St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-12-21
BOSTON MARKET

Boston, Dec. 20.-The butter market
maintains firm tone ON fine fresh
creamery, which Is In light supply and
sells at 2Os to 81 cents, with some fancy
lots at 2l1s cents. Medium grades at a
range Of from Is to IS cents are selling
moderately.
Cheese holds a strong position, with
only moderate demand from the trade.
sales OF northern at 10A to II cents out
SIDE Tor some fancy twins, which could
not be bought for less. Very few buyers
are willing to pay over 10% cents.
Eggs are in steady demand at "a to rs
cents for choice fresh Michigan and
northern Indiana and Ohio, and 26 cents
for fancy selections. Fresh eastern sell
at 20 to u cents, and fancy new laid at a
higher rate. Refrigerator stock steady
at II to Is cents
Rather unexpectedly, beans are lit
Tie easier in prices, though the country
Is yet firm: Carload lots, pea, $1,000
l.32h; medium, $1,000. 321a; yellow eyes,
Sl.5OQ1.6O; red kidneys, $1.SO@1 So; Cali
fornia small white, $1.9O; California
Lima, 4Q5c per lib; jobbing, 1Oc more.
The flour market is fully sustained.
None of the millers here had been au-
thorlzed to accept OF any lower prices up
to the closing Saturday. Mill shipment
prices are well sustained at $3.S5@42O
for spring wheat patents. Trade COM
mittee prices are steady at: Spring
wheat, clears, $2.9O@35O; patents, $4,000
4.5O; winter wheat, clears, $3.25@3.75;
straights, $4,000; patents, $SSO@425.
Late reports show that the big flour
trust or syndicate is evidently dead A
Minneapolis dispatch says: At meet
Ing of representatives Of the three lead
ing milling concerns, the Pillsbury-
Washburn Four Mills company, the
Northwestern Consolidated company
and the Washburn- Crosby company, 1t
was unanimously agreed that none of the
Minneapolis properties should go into
the Mcintyre consolidation scheme, and
that no further attention should be
given to the matter
Cornmeal Is firmer, on the strength in
the market on corn. Oatmeal is very
steady.
The corn position holds firm. Trade
has continued good, with the export
demand extending. Stronger cables are
noted. with exporters taking corn more
freely.
Oats continue steady, with vary fair
demand. Exporters are taking good
lots whenever freight room is to be had,
but scarcity Of room discourages that
part Of the trade.
Hay Is reported to be well sustained,
with better trade, and prices likely to
go higher; straw is dull and rather easy;
millfeed is pretty firm. Hay, sS@14;
fancy jobbing lots. s15@16; rye straw,
$500; oat straw $6Q7.
The pork market is generally lower
The kill of hogs by Boston packers has
been liberal one, the total for the week
having oeen about $4,000: preceding week,
45,7OO; same week year ago, $780,
There has been good movement Of pork
product into export, the total for the
week, by Boston packers, having been
Of the value of about $195, OOO preceding
week. $4,000; same week year ago,
s135,000.
The beef market is dull here, and quo
tations are not well sustained, though
the position Is yet very firm in the west,
with the shippers of beef enjoining the
receivers here to get better prices.
OF muttons and lambs, there is full
supply, with the market only fairly
we'll sustained. Veals are firm, on
short supply. Spring lambs, 7a@Sc;
Brighton fancy, S49c; muttons, 6@7kc;
Brighton and fancy muttons, 7h@Sc;
veals, 9Q1Oc; fancy and Brightons, 10
@11c.
The supply of poultry is positively
large, in both turkeys and chickens and
fowls. The arrivals of turkeys were
free again, with the idea that they are
for the Christmas trade. The market is
easy. Turkeys, western. 12Q14c; north
ern, 15@1Sc; chickens, northern fresh
12@14c; western, 9@12c; fowls northern
fresh, 1O@12c; western, S@1Oc; live fowls,
$685.; live chickens, SQ9c; green ducks,
1O@12c; geese, 1O@12c.
There is fair supply Of game in
most cases. Deer are plenty, evidently
from Maine, and some Of them are very
fine. In one instance big buck was
sold for 12c pound, but the range on
whole deer is from S@10c. Grouse, $1.50
pair; partridge s1.5O; quail, 81 a dozen
canvasback ducks, s1.50@1.75 a pair;
mallard ducks, $3.50 pair; black ducks,
$1.25 q pair; rabbits, SOC a pair; wild
turkeys, zoe per pound.
Potatoes are firm, and again advanced
in prices: Aroostook and eastern heb
rons, 60@62c per bush; Green mountains
6S@65c; northern, $4,000; Jersey sweets,
$1.75@2 per Dbl.
Onions are firmer, and are quoted al
$4,000 per Dbl, some fancy native onions
having been sold at the latter price Fri
day. They job at about SOC per bush. A
few Spanish onions are still offering at
75c per crt.
Cabbages job at 75@s0c per Dbl, with
red cabbages at 81 per Dbl. Squashes
are not changed and jobbing at 75cQ$1
per Dbl.
is jobbing at all the way from SO to So
per bx; the latter price for very fancy
Spinach is selling at 81 per Dbl, or about
soc per bush. Cauliflower sells at $11
1.50 per bx.
Parsley sells at $3.50 per Dbl. oyster
plants are quoted at 81 per bush; egg
plants, s. so per doz.
Cucumbers are still firm at 5000 for
the best dollhouse; No. O. half price;
stubs, $1@25O per bx. Tomatoes are on
the market at zoe per Id, for the best
native dollhouse, and at $3.50 per bx for
Floridas. Lettuce jobs at 50@75c per
bx; radishes, 15@25c per doz bchs.
Apples are in only fair movement, and
tho market Is scarcely as firm as early