Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-05-01
In HUB MARKETS.
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand.

has been in buyers favor and prices
have settled down 1 to cents, with a
slow trade. This is no great surprise to
the trade, as a declining market is al
ways expected at this time of the year,
but the drop is a little more than was
anticipated this week. AT the low prices
last week there was fair cleaning up of
the finest grades, and a steadier tone
was counted on, but the decline in the
west and New York has necessitated
further concessions here, in order to pre-
vent accumulations. Nobody wants to
put away any of the butter now coming
in, and if there is more than enough to
supply regular customers the surplus
has to be forced off at one price or an
other.
1t is difficult to find out what the actual
selling prices are. Receivers who had
cleaned up their last weeks consign-
ments are pretty stiff in their views, and
ask y to l cent more for new arrivals
than most buyers were willing to pay,
while others, who carried over a part of
their supplies and find prices declining
at other places, are willing to accept bids
rather than wait for further develop
ments. Under these conditions an ir-
regular market is the necessary result.
One of the principal receivers of YER
mont and New Hampshire creamery
said his price for assorted tubs was 1712
cents, and for boxes Is cents. and that
he would not sell for less. Another said
that he asked 17k cents. but buyers went
off and did not come back, SO he sup
posed they got what they wanted at IL
cents. Several said they were satisfied
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offerings should not be quoted at over II
cents. as that was all they could get for
a fair-sized lot of the best. Perhaps
quotation of IL to 171z cents maybe given
as covering the sales of fine northern for
the day. with the understanding that
17k cents was more of an asking than a
selling price.
The stock of old cheese Is cleaning up
soon be all gone. Sales run along at
12ls to Ii cents. in small lots as wanted,
with a few fancy twins at higher rate.
There is very little demand for new
fodder cheese. It is arriving in small
lots, and selling slowly at 10 to IL cents
Choice new full cream make is not ex-
pected for several weeks.
AT Montreal old cheese is in small
stock. and selling at IL cents. Several
factories in Canada have secured con-
tracts for new fodder cheese up to May
10 at 10 cents. The fodder make in Can
ada is estimated at 10, 900 to Is, 900 boxes
There is a moderate demand for eggs,
with little easier tendency in prices.
For the general run of choice western
ii cents is the ruling rate, with some
sales of Michigan and Indiana at AK
and select lots for cold storage at 14E
cents, but it is hard to get over AN
cents for the best marks of northwest
ern. Southern, 13A to IA cents East
ern, choice, 14A to 141s cents. Supplies
have increased little, and buyers are
rather slow to pay the full prices asked.
The stock in cold storage is 14,726 cases,
against 70,699 cases the same time last
year. Last week there were 2512 cases
put in, and 323 cases taken out.
Receipts of sugar have been light the
past few days, and it looks as if but
little more will come forward this sea-
son. The receipts for the season so far
have not been one-quarter as much as
last year, and the crop must be con-
sidered a failure. Sa&s of best small
cakes at II to Is cents, and in tins and in
large cakes at to II cents per pound.
Sirup in moderate supply and selling at
IS to IS cents per gallon, as to quality
In beans trade is quiet, with very
little change in prices: Carload lots
pea, $I371s @1.40; medium, $1.371k014O;
yellow eyes, $1.50@1.55; red kidneys.
$1.S0@190; California small white, 81. 80
@1.95; Lima, sc per ID; jobbing, 1Oc more.
Apples are in small supply and very
firm Very high prices are being paid
for choice lots in a small way. Bald
wins have been sold at retail as high as
$3.50 and even more, with spies up to Sc
and over at retail. The whole quota
lions are firmer at: Baldwins $4@5;
russets, $S.5O@4.50; spies, $4@6; No. 2, all
kinds, $3Q3.5O; jobbing and choice lots,
$1@1.50 more.
strawberries are more plenty and are
selling at lower prices. For the week
the receipts OF Strawberries were 1871
crts; same week a year ago, PASS crts. A
few berries are being received from as
far north as lower North Carolina. but
they are yet rather green. Some berries
from farther south are ripper and in bet
ter shape. They sell in case lots at 200
55c, as to quality. At retail they are
selling at 10000, as to quality.
Potatoes are firm, with the recefpts
rather small. The roads are exceeding
ly bad in the potato countries, especially
In northern Maine. Sweet potatoes are
q little easier. with more of the white
variety arriving: Aroostook and east
ern rose. 9Oc@$1 per blu; hebrons. 85c0
81: Green mountains, S5@s0c; northern
and western. 75@80c; Dakota. red. TIC.
Jersey sweet, s3@3.5o per Dbl: crates
$2.50@2.75; Bermudas, $7@75 so per Dbl.
Onions are more steady, though Ber-
muda crates are much lower. Natives
are quoted at s2.5o@3 per Dbl, according
to size of barrel and quality of the stock.
Egyptian onions IN bags are quoted at
$2.25Q2.75 per bag Of 112 lbs. Bermuda
crates sold at auction as low as $1.30, but
they are quoted in jobbing lots at $3.50.
Native onions job at 81 per bu.
Celery Is at very wide range. as to