The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-25
Boston Produce Markets.

HAY-Hay il in rather better demand than a
week ago. and he market is better sustained.
Straw is quiet md steady. Brand is steady in
demand at steady prices: Hay, slU@l5; fancy
$l5 5UGl8; rye straw, $l2gl3; oat straw. $685.
sack spring bran, to arrive, $40 75gl7; sack
spring middlin9s, 81 0gls 81; sack win,
ter $lS 5O0l9 30; mixed feed, sl7 5Odl8 50; red
dog -four, $40 5000 80; cottonseed meal, S&3 %
to arrive, and s2i for spot.
FLoUR-The -four market Is irregular. There
should ne some improvement on the stronger
position OF speculative wheat but buyers are
said to be indifferent. Quotations, including
the jobbers' prices in the upper range, are
Fine and extra supers, s2a2 Is; extras and sec.
onds, 81 2yg2 IS Minnesota bakers, clear and
straight, 81 3t9}; winter, clear and straight,
!SWgs 3; winter pat, 1908 10; spring pat,
rather easy. New York IL easy, with prices
easier; Best fresh creameries, small lots, 2Jn
nc western creamery, extra, 2tn24lac; FIRST
lSg20c initial ion creamery, l7fal9c; factory,
lGgl7c; northern creamery extra, 25D25c /;
northern dairy lgtt22c; eastern cream. ry, ex-
ira, 31ag2412c. Those prices are for round
lots.
LAMBS AND MUrToNs-The mutton market
continues quiet, and ID rather easy. Veals are
very fairly sustained: Spring lambs, 59G1ac !;
choice eastern. 614tg7c; cho'Ge to fancy fall
lambs, +06c; yearlings, 4d5c; ma oIs, t9yug
5]ac; choice to heavy Brightons, 90 q; choice
eastern veal, ltf0llc; common to good, 6g9c
Bright ons anti fancy @gll1sc.
Clipped oats to arrive, are quoted at $3.50 for
No, l. No. 2, 8s &C; No. 2 white, $3.50 No. 3
white, nominal 3114c; No mixed, 24I2c. The
81 .spc; No. 2, ssfac: No. 2 white, ssc Nc. )
white, 37,g3714c; No. 2 mixed. 35@s5l.e
MEAIc,Cornmeal Is steady and fairly strong,
under theposilo,n5 Of he, e9rn =, kin-dri,d corn
81 l6ttl Is; yellow granulated, 81 75a3; ground
and rolled oatmeal. 81 4J09l 70 q bbl cut oat-
meal 81 srn5 III Dbl; rye flour, 81 SJtg2 80; rye,
eOly70c u bushel.
PoTAroEs-- rho potato market is steady on
the best Hout' n hebron stock, but rose and
white are rather more easy: Houlton and
rose and white, 5Sg55c; Virginia extra sweets,
81 Is fair TO good, 81 81; Jersey double heads,
81 1902.
EGe.s-ERgs sold rather better with some of
the trade Other dealers found it dull. The
market is steadily quoted at: Fancy nearby
2So32c eastern fancy fresh 25n lsc: eastern
fresh, 2lg22c; Michigan, 2oa2c: western, ls0o
10; refrigerator, lBgl7c; southern, nominal, IL
@lsc.
CoRN-Corn is pretty steady, with the west
fairly firm. No. yellow TO arrive, is quoted
The spot market is steady, with steamer vel.
low quoted at u 2'nj2c, and with steamer
mixed nominal ut 6Ul2 tgdc
BEEF-Trade is rather dull in beef The feel
ing is that the offerings are large, especially
in the lighter grades of beef, and hence the
market is firm only on the best steers Quota
tons nre nominally unchanged however.
ApPI.Es-Apples are in quiet demand, with
the market quoted t:,tiravensteins, SAD2 80
pippins, 81 25y1 80; kings, s3D2 %; Maine Har-
veys, 81 1909; No. Blldwins and greetings,
81 5Od1 70 No. =, klt6l Is, nominally.
CHEEsE-Cheese is quiet, but said " be fairly
sustained: Northern full creams and twins,
l0alic jobbing lots, lllam1l&c; fair to good,
Sggc west, IN choice, 80 aloe fair to good, 40
s.. Liverpool is quoted ut a9s ID.
PouLrRy-iresh chickens are in fair de-
mand at lJp Sc, with fancy higher. Fresh
fowls are selling readily at l8q15c; iced chick
ems l0Gl2c iced fowls, WplUc.
PoRK-There is II quiet market on pork and
La d. with the market about steady at last
,Hppks prices,