The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31
IN BOSTON MARKETS
Butter Firmer With Declining
Rece.pes For a Week.
Settled Prices For Green Vegetables Hoped
For-JEsettled Weather Upsets Prices.
Fruit Market In Transition Period.

For-Jrsettled Weather Ipsets Prices
Fruit Market In Transition Period.
| BasrpN, Aug. 81. 4 firm market, with
declining reotip's, tells the story of the
past weeks lrade in butter at Boston.
These two features are the natural Sc
uueuce Of prolonged drought in the but
Reproducing regions, and the stress in
| financial circles which has now come tC
make its effect felt by the humblest la
borer.
The farmer is perhaps the last who will
be affected, for, although his fine produc-
lions will not bring the fancy mark e.has
been wont to receive, yet his staple prod
ucts are necessities OF life, and must be
obtained at some price to sustain the life
OF the city man.
Best butter Is now under consideration.
Choice western creamery is readily taken
at 80 to "a cents Northern extra cream
cry brings | cent more, and good cas- tern
creamery sells for 90 to % cents. 1t is
said that the small receipts current here
are the rule in the western centers, and
therefore the firm feeling extends all over
This argues that no change in the situa-
ton may be expected for some time to
come.
Vegetables.
In the green vegetable market dealers
are hoping for Il settled price list for such
Jumps as prices made last week are not
conducive to profitable and intelligent
buying. Unsettled weather is the attri
bued reason for these changes. Some of
the prices are; Native onions, 81. 10 to Il. %
bushel; tomatoes. $3.50 to - bushel;
cabbage, to 8 c,nts head, white tur-
nips, - cents to II bushel; green string
beans, u cents to 81 - II bushel box, mar
row squash 81 to II p IA barrel; good
Crosby corn = to 81 c nts bushel; Rose
IA L ltOr,n po atoes, =. - to - a barrel;
lel.5l-c, - t. II cents bushel of three
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Ia tbs Fruit Market
the transition from southern and Califor-
a Varieties Il native grown fruit is being
n...,le Nearby richards are now picking
nice apples di.l pears, while peaches from
Delaware are seen III place OF those from
California.
Grapes FROM Delaware and Maryland
are abundant
In pric., nice Crawford peaches are
worth all the WY from - cents to 81 25 u
basket OF c1arse with the very large
number arriving SOME are of second quail
ity. THESE 20 ~ II much lower rate to the
hucksters. Red Astrachan apples are
worth 80 TO 50 a barrel, Williams the
same, and Sweet Boughs and Pippins at a
range from = TO So.
Bartlett pears are worth 50 to 50 80 in
barrels for the best.
Moore's early grapes bring % to 30 cents
for Il 10 pound basket.
The Quotations.
Pork The market on pork provisions is
quiet, with quotations the same rs noted yes
terday: Choice fancy steers, sti19c; prime, so
SlYc; good "a, e; light, j1eGl b19c; extra heavy
kinds lie, good, n4llc; hight, 6l4@So; heavy
fores. $4,000; light, 3le,s5c; backs, 66lsc:
rattles, .snligae; chuck>. 4.2ctfGc; rounds, 90
@sc; rnmp-, '1ei3e; ruml's and ioins, ltG l6c;
short ribs, Dn BE, loins, l00lsc.
MEAI.-rhe position OF cornmeal is easy, fol-
lowing the position OF corn. Oatmeal is quiet
and unchanged: kin-dried cornmcal for cX-
port, 81 lbti2 - Fer hhl; bag meal, SlGl IT.:
yellow grunulaicd, 81 1908; ground. cut and
rolled oatmeal. - IA ~ per hhl; rye, 5Slg6jc
per bushel for ueAlerS, ANA at 6jfa,Oc from the
trade in job i"ls; rye flour 81 1913 % per Dbl,
MS to quantity.
BUTTER Tie butter market is steady and
unchanged: Western creamery, .sbt23lac;
first, 20Na2c; Imitation creamery, lSft l9c; fac
tory, l10tltl2t; northern creamery. extra, Sil9
Gt2lc; northern DAIRY, 2lua2c; eastern cream
cry extra. 2!hZf. These are prices for round
lots. JohbuI lots and fancy lots cost more.
LAMBS AND AurToNS -Muttons and lambs
are easier huicc spring lambs, 9l2ttloc; COM
mon to good S,tW; poor and ordinary, 1WSc;
Brightons, lui lie: ycHrlings, ilaM Sc; muttons,
7Ledlsc Chulte nenvy BIightOns, l91ac; choice
eastern ycus, Hd.He; common to good, 1QlSc;
Brightons ANA .ncy, lUigttllc.
FLOUR The hour trade is quiet. There is
$2Gl2 -, extra and seconds, 81 4lGi2 -; Mime
sofa bakers, clear and straight, 81 60lG3 ~;
winter, clear and straight, s. a,ftJ3 -; winter
pat, IS i5lgI ~ spring pat. 81 lUNbi 10
OATs-Uats are steady and unchanged
Clipped, to arrive, are quoted AT $50 Bl1c. The
spot market is quoted ut: Clipped, 5kl40c;
fancy, il1ac; NJ. = white, J1sm:sc; No.3whte,
nominal, at Sc; clipped, mixed, nominal, $40
&c.
EGGs-Eggs are steady. Some fancy well
known marks of western. sold yesterday at
l6c, to arrive: Western. l5ll6ylrc; Michigan,
l6Ql6l4c; provincial, Bla0 l.,ec; eastern and
northern, Sls@22c.
CHEESE Cheese is steady, with quotations
unchanged. Northern full creams, s34N9I4c;
fair to good, eNlslec; western choice, Sl9dLgc
fair to good il,Qr,t; sage, &c. There was no
London cable.
CoRN-Corn is easier, The quotations on
No. yellow, to arrive, are at 5,htbOl2c. The
spot market is easier, with quotations at:
Steamer yellow, 5!GI521ec; steamer mixed, 5lG1
M1ac.
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