News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-09-28

Produce Dealers Doing Good
Business With Profit.

Gutter Market short of supply-Trado
In Vegetables Large and Prices Iietter.
Large Receipts of All Kinds of Fruit.
Boston, sept. 2O-The Boston pro-
duce markets are very busy just now.
Almost every dealer is doing good bust.
ness and takes care to let no business 90
through his hands without some profit to
himself The farmer, however, cannot
complain, for his products now find a
ready sale at prices which are quite remu-
nerative.
The Butter Trade
is rather short of supply. Receipts are
growing quite light, so as to necessitate
the withdrawing of stock from cold stor-
age. During the last few days the with
drawals have become quite heavy and
should this long continue next spring will
see n great scarcity of butter. This would
be but repetition of the conditions last
spring, when all kinds of butter was
scarce and high. It is certainly hoped that
western producers will soon be ably to
supply our current needs, that the stock
in storage may remain untouched. Prices
for butter this week are: Northern cream
cry, from % to 90 cents, according to the
quantity purchased. New York and Yer
mont dairy butter is in fair demand at
from 81 to "a cents, and cold stored but
ter at "a 1-2 to % cents.
Trade In Vegetables.
has been large and prices have been a little
better this week. Conditions which have
kept the market in somewhat limited sup
ply are the cause for the upward tendency
in prices. The potato crop is being har-
vested and the supply is coming in in
goodly amounts. The best Houltons
bring SO cents per bushel, with Aroostook
and rose and hebrons at few cents less.
Bristol Ferry rose and hebrons bring S175
per barrel Tomatoes are holding quite
steady at about 40 to so cents per bushel
for both ripe a.d green. Onions are IS
cents per bushel. Marrow squash 60 to 20
cents per bushel, while turban brings 81 to
S1.25 Corn brings all the way from 40 to
rs cents a bu She, ana celery is coming in
for about $3.50 per long box. Green
string beans bring 81 to $1.25 a bushel;
also liuas and horticultural at the same
figure.
Tho FUuit Market
never looked better than today, with its
large supply of every variety in the finest
perfection of growth. There is good de-
mand for all fruit and prices hold quite
steady. Many grapes are now coming and
some are very fine. Concords and Della
wares are most wanted. The former are
worth 81 a case Of IL baskets, while the
latter bring $3.50 for the same amount.
The supply OF apples seems quite limited.
Some Gravestein fruit looks fine and
brings as high as SO to 81 barrel. Har-
vey's are worth 81 70 to So. Porters and
Pippins bring about $2.25 to $3.50 per
barrel.
The Quotations.
LAMB AID MUTTON-The market on NUT
tons and lambs is easier under full supply.
Veals are steady, with full prices for fancy:
Choice to fancy lambs, l0Ql0l5c; common to
good, S1r91@c; poor and ordinary, 5D7c; Bright
ons, l0GlOl5c; yearlings, Sole; muttons, 6D7c;
poor to good, 506c; choice heavy Brightons,
6l@l17Lc; chOce eastern veals, lO0llc; COM
@Il19c.
PoTATOEs-Thc potato market is firmer.
Sweet potatoes are clearing up and the mar
ket is looking better: New Hampshire rose
and hebrOns. 45GDiSc; HOulton rose and heb
rons, 5OG52c, ArOostook rose and hebrOns, $50
50c; New York stars and burbanks, 45GD4Sc;
Virginia cloth heads, extras, $292 25 Jersey
bulks, 81 %; double heads 81 80.
OATS-NO changes of Importance are noted.
The quotations on Chicago clipped, to arrive,
are at 34G131 NC, with fancy heavy oats as
high as $50 The spot market is quotable at:
Cltnped, 3IQ3712c: fancy, 3S03o12c; No. white,
SCC136 &c; No. 3 white, nOminal at S51503Gc;
IL at. .i4ll35c.
CHEEsE-Cheese is very firm, and further
increu- III prices is promised: Northern full
creams and twins l01GQDlic; fair to good, $40
l0c; western choice, 915Gll01ac; fair to good ~
6S1ac; sage, 1l0ll15c. Liverpool is cabled at
As 81 for white and AIS Cd for cOlored.
CORN-Corn is easier, at SIC for No 2 yellow
to arrive, ana at 5l14GD5l34c for yellow to ar
rive, ana at 5l1505l3Ic for Chicago No. 3 yell
low. Thu spot market is also a shade easier
at: Steamer yellow, 521l5215c; No. 2 yellow,
521IG53c; steamer mixed, 6l1@c
HAY-Hay is quiet at about SIS 50 for very
choice cars, and at Sl7lllS Tor good cars. Mill
feed is fairly sustained at Sl70117 % on sack
spring bran, to arrive, and at S1SdlS % for
sack winter. Sack middlings are quoted at
SI7 50019 o. as to quality.
BEEF-Ghe market was very quiet on beef
and the feeling is easierS tEoIgh the--hippers-
are striving hard to hold statesmen up 10 full
quotations. So far quotations are nOminally
unchanged from those previously noted.
APPLEs-Apples are extremely scarce, and
good to choice lots sell very quickly: Pippins
and Porters, s. 5O1l3 50 per Dbl; Harvey, S3(1i;
Gravenstein, 50 1904 80; common lots, S3QD2 80.
FLOUR-The flour market is quiet, but firm.
The trade takes hold very reluctantly at the
recent advances in prices. Wheat is shade
easier.
MEAL-The market on cornmeal is quiet and
unchanged, at 81 p for barrel meal, and at
SlGJ1 o! for bag meal.
EGGs-Eggs are firmer: Western, 19c; Mich
igan, 20c; provincial, 1S0l9c; eastern and
northern, 2lGl:25c.
BUTTER-The butter market is quiet, with
previous quotations fully sustained. Trade is
quiet however.