Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-02-11

Quiet Home Trade In Beef-Mutton
and Lamb Supply In Better Shape
Vegetable Quotations.
Boston, Feb. S.-The improved tone
noticed last week in the butter mar
ket has been sustained, and the ten
dency continues to be in favor of sellers.
This is particularly noticeable in higher
grades, which have been kept cleaned up
for several days, but it extends more or
less to the medium and lower grades,
which have been taken to a fair extent
by exporters, and which are in much
smaller stock than few weeks ago.
The export demand has been the prin-
cipal source of strength to the market.
1t took off the accommodations which had
been clogging up the channels of trade
for some time previous, and has left the
way clear for the fresh receipts, which
have been comparatively light for a
week or. two past. The severe weather
has kept the make within limited
bounds, and if supplies do not too rapid
ly increase a healthy movement may
be looked for during the remainder Of
the month.
The advices received from New York
and the west impaired a stronger tone
to the market, and dealers whose in
voices ran small were inclined to hold
out for slight advance, but it is hard
to find anybody who has obtained any
higher prices than last week. This
statement might be qualified by except
ing a few fancy lots, which receivers
say they sold at q cents. But in the
great majority of cases 201a cents was
the top selling rate for wholesale lots
of Vermont and New Hampshire, and
the quality had to be full extra to COM
mand that pace. A good deal of the
northern supplies were not salable al
over 20 cents, and some ranged lower.
There is no change in the cheese sit
| uation. Demand continues moderate
and prices are steady on the basis of II
to liz cents for choice northern. Stocks
here are steadily being reduced, and
holders are as confident as ever in their
views. Montreal advices indicate a
strong market there, with prospects OF
higher prices in few weeks. Although
the Liverpool quotation here has run
along at 40 shillngs for a week, cables
to Montreal quote finest cheese at 81 to
% shillings, with a good consumptive
demand.
The market for western eggs is firm
at 20 cents for best marks, with 10 to
1872 cents for lots slightly affected by
frost. Eastern are in light supply, and
selling at 20 to 22 cents, with higher
range for fancy new laid. Receipts
quite moderate and all were pretty well
cleared up. The stock in cold storage
is reduced to 2047 cases, against 2250
cases same time last year.
There has been heavy trading in wheat
the past week, but early prices begun to
decline, and have gone off about cents
for the week, or what amounts to good
part of the gain in the wheat speculative
markets since the oath of January Gov
eminent estimates of the erop-the final
one-putting the yield at about so, 900 900
bushels larger than the trade expected,
was the feature that started the decline,
followed by the idea that prominent
holders were wanting to get out. Then
followed an estimate that showed that
the coming winter wheat crop Is to show
still greater increase.
Such causes have been sufficient to
drive down any speculative market, but
all the time there has been an under
tone of firmness that has really amounted
to a good deal of strength which is likely
to be more apparent as soon as the pres
ent speculative turn and profit taking Is
out of sight. Foreigners have con-
tinued liberal buyers of wheat on the de-
clines from day to day, and the total of
exports for the week was 1000, 900 bush
els over the preceding week. There is
not the least doubt but what America
still controls the export trade in wheat,
with the promise of only small supply
from any other countries.
Receipts of wheat from the interior
were larger, but it is curious fact that
cash wheat has not declined as much as
the future months, and that the millers
have been liberal buyers on the decline.
The flour market is very dull as it al
ways is on a decline in wheat. 1t is
rather curious feature of the trade that
more buying is done on rising markets
than on falling, the trade Immediately
losing its courage, unless stimulated by
rising speculative markets. Spring
wheat patents, mill shipment, may be
quoted at $4@4.50, the latter price for
the best known to fancy brands. Trade
committee prices are easy at: Spring