Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-14

Price Ranges About the Same as Last
Week Eggs Are Firmer at Unchanged
? Prices Potatoes Higher
Boston, June 9.-Quiet and steady is
the condition of the butter market this
week. fair volume of business is
being transacted, but there is no snap
or enthusiasm among buyers, and prices
are steady because owners are storing
rather than to force sales at loss. A
few dealers are buying for cold storage,
but most of the sales are for current
consumption, and there is less activity
than usual at this time of year in the
jobbing trade.
A large portion of the butter coming
IN goes direct to the cold storage ware
house and is not offered on the market,
because it was bought for holding pur-
poses and because it cost more than
could be realized for It here under pres
ent conditions.
This business has a tendency to keep
the market steady, and while it con-
tinues prices may not go any lower.
1t is benefit to the butter makers for
the time being and helps them at a time
when they most need a strong support.
Eut a large number of people in the
trade think that il would be better for
all, in the long run, if the make of but
ter were allowed to come here and to
other leading points of distribution and
be sold in the open market.
Receipts increased considerably last
week, and the indications are that they
will be quite large this week. and more
than make up for the deficiency in May
The grass feed in all of the Northern
dairy districts is reported to be excel
lent, and very large make of butter
is predicted In the West there seems
to be a difference of opinion. Some
creamery men believe there is going to
be a great abundance of butter and their
idea is to keep it moving as fast as it
is produced. But this idea of an extra
ordinarily large make is not held by all
the big dealers. One of the creamery
men at Elgin on Monday week professed
to believe, says the Chicago Produce,
that there will be a shortage. If" he
said, iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and
other dairy states do not get rains with
in the next 10 days we will not have
near the amount of butter many are
expecting. I believe there will be a
shortage in Iowa anyway. Beef is
high and farmers are raising calves in
stead of sending all their milk to the
creameries.
The selling prices were about the
same as last week. There was fair
for cold storage, but it was roted that
grocers were not buying as freely So
last year at this time TO put away.
For NCEther~ extra creamery in large
lots it was hard to get over 16 cents,
although some receivers asked more,
and that is all that can be quoted as the
selling price for the finest Vermont or
New Hampshire. Cold storage buyers
were Indifferent about paying more
than 151a cents, as they could get all the
Western they wanted at that rate.
Boxes and prints sold moderately at
IL cents.
Extra Western in spruce tubs solo
pretty freely at 1872 cents, and that was
all that could be obtained for the best
separator goods in large lots. Goods
bought on the Chicago and Elgin mar
kets cost 151z TO &c cents laid down here,
and for some of these IS cents was asked,
but only small sales were made. Most
were put into cold storage Choice
Western gathered creaneries were sold
a 1412 to Is cents, but few buyers were
willing TO pay over 141A cents. Extra
separator creamery in large ash tubs
was not sold at over 10 to 151a cents, ex-
cept in rare insto noes.
Cheese supplies have increased, and
dealers are now we'll filled up. so that il
is harder to make sales than last week
Best Northern have been S6llQS at \
to S12 cents, but it was difficult TO place
lots at over cents. Ohio flats were
slow at to ~ cents.
Eggs were little ffrmer, with sales OF
choice Western at 1872 to II cents. Select
lots We're held at 1112 cents, but buyers
were not disposed to pay over II cents
for large lots. Eastern were quiet at
Il to liz cents. But few buyers are
willing to pay more for Eastern than
for Western Receivers say that West
ern eggs have given the best satisfac-
ton this season. The stock in cold stor-
age on Saturday was 9S .044 cases, a gainst
1884 cases he same time last year.
Potatoes have been in short supply
the past few days, and the prices have
advanced with sales of best Maine heb
r ms at 6S to 20 cents, and other kinds
of old at 60 TO Go cents. New Southern
sold at 81 to So per barrel
No change in beans or other articles
of produce. Strawberries continue quite
plentiful, ard gooseberries, cherries and
watermeIons are in the market
LIVE STOCK MARKET
Sheep ana lambs-There was a larger
amount of stock on the market this week
than the week before, and the prices re-
manned at the same figures as were then |
quoted. The market was not inactive,
but the buying was easy and there was |
no great demand for stock.
Northern and Eastern beef cattle !
The cOnSignmentS came in the usual !