News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-05-04
IN BOSTON MARKETS
VEGETABLES Coming In Great Abund-
anCe With Active Trade.

Comparatively Light Butter Market
Exports Of Apples Failing on-straw-
berries Arriving in Great Quantities.
BosroN, April &c. Vegetables in Boston
market are now becoming abundant and
as consequence trade is more active. The
southern crops are coming in goodly
Quantities and of these perhaps the most
important is the strawberry. This, al
though two weeks late owing to the back-
ward season in the extreme south where
the berry should first ripen, is now IN
large and increasing supply. In the very
near future growers in North and South
Carolina will commence to put their crop
on the market, and as the present adyices
show that the crop will be very large,
there is little doubt but what Strawberries
are soon to be plentiful and cheap. At
present Florida Strawberries are selling
for 20 to 80 cents quart for the best.
The Butter Trade.
The butter trade is comparatively light.
Receipts for the past week have been less
than the figures which have been COM
puted rs the regular supply necessary for
fact, this has been the case for many
weeks past, and the only conclusion that
can be reached is that the buying class are
not consuming the amount which has been
usual when prices were easy Quotations
for the week range from p to % cents for
large lots of fine butter, and from 1 TO 2
cents higher in iobbing way. On these
conditions it would hardly be policy for
the maker of butter to hold back his pro
duction if there is possibility Of working
il off ut prevailing prices, for drop Is al
most certain in the near future.
Apples and Fruit.
The export trade Of apples has fallen off,
only PA barrels going out of Boston in the
past week The general fruit trade is dull.
The best Baldwin apples are selling for
50 50 to 50 a barrel. Nearly all other fruit
now in trade is from the tropics. A few
cranberries are sold in crates, holding lit
tie less than a bushel, for s..
Vegetables.
In the vegetable trade some of the prices
prevailing are: Beets 81 a box, parsnips
81 a box, spinach $3.50 n barrel, native
onions 81 a barrel, squash 81 a barrel for
Turban and Marrow, and 30 cents more a
barrel for Hubbard and Baystate. Houlton
potatoes bring from 81 to S1.1O a barrel,
with r. E. l. and New York stock from 75
to 30 cents a barrel.
The Quotations.
PORK There is a better trade in pork pro-
visions with the rather stronger market fully
sustained: Long cut, short cuts and backs,
ST.; lean ends, 81 80; extra prime, 81; butt
pork, 81; pork tongues, S2l; fresh ribs, l2lD !
l2l4c; sausages, lice; bologna sausage, &c;
hams ltl5c: small lie; skin back hams, li1Sc; |
smoked shoulders lie; corned, lie; smoked
ribs lOj5c; homeless bacon, l3l6c; pressed |
hams, l4c; choice lard, lO3lc per pound in
tierces and tubs; a-pound pals, ll54c; 5-pound,
lllEc; 3-pound, ll34c; choice city dressed hogs,
lOC; country, SEC.
HAY-Hay is rather easy, with straw quiet.
Bran continues easy: Choice TO fancy hay,
SIS l9 good, Sl7 Goals; fair to good, slGdl7;
eastern choice, Sl7@l7 80; poor to good, Sl3 300
l6 eastern swale, S10dll %; rye straw, SlJ6fl6;
DAT straw, g5tlO. Sack bran 10 arrive, SIS 300 !
II 80: sack winter, SIG 7551l7; spring middlings,
Sl1dl7 80; winter, SlsdlS 90. Cottonseen meal
Is quoted at S26 75627. Old process linseed |
meal, S27Qr27 20 per ton in sacks for shipment. |
LAMB AND MUTToNs-Muttons and lambs
are doing better and at rather better prices,
except spring lambs, which are in better sup |
ply and easier. Nesds are dun and easier: |
Spring lambs Sjd7 each; choice fall lambs, |
Olga lO15c, as TO quality; common TO good 109c;
choice heavy Brightons S1s0916c; choice |
Brighton and fancy, RglOc.
POTATOEs- Potatoes are very steady, with |
the quotations at: Aroostook hebrons, 81 OJ8 /
0S; Houlton hebrOns, 81 0S6tl 10; HOulton rose,
9lc6Sl; Dakota reds, ssd9Oc; New York bur- |
banks and white stars, soc; y. +. /, chenangOes /
Soc: Irish and Scotch magnums, 81 gOd2 . per /
bag; Jersey and doublehead sweets, s. per bar /
rel for good.
BuTrER-The butter market is easier, with |
prices lower: Western fresh creameries, 800 |
3lc; northern, 3OlS613l15c eastern, 26f3aOc; New
York and Vermont dairy, 26ff2Sc. These are |
prices for round lots to the trade. Jobbing |
lots and fancy lots cost more.
OArs-Oats hold firm, with the market on I
oats to arrive stronger at 4l1sc for clipped, |
with heavy oats higher. The spot market Is |
firmer at: Clipped. 4219ft4234c; fancy 430Ejlec;
No. white, 42c; No. white, 4lGH1.c; mixed, |
4ld4lI6C.
CHEEsE-Cheese holds steady. with the sup
ply well under control. Northern full creams, |
ili@Ul2iyc; fancy twins, lli6Wl2lsc; fair to |
good, "a re; western choice, l1Ml2C; fair to
good, SGtllc; sage, l21@9l3c. Liverpool Is
cabled at 54s.
CoRN-Corn is slightly irmer Chicago No.
? yellow, 40 arrive. is quoted at 53lsd5334c.
with No. 3 yellow at 5216(d5}c. The spot mar
ket is firm at: No. > yellow, 54c; steamer yell
low, 5316d54c; steamer mixed, 52lEGb53c
APPLEs-Apples continue quiet with quota
tons at: No. ] Baldwins, 81 756c2 %; very
fancy, s. 70; No ? SlGl 80; spys, S3Gt3 Tolman
sweets, 81 5Oq2 30; russets, Si62 80; very choice
81 as to quality.
CoRN-Cornmeal is very steady at the adj
vance noted yesterday, putting bag meal at
81 02dl o.. Barrel meal is unchanged at 81 25
@23O. Oatmeal is steady, with prices un-
changed
EGGs-Eggs are a shade easier with fresh |
western at l61@Il634c, with some holders ask /
ing l7c; fresh northern and eastern, 176tl71Sc; |
southern, lGdl6l8c.
FLoUR-The flour market Is held at the /
stronger prices noted yesterday, but trade is /
market are noted.
BEEF-There was only fair trade I'm beef /
but with the market sustained at the higher /
figures noted yesterday.