St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-08-17
BOSTON MARKET.


Boston, Aug. 15.- The flour trade has
been better of late owing to the position
Of the market, largely due to the
Strength that cash wheat has exhibited.
The domestic trade shows signs Of inn
provement throughout the south and
southwest, and as a consequence, the
winter wheat mills have been quite ac-
tive. Kansas advices show a healthy
tone In the market, and the far west Is
very busy. The chamber of commerce
prices on flour: Spring wheat clear,
$3.25Q4.25; straights, $44O@4.75; patents,
S4.6OQ5.25 winter wheat clears, $500
A. straights, $3.65@4.25; patents, $4@4.50
Ihe best spring patents, mill shipment,
in large lots, sight draft, are quoted at
$4.7O
Cornmeal is quiet and unchanged.
Oatmeal and the cereals are about
steady. Barrel cornmeal, $1.S5@190;
bag meal, 7S@SOc; yellow granulated,
s2.15@2.S5.
Corn Is steady and pretty firm, under
the lessened crop estimates. Cudahy
Is reported to have told his friends that
he believes there will be 500, OOO, 900 less
corn for the feeders in the fall than there
was last fall, and that he does not put
the crop at over LOO, 900, 900 bushels.
Other estimates follow in about the
same track. The market is quoted at:
To arrive, yellow, 41hc; track steamer
yellow, 41h@1%c; No. yellow, 41%c.
Old oats are firm, the supply being
greatly reduced, especially on fancy
heavy oats. Fancy oats on the track
are scarce, and are quoted at 361a @37c;
rejected 33hc; no grade, 33c. For
shipment old oats are quoted at 93lac
for 36 to 3S lbs; new "a to So lbs, 311ac;
36 to 3S lbs, 31h@32c.
The hay market continues steady,
though business is quiet. The best hay
is still in only light supply Straw Is
very little changed. Millfeed is steady.
Hay, $6@15.5O; fancy. $17; rye straw, IS
Q9; sack spring bran, $1S.50@19.75; sack
winter, $14@1425; middlings, $4,000
1880; mixed feed, $1475@165O; red dog,
$1S@1S.75; ground wheat, $1S; linseed
meal, $3.50; cottonseed meal $21.50.
BUTTER, EGGS AND BEANS.
Butter is steady, with little change in
prices. Best creamery, small lots and
pkgs, 2O@2Okc; northern creamery,
round lots 19Q2Oc; western, 1S@19c;
eastern, 1S@19c; firsts, 15@17c; imta-
tions, 15@16; northern dairy, 14Q16c,
jobbers get " to lie more.
Cheese is steady in demand, at steady
prices. Liverpool is firmer. Round
lots, S@SAc; sage, S@9c; jobbing, Zee
higher; Liverpool, BIS Sd.
Eggs are quiet, with the weather
rather unfavorable. Quotations are
little changed Refrigerator, 13@13kc;
western fresh, 1S1AQ14c; Michigan and
Indiana, 14@14kc; eastern, 16h@17hc;
nearby and fancy. 1902; jobbing prices,
1Q2c more.
Beans were rather easy early in the
week, but later the market has been
more steady to firmer. The quotations
are: Carload lots, pea, s1.27Q1.3O; me-
dunn, $1.27@1.3O; yellow eyes, 1.55; red
kidneys. $2.07Q2.1O; California small
white, $1.7O; California lima, 4c per
pound. Jobbing prices are 10c more.
Potatoes are more steady, with the
market little firmer. Extra Bristols,
Long Islands and natives are quoted a:
s1.75@2.25 per barrel; eastern, sl.6O@1.75.
Sweet potatoes are quoted at $3.5O@3,7 rs
for yellow; red. $2.25@2.50.
APPLES AND BERRIES.
The apple market is working into
better shape. the glut Of windfalls and
nearby lots being about over. Con-
siderable lots have been shipped out of
this market during the week to Balti-
more and other points and disposed of.
Quotations are rather better on hand
picked lots. Gravensteins, $1.75@2.25;
Williams, $1.75@2.25; Rivers, s1,5O@2.
Common lots, s1Q125. BY the bushel
apples are selling all the way from so
to 75c.
Blueberries continue plenty, and sell
. all the way from to 10c, according to
quality. Blackberries have been in
full supply, and only very low prices
have been received. They have sold at
to DC. Raspberries are about out of
for pints. Currants are occasionally
seen, but they bring ouly very low prices.
LIVESTOCK MARKET.
Beef has been coming forward in con-
. siderable lessened volume, and this has
helped to sustain the market under a
dull demand. The total arrivals for the
week were but 127 cars for Boston, with
167 cars for export, total of 294 cars;
preceding week, LAG cars for Boston and
125 cars for export, total of 271 cars;
, same week a year ago, 100 for Boston
and Sc for export, a ttal of 246 cars.
Lambs are firmer, with an advance
in prices. Muttons are steady, with
veals easy. Spring lambs, 9@12o;
Brighton and fancy muttons, 1000;
veals, 5QSc; fancy and Brighton, 10
8isc.
Iced poultry is firmer, the arrivals not
being heavy. Fresh is scarce and
brings good prices. Turkeys iced, 81
@10hc: chickens, fresh, 1S@19c; western,
iced, 1Oik@11; live fowls, 9@10; iced
, chickens, 10@12c; green ducks, 9h@10c.
The pork market is quiet here, with
1 little change in prices. The west has
fluctuated on lard, but has lost but little
for the week.
Stampede of Gold Hunters.