News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-05-18

Fruit DeaIors-Fine Berries From Nor
foIk-Less Demand For Apples.
Boston. MAY 1I.-There is nothing to be
seen in the various lines of market TRADE
for the past week that might be called a
feature.
The butter trade is perhaps not as hue
tuating as it has been. Receipts are OF
the best quality. Poor butter is not com
ing at this time of year, so that even II
the retail buyer pays a long price for his
butter he is sure of good thing for his
money. Round lots of western creamery
have been selling at q to 20 cents pound.
Dairy butter ranged from % to 20 cents,
and in jobbing lots fine creamery selec-
tions went as high as 30 cents 1t is pre-
dicted that with the increased make OF
butter prices cannot be sustained at last
weeks basis.
The Strawberry Trade
now occupies the attention of the fruit
dealers Georgia berries are coming in all
stages of ripeness, with prices ranging
from 10 90 cents a box. Some fine berries
are being received from Norfolk, Va, and
these sell as high as 30 cents a box at
wholesale.
Cranberries are no longer to be seen in
barrels They have been picked over and
packed in bushel crates and these are
worth "a to S. each. Apples grow less In
demand as the season advances and their
good qualities decline. Baldwins bring
81. so barrel and Spies from "a to s., for
the soundest fruit.
The Poultry Market.
is quiet with little home reared stock in
trade Western turkeys sell for is cents a
pound; Philadelphia capons, 26 cents a
pound; fowl, 13 to 10 cents; pigeon, Sl.75 a
dozen and squad, 81. % to S2;75 dozen.
Vegetables
The vegetable market is quiet. Quota
tions are: Old beets, si.15 a bushel, old
SQUASH, s. a barrel; carrots, so to 60 cents
a bushel; yellow turnips, 81 to Sl.25 a
barrel; white Sweedes, S225 to $3.50; old
cabbage, 81. % barrel; potatoes about 81
bushel for well kept stock.
New vegetables from the south largely
replace the home grown stock of last sea-
son, but the new stock brings fancy
price, which would be out of place here
The Quotations.
PoRK-Pork and lard are firmer, with pork
advanced SOC and lard14 C: Long cut, short cut
and backs, So, and lean ends, 81 80; extra
prime, 81; butt pork, S2l; pork tongues, 81;
fresh ribs, 120121c; sausages, ll1Sc; bologna
Sc: hams, 15c; small, 12ISc; skin back hams,
l5c; smoked shoulders, lie; corned, lie
smoked ribs. 10l6c; homeless bacon. 13I6c;
pressed hams, l416c; choice lard, ll14c per Id In
tierces and tubs; 10-lb pals, 1ll9c; bib, ll4c
| BIB, 12c; choice city dressed hogs, lOc; coun-
| try, S34c.
| FIoUR-The -four market holds firm, with
| the news from the growing wheat and the
| seeding to wheat not very encouraging
Millers wire their agents here that the wheat
| crop of Kansas will be reduced over 80 per
cent according to present indications. Quo
| tations on flour are firm: Fine and supers
| S2d3; extra and seconds, S3G3 40; Minnesota
| bakers, clear and straight, 50 1903 4O winter
clear and straight, 50 3583 %; winter pat, 50 %
| al 35; spring pat, 81 4gd5; fancy brands, $50
| Sis.
| BEEF-The beef market is firmer, from tho
/ fact chat the shippers have shut off supplies
considerably this week and ordered statesmen
to get more for the beef, since cattle are cost
| ing more: Choice to fancy steers. e1@0s34c
| prime, 71l1Sc; good, 7Cd71sc; light, G5D61Sc; ex-
| ira heavy hinds IO1bll1Sc; good, gglOc; light
/ 6I7c: rattles, 4I6G1434c: chucks, 5d6I6c rounds
| Sdgc; rumps, lODl2c; rumps and loins, lO1Sg
| l41Sc: short ribs, l06tllc; loins, boise.
| BUTTEIt-Butter is really firmer, for the rea-
son that there is so little offering, but at the
| the same time there is not a dealer that is not
| afraid of lower butter. New York buyer Is
|
| terday, and to have taken some 400 tubs for
| that market Quotations are: Western fresh
| creameries, 2Sd.s9c; northern, 29QpJOc; eastern,
| 25frs9c; New York and Vermont dairy, 2Att;3jc.
| These are prices for rouud lots to the trade.
Jobbing lots and fancy lots cost more.
| HAY-Hay holds firm, with choice cars
| quoted at Sl96D2O. Good lots sell at SlSlDlS %
| Rye straw is quotable at SIG for the best. with
| oat straw at 5000. Bran is tirmer, with sack
| spring to arrive at Sl6Gl6 30, and sack winter
| at Sl7 756DlS. Cottonseed meal is quoted al
| S26 % for prompt shipment, and at SIS 20 for
| spot.
| PoTAToEs-Potatoes are firmer. and stronger
| prices are quoted: ArOostook hebrons, 81 u
| al 10; Houlton hebrons, 81 lOi Houlton rose
| Sl6l O5; Dakota reds, 9Oc; New York burbanks
| and white stars, S2q9Oc; p. f. |. chenangoes
| SSc; Irish and Scotch magnums, SlGl Az per bg
| CoRN-COrn is not as firm, with the market
| on Chicago No. 2 yellow at 5416c. In the spo
| market there is very little corn, and the mar
| ket is nominally firm: No. yellow, 56lsc
| steamer yellow, 5g1sDJoc; steamer mixed, 04f
| 6Jl5c.
| OATs-Oats are easier. Chicago clipped arr
quoted at 43d43I5c TO arrive, with choice a
| 446i4416c. The spot market Is easier at; Clipped
| 44J6d4515c; fancy, 46c; No. white, 43lB45l9c
No 3 white, 42d4319c, mixed, i09421ec.
| LAMBS AND MUTToNs-Muttons and lamb
are steady, with prices the same as yesterday
Veals are in full supply, and the market i
| rather easy. Quotations are not changed.
EGGs-Eggs hold firmly, with fresh western
| selling at l61461l6l5C. Fresh southern are quot
able at about l534dl6c. Northern and eastern
fresh are quOtable at l7dl794c.
APPLE-Apples are holding pretty firm: No
| l baldwins, s. 50d3; No. 2, 81 7542; No. rus
sets, 81 JO12 70; fancy, S3 No. 2, 81 50G2.
MEAL-COrn holds firm. with quotations a
81 Oj0l o., and with barrel meal at 81 3Od