Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-01-22
IN HUB MARKETS.
Scarcity of Fine Creamery Had
Strong Effect on Prices

Grades Under the Best Plentiful, and
supply of Fresh limitations Increased
Scarcity of Fresh Eggs.
Boston, Jan. 19.-There has been
scarcity Of fine creamery in the market,
and extreme prices were secured. for
fancy lots. AS our prices are higher than
at other places, a larger share of the
fresh made will probably be turned in
this direction. OF course. nobody can
tell what another week will bring forth,
but 1t Is not probable that the market
will increase fast enough during the re-
mainder of January to cause any mater
ial decline, Some dealers are of the
opinion that prices Will be higher before
they are lower on fine creamery, but on
this point there Is room to differ. The
ups and downs of the butter market at
this time Of year are very uncertain
things, and all that an impartial re.
porter can do is to give the facts and
figures as he finds them and leave the
future to decide the rest.
The receipts of butter for the week
were 1868 tubs and 1857 boxes, a total
| Of 459S6S pounds, against 6O5, 1926 pounds
the previous week and 496, 426 pounds for
corresponding week last year. Last
weeks receipts were about the smallest
| Of the season. The exports of butter
| from Boston for the week were 19, 92O
| pounds against 59,771 pounds for CORE
| spending week last year. From New
York last week only about 200 tubs were
exported From Portland, 1774 tubs
were exported, mostly on Canadian &C.
| count.
| The statement of the Quincy Cold
| storage company for the week Is as fol-
| lows: Put in, 4S9 tubs; taken out, 7055
tubs; stock, 5O,765 tubs, against 55, 745
tubs same time last year. For the cor
| responding week last year 625 tubs were
put in and 8340 tubs taken out.
| II have no trouble in getting 211h cents
for my finest lots in assorted size tubs.
and % to 22ia cents for boxes" said one
dealer, "but the great trouble is to get
enough butter of this kind" Other re-
ceivers of fresh Vermont and New Hamn-
shire talked in the same strain, and buy
ers who looked around confirmed these
statements. Grades just under the best
We're plentiful enough, and sold rather
slowly at 20 to 81 cents This rate COW
cred large portion of what is usually
shipped here as extra at this time of year.
Small lots of fancy western ran UP
even with northern, and occasional sales
We're reported at 211a to % cents, but
these were the exception, and the bulk
Of the fresh western ruled at 20 to q
cents. With Elgin and Chicago at 19
| cents, and New York at 20 cents, it is
not likely that much western fresh will
be sold here at over 20 cents in large
packages. The supply Of fresh imita
lions has increased, and 16 to II cents is
full selling rate to the trade. Ladies
| are not plentiful and but few offered
| under Is cents. The returned lots from
| England are nearly all disposed of, and
in respect to low grades the market is in
pretty good condition.
There has been fair jobbing trade
at the slight reduction made last week.
and the principal complaint of jobbers
Is that they cannot find enough desira BILE
fresh creamery to meet the wants of
| their customers. They are selling this
week at % cents for tubs and "a cents
for boxes, with occasional fancy pack
ages little higher. The lower grades
are sold on this basis
There is a scarcity of fresh eggs and
prices have advanced since last Satur-
day. Fresh western and eastern were
In demand at "a to Is cents, but very few
were good enough to bring over 20 to "a
cents Fancy new-laid range consider
ably higher, but offered only In small
lots. Most Of the stock in cold storage
are fall held, and these range from IS t.
20 cents Lined eggs are flrmer, Will
sales at 10 to II cents. The stock in cold
storage on Saturday was 1O,O27 cases
against 311S cases same time last year.
The market is firm for choice apples
and some fancy Baldwins run up to
$3.50 per barrel. Most sales at So to 81
Potatoes have been in fair receipt
and prices have ruled steady on a basis
OF so to IS cents per bushel for choice
western Green mountains, and 70 to 75
cents for eastern hebrons
Choice turkeys and chickens are in a
little better demand. and the best grades
of turkeys command IL to IA cents pc,
pound western chickens command II
to u cents
i New York, Jan. 19.-Tallow, s4 cents
/ BOSTON PRODUCE MARKET
Pork and LArd-Pork and lard are ouie
and unchanged: Barrel pork S12; fresh
RIBS, SIC; smoked shoulders, &c; hams
S9l0c; bacon, size; sausages, TIC:
Frankfurt sausages, TIC; lard, SIC; in
Apples-Apples are generally shut ur
in the stores, by reason of the cold. Prices
are unchanged.
Oats-Oats are firmer to arrive, with q
good demand, but the track market Is
dull and depressed by some nearby
stocks that must soon work out of the
way.
Meal-Very little change is noted in the
meal situation. with barrel oatmeal al
$1620166 and bag meal at 70@72c. Dat.
meal and the cereals are quiet
Poultry-Poultry is q little firmer o,
turkeys and fancy chickens: Turkeys
|, box lots, 9@14c; northern, 14Q16c; north.
!, ern chickens, 10@15c: western, S012c
northern folws, 9014c; western fowls, ga
, 10c.
: LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Sheep and lambs-As whole the mar.
+ ket was quiet, with but few changes O,
any note over the buying and sellin,
: averages of last week. What changes
: there were had but little effect on tn,
general run Of this weeks market. Their,
was, however, a decided drop in sheer
and lambs, the prices going down v
| 11C lower than lost ~