St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-08-10
BOSTON MARKET.

Boston, Aug. 8.-The -four market Is
Drmer, owing to an improvement In
wheat, and the demand Is decidedly bet
ter. Some Of the larger spring wheat
milling concerns have been selling quite
freely at $4.75Q4.9O for good to choice
spring patents in large lots sight draft.
for immediate shipment from the mills
Some Of these same concerns were even
flrmer on Saturday, and were asking
5 and 10 cents more than the above
rates. The chamber of commerce quo
tations, including the highest Jobbing
prices, as well as the lowest prices for
shipment from the mills, are higher by
s to Is cents. Spring wheat, clears,
$325Q4.25; straights. $4.15Q4.5O; patents,
$45005.25; winter wheat, clears, $4,000
40; straights, $3.65@450; patents, SAG
AGO.
Cornmeal is steady. with prices un-
changed Oatmeal is quiet. with little
change in prices. The cereals are quiet
and fairly steady. Barrel cornmeal,
$1.S5@1.90; bag meal, 79QS1c; yellow
graduated. $2.15Q2.35; rolled and
ground, oatmeal, $3.75@4; cut, $4@4.4O:
graham -four, $3:5004.50; bolted meal
$2.2OQ4.5O; rye -four, 2.95@425; rye, 600
65c.
The position of corn is generally pretty
storing, from the fact that the later
reports indicate greater damage from
drought than was estimated after the
a steady export demand Of such proper
lions as to attract the attention of both
buyers and sellers. The market Is
quoted at: TO arrive, No. yellow,
411s@41Ac; No. 8 yellow, 41A@4lhc.
Oats are we'll sustained. Old oats
to arrive are quoted at: 40 to AZ lbs,
36c; SS to 40 lbs, 33%c; 36 to 3S lbs, 33hc;
"a to 36 lbs, 321a@3Sc; No. Q clipped. 1914
@S4c; No. 3, 33@33Ac; rejected, 32Ac;
no grade, 32lsc.
The hay position Is quiet, with the
tone of values rather easy. Buyers
seem to expect new prices, when the new
hay Is at hand. Straw Is very quiet;
millfeed firm. Hay $6@15.5O; fancy,
SIT; rye straw, $500; sack spring bran,
s13.75; sack winter, $145O; middlinss,
$16.5O@1775; mixed feed, s1525@16.5O;
red dog, $1S5O@1S75; ground wheat, $1S;
linseed meal, $3.50 cottonseed meal,
$21.75.
BUTTER, CHEESE AND EGGS.
Butter Is quiet. and possibly little
easier than few days ago. The supply
of fresh is pretty liberal, while some OF
the June creameries have been taker
out of cold storage and offered on the
market. The market Is quoted at:
Best creamery, small lots and packages
20@201sc; northern creamery, round
lots, 10000; western, 1S@19c; eastern
1S@19c; firsts, 15@17c; limitations, 15Q
Ice; northern dairy, 14@16c; jobbers
get " to lie more.
Cheese is in rather better request
The demand seems to call for the best
and the hot and damp weather has beer
against that class of goods. Rount
lots, 7A@SAc; sage, S@S14c; jobbing ",
higher; Liverpool, 37s.
Eggs have continued easy, with tn
hot weather against fresh arrivals
Refrigerator stock is being taken gu
and is proving satisfactory. Refrig
orator. 13k@14c; western fresh, 14@15c
Michigan, and Indiana, 14h@15hc
eastern, 17@17hc; nearby and fancy, l
@22c; jobbing prices, 1@2c more.
BEANS, POTATOES AND CORN.
Beans are rather easy, with Slight
lower prices. The quotations are: Car
load lots, pea. $1.35; medium, $1.35; vel
low eyes, $1.50Q155; red kidneys, $2.1