The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-07-08
In HUB MARKETS.
Buttef@uyers Inclined to Await
Developments.

Hoping For a Lowering of Prices-HoId-
ers DISPOSED to Yield Enthusiastically
of Choice Products of the Henneries-
New Potatoes Command Good Prices.
Boston, July 6.-The butter market APP
pears to have an easier tendency this
week, but enough business has not been
transacted to fairly test prices. Buyers
who were around Tuesday were inclined
to wait for developments, as they
thought they might be able to get sup
plies cheaper later in the week.
81 consider prices half a dollar per
hundred lower than last week." said a
receiver yesterday, land although we
have not yet made many sales at any
price 1 will take 1914 cents for that lot
of 300 assorted size tubs, the same kind
that was sold for II cents last week."
Other receivers were asking about the
same prices as a week ago, but admitted
that they would probably take less.
After a thorough canvass the writer
thinks 1914 to II cents fair quotation
for western extra creamery, with very
few sales at over 1917 cents in large lots,
Receivers of northern creamery had
very little hope of getting over II cents
for their best lots of Vermont or New
Hampshire, and some sales were made
at that price. Where the quality was
not strictly fine, shadings from II cents
would have to be made, and as the mar
ket stood yesterday no more than II
cents could be quoted as selling price
for the best northern. As usual, there
were fancy lots that could not be bought
at that figure, and buyers who wanted
them would have to pay 171a cents or
more, but we are now talking about the
value Of the general run of butter if put
unon the market for sale. Boxes were
difficult to sell at any higher rate than
tubs, and Il TO IN cents may be given
as quotation, with most sales at II
cents. A great deal of northern butter
continues to be stored on owners ac-
count.
The statement of the Quincy Market
Cold Storage company for the week is
as follows: Put in, II, 498 tubs; taken
out 800 tubs; stock, 114972 tubs, against
1l6,464 tubs same time last year. For
the corresponding week last year %, 381
tubs were put in and $50 tubs taken out.
According to this statement, the stock
in cold storage Is 1892 tubs less than
last year, but there Is probably enough
more in the Eastern Cold Storage COM
pany's warehouse to make UP the diff
ference.
Receipts of butter at Boston for the
week aggregated SO, 9S6 tubs and q, 1856
boxes, a total weight of l, 1863, 1922 pounds,
against l841,350 pounds the previous
week and 2,146,3 pounds the CORE
spending week last year, the largest
weeks receipts in 1897 Receipts for
June show slight falling off as COM
pared with the same month last year.
but the total for the two months of this
year shows an increase.
While the receipts in June ran a little
smaller than in the same month last
year. rne receipts in May were consider
ably larger, and the total for the two
months shows an increase of 271. 600
pounds. The exports for the two months
are not one-third as large as last year.
ana after deducting these and the
stocks, the estimated consumption is
9,5Il,835 pounds, or 730, 492 pounds more
than for the two months last year. In
this estimate the stock in the other ware
mouse is not taken into account. If it
was, the consumption might not show
much If any increase.