The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-11-04
IN BOSTON MARKETS,
Business in Agricultural Prod
ucts is Increasing.
Prospective Prices of Grain and Feeding
Stuffs Live Stock and Produce Quota
tions Up to Date.

Ponsag, Oct. 91--A general survey of
the markets of Boston shows an increase
of business over that of the past week,
which is no more than natural, as the
| products of agriculture are now beiug
sent to the city for sale.
The feature of the butter market is the
growing demand for sweet cream butter
in New England. At the food show now
in progress in New York several cream
cries and daries have attempted to boom
the sweet cream product and have made
large displays Orrin Douglass OF the
firm iofOrrin Douglass q Co., wei! hhown
butter dealers in Boston, was one OF the
| Judges on butter at the New York food
show. During the progress OF the falr
discussion arose between Mr.. Douglass and
| Vice President Morton's dairyman as to
the public demand for this kind of butter.
To decide the question, samples of sweet
and sour cream butter were placed on eX-
| hibition and the general public were asked
TO decide which they liked the better, The
| decision was in favor of the sour cream
butter But this is the feeling in the New
York market and not at Boston. 1t can
be said that those who are catering for the
sweet cream butter trade are the dealers
who make a speciality of the select family
trade The Brigham Dairy company are
firm of this class They are now dispos-
ing of about 200 pounds day of the sweet
cream product. At the present time their
manufacture of the sour cream product is
large, about two tons being turned out
every day.
The last two seasons butter has been put
into cold storage to be frozen solid, the
rooms afterwards being kept at tenn
perature of forty degrees. The result has
been very much in favor of the freezing
process, as it prevents rapid deterioration,
as is the case with the ordinary cold stor-
age.
The system of creameries is increasing
very rapidly in New England, and is now
acting as governor on the Boston mar
ket by preventing the sharp fluctuations
known to the trade in years back.
Today, the Boston market is below west
ern prices few points but enough to pay
for shipments from that locality here.
Grain.
Upon the prospective prices of grain
and feeding stuffs the coming winter. G.
NJ Cox, large grain dealer, says that ap-
pearances indicate that there will be no
general rise in values for some time to
come. He is led to this belief from the fact |
Cnat Une new crop OF corn is coming upon |
the market at a time when there is a large |
amount of the old crop in sight. Again, |
the open fall has been such that the fields |
are affording abundant feeding to the |
stock, thus decreasing the demand for |
feeding stuffs
1t has been a fact in years pasts that the
closing of the Erie canal has stimulated
railroads to increase their rates, but at
present time the rivalry among different
trunk lines is such that transportation
rates are severely cut, interstate commis-
sion notwithstanding. The cut is made
quietly i'm the form of a rebate, but at the
present time the rates between seaboard
and Chicago are IT cents, while the differ
ence in price between the two points is
about IL cents, showing emphatically that
the rates are cut aud that no advance in
corn can be expected while such q state of
affairs exists
Vegetables
The market on vegetables Is easy.
Prices are somewhat in the buyers favor.
The white and ruta baga turnips are be
coming one of the principal winter vege-
tables in demand and the supply from