The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-07-13
IN BOSTON MARKETS
Butter Trade for Past Week
Has Been Fairly Good.
watrrmeions by the Boat Load California
Peaches shown-Home Gardeners Have
the Gallo rotations Tell the story.

Peaches shown-Home Gardeners Have
the Gallo rotations Tell the story.
BosToT, July l2.-The butter trade of
the past week has been fairly good. \
firmness 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
ron ain 20,0O0 more packages tod ny than
they did year ago. Extra creamery is
worth 81 to - cents pound, northern
dairy, Is to 10 cents, with some fine selec-
tions mt ~ cents, and New York creamery
al - cents.
In the Fruit Market
the bulk of the strawb berry business is
over, but as the straw berry disappears the
black berries. raspberries, blueberries and
currants appe; in its place. A few lots of
fine native strawberries bring 10 to IL cents
box Cape and Mansfield blueberries
sell at Is to ~ cents q quart; blackberries,
10 to IL cents. and raspberries in very small
DdShets III % CsHlS per cup
Many fruit stands display California
peaches which, although tempting in APP
pearance. can hardly be so to the taste.
Watermelons are arriving in boat loads
from the south and are worth from SIS to
$50 hundred.
Vegetables.
One writer on the market for the past
x.-aal huu aall LODI II tho rup itinp vxpak for
about this time many lines of truck
change from southern supplies to those
grown in the open air on our nearby
farms. Market gardeners have made con
siderable profit out of their peas this year.
Prices the past week have ruled high; in
fact there has been Il rise in many lines,
among which may be mentioned carrots,
summer squash, spinach and turnips. a
heavy supply has weakened the price Of
cucumbers. Prices are: Bunch beets,
S25O hundred cabbage, $50 barrel;
parsley 80 cents bushel; lettuce, 80 cents
Il box; spinach, 80 cents bushel; native
squsb, 81 barrel; native green peas, 81 30
to 50 a bushel; new onions, 81. % II hundIed
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. NO
g19c; prime. s1alIsa4c; good. eo1slac; light, 40
nc; extra heavy kinds, l00llIec; good, 9l9D
l0lac: light slstt9c; fores, sos lac light, $40
5L1c; TANKS, .Gtst9c; rattles, 4l4@5c; chucks, i
&c; rounds Ste9Iec; rumps, l0t9Gl312c; ruinps
and loins, ll0gl41ec; short ribs, llleDl51ec;
loins, llIegls1ec.
LAMBS AND MUTroSs-There is noted a lack
of request for lambs, with the market easier.
Muttons and veals however, especially the
latter, are in good demand: Choice spring
lambs, ll1l3c; common TO good, @tlOc; poor
and ordinary, i6DSl6c; yearlings, S1l0lec; NUT
tons, 9tlOc; choice heavy Brghtons, 91gN lO1gc;
choice eastern veals, @N913c; common to good,
7QLsc: Brghtons and fancy, llGl2c.
BUTTER-The butter market continues to be
sxther easy, though without particular
snanges in prices: Western creamery extra,
n6D2llac; frsts, lsQ1aJc; imitation creamery,
lsQll9c; factory, l1Ql9c; northern creamery,
extra, 2llgIt221ac; northern dairy, lSQL2Uxc;
eastern creamery, extra, aNJ2lc. 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 brisk trade. Quo
tatons continue at: Fine and supers, $2lt2 81;
extra and seconds, 81 50dD3 10 Minnesota
bakers, clear and straight, 81 6ts14 10; winter,
Clear anu StFhiBHt, ~ .-JqLo GU Winter patent,
81 StQ14 40; spring patent, 81 lOtG4 W.
MEAI.-Cornmeal is frmer, from the posi-
ton of corn; Kiln dried cornmeal, for export,
81 1902 % per bbl bag meal, 9ec0Sl; yellow
graduated, 81 s5lt3; ground, cut and rolled
oatmeal, 81 5JtI4 " per Dbl; rye, S5dJ10c per
bushel for dealers and at ,0G72c from the
trade in job lots: rye flour, So atg3 70 per Dbl,
rs to quality.
OATs-Oats are fairly sustained. Chicago
clipped, to arrive are quoted at 40a4lc, with
fancy higher. No. white are quoted at $500
3Slbc, also to arrive. with clipped mixed at
37Lec. The spot market is steady at: Clipped.
4Ol9Q4lc; fancy, 42c; No. white, 401ac No.
white, 39c; clipped mixed, 3sG39c.
CoRN-Corn hslds firm. Chicago No. 2 yell
low, to arrive, is quoted at 5l34ay52c, with No.
yellow at 5ll4@5lNc. The spot market is
firm, with but little here. Steamer yellow
5aG52lac; No. yellow, 52lac; steamer mixed,
5lQ5llac
EGGs-Here the market on eggs is steady
though a little easier in some of the other
markets: Western, l5161l6c; Michigan, 1860
100 l61bc; island, l5laQyl6c; eastern and north
ern, l61pNlic.
CHEEsE-Cheese is quiet and steady: North
ern full creams, sAg94c; fair to good, so
size; western choice. st3D9c; fair to good, 1110y
IL; LiverpuJl is quoted at Ais I'd on colored.
HAY-Hay is yet in free offering, with the
best hay quotable at Sl9 5OfI.D 50. Bran is
steady at about Sl5 80 for sack spring to ar
rive, and at $li for sack winter.
PoTAToEs-Potatoes are in fair supply. wi III
fair demand. Quotations are steady at:
Norfolk extras, 81 1903; fair TO good, 81 500
= 10; reds, 81 50L2 10.
PoRK-Pork and lard are in quiet demand,
with the market unchanged.