The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-16
Brighton and WATERFOWL
Live Stock,

PoULTRY.-The receipts were 100 lbs.
The ruling price was III to 12c per pound.
VEALs.-Receipts / $40 head The mar
ket was not active. Prices ranged at % to
&c per pound.
CATTLE.-The receipts were 1900 head.
Northern dressed sold at to &c and fancy
at to 79c per pound.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-The receipts were
S,4SS head. Sheep sold at p to nc and
lambs at to re per pound.
SwINE.-The receipts were 1925 head,
Northern dressed selling at to tic and
Western live at Ct to 6lc per pound.
HIDES, TALLow, ETC.-We quote Brighton
hides at 81 to &c and country lots at to &c
per ID: calf-skins, &c per lb pelts, 81 to
SIPS each; dairy-skins, 10 to 1Sc each
Brighton tallow, 3 to &c and country lots
at ( to &c per pound.
Boston Produce.
PoTAToEs.-The market has improved.
Good lots of Early Rose sell at 90c to S1.10,
Hebrons at 70 to SOC and Burbanks at zoe
per bushel.
EGGs.-The arrivals have been light
and the market is trife irmer. Fresh lots
of Vermont sell at 14a to 15c and West
ern at IA to 14lc per dozen.
BEANs.-Choice hand-picked Pea sell at
$3.50 to $500, Mediums at $3.50 to $40,
Yellow Eyes at 81 80 to $3.50 and Red Kid
neys at S1.90 to $500 per bushel.
CHEEsE.-The demand is light, and were
it not for light supply prices would be
considerably lower. Extra Vermont sells
at u to 12fc, good to choice at 10 to lie,
common at 81 to 10c and extra sage at -
to 14c per pound.
HAY AND STRAw.-Choice hay is steady
and the best grades sell well. Ordinary
grades of winter pressed hay move slowly.
Choice lots sell at $500 to $500, fair to
good at S14.00 to $1,000 and poor at $500 to
$500. Rye straw brings S23.0O to S24 90
and oat $1,000 to S11.0O per ton.
BUTTER.-The stock on hand is light and
the market is consequently firm. Although
it is now between hay and grass, there will
soon be much heavier receipts, when
prices will probably drop. We quote
extra Northern creamery at % to 26c,
extra Western creamery at % TO 26c,
choice do at 81 to 23c, the finest Franklin
county dairy at % to 25c, good to choice do
at 81 to 23c, choice Northern dairy at 10 to
poe and fair to good do at Is to 19c per ID.
Flour and Grain.
GRAIN.-Corn sells at 665 to cole and
oats at 40l to 47c per bushel as to quail
ity. Winter wheat bran brings 5000 to
500 80 spring wheat bran S2l 90 to sol 80,
middlings 5000 to S2400 and cotton-seed
meal S23.25 per ton.
FLoUR.-The market is very strong.
Wheat is higher now than is flour, and for
this reason both the millers and the opera
tors have been trying to force it down. The
general situation is such, however, that it
won't go down. Carload lots of fine flour are
selling at $3.50 to $500, supertine at S27 to
So %, common extras at $500 to $3.50, Mich
igan roller at S4.25 to S4,75, New York roller
at 81 % to S4.75, st. Louis and Illinois clears
! at S4.25 to $3.50 and spring wheat patents
at 500 to S5.25 per barrel.
Uurnhar
The trade has not developed in lumber in
the manner expected early in the season.
The demand is opening up slowly and
builders are not pressing for stocks. In
fact lumber, in common with all classes of
building material has been rather quiet
the past week. Rough hemlock boards
sell at $1,000 to $1,000 and planed do at
$500; the best clear spruce floor boards
at $500 to $1,000, coarse at $500 to $500
and refuse at $500 to $500; one-inch box
boards at $1,000 TO $3.50 and seven-eighths
do at S11.00 to Sl1.50 Eastern sawed cedar
shingles at S3.40 TO S3.624, clear do at $500
| to S3.12s, best shaved shingles at S5.25,
other grades at 1925 to S4.75 and No. l
spruce at Sl25 to $3.50; extra four-foot
spruce clapboards at $4,000 to S27 90, do
clear at 1874 to $500 and other grades
at S12to $1,000; pine and spruce laths at
$500 to 1925 and spruce underhoors at
$1,000 to $1100.