The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-18
Current Weekly Comment.

EGGs.--There is no quotable change in
prices, but it takes strictly choice fresh
stock to bring full quotations.
OATS. - The market shows a quiet de-
mand ruling, but prices are steady and the
general tone is stronger. Mixed oats are
nominal.
FLoUR.-The tone of the market has been
easier, with prices quoted lower all along
the line. The outlook is weak, and buyers
will only operate as they need supplies to
| use at once. Low grade fours continue
dull and nominal
CHEEsE.--Receipts have been rather light,
with prices as rule in buyers favor. There
are very few northern small sizes good
enough to exceed SIC. The best of the large
sizes are extremely dull at 7hc. Nothing
doing in medium and low grades.
BEANS. The market is still extremely
dull and quotations more or less nominal.
Best domestic marrow pea and mediums
are selling in small lots at about S1.70, but
are offered to arrive for less. Yellow eyes
are quiet Very little doing in red kidneys.
POTATOES. - Receipts have been much
smaller with light supply at the roads,
and choice stock has been bringing pre-.
MUM, but it is hardly safe to quote best
HebrOns at over SOC. Prices are unsettled
and vary widely from day to day, according
to the supply Offering.
POULTRY. Trade has been generally
mand. There is very little demand for
spring turkeys and the best of them sell
very slowly, while light, thin ones are hard
to place at any price Live fowls steady at
10c. Chickens have to be extra to bring
over 10c.
HAY AND STRAw.-There is fair call for
supplies, but the tone of the market is quiet
The best hay is in moderate supply, and for
such values are well sustained. The market
is yet we'll stocked with low and medium
grades of old hay, and the former has to
clean up at the best prices that will be bid.
Rye straw is in quiet demand.
LUMBER.-Many of the yards are quite
busy, doing as much as could be expected
in September. AS a result, there is con-
siderable lumber moving. The mills, how
ever, are not doing satisfactory business
and by nc means are they making money.
Within ten days the mills that were in the
combination have decided to drop the price
list which they cherished so much early in
the year. This was done because of the
great amount of cutting by combination
mills that was discovered.
BUrTER-Re Receipts continue pretty full,
but the supply Of fresh made in assorted
packages is barely equal to the demand.
Vermont and New Hampshire creamery in
small tubs has been selling for the most
part of late at 22c and some of the best
York state and western ranges up to 2lc.
There is very little movement in grades be-
low 19c, and plenty of good, useful stock to
be had at 17c and 1Sc. Northern dairy lots
are hard to place unless strictly extra and
fresh made. Very little doing in imitation
creamery or ladle goods.
WooL.-There is more excitement abroad
over wool, says the Commercial Bulletin,
than at any time during the past twenty
years, and that American wool and Ameri-
can markets should lag behind is a mystery
to those outside the trade, They do lag
behind, not only because American wool is
not bought by Europeans. but because
American mills are not only suffering Sc
verely from foreign competition on cloths
produce more largely from foreign wool
than ever before. This has naturally cut
down the consumption Of American mills so
that the marked reduc ton in the American
clip has not been felt as quickly as was an.
ticipated, AT the same time it has helped
to boost the prices of wool abroad.