News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-02-15
LATEST BOSTON Markets.

Slack Demand For FlOur-Pork Firmer
and Beef Quiet-Muttons and Lambs
steady-Fair Movement In Poultry
Vegetable and Truck MARKET Cramped.
Boston, Feb 14-Butter is drmer, and
ZONE Improvement in prices has been
noted within a few days. The demand
is only moderate, however. Best cream
cry, small lots and packages, 22@22%c;
northern creamery, round lots, 2Ok@
2l1ac; western, 2Oq2O15c; eastern, 200
2012c; firsts, 161341Sc; limitations, $50
1Gc; jobbers, 1ad1c more.
Cheese remains very steady, with a
moderate demand. Round lots, 10
,111ac; sage, 111a@12c; jobbing 1sQ1c
higher; Liverpool, 49s.
The egg market is very firm. New
York and the west have advanced con-
siderably, on the cold snap, and this
market is decidedly stronger, with the
supply short. Western fresh, 22150
231ac; Michigan and Indiana. 2314Q24c;
eastern fresh, 23G24c; nearby ana fancy
25u26c jobbing 101l2c more.
Beans are hrmer The New York
market is frmer, and buyers have been
looking this market over for lots to
snip in that direction. 1t is also noted
that beans are being shipped from Mich
igan west which is a very unusual
feature
Under the fluctuations I'm wheat. as
Well as NE extremely winleush wealth.
er, the demand for flour has been very
slack Of late. Buyers have been TAX
Ing their actual wants. which wants
have doubtless been somewhat reduced
by the fact Of duu grocery trade.
The report of a consolidation Of the
great Touring interests Of the north
west, under d capitalization Of $780,
100000, is absurd, and it comes from
positive sources that so far as the three
great Minneapolis milling concerns are
concerned, there is no truth in the re-
port.
Mill shipment prices on -four are little
changed at from $40 to $3.50. Trade
committee prices: Spring wheat, clears,
$3.1003.7j; patents, @tl00 f-5: winter
wheat clears $3.40@39Q; slaigAts, $685.
a; patents, Si04.40
The meal and cereals market are quiet.
with little change.
Corn is steady. The market was
weak, but Of late the position has been
stronger, possibly entirely in sympathy
with wheat.
Oats have shown more frmness
within a couple Of days, after declining
somewhat
The hay market is quiet. with prices
rather easy, except ON BEST owing to a
full supply of rather inferior quality.
Straw is steady Nilfeel is hrner.
Hay, $S@14; fancy jobblag lots, &15016;
rye straw, S9@1G; oat straw. @GMS.
TIE pork market is decidedly frmer
on fresh, owing to the fact OF hogs being
delayed by the cold weather. Fresh ribs
are advanced to Size, and spare ribs to
4Q5c. Lard is firm. Barrel pork and
hams are steady. Boston packers have
killed fewer hogs for the week, doubt
less owing to the delay in receipts from
cold weather. The total kill for the week
was about $1,000; preceding Week $4,000;
same week year ago, 5000. The ex-
port trade in Boston-packed pork pro-
visions continues good, the total value
for the week having been about $232,OOO
preceding week, 100000; same week a
year ago, $3.50 600
Pork packing in the west has been a
good deal reduced, the total kill for
the week, according to the Cincinnati
Price Current having been 100000; pre-
ceding week 5000; same week year
ago, $4,000 The total llillinE since Nov.
1 has been S,365.OOO; same time a year
ago, 7O3O0OO; increase, L33J.u00. Now it
is suggested that the packing will con-
tinue to be smaller to tie end of the
winter season, March 1.
The beef market is quiet, as it has
been for several days. In the mean
time, the arrivals have been free, and
though the primary market has con-
tinued firm, the tendency here has ia
vored the buyer, unless on the strictly
choice cattle. Quotations are little
changed. For the week the arrivals Of
beef were 1856 cars for Boston, and ia
cars for export, a total of 269 cars; pre-
ceding week. lac cars for Boston and 1873
cars for export a total of I344 cars; same
week year ago, 175 cars for Boston and
127 cars for export, total of 3O2 cars.
The market on muttons and lambs is
about steady, with the supply ample for
all requirements. The weather has been
very favorable to the keeping of a full
supply though not as favorable to the
marketing OF it; since both dealers and
concumers have been kept indoors by the
extreme cold. Quotations are unchanged:
Lambs, 6dS1ac; Brighton fancy, 7@9c;
muttons 607c; Brighton and fancy NUT
tons, 7@Sc veals, 7Q1Oc; fancy Brigh-
tons, 1O@1Ohc.
There has beer a fair movement in
poultry all the week, with an ample sup
ply. Chickens are a little frmer, with
turkeys steady. Live poultry is mainly
nominal, since very little is coming in:
Turkeys western, 10Q13c; northern, 120
lie: chickens. northern, 12d18c; western,
10Q14c; fowls, northern fresh, 9@15c;
western, 1O013c; live fowls, S69l5c;
chickens, S@9c; ducks, 9@12c; geese, 100
d3c.
Game is reduced to a rather limited
supply in the hands of the dealers. with
almost none coming forward. Quota
tons are mainly steady.
A few Florida strawberries are at
hand, and retail at 4OQ5Oc per bx.
Potatoes have been kept housed by
the extremely cold weather, and the
market is almost entirely nominal.
Aroostook and eastern Hebrons, 63@65c
per bu; Green mountains, 73075c
northern, 4SQJ5c; Jersey sweets, 50 per
bbl.
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