News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-13
IN BOSTON MARKETS
Full Flush of the Dairy Pro-
duct Is Now On.

Southern Truck Is Keeping Down Prices
of Home Grown ArticIes-Berries the |
Lively Feature of the Fruit Trade.
BosToN, July 6.-The butter business at |
Boston is growing larger and larger as the |
season advances. The full flush of the |
dairy products is now on and the liberal |
receipts tends to keep down the price. In |
quality the stock now on the market can
not be surpassed and this prime condition |
gives the cold storage people an opportu-
nifty to buy butter of the best quality Mt
reasonable price. The money stress mt the
west has been potent factor in the situa-
ton. The result is that the large receipts
tend to a lowering Of the prices.
June butter has been low-priced, and it
is thought that il financial ease does not
soon come that July prices will be fully as
low At Boston, New York and Vermont
dairy is bringing IS to 90 cents while a few
fine lots are worth 81 cents pound
Green stufrs.
Boston market gardeners are complaining
that southern truck is keeping Down the
southern grower has certainly learnt a
lesson in the packing Of his vegetables
which is a profitable one to him. Some
prices now current are: Bunch beets, 50. 80
to So per hundred lunches; parsley, 81 to
$l.25 box; cabbages, 81 to $1.50 a barrel;
lettuce, 40 to 50 cents a box; rhubarb, 81
per hundred weight; new onions, Sl.5O per
hundred bunches;peas, Sl.25 to S1.5O box;
string beans, S125 to S1.50 a bushel;
cucumbers, $3.50 to 81 a hundred, and
water cress 40 cents dozen punches. Nor
folk potatoes are coming in large receipts
and 50 a barrel is the ruling price.
The Berry Trade
is lively feature of the fruit market.
Strawberries are abundant and firm. The
smaller grades are worth from to cents
a box, while the fine, large native varieties
bring as high as 10 cents quart North
Carolina blueberries are bringing 10 to IL
cents quart. OF the California fruit
cherries are worth 81 to S125 a case, plums
"a to $3.50 q case and apricots 81 % to $3.50
crate. Native cherries are not yet very
sweet and bring from 6 to 10 cents quart.
New apples from Norfolk, warranted to
produce the most dire collie pains, are cost
ing 70 cents to 81 crate, while russets
and Baldwins of last years growth are
worth So 80 to 81 barrel.
Poultry.
A cool summer season has kept the
poultry trade with the beach hotels almost
at standstill Business is very dull at
present, although just before the Fourth
transactions were a little more than has
been common of late Spring chickens
cost 25 cents a pound; broilers, 20 to 30
cents; turkey, IA to 10 cents; ducks, 20
cents; pigeon, So to $50 a dozen, and
| squad, 50 dozen.
The Quotations.
FLoUR-The position of wheat was only
fairly sustained. There was not force enough
| to the wheat market TO hold flour up TO the
active position promised by the sudden firm
| ness in wheat before the holiday. The market
| is steadily quoted at: Fine and supers, SO
81 so, extra and seconds, 81 5003 80; Mime
| sofa bakers, clear and straight, 81 GOD4 10,
winter, clear and straight, 50 2503 50; winter
pat, 50 Sj04 10; spring pat, 81 1904 80
BEEF-In beef trade was dull and unsatis-
factory with the offerings rather more album
| dant: Choice to fancy steers, 9691sc prime,
| S151S34c; good, SGslsc; light, 11s9Sc; extra
heavy kinds, l0@1l19c; good, l0GlO1Sc; light,
9Gg16c; fores, G6G616c; light, J05l9c; backs, ~
61s16c; rattles, 41l0D516c; chucks GGJ7c; rounds,
SIk69lkc; rumps, 1l6l31Sc; rumps and loins,
111e61415c; short ribs, 20l519c; loins, l2Gls1sc.
| MUTToNs AND LAMBs-Trade was dull in
| muttons and lambs, and the market is easy.
| Veals are not very plenty and the market is
| frmer: Spring lambs 136D1416c; fall lambs, 10
| a12c; common to good, s1@GD9lec; Chicago NUT
tons, 9a1Oc yearlings, s160l0c; choice heavy
| Brightons, 9l66Dl016c; choice eastern veals, 90
91Sc common to good, 70Sc; Brighton and
fancy, 1019111lc.
BUTTER-Butter is very quiet, the holiday
| stopping business since Monday. Possibly the
| Cot afrn1
extra. 2l1sd22c; frsts, l912)c; imitation cream
cry, 1s0l9l6c; factory, l7lDlDc northern cream
| cry extra, 22G23c; northern dairy, 1SB16c;
eastern creamery extra, 2lD2lc. These are
| prices for round lots. Jobbing and fancy lots
| cot more.
| CoRN-Corn is about steady. Chicago No.
2yellow, to arrive is quoted at SOC, with No.
yellow at 4916c. The spot market is steady
| and quiet, with one or two small sales Of
| steamer yellow at J01ac. The market is quoted
at: Steamer yellow, 5O1605l; No 2yellow, 5l15c;
steamer mixed, so.
OATs-Oats are very little changed. Clipped,
to arrive, are quoted at 39d391Ec, with fancy
up to 40c. The spot market is quoted at:
Clipped, 391GG40c; fancy, Ale; No. white,
3919c; No. white, 3s19c; clipped mixed. $50
3S15c.
CHEEsE-Cheese hold steady, with the mar
ket at: Northern full creams, 90914c; fair TO
good, S6s1Sc; western choice, S34G9c; fair to
| good, 715dSc; Liverpool is quoted at AS Cd on
colored, and As Cd on white.
HAY-Hay is dull. under the full supply,
Choice hay is quotable at S2O021. Choice rye
is quotaLle at S1791s. Sack spring bran for
shipment is quoted at SIS 250l5 80, with sack
winter at Sl7 20GDl7 80.
| EGGs-Eggs were dull, with the market only
fairly steady at; Western. l5l90lGc; Michigan,
IGC6l61sc; island, 151s0l6c; eastern and north
ern, l619@l7e.
MEAL.-The cornmeal market is quiet and
unchanged, with bag meal quoted ut 9Sc0Sl
and with barrel meal at 81 2012 %.
PoRK-No changes are admitted in the
values of pork and lard, though the market is
| admitted to be very quiet.
POTATOES Potatoes are easy, under n full
supply: Norfolk extras, 50; fair to good, s. %
az 70; reds, S202 70.