News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-06-22
IN BOSTON MARKETS
Farmers Have as Yet Made
Very Little Profit.

New Potatoes still High-POultry Traders
Waiting For Summer Business to Come
Rr,ttor Market shows Increased Activity.
BosTON. June 19.-The farmers OF TINS
vicinity have as yet made but little prohI
IN Boston market Although there is to-
day a good traffic in garden stuits the pro
Queer is able to pocket but a very smali
margin of the selling price.
Greens, which are among the first oil the
early crops, have been going for song
for the past few weeks. Some glass
grown cucumbers are offered, but they
hardly bring more than cents apiece tor
the very best.
Some quotations for the other vegetables
are: Parsley, So box: parsnips, 81
bushel: fiat turnips tied in lunches 90 TO
20 cents a dozen punches; punched carrots,
rs cents a dozen; new beets, of respectable
size, bring as high as sl.25 bushel' DeeC
greens, 40 cents a bushel; radishes are
worth all the way from % to so cents
dozen lunches, and asparagus 30 cents per
dozen lunches.
Old potatoes are worth about 81 bushel,
while new ones from the south are worth
from SO to 50 so a barrel, and those from
Bermuda bring s. by the barrel
Poultry.
Traders in poultry are waiting Tor sum-
mer business to commence. lt seems
strange that the public at this time OF the
year do not use more poultry, Tor prices
are certainly not eXorbitant Al present
turkey is worth II to Is cents a pound,
spring chicken 20 to p cents; young ducks,
q cents; capon, 20 to % cents; pigeon, 500
dozen, and squads, 50 to $3.50 dozen.
The Berry Business
continues to be the feature Of the fruit
market Strawberries cover wide range
of prices. Hawkers about the streets are
CRYING -Four boxes for quarter, whlie
fruit stores are charging 20 cents ooN lor
good berries The latter are ottenest tine
cheaper to buy, for careless shipping has
done a great deal toward injuring the
quality of stock, and a really hard berry Is
worth the extra cost.
Some southern blueberries are on the
market for L. to II cents a box, but it can
not be said that the flavor of these equal
that of berries grown on our rough New
England hiIlsides a month or two hence.
Butter.
The butter market shows an increased
activity over previous weeks Receipts are
now fully up to the standard of June
quality. but rs yet little has been put in
cold storage. Consignments are taken rs
soon as they arrive. for the market Is eX-
ceptionally bare for this time of the year.
it is generally believed that creamery
butter at 20 to 81 cents is good property to
store, vet should supplies largely increase
still lower figure would be reached.
The Quotations.
PoRK-The market on pork and lard is
steady at: Long cuts, short cuts and backs
So 80; lean ends SS3 30; extra prime, SD; butt
pork SO; pork tongues, $50 fresh ribs, 21sc'
sausages, ll1Sc; bologna sausages, &c; hams,
l4Ic: small, l5c; skin back hams, l5c; smoked
shoulders, 12c; corned, lie; smoked ribs, lie;
homeless bacon, l415c; small hams, ljc; choice
lard lie per h.; tierces and tubs, 10 pound
pals, 1116c; H.. ll34c; lb, l2c; choice CITY
dressed hogs Zoe; country, SIC.
| BUITER-The butter market is really firm,
| in spite of the attempt OF some buyers TO make
| it otherwise. The market is firm at western
creamery, extra, 22023c; frsts, l9g3Oc; imiia-
ton creamery, 1S02Oc; factory, l70l9c; nor
thern creamery, extra, 23d2ic; northern dairy,
| lSa2Oc; eastern creamery, extra, 10000. These
are prices for round lots. Jobbing lots ana
fancy lots cost more,
HAY-The hay market l. steady, with best
hay at SO 5O1I2l. Rye straw Is vet reported
scarce and firm, with good lots sold al 9lID
II 90 Bran is steady at Sl5 5Odl5 % for sack
spring TO arrive, and at ST. 5OGl7 20 for sack
winter Cottonseed meal is steady at $50
20 % for meal 10 arrive, and S2d % for spot
meal
FIoUR-Wheat was a little better, though
scarcely enough so to have any influence on
the flour market. That market is quiet at:
| Fine and supers S2d2 80; extra and seconds;
| s. 5O03 ~ Minnesota bakers, clear and
straight, 81 1908 Is; winter, clear and straight,
| SO 90 winter pat, SlQ4 40 spring pat, 81 100
475.
OATs-Oats are firmer. with Chicago clipped
quoted at H@A11c to arrive. and nj 39lEc for
No white. Clipped mixed oats are quoted
! at SOC, to arrive. The spot market Is quoted
at: Clipped, 42Jkc; fancy, Bl5c: No. white,
| 4l1A6l2c No 3 white. IO169H19c mixed, iOc.
CORN-Corn is stili more firm, with Chicago
No 2 to arrive quoted At 5iL+06l1sc, with No.
yellow at 5OQJO16c. The spot market is also
firmer att Steamer yellow, 5l05l1so; steamer
| mixed, 5OlJ501ac.
| Observation-Disclosures are easy for old at coo
75c per bush, according to the condition of
| the offerings. New potatoes are firmer at $40
80 per Dbl for the best, and at S2G2 80 for fair
| 10 good.
BEEF-The Leef market is yet very quiet
Trade is small, and il is claimed that the ship
| ments for this market are equally small. Quo
tatians are the same as noted yesterday.
| MUTToNs-The mutton market shows very
| little change. The demand Is qnief, and
| prices are the same as noted yesterday. Neals
| continue dull and easy.
| MEAL-C ornmeal is steady at Gd9Sc for bag
| meal, and at 81 256l2 80 for barrel meal Oat-
meal is steady at 81 100i9 80 for ground, cut
| and rolled.
EGGs-Eggs are easier, with western fresh
| quoted at l419l5c; Michigan, lj8ljl&c; north
| ern and eastern, lGG l6lSc.
CHEEsE-Cheese is steady. Best northern Is
| quotAble at 9l9c, with western at 9c Liverpool