Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-04-17

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to reasonable figures, but this does not
yet seem to help the dull demand. For
| the week the arrivals for Boston We're
13S cars, with 100 cars for export total
of PAT cars; preceding week, ia cars,
with 121 cars for export, a total of 255
cars; same week year ago, $50 cars
for Boston, and lat cars for export, a
total of 3O7 cars. In prices the market
is very little changed.
The mutton market has been ruling
pretty firm, with lambs and muttons
bringing more money than a. week ago.
Veals are dull and easy: Springers, $50
9; fall lambs, S@914c; Brighton fancy, 80
@91Ac; muttons, 1000; Brighton and
fancy muttons, 71a@91ac; veaIs, 6@9c;
fancy Brightons, 9@10c.
Poultry is dull, with the supply of
fresh getting to be limited Iced fowls
are arriving to some extent: Turkeys,
frozen, 12@16c: Chickens fresh, 14@2Oc;
frozen, 10@14c; fowls, fresh, 1O@16c;
frozen, 9@12c; ducks, 9@12c; geese. $40
lie; iced fowls, 11@12c; live fowls, 11@
lie.
Game is generally steadily held and
mainly all in first hands. Still a num-
Der of fresh deer saddles came in from
Maine the other day-shipped illegally
out of the state-but they were not in
good condition, being poor and this from
their lonS winter feeding on browse.
They sold very low; hardly more than
enough to pay freight and other COSTS
Marketmen are not pleased with such
stuff, and generally prefer not to have
anything to do with it.
Apples are steady, with some choice
lots selling considerably above market
quotations. Occasionally lot of Bald
&c oh TO l1ri,, n
such is not the general market. Bald
wins, at $4,000; russets, 1904; Tolman
sweets, S4@4.50; spies, So. 50@4.5O; sec
onds, all varieties, $2@3; jobbing and
choice lots, $1@1.50 more.
For the week the receipts of apples
were 3340 bbls; preceding week, 1901 bbls;
same week a year ago, 1916 bbls. The
total exports of apples for the week were
1899 bbls, all to Liverpool; total since the
season opened, 23173S bbls; same time
a year ago, 176346; same time in 1897,
1909 347 bblS
Strawberries have been coming for
ward more freely, but all from Florida,
since the season is very late, especially
farther north. 1t is suggested that it
will be three or four weeks before any
good Carolina berries will be at hand
Florida berries have been selling this
week at 25@35c in refrigerator lots. as
to quality. They retail all the way from
80 to so cents, as to size Of boxes and
quality.
Potatoes are very firm on seed rose
and Hebrons, with ordinary cooking va
rites about steady. Sweet potatoes are
scarce and firm. ArOOStOOk and eastern
rose $4,000 per bu; Hebrons, 80@85c;
Green mountains, S5@90c; northern and
western, 75@80c; Dakota red, Zoe: Jer-
potatoes are on the market at $500 per
bbl
Onions are not quite as firm, especially
on ordinary native, though the best are
vet well held. They are quoted at all
the way from So to So per Dbl, as to quail
ity.
Bermuda onions are very plenty, and
the market is easy in consequence. They
job at about 50 per crt but wholesale lots
sell for considerably less.
Yellow turnips are steady at $1@1.25
per Dbl, with white quoted at 100000 per
bush. Carrots job at 75c per bush;
parsnips, $1@1.25; beets, 75c per bush.
Cabbages are yet scarce and very firm.
They are quoted at $3@35o per bbl with
red cabbage at about the same price.
Spinach is a little easier, Norfolk selling
from the last boat at $2.50@3 Jobbers
quote 2.50@4 per bbl as to quality.
Celery is scarce and firm at about SIS
per doz bchs. Caulifowers are scarce
and near the end of the season, with
the jobbers quoting at So per crt. Let
tuce is pretty firm at 81 per doz heads.
Southern asparagus is in rather limited
supply al $5@6 per doz. Radishes are
in pretty full supply, and jobbing at ESQ
h0c per doz bchs, as to quality. Beet
green's are quoted at $1.25 per bush;
dandelion greens, $1.25; new beets, 81 per
doz bchs.
Squashes are steady at $1@1.5O per 100
lbs. Cucumbers are little lower at $40
9 per 100 for native dollhouse. String
beans are scarce and very firm at $5@7
per crt.
Mint is quoted at 75c per doz bchs;
watercress, 75c per doz. Rhubarb is
lower, and selling at 6@9c per lb. Pep
pers are out of the market for the present.
New horseradish sells at 25c per ID at
retail
The receipts Of fresh mixed fish at
Gloucester for the week aggregated /, &c.
900 pounds, as against 1885, 900 pounds
landed at Boston. The receipts of all
kinds of fish at Gloucester for the week
were ZOOS, 900, against 1,537,000 for the
corresponding week last year.
Youngsters In Lively Battle.
West Point, N. Y, April 1G.-A fierce
battle occurred at Highland Falls at
late hour Saturday night between candi-
dates for admission to West Point as