The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-05-05

giving Is to zoe per pound for good. No
cheese was offered for sale. Eggs sold at
10c per dozen and potatoes at 35c per bushel
r. NJ. Conant is loading a car of potatoes
this week. Maple sugar is still coming in,
with prices ranging from to SC per pound,
as to quality
MoNTPELIER.-Selecton of freshly-made
butter sell at 10 to 1Sc per pound cheese,
0 to lie per lb; eggs. 1Oc per dozen; pota-
toes, SOC per bushel; beef, to &c per
lb; pork, 51c per Id; lamb, b to &c per lb
mutton, % to &c per pound; maple sugar
is dull at to &c per Id; strip, 80 to 50c per
gallon.
WATERFOWL AND BRIGHTON
LIVE STOCK.
CATTLE.-The receipts were 1908 head.
There was a slight decline in prices. North
ern sold at to nc and fancy at to SIC per
pound. Among the sales we note the fol-
lowing: By II. F. Coolidge & Sons, three
mich cows at S41.50 each; by j. Meloy, one
Dutch and one Jersey COW at S125 for the
two; by Libby & Son, one pair of working
oxen, girthing seven feet and weighing
$500 lbs, at $50; by j. w. Scollans, nine
beef cows, average 1000 lbs, at $3.50 for the
lot; by j. S. Henry, six mich cows at $50
each by A. Williamson, mich cows at
prices ranging all the way from 1875 to $50
per head.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-The receipts were
1872 head. Prices have declined. Sheep
ranged at 24 to sic, and lambs nearly one
year old at 81 to to u per ID, live.
SwINE.-The receipts were 1892 head.
The market was steady Northern dressed
selling at 5lc and Western live at AZ to 54c
per pound.
VEALs.-The supply of veals was 1923 head.
Last weeks prices-24 to 5lc per ib-were
well sustained.
| PoULTRY.-There were 100 lbs on the
market, mixed lots selling at 10 to per lb.
T,Y Va 70 of
to &c per ID, calf-skins at to 10c per 10,
pelts at Toe to S110 each, dairy skins at %
to 35c each, Brighton tallow at to Bic and
country tallow at to BIC per 10.
BOSTON COUNTRY PRODUCE.
BUTTER.-The market has been dropping
steadily since last weeks issue, but at the
close buyers are taking hold with little
more freedom and things look better.
Extra Vermont new-milk dairy sells at 20
| to dc do. extra firsts at 10 to zoe, poorer
grades at II to 19c, and fair to good at IA to
16c per pound.
| MAPLE SUGAR.-Sugar is in large supply
and the demand is light. For the best lots
in small cakes 10c per pound is top price,
and large cakes are selling at 9 to Sc. Some
sugar in pals is hard to sell at &c. Choice
| strip in cans is in fair demand at 10 to Toe
per gallon. In kegs it is selling as low as
30 to 60c.
| BEANs.-Choice medium beans command
| S1.35, and marrow pea are taken readily at
S1.3O per bushel in large lots. New York
small pea are worth S1.50 to S1.95, and Yer
mont pea find buyers at $1.70. Sales in a
jobbng way are 10 to 15c per bushel higher
than above quotations.
CHEEsE.-Stocks are light and some extra
grades are held above quotations, but the
| demand is not heavy. We quote extra Ver-
mont at 10 to 104c, good to choice at 81 to Sc,
common at to &c and extra sage at ID to
139c per pound.
HAY-The market is fairly steady at last
weeks prices. We quote choice prime at
$500 to $1,000 fair to good at $17 90 to $500
and poor at $500 to S1400. Rye straw sells
at $3.50 to 800 and oat at SO to Sl1 per ton.
EGGs.-Trade has been quite dull the past
week and there has been general decline
in prices. Choice Vermont sell at 12l to 13c
and choice Western at 13c per dozen.
PoTAToEs,-Th market is steady and
sales fair. Choice stock is quite firm. Yer
mont Hebron and Rose sell at Coo and Pro-
lifics at SOC per bushel.
BOSTON FLOUR AND GRAIN.
FLoUR.-Trade is quiet, with no change to
note in prices. The demand is confined to
small lots as wanted from day to day to
meet actual necessities. Fine grades sell
at S265 to S2.85, superfine at SO to $40
common extras at $500 to $3.50, Michigan
roller at $465 to $4.S5, st. Louis patents al
ND.UD 10 SO.SO anu Ot' lIOulo CiCdio az If',s
to $465 per barrel.
CoRN.-We quote steamer yellow, 80 tc
51tc; steamer mixed, 80 to sole; no grade, Al
to 49c per bushel.
SHoRTs.-Winter wheat sell at $3.50 tC
$500, spring wheat bran at $3.50 to $17 90
middlings at SIT to $3.50 and cotton-seed
meal at 1923 per ton. The above quotations
for -four and grain are receivers prices]
WOOL AND LUMBER.
WooL.-There has been fair movement
of domestic wool during the week and 6
better inquiry than movement. Two clogs
hang persistently to the wheels of progress
labor disturbances and the low prices preva
lent abroad. The clothing trade shows 6
gratifying increase over last year, the con
sumption of wooden goods appears to be OF
the increase, the growers are united ano
firm in their demands for better prices fo
their staple and if it were not for the ex
traordinary cheapness of foreign woods ant
foreign goods, backed up by the general dis
trust caused by the knights of Labor
brisk business would be in progress. Thu
failure of the Bennington (Vt.) mills hai
caused some heavy losses to the Boston
wool trade. Other failures are not likely t
follow. We quote as follows: Xxx Ohio sell
at 80 to 33c, Ohio X at 30 to Bic, Michigan
No. 1 at 80 TO $780, California spring a
, 20 to 25c, Eastern Oregon at 10 xN to 23c
pulled at 27 to 29c and medium combing a
; 80 to 35c per pound.
| LUMBER There has continued to be
! good demand for the season for eastern an,
! northern lumber, though other classes o
) lumber are comparatively quiet. Hemlocl
: boards are quiet and prices are rather easier
: There is a fair call for frames. w
. quote rough hemlock boards at $40 T.
; $1,000, and planed at S11.00 to $40; spruc
' underfoors at SIG and Northern stock
boards at $40; extra sawed cedar shingles a
$3.50 to $362l, and first-quality shaved a
1925; extra Aft. spruce clapboards at S2S t
, $50, clear at S26 TO 1928 and No. at S12 t.
n $50; spruce and pine laths, 1925 to $2.35.
You'll find her smiling night and day,
% Although at times she is not CAV.