The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Weekly Market Review.

MoNTPELIER.-Freshly -made butter sells
at IS to pc for selections, summer-made lots
are very dull at IA to 16c; cheese sells at
to 10c per pound; eggs, Doc per dozen; pota-
pork, DC per pound lamb b to 4c per
pound; mutton, p to Sc per pound. Fine
new-mill< butter is worth % cents, but must
be strictly gilt-edge.
VERGENNEs. market was dull last
Saturday Late-made butter sold at 10 to 1870,
and October-make at 20 to 22c per Id; eggs
at 25c per dozen: beans at 81 to 81. % per
bushel; apples at 81 to S1.50 per barrel; po-
tatoes, 80 to 40c per bushel; beef, to &c per
lb; pork, to Ale per lb hay, $40 to S13 per
ton.
WATERFOWL AND BRIGHTON
LIVE STOCK.
CATTLE.-The receipts We're 2,744 head
There was an over-supply of heavy cattle,
and prices fell off Sc per lb, live weight,
from last weeks figures, ranging at to 7ic.
Mich cows We're in moderate demand.
Among the sales we note the following: By
j. b. Cook, five 2-years-old steers, average
800 lbs, at &c, live, and two 3-years-old
steers, average 200 lbs, at same price per
10 and 81 per head extra; by A. n. Monroe,
fourteen Western steers, average ,3S5 lbs,
at $3.50 per cwt, live, and fifteen others,
average ,406 lbs, at &c per lb, live; by IL.
M. Taft, one pair of working oxen, girthing
six feet and seven inches and weighing 200
lbs, at S122.50 for the pair; by Libby Son,
one mich COW at sos and three others at $50
each; by III. b. Gilbert, two springers at
S4S.75 each; by Aldrich q Johnson, ten
mich cows, all the way from $50 to $50 per
head; by Libby & Merrill, five milch cows at
$500 for the lot
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-The receipts were
1921 head, which caused decline IN prices
of to Sc per lb. Sheep ranged at 81 to 4fc,
and lambs at to &c per lb, live.
SwME.-The receipts We're 1877 head.
The market was steady, Western live selling
at Al to 44c, and Northern dressed at 81 to
5lc per 10.
vEALs.-The supply of veals was 1851 head.
The market was firm, prices ranging at q
to &c per lib, live weight.
PoULTRY.-Receipts were light, there be.
ing only 800 lbs on the market. Mixed lots
sold at Sc per pound.
HIDES, TALLow, ETC.-We quote hides al
s to SIC per lb, calf-skins at lie per Id, pelts
at Toe to 81 10 each, dairy skins at 80 to 75C
each, Brighton tallow at to 4lc and coun
try tallow at p to &c per Id.
BOSTON COUNTRY PRODUCE
BUrTER.-The market is slightly stronger
the demand ruling good for the best grades
Vermont fall-made diaries sell at % to 23c
| selections at 2ic, common to good at 10 t.
20c and winter-made diaries at IL to 1Sc, as
to quality. Extra fresh Western creamery
is worth 30 to 33c per lb. Jobbing prices
are to 20 higher than these quotations.l
CHEEsE.-The tone of the market is a lit
tie stronger than it was last week W.
quote extra Vermont at 10c good to choice
at to Ole, common at TO re, extra sage a
II to 124c, good to choice sage at 8 to Toe, anC
skins at to &c per pound,
PoTAToEs-The market closes frmel
than last week, Receipts have been fai
and prices are firmly held. Vermont He
brons and Proifcs bring GO to 65c and Ros
60 TO zoe per bushel.
EGos.-The supply is not moving freely
but the market is firm at 2Sc for Vernon
and New York and % to DC per dozen 70
| Western.
BOSTON FLOUR AND GRAIN.
FLoUR.-There has been a little NOR
movement the past week at the prevailing