Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-11-11
IN THE BOSTON MARKETS.
Flour Rules Weak In Sympathy
With Wheat.

Onions, Cabbages and Squnshes In I,,dt
Supply-Other Produce,
Boston, Nov. 10.-The demand for ao,r
Is not very urgent and the sales of the
week have been small here. most of tba
millers' agents reporting very little do
ing Some business was put through
for export toward the close of the veel,
but even this branch Of the market was
considerably less active than in imme-
date preceding weeks.
1t is quite generally acknowledged
that the home buyer is Indifferent. Sell
ers who have returned from trims
through New England report that IT has
been difficult process to interest buy
ers Occasionally a car or two are placed.
but it is exceptional to find a BUYER
courageous enough to take on a larger
line. All seem to be waiting for some
thing or other, either a decided break in
prices or movement in the other di-
rection.
The mills are generally we'll off as TO
business on hand and are making siren
uous efforts to get out all the product
possible before navigation closes. The
big mills in the northwest are sold well
into December, and are said not to be
very anxious for more business Just now
at current prices. In the winter wheat
section, ALSO the mills are sold ahead.
The market has ruled weak in SYM
pathy with wheat, but changes in prices
from those quoted a week ago are not
as great as might have been expected
under the circumstances. In fact, some
of the mills have not changed their
prices at all. The product of one of the
l.
evening at $3.50 per barrel for patent,
the same as one week ago. There are
others that are holding at $40 and SAILS
while still others ask from $500 to 81
Patent with a good reputation can I'M
doubtedly be bought for $500. and bid
of five or 10 cents under this price, if
forthcoming, might find a seller.
The following quotations, covering the
inside millers' and the outside jobbers
prices, are those made yesterday by the
flour trade price committee: Spring
wheat patents from $3.50 to $4.75; spring
wheat straights from SO to 1915; winter
wheat patents from $3.50 to $4.35; winter
wheat straights from S3.65 to $40, and
winter wheat clears from $3.40 to 1895
per barrel, as to quality and size of pur.
chase.
Meal-No changes are noted in the
meal markets: Barrel cornmeal, S1.S5@
1.90; bag meal, S0QS2c; yellow granu
lated, $2.1062.25; rolled oatmeal $3.4O9
$50: ground and cut, $3.S0q425.
Corn-Corn is about steady. New corn
for prompt shipment is quoted at S9&lc
NoVembeA SS$ic.
Oats-Oats are steady and unchanged:
Fancy heavy, 1914 Q3312c; No. 2 clipped.
32Ac; No. 3, 31la@31%c; rejected 31A q
S11ac; no grade, 30@3014c.
Hay-Hay is not quite as firm. under
heavier arrivals; straw steady; mill
feed steady: Hay $6014; fancy old, in
jobbing lots, $14.50G15.50; rye straw. $40
10; sack spring bran $14@14.25; sack win
ter, $1475615.
Butter has continued to be we'll held.
but the demand also continues light 1t
Is still understood that the retail deal
ers and jobbers are using up what they
have in store before purchasing further.
Best creamery, small lots and packages,
22lA@23c; northern creamery, round lots.
21@22c; western, 21Q22c; eastern, 210
22c; firsts, 1S@191ac; limitations 14@16c:
jobbers, 1ac to 1c more.
Cheese is selling slowly, with the mar
ket steady. Liverpool is firmer on COL
ored. Round lots, 9Q1Oc; sage, 100
1O1kc; jobbng, Ac higher; Liverpool, 42s
for white and 44s for colored.
Eggs are firm, with prices firmer. Re
frigerator, 15@16c; western fresh, $50
19c; Michigan and Indiana, 2O@22c;
eastern, 21Q221Ac; nearby and fancy, %
@24c; jobbing 1c to &c more.
A firm apple market is continued
though the European markets were OFF
badly early in the week. The returns
showed a decline of over 81 per Dbl on
many varieties. Pears have ceased
coming in freely, and the market is
pretty firm. Grapes are firmer, and
have been selling at higher prices OF
late. California oranges are almost
out of the market, and prices are nom
inal, Lemons have taken quite a
tumble, and they are still weak, owing
to the liberal supply of foreign in sight.
Cranberries and ounces are still plenty.
Potatoes are steady to firmer on Irish
stock. with the receipts pretty well
taken care of. Sweet potatoes are firm
err; eastern hebrons and whites, 59@
5Sc; Green mountains, 5S@60c; northern
hebrons and whites, 45Q4Sc; Virginia
sweet, 81 25; double head, $3.50.
Onions are in full supply, with the
market easy at $1.50@1.60 per Dbl for
natives, and at 45@50c per bush. Spanish
onions are quoted at $1.SO per crate for
good.
Cabbages are selling for rather easier
prices. by reason of a full supply
Suuashes are yet in very full supply,
with the market easy. Pumpkins are
quoted at 30@5Oc per box, or 75Q9Oc per
Dbl.
Turnips are in oversupply, with white
quoted at 15@9Oc per bush; yellow, 75@
9Oc per Dbl; beets, 40@5Gc per bush; car
rots 4Oc per bush; parsnips, 100000 per
bush.
Celery is in very full supply, and sells
at 7O@9Oc per doz; lettuce, 2Oq3Oc per
box; native spinach, 10000 per box;
caulifower, $1@1.25 per box.
Pork-The pork and lard markets are
steady and unchanged: Barrel pork, Sl3
6135O light backs, $12; lean ends, $l4.5O;
fresh ribs, Sc; corned and fresh Shout
ders, 6lac smoked shoulders, 6$sQIAc;
lard 57sc; in pals, 65s@7c; hams, 9Q9Ac.
Beef-The beef market is quiet, with
only a fair trade Prices are rather easy:
Steers, 6% @9c; headquarters, S4aqllAc;
forequarters, 5hq6%c; rumps and loins,
12015c.
Muttons and Lambs-Muttons and
lambs are steady, with a fair trade:
Spring lambs, 1000; Brighton and fancy,
SHQ95ac; muttons, 6Q71ac; Brighton and
fancy muttons, 1850; veals, 1000; fancy
and Brightons, 1Oc.
Poultry-The poultry market Is rather