News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-09-21
IN BOSTON MARKETS
Healthy Tendency Prevails
Throughout the List.

Potato Business Picking Up - Demand
For Picking vegetabIes-Good FIR ait
of All Kinds in Good supply.
Boston, Sept. 1}-There seems to be a
healthy tendency all through the produce
markets of Boston this week. Returning
vacatonists have increased the city de-
mand for farm products, and the improv-
Ing financial situation has doubtless favor
ably affected the trade to a considerable
extent. With these conditions, however,
the farmer should not crowd the trade
with his productions, for as soon rs this Is
accomplished a slump in prices is sure
resultant.
Potatoes and Vegetables.
The potato business is commencing TO
pick up considerably The large grocers
in Connecticut and Rhode Island will soon
begin to dig their crop, which promises TO
be of exceptionally fine quality. Al pres
ent rose and hebron are worth from %
to 60 cents per bushel, while Houltons
bring u few cents more. Picking veseta-
BILE, such as small cucumbers, green toma-
toes cauliflower and peppers are now In
seasons and lively trade Is promised.
Picking cucumbers are now worth s.
to 81 80 per bushel and caulifiower 10 to 10
cents head. Ripe tomatoes are gettlng
cheaper. ranging from 20 to 10 cents q
bushel. Of the various kinds of beans,
wax bring IS cents to 81 a bushel, lima 20
cents, green string beans, 81 ami horticul-
tural rs to 80 cents. Some other prices
for staple farm vegetables are; carrots, %
cents bushel, marrow squash, 20 cents
barrel, onions, 60 cents bushel, corn, -
TO 60 cents per bushel, turban squash, 81 a
barrel, cabbages, s. to So per 100, rutabaga
turnips, 81 10 Il barrel aud the white fat
variety for 90 cents a bushel.
Good Fruit of All Kinds
is in good supply this week. There is an
increasing demand now and trade is brisk.
Gravestein apples are now in most de-
mand for eating and table use. POrter's
and Pippins are in good condition and
bring SIPS to $3.50 barrel. There is
good demand for pears. The best native
Bartletts brings 81 cents to 81 bushel
according to quality. The common va
ricties of pears sold in barrels are worth
all the way from IS cents to 81 So Native
peaches are soon expected, while some
very fine grapes have already come ia.
OF these Concords in crates of baskets
bring $3.50 to $1.1J and Delawares bring
s2.25 to $3.50 in the same quantity.
The Quotations.
MUTToNs AND LAMBs-Muttons and lambs
are also in dull request, with the market
easier: Choice to fancy lambs, l0lGlOl9c com
mon 20 good, Sto919C; poor and ordinary, GGtc;
Brightons, l1@ll14c; yearlings, 6q7c; muttons
Gd7c; poor to good, 5BGc; choice heavy
BrightOns, 6156G71&c; choice eastern yeals, lnfe
l01Ec; common TO good, G09lac; Brightons and
fancy, l0tDl2c.
oTAToEs-Potatoes are in oversupply and
prices are easy. Sweet potatoes are also easy:
Eastern, barrels, S2G2 .: New Hampshire |
rose and hebrOns, 4S0jOc; Hnulton rose and |
hebrons, 5OD55c; Aroostook rose and hebrons, |
4sG50c; New York stars and burbanks. 5Slt50c;
Virginia cloth heads, extras, So Jersey bulks,
81 1903; double heads, 50 p.
BUTTER The butter market is very firm,
with prices higher, following lhe western mar |
kets: Western, 966l2615c; frsts 2lGssjc; imita- |
ton creamery, l9012c; factory, lSGDl9c northern
creamery, extra, HG21Lc; northern dairy, - |
@24c; eastern creameryi extra 261a@I'c. |
These are prices for round lots. Jobblng lots |
and family lots cost more.
FLOUR-The -four market IL very firm. There |
is a better demand for both flour and wheat |
for export The flour quotations are firm at: |
Fine and supers, S,,fg} 80: extra and seconds, |
81 1908 80; Minnesota bakers, clear aud |
straight, S39Ii 10; winter, clear and straight. |
81 2j6I4 50.
CoRN-Corn is very steady to arrive. with |
at 81 c, and No, corn at 5}}4c. The spot mar |
ket is better, with considerable sales OF No. |
and steamer yellow at 5f1SC, Quotations are |
at: Steamer yellow, 54d54ISc; No = yellow
54l4c; steamer mixed, 53ll53IRc.
OATs-Oats are firm. The market to arrive /
is quoted at 3SlS6l39c for clipped. with No /
white, also to arrive, at T0311Sc. The spot /
market is fairly firm AT: Clipped. 31c; fancy |
3Sc; No. white 3f3j1sC; No, 3 white, nomi- /
nal, at 351EG36c: mixed, 3i6l3jc.
APPLEs-Apples are very quiet and yet /
there is a scarcity of first-class hand -Dicked /
varieties, and 5uch would bring better prices:
Pippins and Porters, 81 501J2 80 yer Dbl; Will /
Jams, 81 5OQ3; gravenstein, 81 1908 so; COM
mon, 75c01 90.
CHEEsE-Cheese is firm. with quotations
higher: Northern full creams, lO0lD% p; fair
to good, S19Gggl4c; western choice. g1S DC; fair
to good, 715GtS16c; sage, lOdlOhc. Liverpool is
cabled at los Adj for white and AIS Cd for col
ored.
HAY-Hay is quiet and steady. straw ia |
dull, with the market easy. Millfeed !, firmer, |
from the fact of the coming advance in |
freights. Sack spring bran, to arrive. T.
quoted at $3.50, with sack winter at Sl1JO0
17.75.
MEAI-Cornmeal holds firm, with prices un-
changed. Oatmeal is quiet. Quotations are
at 97199c for bag meal and at s. l5d2 ~ on |
barrel meal. Oatmeal is quoted at g. jO6l4 10. |
EGGs-Eggs are firm and are selling at |
higher prices: Western, 1870; Michigan, 1890 |
Zoe; provincial, lS0l9c; eastern and northern, |
2l6G24c.
PoRK-The pork market is quiet and I'M |
changed. Lard in the home market is with |
out change in prices.
BEEF-Beef continues dull. Quotations are /
easy at unchanged figures.