The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-10-05
IN BOSTON MARKET.
Firmer Prices Rule In Deal.
ings In Butter.
Prices For Apples Have a skyward Ten
iency - Grapes Plentiful and Low
Good Peaches Bring High Prices.

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Good Peaches Bring High Prices.
BosroN, Oct. 4-There IL little chang,
in the price basis in the various lines of
the butter trade Supplies for the better
grades are about enough for the con
sumption and gocd feature is that the
supply of sec nd rate butter is small
This situation tends to make the prices
tirmer all around.
Fresh northern creamery, the best this
market de Is in, is worth about % cents,
the same figure rs WAS quoted "A week ago
There is, however, no disp stion on the
part of receivers to force sales at this zig
ure. Western fresh creamery rules from
70 to ,, cents, the packages bearing popu-
lar brands bringing The latter price.
About 5000 packag, of butter were taken
out of cold storage this week This but
ter is Of tiue quality and commands about
% cents for the choice brands. New York
and Vermont dairy brings all the way
from 90 cents to 70 cents per pound
The Iruit Trade.
The apple trade, that most important
feature of the fruit market seems to be
= little off thus far The crop of early APP
pies has been small in this vicinity, and
the good demand with small receipts has
combined to send prices skywa.d During
the past W elk some very line Gravenstein
apples have come in from Nova Scotia, and
these are snapped up at a to 81 80 per bar
rel The native variety of the same APP
plies brings from s. to 81
The supply Of grapes is good and prices
are, perhap., II little low, though it sells
Off quickly. Coucords, the favorte, are
worth about Is cents for five pounds, aud
Delawares, from New York state, are
about the same.
some very choice native peaches are
now selling at 81 per basket. There are
the very finest, aud poorer grades sell for
almost anything they will bring.
Some ounces are being sold at 40 cents
per peck. The cranberry crop on the cape
has been ga' hered and goodly amounts
have already b EN- sent to Boston, The
demand for this fruit is not what it will
he later. and, consequently, 81 to s. per
barrel is all that can be now obtained
Vegetable
Potatoes are beginning to come IN in
large amounts. Hebrons from Maine
seem to come in the largest numbers.
These are of fairly good quality and bring
about all TINT can be obtained and sell
we'll at about 80 to 55 cents per bushel
Some prices for other vegetable are:
Onions, 80 hts per bushels; cabbage, IS
ceuts barrel; beets, 65 to 50 cents box;
marrow squash, 10 to IS cents barrel:
tomatoes, 40 to 60 cents bushel; cucum.
bers, 81 Is to sl.50 II box; lettuce, 90 to 2i
cents dozen; parsley, q cents; horti
al hoe :, TO 10 nd tab
turnips, 81 % to - 80 per barrel
The Quotations.
MEAL--Cornmeal is steady in price, with
trade rather quiet. Dat meal and rye holr
are unchanged, Prices steady AT: Kiln
meal, 9sc@sl; yellow granulated & s5Gta;
ground, cut and rolled oatmeal 81 iNti 70 per
Dbl. rye dc per bu- hel for dealers, and AT 81
6o10c from the trade in job lots; rye flour $40
- per bb as to quality and the quantity in
question.
BuTTER-Butter is very firm, though, per-
haps, not quotably higher. Quotations are mt:
Fancy creameres, In small packages, &9lsQI3Dc;
imitation creamery. 2iGas,c factory, lsG52lc
northern creamery, extra. 2Sa29c; northern
dairy, 25Ge261ac; eastern creamery, extra, 2714
@2Sl4c. These are prices for round lots. job
bling lots and fancy lots cost more.
HAY-There Is a quiet trade for hay and
millfeed Good to choice hay, $l7 5llt1s choice
to fancy fair TO good s eastern
swale. &lUdlo 30; rye straw, l45td1l5; oat
straw, Stsfl9: sack spring bran to arrive, S1B "a
Q1l7 sack winter, $17 rs; sack middlings.
Sl8 25QD2; old cottonseed meal, $B, to arrive
No new meal is yet offered.
PoTAToEs-There is no change to note 10
white potatoes Sweets are lower. The quo
tations are: New Hampshire rose and heb
rons 5OtD5)c; Houlton rose and hsl rons, 5261
55c; ArOOstook rose and hebrons, 5dt52c; New
York stars and burbanks, 4slt56c; Virginia
cloth heads extras, 81 l2letg2 25; double heads,
$3.50
CHEESE Cheese is also very frm,a and highe,
prices are expected, in sympathy with primary
markets: Northern full creams and twins, lilo
l2c; fair to good, sl4l0lsc; western choice 100
erpool Is cabled ut 40s 3D.
FLouR-There is a quiet trade in flour, with
prices firm and unchanged. The quotations
are Fine and supers, ~ 1903 %; extra and
seconds, 90 25Gt3 81 Minnesota bakers, clear
and straight, 81 1n14 10 winter, clear and
straight, 81 1903 30; winter pat, 50 0ED4 40.
spring pat, 81 1904 ~.
APPLIES Apples are steady and unchanged
Pippens and Porters. $2d2 30 per Dbl; Harvey
1908; Gravensteins, 90 750t4 25; Hub ardstons
$2(D2 30; common lots, $2lt2 co.
EGGs-Eggs are very hrm, with the offer
ings small and the market higher: Michigan,
2aW2}c; western, 2l@22c: held, akD2lc.
PORK-There is a fair trade In pork pro-