Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-12-17
IN HUB MARKETS.
Flour Quiet, but There Is Some
Local Trading.
Blu ter Develops Steadier AMI More Con.
fdent Tons-Fair Demand For Cheese
and Eggs-Muiton and Lambs In Full
supPiy-Quotations ON Fruit. sud Veg
etables.

etablss.
IoJ puetuep reooI eqL-'tI .oed 'uolsod
flour has been quiet on the whole for a
week or more past. Still there has been
something doing all the time. and some
OF the millers' agents have succeeded ir
booking a fair amout of orders. The
business has been almost wholly with
the home trade. The export sales have
been light. It has been a pretty good
market to work on in the way Of clos
Ing sales one day on bids made previously.
as 1t has been declining one. Not much
business is expected in the closing
month of the year, when jobbers are
disposed to buy as sparlngly as possible,
in view of the annual stock taking. That
trading has been as good az reported 10,
therefore, encouraging.
The following quotations, covering the
inside millers' and the outside jobbers'
prices, are those made yesterday by the
flour trade price committee. They show
little change from week ago, except in
the outside prices for spring wheat
brands, which, for some unexplained
reason, are reduced as cents: Spring
wheat clears at $3.50 to $3.50, winter
wheat patents at $3.75 to $4.2b, winter
wheat straights at $3.50 to "a, winter
wheat clears at 1925 to 1918 per barrel,
as to quality and size Of purchase.
Cornmeal holds steady, under the in.
huence Of the corn position. Oatmea
Is fairly firm, with the cereals un
changed.
Corn is fairly steady, with the gen
eral situation looked upon as firm. The
reserves of old corn have been reduced
to minimum, while every corn-con
Stunning industry is being driven to tn
utmost. Last year saw the larges
export of corn ever recorded. This yea
will more than equal it. Already since
July l we have exported over 100000
bus more than for the same time las
year, and the demand seems to increase
stimulated by partial failures Of tn
Danubian corn crop, which leaves Eu
rope almost entirely dependent on u
for its corn supply.
Oats are very steady, with pretty nrn
market reported.
Hay is steady, with fair demand
Straw is quiet and rather easy. Mill
feed is well sustained. Hay, $SQl4
fancy old. in jobbing lots. $1s@16; ~
straw. $500; oat straw. s607.
The butter market has developed
steadier and more confident tone. Buy
ers have been around in larger number
the past two days and both fresh and hel
| grades are moving more freely than las
week. The situation in New York ant
the west has improved, and the outlool
for the remainder of the year Is quite en-
| couraging. There is no great activity
nor any desire to respond to higher rates
but receipts are cleaning up more closet,
and the accumulations Of the past fey
weeks are being taken by exporters
| some extent This latter feature come
| Just in time to put the market in health
condition before the close of the year.
There Is a fair Jobbing business at 2
| to "a cents, including fresh creamery II
tubs and boxes, and q to % cents TO
June stock. Jobbers could see no reaso
to change these rates. except that the
might have to stiffen up on very nm
fresh, as the quantity offered was yer.
small. Choice June stock is still in favo
with grocers who find it desirable for tn
retail trade.
The cheese market maintains q stron
tone, and although buyers are not opera'
ing to great extent, holders are not urG
ing business except at very full price:
i Sales to the trade have been mostly a
10A to 10A cents. with occasional fame
twins at IL cents. Some holders refus
to sell their best late under II cents. an
ere awaiting results with confidence