News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-07-20
IN BOSTON MARKETS
Butter Trade for Past Week
Has Been F airly Good.

waterm eIons by the Boat Load California
Peaches shown-Home Gardeners Have
the Call-Q lotations Tell the Story.
BOSTON, July 12-The butter trade Of
the past week has been fairly good. A
frmness in prices has been noted, which
Can hardly be accounted for, as operators
seem to lack the confidence necessary to a
good business. Western butter is being
landed here in goodly quantities. 1t is re-
ported that the cold storage warehouses
contain 10000 more packages today than
they did year ago. Extra creamery is
worth 81 to % cents pound, northern
dairy, IS to 10 cents, with some fine selec-
tions at 20 cents, and New York creamery
at % cents.
In the Fruit Market
the bulk of the strawberry business is
over, but as the strawberry disappears the
blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and
currants appear in its place. A few lots of
fine native strawberries bring 10 to II cents
a box. Cape and Mansfield blueberries
sell at IS to 20 cents a quart; blackberries,
10 to II cents, and raspberries in very small
baskets at 5 cents per cup,
Many fruit stands display California
peaches which, although tempting in ap-
pearance. can hardly be so to the taste.
Watermelons are arriving in boat loads
from the south and are worth from SIS to
$40 a hundred
Vegetables.
One writer on the market for the past
week has called it the transition week, for
about this tsne> many lines of truck
change from southern supplies TO those
grown in the open air on cur nearby
farms. Market gardeners have made con-
siderable profit out of their peas this year.
Pric. the past week have ruled high; in
fact there has been a rise in many lines,
among which may be mentioned carrots,
summer squash, spinach and turnips. A
heavy supply has weakened tn price of
cucumbers Prices are: Bunch beets,
$3.50 a hundred; cabbage, S1.5O barrel;
parsley, so cents a bushel; lettu e, % cents
Il box; spinach, so cents a bus Isl; native
sqush, 81 Il barrel; native green peas, $3.50
to 50 bushel; new onions, SIPS hundred
punches.
The Quotations.
BEEF-Fresh beef was in better demand yes
terday, though it was Monday. The market
is slightly easier on light beef, with the best
heavy beef firm: Choice to fancy steers. 90
913c; prime, S126S34c; good, 81DS12c; light, 10
719c; extra heavy kinds, 100l119c; good 9190
1015c; light, Sl5lD9c; fores, 605 Nc; light, $40
515c; fianks, f@S19c; rattl es, 414@5c; chucks, 6
Q7c; rounds. SG912c; rumpS, 1OIADl315c; rumps
and loins, 1l0l41ac; short ribs, 11190151ac;
loins, 111901814c.
LAMBS AND MUTToNs-There is noted lack
of request for lambs, with the market easier
Muttons and veals, however, especially thu
latter are in good demand; Choice spring
lambs, Hobo; common to good, 90l0c; poor
and ordinary, 70S1ac; yearlings, S91015c; NUT
tons, 9010c; choice heavy Brightons, 919d1012c;
choice eastern Veals, 9091ac; common to good,
7t0Sc: Brightons and fancy, 110l2c.
BUTTER-The butter market continues to be
rather easy, though without particular
changes in prices Western creamery extra,
2l@%i%c; firsts. 10000; imitation creamery,
1S0l9c; factory, 17@19c; northern creamery,
extra, 2l156D221sc; northern dairy, 10 62015c
eastern creamery, extra, 206D2lc. These are
prices for round lots. Jobbing lots and fancy
lots cost more,
FLoUR-There are no particularly new fea-
lures in the flour market. Wheat Is scarcely
strong enough to influence a brisk trade. Quo
tations continue at: Fine and supcrs, S21C2 so
extra and seconds, 81 5003 %; Minnesota
bakers, clear and straight, 81 coat 10; winter,
clear and straight, 50 2503 S0 winter patent
50 S5Q14 40; spring patent, 81 1904 81,
MEAL-Cornmeal is firmer, from the posi-
ton of corn: Kiln dried cornmeal, for export
81 20d2 25 per Dbl; bag meal, 9ScGtyl; yellow
granulated, 81 S5G3; ground, cut and rolled
oatmeal, 81 55(G4 81 per Dbl; rye, l. 170c per
bushel for dealers and at 70672c from the
trade in job lots; rye flour, So 2OG3 IS per Dbl
as to quality.
OATs-Oats are fairly sustained. Chicago
clipped, to arrive are quoted at A 1lIc, with
fancy higher. No. white are quoted at 3S146
s815c, also to arrive. with clipped mixed at
3713c. The spot market is steady at: Clipped,
4O1A041c; fancy, .42c; No. white, 40, &C; No. 9
white, 39c; clipped mixed, 3s039c.
CoRN-Cornlr.s.rtts nrm, chicago No. 2 vel
low, to arrive, isquotel at 5l34052c, with No,
0 yellow ut 5l14G5lAc. The spot lulr&ct is
firm, with but little here, Steamer yelle ",
5205219c; No. yellow, 52I4c; stea-aer mixed,
5l@5l1zc.
EGGs-Here the market on eggs is steady,
though a little easier in some of the other
markets; Western, 15140l6c; Michigan, 100
l60l61ac; island, 15140l6c; eastern and north
ern, 1614GDl7c.
CHEEsE-Cheese is quiet and steady: North
ern full creams S4094c; fair to good, ga
SIC; western choice, SI9119c; fair to good, 71aG
Sc; Liverpool is quoted at 46s I'd on colored.
HAY-Hay is yet in free offering, with the
best hay quotable at $40 50G20 50. Bran is
steady at about SIS so for sack spring to ar
rive and at ST. for sack winter.
PoTAToEs-Potatoes are in fair supply. with
fair demand. Quotations are steady at;
Norfolk extras, 81 1903; fair to good, 81 5Oa
rs; reds, 81 5002 rs.
PoRK-Pork and lard are in quiet demand,
with the market unchanged.