News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-09-07
IN BOSTON MARKETS
Butter Firmer With Declining
Receipts For Week.

Settled Prices For Green Vegetables uoped
For-UnsettIed Weather Upsets Prices.
Fruit Market In Transition Period.
BosToN, Aug. 3D. "A firm market, with
declining receipts tells the story OF the
past weeks trade in butter at Boston.
| These two features are the natural Sc
| queuce of a prolonged drought in the but
reproducing regions, and the stress in
| financial circles, which has now come to
make it's effect felt by the humblest Ia
| borer.
The farm er is perhaps the last who will
be affected, for, although his fine produc-
tions will not bring the fancy mark he. has
been wont TO receive, yet his staple prod
ucts are necessities of life, and must be
obtained at some price to sustain the life
of the city man.
Best butter is now under consideration.
Choice western creamery is readily taken
at % to "a cents. Northern extra cream
cry brings l cent more, and good eastern
creamery sells for % to % cents It is
said that the small receipts current here
are the rule in the western centers, and
therefore the firm feeling extends all over.
This argues that no change in the situa-
ton may be expected for some time to
come.
Vegetables.
In the green vegetable market dealers
are hoping for n settled price list for such
Jumps as prices made last week are not
conducive to profitable and intelligent
buying Unsettled weather is the attri-
buted reason for these changes Some Of
the prices are; Native onions, 81. 10 to 81. -
bushel: tomatoes, $l.50 to 81 bushJl;
cabbage, to cents head, white tur-
nips, IS cents to 81 a bushel; green string
beans, 75 cents to 81. % bushel box; mar
row squash, 81 to SIPS a barrel; good
Crosby corn, 20 to 90 cents bushel; RUSe
and Hebron potatoes, 81. IS to So a barrel;
lettuce, 25 to 40 cents bushel OF three
dozen.
In the Fruit Market
the transition from southern and Califor-
MIA varieties to native grown fruit is being
made Nearby orchards are now picking
nice apples and pears, while peaches from
Delaware are seen In place of those from
California.
Grapes from Delaware and Maryland
are abundant.
In prices nice Crawford peaches are
worth all the way from 20 cents to 81. %
basket OF course with the very large
number arriving some are Of second quail
ity. These 20 ut a much lower rate to the
hucksters. Red Astrachan apples are
worth S250 to SO a barrel, Williams the
same, and Sweet Boughs and Pippins at a
range from 81 to 50.
Bartlett pears are worth s. to s.. so in
barrels for the best.
Moore's early grapes bring - to 80 cents
for a 10 pound basket.
The Quotations.
HAY-Hay is a little easier and straw IL dull,
especially for some poor lots in: Good 10 choice
hay, SIS 5000; choice 10 fancy, S2Ofo5O 30; fair
to good lSSs eastern choice; SlSidIs "a poor
straw. Sl36l5; oat straw, SS(d9; sack spring
bran, to arrive, SIG 50; sack winter, SIS; sack
middlngs, SIG 1908; cottonseed meal, So -
to arrive and So 15G2B for spot.
MEAL-The cornmeal market Is easier and
prices are off, following the easier position OF
corn: Kiln-dried cornmeal for export. 81 $50
20 per Dbl; bag meal, 9ocGSl; yellow gram
latep, 81 9O02' ground,cut and rolled oatmeal,
81 5O6c4 20 per Dbl; rye, 5SfI65c per bushel for
dealers, and at G507Gc from the trade in job
lots; rye -four, 50 1908 80 per Dbl, as TO quality.
the lower quotations noted yesterday: Rhode
Island and natives, 81 4Od2 90 per Dbl; New
Hampshire rose and hebrons, Csc per bushel;
Aroostook rose and hebrons, 6O9i5 per bushel;
New York white stars. 65c. Sweets sell at
81 50lD2 70 for ordinary to good, and at 500 IS
BUrTER-Butter is steady to frmer. with
some dealers claiming better prices: Western
23d24c; firsts 20d22c; imitation creamery. lsd
l9c; factory, H0l7ISc; northern creamery ex-
ira, 24lD25c; northern dairy, 2l0ls2c; eastern
creamery extra, 23l124c. These are prices for
round lots. Jobbing lots and fancy lots cost
NJ ore.
OATs-Oats are rather uncertain, to arrive,
the wires being down, but dealers were offer
ing clipped at 3516c and at 3Gc. No. 2 white,
to arrive also. they were offering at: Clipped,
3S16G39c; fancy, 4Oc; No. white, 371sG63sc:
No. white. nominal, at BIC; clipped. mixed,
nominal, 4G3jc.
CORN-Corn is easier. The wires were not
working and hence the market on corn to ar
rive is not easy to state; but spot steamer yell
low sold from track for sc and at 52lSc. The
spot quotations are at: Steamer yellow, RIO
5s16r;gsteamer mixed 5lGI5l16c.
EGGS-Eggs a little hrIner in New York,
and it is probable that this market is better
for that reason: Western, 1515dl6c; Michigan,
l691619c; provincial, l61S6Dl719c; eastern and
northern, lS61;2c.
FLoUR-There is not much change in the
flour quotation. The wires were down, and
hence very few reports were received from the
mills. Quotations are unchanged.
BEEF-The beef market is dull. The quota
tons are nominally unchanged.
CHEESE-The cheese market is not changed
either in demand or quotation.