The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-10
SHORT LUMBER.
Current Comment.

OATs.-There is yet quiet demand NOTED,
but prices have worked up about 1c| over
last weeks figures. At the close {No. 2
clipped white are selling on track billed
36c. Lower grades range down as Go quail
ity.
BEANs.-Receipts continue very light and
the market has a firm tone but there has
been little improvement in the demand.
Best marrow pea have been advanced to
outside. Best yellow eyes have been steady
at S145 to 100. Red kidney quiet and I'M
changed.
CoRN.-The market worked considerably
higher on prices during the week, but an
easier tone is noticeable at the close al
though prices are about 1c higher than
week ago. For No. yellow on track billed
through, the close is about 42f to 42bc, with
steamer yellow at AZ to 424c, while lower
grades range down at to quality and color.
CHEEsE.-Rt ceipts for export 227 boxes.
Demand shows some Improvement Re-
ceivers are generally holding for higher
prices and some of the late sales Of fine
northern small sizes have been at Sc. Fair
to good grades are still quiet at 81 to &c.
Extra western twins in light supply and
some Of the best marks bringing &C. Ohio
flats steady at quotations.
EGGs.-There has been little If any change
in the condition Of the market during the
WICK. OlIlCJlJ CuOlCb lItbn SUCK Is SIllI III
moderate supply and the best western keep
well sold up at 1870 lac but there are good
many more or less affected by the heat that
have to be sold at a lower range. Some
sales from cold storage at - to 13ic, East
ern extras in short supply
HAY AND STRAw.--There is dull tone 10
the market, but choice grades Of hay are
steady in price, with the supply by no
means excessive. While choice hay is
steady, the lower grades are in excessive
supply, with the tone dull and prices weak,
the general market favoring the buyer.
Rye straw is weaker, with the expectation
OF new straw coming in soon. Few sales
are making above S700 to 7 30, Dat straw
nominal.
LUMBER.-The trade has been scarcely
any better this week than it was last. The
yard people are buying only what abso-
| lutely obliged to- AS a rule they are either
poorly or only moderately supplied with
lumber, and any improvement ought 10 af-
feet them most favorably. The receipts of
northern and eastern lumber at this port
during the week have been quite light.
| In short lumber there has been scarcely
any more doing than last reported. There
| Is some call for clapboards but on the
whole they are in rather light request.
The single trade is very light and prices
are lacking in real strength. A slight call
is experienced in lath.
BUTTRR.-There has been a further con-
siderable shrinkage in receipts this week
and prices have been again advanced but
| buyers pond very slowly. Late sales of
strictly extra fresh northern creamery have
been generally at 1910 and this is the top
| selling price on the open market but good
! many lots are held a fraction higher. Ex-
| ira western creamery in assorted sizes
| closes steady at l05c. Large ash tubs hard
to sell at over 1Sc Firsts quiet at Is to 17c.
| There is but little doing in northern dairy.
| Imitation creamery and ladle goods in light
supply and frmer. Fine box butter selling
fairly. Prints in better demand and fairly
we'll sold up.
FLoUR.-The call for supplies has been
slow during the week and the tone is easier
at the close. Some new wheat winter
| hours have come forward, and as far as
| seen, their quality is good, Buyers are yet
holding back and look for lower figures to
rule, sdvices from the new wheat crop be-
| ing very favorable as whole. The con-
Stunning trade is getting rid of their high
cost tlours bought previously, but the call
| from consumers is yet small. Spring pa
tents are quoted lower 10 ship, the range
being about $3.50 to 400 for most sales
| held higher. Winter bours are ranging
lower at S400 to 400 for patents, with clear
and straights at about So 20 to 400, Low
grade tiours are dull and nomnally lower.
WooL.-The market is very gradually Sc
curing better trade. Offers are more nu-
merous and are coming from small as well
as large manufacturers Trading conse-
quently consists largely Of transactions in
! small-sized blocks, but business for that
reason is more widely distributed Big
sales, however, are not entirely lacking,
| although nothing in the current weeks
business has run over half million pounds,
I and even these instances have been very
rare. 1t is still matter Of disappoint-
meut that the activity which was so plainly
| indicated in the trade Of two weeks back
has not yet come into the market. In
many quarters business is exasperatingy
slow in developing and under the fresh
disappointment some of the trade are be-
coming restless. Anxiety to sell is appar-
rent but nevertheless there are no conce s.
sions being made to force business This is
especially true in the case of fine combing
woods, and in these qualities it is plain to
be seen that better prices will be the rule
from now out,