St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07


Boston, Sept. 5.-For September and
October shipment considerable flour has
been bought at prices good deal below
what was paid for prompt delivery. 1t
Is noted, however, that there has been a
change Of sentiment in regard to low
priced flours, with the feeling fully ex-
pressed that even such fiours will go lit
tie or no lower. For prompt shipment
from the mills some business is being
done at $4.50Q4.60 for the best known
spring patents The flour trade commit
tee of the chamber of commerce quotes
as follows ON old wheat -four: Spring
wheat, clears, $3.2O@3.75 straghts, SAC
450; patents, $4.25@5; winter wheat,
clears, $S.25@3S5; straights, $4,000;
patents, $3.75@45O.
Oatmeal and the cereals are quiet,
with no changes in the quoted prices:
Barrel cornmeal, $1.7OQ1.75; bag meal,
75Q7c; yellow GRADUATED, $225@2. so;
rolled and ground oatme. !, $375@4.40;
cut, $4.15@4.40; graham -four $275@4.50;
bolted meal, $2.20Q4.50; rye -four $500
S25; rye, 60Q65c
Corn is re ,ner easy, in spite Of the at
tempt to stimulate the market through
adverse crop returns. Here the market
is quoted at: Track steamer yellow, 39c;
No 2 yellow, 39Ac No. yellow, to ar
rive, 3S&@39c; No. 3 yellow, 3Sk@3S%c.
Oats are fraction easier on oats to
arrive, but the track market is quiet
and unchanged. Here the market is
quoted at: Track fancy clipped white,
new, 3Sc; old, 93@34c No. clipped, new
32c; No 2 clipped, old, S3c; new, 32c.
To arrive, new oats are quoted at 2SA@
2S%c for "a to 36 10; So to So ID, 2S34@
29c; IS to 40 ID, 29laQ30c; fancy barleys,
32@32hc.
Hay is in a quiet position. The sup
| ply of the best old hay is limited, and
the market is firm, but new hay is album
dant, and prices are easy. Straw is in
full supply, with the position easy. Mill
feed is sellirg only fairly, with the mar
ket in the buyers favor: Hay, $6@15;
fancy old, in jobbing lots, $16.5O@l7; rye
straw, $685. sack spring bran, $1250@
1876; sack winter, $14; middlings, $13.25
Q14.75; mixed feed, $14@15.25; linseed
meal, old process, $29.5O@2i; cottonseed
meal $3.50.
BUTTER, CHEESE AND EGGS.
Butter is dull and the market is easy.
Still, the trade does not admit of any
changes in quotations, hough it is adj
mitted tina prices favor the buyer: Best
creamery, small lots and pkgs, 19l2@
zoe; northern creamery, round lots, 1872
Q19c; western, 1SQ1Shc; eastern liz
Q1Sc; firsts, 15dl6hc; limitations, 14@
Ice; northern dairy, 1SQ16c; jobbers get
lac to lie more.
Cheese is dull and rather easy. Still,
prices are not quotably changed: Round
lots. SQS1kc; sage. SQ9c; jobbing, Ac
higher.
Eggs are we'll sustained, especially on
the best fresh, which are not abundant
Refrigerator, 14Q151ac; western fresh
14@15c; Michigan and Indiana, 16Q1612c;
eastern, l7@19c; nearby and fancy, 200
2Sc; jobbing, 1q2c more.
BEANS AND POTATOES.
Beans are easier, though not much
lower in quotations. The market seems
to rather surprise both the shippers and
the receivers, in that the supply is really
short, but trade is dull. Carload lots,
pea, $127k@1.SO; medium, S1.9O; yellow
eyes, s14712@1.5O; red kidneys, $2.O5@
2.O7h; California small white $1,75; Cali
fornia Lima, 4c per 10. Jobbing lots are
10c more.
Potatoes are in full supply, but are
selling fairly well, though the weather
has been very hot and unfavorable.
Sweet potatoes are shade easier: EX-
ira Rhode Island and native, $1,25Q1371A
per bbl; Aroostook, bulk, 43c per bu;
sweet potatoes, $l.5O@1.75 for Virginias;
Jersey double heads, $1.75@2.
Green corn is plenty, and sells at ESQ
Acc per bu. The quality of that which is
freshly picked is the best of the season,
especially the fancy Crosby Native
celery is in the market, and sells at 500
soc per bu bx. Cucumbers are in such
supply as to glut the market and bring
the price down to almost nothing.
Picking stock is in full supply, and sells
at low prices, though fancy small CHER
kin stock brings good prices. The range
is all the way from 25c to 81 per bskt or
pkg.
Shell beans are firmer at S5@$1 per bu.
Cabbages are in full supply, and sell at
seas per 100, as to quality. Turnips are
in better supply, and sell at 100000 per
bu for best white. BY the barrel they
are worth $125@1.5O for yellow. Beets
sell at 25@SOc per blu, with carrots at
5O@6Oc; parsnips, 81 per bu; native to-
matoes, 25@40c per blu.
APPLES AND PEARS.
There is a full supply of apples, and
the fruit is mostly perishable and has
to be sold. This keeps the market easy
ION all but the best lots. Astrachans and
Williams are about out Of the market:
Gravenstens, $1.75@2.25; Astrachans,
$5OQ2; Williams, $1.75@2.25 golden
sweet, $15O@2; common, 75c@1.25; by the
bushel 9O@75c. From the farmers wag-
ons they continue to sell as low as 25@
Coo. the latter price for choice.
Pears are still in full supply Of poor
ish lots, but the best are not very plenty
and bring pretty full prices Bartletts,
s3@4 per bll Clapps favorites, 1908;
odd varieties, $1Q2,5O; by the bushel, soc
10 $1.25
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
The beef market Is thoroughly sus-
tanned, thus far, but the arrivals for the
week have been very heavy, and 1t will
require an unusually active market to
prevent lower prices. The total arrivals
for the week have included 1888 cars for