Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-01
N HUB MARKETS.
Prices Have Decided Up
ward Tendency.

All Produce Stronger Than Last Week
Cold Weather Will Check Production
Cheese Eggs Go Up,
Boston, Jan. 27.-Leading articles of
produce butter, cheese and eggs are in a
stro,sger position this week. Butter is
not selling any more freely, but the
scarcity Of fine grades is more marked
and extreme prices can be more readily
obtained Cheese and eggs have ad-
vanced il price.
The B'utter situation has been bene-
fitted by light receipts and good export
demand. The stock in cold storage has
been materially reduced, and most Of
what remains will not come so much
into competition with the fresh make as
it did the past month or two.
There is now a possibility-some per-
sons say a proba bility-of an advance
being obtained on the finest grades of
both held and fresh, but this will depend
mainly upon the weather If the wintry
wave in the west should hold sway for
any length of time it would injure the
quality of. the make and check produce
ton.
Receivers who control the make of a
creameries whose output is strictly fine
had no trouble in selling all they could
set at q to % cents, but the sales at
~ cents were mainly to regular custom
ers in small lots, and no more than a
iObbing business.
For most os the fresh northern arriv-
ing q cents is top trade price, and the
quality has to grade extra to command
that. All grades under extra take a wide
range, as they come into competition
with held stock, and sellers do not con-
slider it safe to refuse any reasonable.
bio. Sales We're made at IS to 20 cents,
in large and small tubs
Western creamery, which comprises
the pick OF the fresh made butter Of
fered, sold at 20 to 81 cents for extra,
and Is to 10 cents for firsts Only fire
separator goods in assorted size tubs
command p cents. Large ash tubs do
not go over 20 cents. Choice fresh imi-
tations n light RECEIPT, and sell at Is to II
cents. Ladies run up to IA cents, but few
are good enough to fetch over II to Ii
cents.
| There has been a fair demand for
choice fine creamery, and sales have
been at IL and Is cents, outside for finest
northern. This grade has become scarce,
and some holders are asking 10 cents for
what remains. Second quality rules at
Ia to Is cents. Ladies sold at 10 to II
cents. How much this stock will be af-
fected later remains to be seen.
The large foreign shipments show
that exporters have been operating free
ly. They are not buying rs much this
week. because their advices indicate q
weakening Of the English market, but
they have made bids of 16 to IL cents for
some choice June lots, which are wanted
1Trf of n ~
is expected later, if prices here are kept
low.
The advancing markets abroad and the
great reduction of stock has caused
holders to raise prices, and liz to II
cents is the rate for the best fall make.
Trade here is not active, but there is
more demand than last week, and hold
ers are confident that still higher prices
will be obtained in week or two.
| The cheese situation all over the coun-
try is stronger than ii has been for sew
eral years past. In Montreal last week
there were sales of about 10, 600 boxes,
which absorbed all the stock in that city,
except about 5000 boxes. The range of
sales was 10 to 111a cents, and no more
choice coulc be bought under liz to II
cents. Supplies all through Canada are
nearly all sold, and the situation is in
strong contrast with that of last year,
when stocks were heavy all over the Do
Ininion.
Eggs took q sudden upward turn, and
fresh western sold at II cents. More dis
patches We're received from western
shippers ordering consignments to be
held, a large shortage in the supplies be-
ing expected as a result of the extreme
ly cold weather in the west and south
west. Eastern fresh, II to Is cents. The
cold storage stock is reduced to $500
cases, against 5035 cases last year.
The bean market was quiet and
| steady, with no change in prices.
Movements of potatoes, apples and all
other kinds of vegetables and fruits were
| restricted by the cold weather. No
| change in prices.
Choice turkeys were in good demand,
| but chicken and fowl sold slowly at low
| prices.
LIVE STOCK MARKET
Northern and eastern beef catt1e-Tda