patents at S5.25 to $500 and
st. Louis clears at 81 40 to S4.75 per barrel.
OATs.-There is a firmer feeling. We
quote fancy oats at A to 45c, No. white at
435 to 44c, No. 2 at 43Ic No. at AZ to 421c
and No. 2 mixed at Acc per bushel.
! CoRN.-The feeling is easier. We quote
old corn at 30 to Sic new steamer yellow at
! 80 to 51Ic, steamer mixed at sole and no grade
at AS to SOC per bushel.
Winter wheat sell at $1S to
! $3.50, spring wheat bran at 80 to SIS,
middlings at S1S to $50 and cotton-seed meal
at S24 per ton. The above quotations for
-four and grain are receivers prices for car
lots.
WOOL AND LUMBER.
LUMBER.-The market as a whole has
been dull and unsatisfactory. Though work
in the woods began late the prospects now
are that fair supply of logs will be cut.
Prices remain steady We quote as fol-
lows: Rough hemlock boards sell at $40 to
$1,000, and planed at S11.50 to S12; spruce
underhoors at SIG and Northern stock
boards at $40; extra sawed cedar shingles at
$3.50 to $3.62l, and frst-quality shaved at
1925; extra Aft. spruce clapboards at S2S to
$780, clear at S26 to S2S and No. l at Sl2 to
$15; spruce and pine laths, 1928 to $3.50.
WooL.-There has been but little doing in
the wool market the past week. There are
an exceptionally large number of sample
bales among the mills on trial, but these
seeds of trade have not as yet borne much
fruit. The labor question is exciting much
interest, and until the cost of production
and the prospect of disposal of goods is more
definitely settled manufacturers may be ex-
pected to show little interest in wool. The
stocks on hand are generally light, and
another favorable straw is the voluntary in
crease of the wages of labor by ten per cent
announced for March LIST by the Pacific mills
and other wool-consuming factories in Mas
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