The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-01
Matkets.
Vermont Produce.

VERMONT BOARD OF TRADE.-The offer
ings were large last week Thursday, but
business was dull. Buyers say that they will
buy just as soon as the market will Justify
it. The registration was as follows: But
ter, Al $50 lbs cheese, $3.50 lbs; maple
sugar, 10000 lbs. The quotations are as
follows Butter, 49, to 20c per lb cheese,
81 to &c per h.
WATERBURY.-We quote tub butter at Is
to 17c and prints at II to 20c per lb cheese,
9 to lie per ID; eggs, l6c per dozen; beef, .
to 6lc per ID; pork, a to Sc per Id, live;
veal, 3 to 4c per Id, live; lambs, sc per ID,
live; fowls, &c per 10, live; chickens, 12ic
per ID, live; new potatoes, S100 to lbs per
bush; beets, 100 to 1.50 per bush; peas and
beans, S1.0O to lbs per bush; green onions,
$1.50 to 200 per bush.
Brighton and Watertown
Live Stock.
VEALs.-Receipts, 1.150 head. Sales were
active. Prices ranged at q to 6cper pound.
PoULTRY.-The receipts were one ton.
The ruling price was 10 to 15c per pound,
live.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-The receipts were
1886 head. Sheep sold at % to 44c and spring
lambs at 81 to &c per pound.
SwINE.-The receipts were 22,171 head,
Northern dressed selling at to 7Sc and
Western live at st to 6lc per pound
CATTLE.-The receipts were 2,414 head.
The market was dull. Northern dressed
sold at to &c and fancy at It to 73c per Id.
HIDES, TALLow, ETC.-We quote Brighton
hides at to &c and country lots at to 45c
per Id; calf-skins, to &c per lb; pelts, 75c to
S1.50 each; dairy-skins, 10 to 25c each;
Brighton tallow, to 4c and country lots
at II to &c per pound.
Boston Produce.
EGGs.-The market is dull with moderate
demand. Fresh lots of Vermont sell at II to
1sc and Western at 16l to lie per dozen.
PoTAToEs.-Receip have been heavy
and the demand fair. New are selling at
S1.75 to $3.50 per barrel and old at 80 to 60c
per bushel.
BEANs.-Choice hand-picked Pea sell at
$40 to $3.50, Mediums at $40 to $3.50,
Yellow Eyes at 81. 80 to $40 and Red Kid
neys at Sl.50 to S1.O per bushel.
CHEEsE.-Trade continues dull there be-
ing hardly enough doing to establish prices.
Good to choice Vermont sells at to SIC
common at to &c and extra sage at Zoe
per Id.
BUTTER.-Receipts are extremely heavy
and the market is working into bad shape.
The demand is very light and is confined
almost wholly to the finest grades, but the
whole market is unsettled and extremely
dull. The prices, while they are nom
inally unchanged, are not held with any
firmness, and concessions would have
&c be made to place any lot short of an
extra. We quote extra Northern cream
cry at 81 to pc, extra Western creamery at
20 to 2lc, choice do at Is to 19c, the finest
Franklin county dairy at 10 to 2Oc, good to
choice do at Is to 19c, choice Northern dairy
at l6h to tic and fair to good do at 10 to 16c
per ID.
Wool.
THERE has been fair business in do
nestle wool the past week, and while the
sales do not foot up as largely as on the two
the trade is by no means depressed. Buyers
are still cautious, but they are without
stocks and are forced to operate for cur
rent wants. Ohio Xxx sells at 2S to
29c, Ohio X at ~ to 2Sc, Michigan No. at
30 to 32c, Maine supers at 30 to SOC and extra
' Western supers at 81 to 25c per pound