St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-14
BOSTON MARKET,

markets are higher by at least half q
cent Here the situation Is more
steady, with only rather moderate de-
mnnd. Best creamery, small lots and
packages, 1871 @20c; northern creamery,
round lots, 1S@19c: western, 1S@1S1ac
eastern, 17@1Sc; firsts, 15@16hc; imita-
tons, 14@16c, northern dairy, 13Q16c;
jobbers get " to lie more.
Cheese is quiet in demand at steady
prices. Round lots, S@9c; sage S@9c;
jobbing, 1ac higher; Liverpool, 37s Cd
for white, 3Ss Cd for colored
Eggs are pretty firm, with a good de-
mand for the best fresh. Refrigerator,
14@15c; western fresh, 14@15c; Michigan
and Indiana, 15h@l6c; eastern, 17@1Sc;
nearby and fancy, 19@2Sc; jobing 1@2c
more.
FLOUR, CORN AND HAY.
Considerable -four has been sold at
the rate of $4.s5@4.4O for the best known
spring patents, all old wheat, in car
load lots, sight draft in payment.
Prompt delivery is generally demanded
for these flours, while some sellers are
asking $3.50, There has also been con-
siderable business transacted in new
| spring patents at the rate of $3.75@3.9O
for delivery more or less prompt. The
! flour trade committees prices including
the lowest mill prices, as well as the
highest jobbing rates, are unchanged.
Spring wheat clears, $3@365; patents,
s4@5; winter wheat clears, $3.25@3.S5:
straights, $3.35@3.9O; patents, $3.50
4.25.
| No change can be noted in cornmeal.
with oatmeal and the cereals generally
steady. BNrel cornmeal, $1.7O01. rs:
bag meal, 75@77c; yellow graduated
S2.25@2.50; rolled and ground oatmeal,
|, $4,000; cut, $4@4.40; graham -four, So. 10
@250; bolted meal, $210Q4.5O; rye flour
$2.756D3; rye, 55@60c.
Corn is little easier in the general
market, though the situation is thought
to be considerably firmer, by reason of
reports of crop damage. Very little
corn is offering on the track here
Track steamer yellow, 3S1a@39c; No.
2yellow, 3S% @39c; No. yellow to arrive,
SSA @3Si4c; No. 8 yellow, 3S@3SAc.
Oats are pretty steady. The offerings
of new oats to arrive are all that can
be expected for so early in the season.
Still, fancy heavy oats are scarce, and
bring premium. Track fancy clipped
white, new, 31kc; old, 33c; No. clipped.
S1Ac; No. 2 clipped old, 311ac; new, &c.
to arrive, new oats, 2SA @2S15c for 81
to sc pounds; SO to SO pounds, 2S1a @2S% c !:
SO to 40 pounds, 2S1a Q29c; fancy barleys,
32@3Sc.
The supply of new hay is ample, with
the market rather easy on all but the
best. Choice old hay still brings a
premium. Straw is in quiet demand.
Millfeed is rather easy. Hay, $6@15;
fancy old, in jobbing lots, $16.5O@17:
rye straw, $500; sack spring bran, $3.50
@12.75; sack winter, $12.75@13; mid
dlings, s12.75@16.75; mixed feed, $13.251
1925; linseed meal old process, s2l;
cottonseed meal $21.5O@21.75.
POTATOES AND CORN.
Potatoes are more steady, with sweet
potatoes pretty firm. The arrivals of
Irish potatoes are free, but the quality
is good for the season, and this helps
to sell them: Extra barrel lots, $125:
fair to good, $1.121s; bulk, 35@3Sc per blu {;
sweet potatoes, $15O@175 for virginias;
Jersey double heads, $225@2.5O.
Green corn is a positive drug, and
much of it is dry and not fit to be sold
for green corn. 1t sells all the way from
10c per blu up to 3Oc for fancy fresh that
is not too ripe.
Beans are rather quiet ard easy in
this market. The quotations are very
steady: Carload lots, pea, $780, medium,
s1.30; yellow eyes, $780, red kidneys,
$2.05@2.071a California small white, 81. IS;
California Lima, 41a@5c per ID. Jobbing
lots are 10c more.
APPLES AND PEARS.
The apple market is rather more
steady, with good lots doing better.
Some of the oversupply of poor fall fruit
has been worked off, and better prices
are being obtained on good lots: Pip
| pins and porters, $1.25@15O; craven
stems, $2@2.50; other good varieties, 81
@1.50; sweet apples, $1@1.50. By the
bushel, from the farmers wagons ap-
Piles have been selling at 75c@$1.25 per
bu for gravensteins; pippins and porters,
| 50@75c; ordinary varieties, 25@50c The
receipts of apples for the week were
1913 bbls; same week a year ago, 5464
bbls.
There is fair demand for pears that
are good, and of good varieties, and such
sell at $3@3.50 per Dbl. But the market
has been crowded with off lots and va
rieties that have had to be sold for much
less. California pears are still coming
and good shipping Bartletts are quoted
ct s1.70@1.SO per bx, with other lots at
| S1@1.25.
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
The best beef is well sustained in the
matter of prices, with better trade
noted of late. Some light grass beef is
on the market, and this is sold at rather
| low prices: Choice steers, S% @9c; good
steers 81 @S1ac; light and cows, tx 0DSc;
extra heavy kinds, 111a@12c; good kinds,
1O1s Ollie; light kinds, 1O1a@1O%c; heavy
| fores, 6@6Ac good, SIC; light Size;
backs, 7@71ac; rattles, 4h@4%c; chunks,
5%@6c; short ribs, 11h@12kc; rounds,
| 71a@Sc; rumps, 12@13c; rumps and loins,
| 14015c; loins, 15@17c. Beef is in lessened
arrival for the week, the total having
been 141 cars for Boston and 1T cars for
| export, total of 25S cars.
| The mutton market Is firmer, with a
shorter supply Of lambs. Veals are also
! flrmer: Spring lambs, 9@1O1ac; Brigh-
| ton and fancy, 100D11c: muttons. 5hD7c.