Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-05-27
o7c; city dressed hogs 10 q: country To. q,

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2s.sOO. Avery good movement has been
made In pork provisions for the week,
Boston packers having sold in that d.
rection about $26o, 1000 worth; preceding
week, $4,000; same week year ago,
$175.000. -ss.,
A tlrmer beef situation is claimed,
with better trade. 1t is claimed that
the market was better cleaned up than
usual. Stin the arrivals for the week
We're larger, being total of 151 cars for
Boston and 161 cars for export, a total Of
81 cars; preceding week, 141 cars for
Boston, and III cars for export, a total
of 252 cars; same week a year ago, 1862
cars for Boston and 142 cars for export,
a total of 304 cars.
The quotations Of beef are steady.
Very choice steers, SIC; good steers,
SIC; light and cows, 7I4QSo extra heavy
kinds, lie; good kinds, 10kc; light kinds,
91S@10c; heavy fores, 6Ac; good, &C.;
light, SIG; backs, 7@sc; rattles, 41k@5c;
chucks, S@7c; short ribs, 1O@12c; rounds,
S@9c; rumps, 11@13e; rumps and bins,
11@14c; loins, 11D16c.
firme rposition ON lambs and NUT
tons has been the rule for several days,
with the market well sold up. Veals are
steady, with the supply not excessive.
Spring lambs, 1901 fall lambs, 11@12c;
Brighton fancy, 11k@121ac; muttons,
1890; Brighton and fancy muttons, 7s
610c; veals, 6@10c; fancy Brightons, go
lie.
The supply of iced poultry is not ex-
cessive with very little fresh, dry-picked
coming forward Prices are steady
Iced, 11k@121hc; live, 1o1A@1114c.
Strawberries have ruled very album
dant. They are coming freely yet from
Norfolk, with Maryland berries still
abundant. They sold at 4@7c for Nor
folks. with Marylands about lie better
in case the berries were good enough
The cool weather Is favorable, and blu
for that there would be bad break
For the week the receipts Of strawber
ries were 43, 5S7 crts; same week yea
ago, 3S,S64 crts.
The potato market moves along afte
q quiet fashion, with not enough of new
coming in to affect the market much
Prices are nominally steady: Eastern
rose, $4,000 per bush; hebrons, S0@S5c
Green mountains, 75@s5c; northern ant
western, 70@75c; Dakota red, 70@75c
North Carolina sweets, s1.259t.5 so per or
and $1@1.25 per Dbl; new Bermudas
| s6@650 per Dbl; per bush, $2@2. so; new
southern, 50. 5000.
Onions are pretty well sustained, witt
few natives offering. Egyptians ar
| fairly plenty and quoted at $2@2.50 pc
| bag at wholesale, and at $1@1.25 per busl
| by the jobbers. Bermudas are doin,
better and are quoted at $1.40@1.5 so pc
CRIT HaF sa Es's EeS
| Asparagus is less plenty, with, nativ
| quoted at $3.50@4.50 per bx. There
still some coming from southern direc
tons that is off in quality and is soil
low.
Spinach is easy and jobs at 25@50c pc
bush, as to quality Some lots hav
lately been sold as low as 50075c per BIB
There is but little kale offering, and
sells at about SOC per bush by the jobbers
Dandelion greens sell at Csc per bush
beet greens, soc.
Lettuce jobs at 50@75c per doz heads
Radishes are plenty and job at 15e pc
dog bchs for round and at SOC for Ions
New bunch beets are firner and job
bling at 81 per doz. 60
Cabbages have been scarce and higf
and have sold up to $3@350 per crit fo
| new southern. The Norfolk steame
Monday will have $50 crts Of oAbbageS
String beans are decidedly Arm, som
/ good wax having sold at $3.50 per crt a
| Wholesale. The jobbers are quoting a
1924 per crt or sbskt, according to qualit
and size. Green peas have been irregu
lar, and selling at all prices, according
Equality. gE
Squashes are plenty and job at SIPS,
1.50 per Dbl New turbans sell at 81
1.50 per bskt or bush, as to size and qua,
lily. Cucumbers are easier at $4Q5 pc
100, with new southern selling at a
lprices by the crt. Tomatoes are sti
rather scarce and sell at high prices.
Turnips sell at $1.25@1.5O per Dbl fc
yellow, with white at 75c@s1 per busl
New bunch turnips sell at 81 per doz.
Rhubarb is in abundant supply an
sells by the jobbers at 1c per lb. Mir
is quoted at 81 per doz, with watercref
the same.
and steady, with supplies ample for tn
demand. Trade is fully as good as usus
at this season, and most of the whole As
offered are taken by cutters to be mad
into boneless.e Most of the distributin
trade is now in homeless fish. Glouees
ter dealers have signed an agreement t
sell their whole fish by the 100 pounds In
stead of by the quintal (112 pounds, a
heretofore.
Cod and haddock have been In goo
supply There were 80 arrivals, wit
1,005,6O pounds. The liberal receipts Q
mackerel have put considerable life int
trade and prices have been more &C
lceptable to buyers. The arrivals fror
Nova Scotia kept Boston we'll supplied
along with receipts from the fleet. Blue
fish have been quite scarce and higl
Eastern shad very plentiful. Easter
Isalmon are coming in more freely an
Iprices are low.
Dealers selling prices ranged as fol
flows: Steak cod, 8 to cents; marke
cod, IL to "a cents; haddock to ~
tcents; halibut, 10 to 13 cents for gray an,
white roe shad, IS to 20 cents, and bus
shad s to 10 cents each; bake, ~ to
Icents, and pollock, 2 to 3 cents per pound
| bluefish, IL cents; mackerel, 20 to
cents each; eastern salmon, II to IS cent
per pound.
The cool weather has made little NOR
demand for oysters, and sales are keep
ing up well for May. Sales of standard
at 81 per gallon and Providence rivers a
lS125 There has been some inquiry 70
| CLAIMS, but trade will be light until tn
beach season opens. HOLSTERS in less re
sales at II cents for raw and IA to 10 cent
i for boiled.