The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-25
Current Comment.

and moderate offerings on spot keep pricee
about steady. The bulk OF the receipts 90
for export At the close new steamer yell
low on track billed through is quoted at
AL to 441c with No. 3. corn at 44c. Old No
2yellow Is scarce. Low grades range down
| as to quality.
OATs.-The market maintains a steady
| tone and prices have hardened trihe since
last week. The tone Is more quiet at the
close and prices slightly easier than at the
| highest point OF the week. Fancy clipped
| white oats on track are quoted at 361 TO 374c
with No 2 clipped white at 36A to 362c and
lower grades down as to quality.
BEANs.-Receipts have been quite mod
| crate for the past week but with full sup
| plies on hand and only a light demand, re-
ceivers have not been able to establish any
| quotabe advance in prices. Some have
been asking 81 ,27l for the best marrow pea
but no sales OF consequence have been re-
ported at over S1.25. Extra yellow eyes
hold steady at $1.45 to l,50. Red kidneys
firm at S1.75 to 1.85.
CHEESE. - Rect ipts for ex port, 1888 boxes.
| Conditions remain about the fame. Trade
continues quiet but supplies are light and
the market has strong tone. Strictly fine
| September and October twins are selling
generally as wanted at II to 114c, and hold
| ers are not urging sales even at these prices
There is also light supply OF under grades.
Fair to good lots are firm at 81 to 101c. Very
| few western twins or Ohio flats here.
HAY AND sTRAw.-There is only mod
crate demand for hay yet noticeable, but
the business doing is at about the same
range OF prices The range for choice hay
in large bales is yet s12 to 10, but of the hay
| coming in but small proportion Is fancy
enough to bring the extreme price. Lower
grades are selling quietly at about the same
range OF prices quoted, offerings being lib!
eral. Rye straw Is quiet with few sales
above So for choice cars. Dat straw con-
tinues dull.
WooL.-There is nothing active about the
market for wool, but there is good steady
business passing, which with more general
inquiry and sampling keeps prices on an
unchanged basis. Buyers are inclined to
be conservative on account of the slow de-
velopment OF the heavy weight goods mar
ket and the low prices at which early open
ings have been made. Yet the first crop OF
orders for goods, while moderate in volume,
has already affected the trade in wool. In
addition to the actual sales of the week
there is considerable purchasing Of small
quantities for sampling purposes, prelimi-
nary to more extensive transactions
FGGs.-Receipts are still running light,
but the proportion OF FIRE SD goods il gradu-
ally increasing. Demand continues very
moderate, Tut since the decline in prices
there has been an increased call for fresh
goods and lighter demand for refriger-
ators. Prices for selected fresh western
ruled steady at 2lc. with occasional sales at
22c. until yesterday when a further cut to
zoe. was made. This morning the market
is steady al zoe. for selected fresh western,
with south, fresh selling generally at 19c.
Refrigerators have been very dull, and at
the close are hard TO place at Is to 16c.
Observation-Disclosures, although quiet as
customary at this time OF year, compares
favorably with that ordinarily in progress
during January, and the attitude Of sellers
as to prices is quite as uncompromising as
at the date of our last report, the prospects
for decided activity so soon as the spring
season fairly opens being sufficiently en-
couraging to impart very firm tone to the
market even now. Propheses as to the
probability OF an advance when the i'm
provement materializes, are, indeed, being
freely INDUCED in even by the conservative,
time spent just now in endeavorng to per-
suade holders to concede little is time
lost.
DRESSED PoULTRY.-Receipts have been
light for the past week, and we have had q
generally firm market for choice turkeys,
chickens and fowls but not a very active
demand Choice small and medium tur-
keys have had ste ady moderate sale at
13c. for drawn and II to 12a for undrawn.
But large proportion of the arrivals are
have slow sale at II to 11ac. Western
chickens are running irregular in quality
and sell at wide range in prices. Most
lots are more or less shaggy, and have to 60
at about 10c., but strictly choice soft meated
keep well cleaned up at II to 12c. Choice
fowls have been firm at 10c. with some
sales toward the close at 104c. Fancy Ca
pons in moderate supply and selling fairly.
Ducks and geese quiet.
FLoUR.-The market holds fairly steady,
with slight changes compared with week
ago. The demand is dull, and sales are
made only where buyers are forced to opeT-
ate, through getting entirely out of supplies.
Prices are irregular, some mills basing their
quotations on the cost to produce, compar-
ed with wheat, and others Offering TO sell
the same grade anywhere from 25 to 35c per
Dbl. below. This makes quotations nomi-
nal, and the range OF asking prices is great
or than usual Some fours from second
hands can be occasionally picked up below
the market. Spring patents are selling
mostly at about $500 to 4 10 where supplies
are needed, but some special brands are
quoted up to S4 % to 80. Winter patents
are dull with sales made as low as $3.50,
but about 1885 to 40 will cover most
choice brands. Lower grade -four is dull
and about steady at quotations.
BUTTER-Receipts for the week include
14S770 lbs, for export. The market has
been well supplied with most all grades.
Trade has been dull and on Monday with
generally weak advices from western and
other markets receivers began to shade
prices little. Tuesday further cut was
made and since then the market has been
ruling full cent lower than last week, but
with no material improvement in the de-
mand. Late arrivals of strictly fine fresh
Vermont and New Hampshire creamery
have been selling at 20ic but there are a
good many lots more or less defective that
have to go at zoe and under. Western fresh
creamery has had dull sale at about zoe
for assorted and 19Ac for large ash. The un.
der grades are in supply, dull and weak.
There is little June creamery left on the
market good enough to bring over 16 to 1Sc.
Imitation creamery and ladle goods work
ing out slowly and at easy prices. Box and