Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-04
IN HUB MARKETS.
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand.


poultry trade has almost wholly taken
up the attention of produce dealers, and
no business of Importance has been
transacted in butter or cheese. A firm
tone is maintained in the butter market,
in keeping with the general situation,
and some advance has been established,
but there has been hardly enough SELL
ing to make regular quotations.
No fresh stock of any consequence was
Nh carried over from last week, and, with
continued light receipts, the offerings
by receivers have been small. Con-
sequently those who have had any but
ter on hand are in position to be very
stiff in their views. Advices from all
other distributing points are of strong
tenor. and indicate a further rising ten
dency, owing to the limited supplies
Offering.
No less than 81 cents is named for lots
OF fine fresh creamery, either western
or northern. Receivers had very little
to offer outside of their regular trade
and were not hunting for customers
There was a good demand for June
creamery last week, and large sales were
made at "a to % cents, but transac-
tions this week so far have been very
small, owing partly to the high views
of holders, but principally to the gen
eral inaction. If supplies of fresh make
do not soon increase buyers will be
forced to take more of the storage stock
and, perhaps, at higher prices.
Jobbers advanced their prices to %
cents for tubs and % to go cents for
choice to fancy boxes. These will seem
extreme rates to grOcers, who will have
to get SO to 50 cents from consumers.
The cheese ma I-I<et iS n11iet and Staa6u
on the basis of 1872 to 13 cents for the
best New York twins. An advance of
1 shilling was made in the Liverpool
quotation, tbs first change for several
weeks. This will have a tendency to
stiffen the market here, and may lead to
a higher rate.
Very little is being done in eggs, but
the market is firm on choice western at
% to "a cents. Fresh eastern rule at
25 to 26 cents, and fancy new-laid at
% cents and upwards. Storage eggs
dull at Is to II cents.
Beans are very firm, indeed, with
prices advanced, and still higher figures
predicted. Shippers notify receivers and
dealers here that the shortage in the
crop is even greater than at first sup
posed. Some sections of the bean grow
ing country will not show more than
half crop. Quotations here are firmer.
Flour continues very dull in demand.
Mill agents say that there is almost no
demand at all, and that the wonder is
how buyers can hold off SO long; that
they are certainly drawing seriously on
their stocks in hand, and that this sort
of market can only mean better bust
ness as soon as the jobbers and retailers
begin to buy again. So far prices have
6I1l1 do
with the miIlers claiming that there is
no profit in flour, and that they prefer
not to run their mills to selling below
quotations, which are down as low as
it is possible to get them without such
losses as they are not willing to stand.
For this market the quotations are little
changed. with trade so dull as to make
prices largely nominal
Cornmea1 is easy, under the easier po-
sition OF corn, though quotations are
nOminally unchanged. Oatmeal and
the cereals are dull and easy. Corn is
easy, with quotations generally lower
by about Il cent. oats are quiet and
barely sustained. with little change in
prices.
The quiet market on hay is continued,
with good hay at steady prices. In the
market on straw there is little that is
new, with a very moderate demand.
The position of millfeed looks f1rmer.
The pork market is easier on fresh
ribs Beef has continued dull. and de-
n spite the determination of shippers to get
nearer to the actual cost, the market
here is really considerably lower than
Ia week ago. Abundance of low-priced
poultry, and decidedly cheap mutton and
lamb may be considered to be the cause
NJ of lower beef.
Muttons and lambs are very dull, and
prices are decidedly low, the result of
TOO great arrivals in the face of a dull
market, we'll loaded with cheap poultry.
3Veals are very steady, because scarce.
Lambs, 5@7c; Brightons and eastern
$13Q712c; yearlings, 4@6c; muttons, 40
&c; fancy and Brightons, 51a @61ac; veals
#6@1Oc; fancy Brightons 90101Ac.
The supply of turkeys is large, with
he quality good so far. OF chickens
bnd fowls, there is an abundance, and
prices are low. Quotations are fairly
SUSTAINED, but are lower than a year ago
Northern turkeys, 12@16c: western, 110
NM Sc; northern chickens, 12@16; fowls 13c;
Iced chickens and fowls, S@91ac; iced
turkeys, 1OQ12c; green ducks, 12@14c;
green geese, 13Q15c; live fowls. S@9c;
chickens, SQ10c.
The game market is rather SHINY
Fupplied thus far, and prices are pretty
high. Receivers are selling to the job
bers at: Grouse, $3.50 per pair; part
fidges, $1.75; Mallard ducks, slips: black
bucks, 81. %; canvasback ducks, 81; quail,
$2.25 per doz; pigeons, S1.50; squads, SIS;
Wild turkeys, zoe per Ib. Whole deer
re not very plenty and sell at 15@17c
per 10.
Not much change is noted in the mar
Eet en- apples. The supply is yet large,
nd Of a quality that has to be sold at
nee. Good storage lots are perhaps a
little firmer, bat there will not be much
Hhange in the market toward better