Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-10-16
I'm HUB MARKETS.
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand.

High prices continue to rule in the in
terror, and the market here is firm, buI
buyers refuse to respond to the full rates
asked for fresh receipts. The result is
a slow and unsatisfactory trade in fresh
goods, while the June stock is meeting
with good demand and going rapidly
into consumption. How long this con-
dition of affairs will continue it is hard to
say, but it will probably run along until
the best of the June stock is used up, or
until prices of the current make come
down
At present there is no indication of
lower rates in the country, as there ap-
pears to be demand enough to absorb
the make as fast as as it is offered, and in
this respect the situation must be con-
Sidered healthy, though 1t is not salts
factory to the trade here. When the
weather grows cooler it is expected that
buyers will be more willing to take more
of the fresh supplies at full rates, but it
is very doubtful if they will follow any
further advance.
The ruling price for fine. fresh north
ern creamery is "a cents in tubs and %
cents in boxes. Some receivers put their
butter away rather than make any con-
cessesions. Dairy lots meet with fair
sales at 20 to 81 cents.
% cents for ash tubs and 2s15 cents for
assorted sizes in spruce tubs are the
ruling rates. Firsts rule at II to %
cents. Ladies in light supply, and are
kept cleaned up at about 16 cents, and
limitations move off at Is to 10 cents.
All kinds of cheap butter are scarce.
The country markets on cheese have
taken another upward turn, and fully
" a cent more has been paid than last
week. This will necessitate a CORE
spending rise here, but buyers will prob
ably be slow to respond. Sales are on a
basis of 1215 cents for best September
twins, but receivers are not offering
many more under 12% to Is cents. This
is to cents higher than the selling rate
last year at this time, and is above the
rate for several years.
A good demand for strictly fresh west
ern eggs continues to be reported, and
a few fancy selected lots as high as %
cents. But for most offered 20 to II
cents is top rate, and a large portion of
the receipts are not good enough to COM
mand over 20 cents. Eastern fresh in
demand at % to 25 cents, and some fancy
new laid range higher. Sales of eggs
from cold storage at 16 to II cents.
There has been a strong upward ten
dency in beans the past few days, with
sales of choice marrow pea and u ediums
at $1.7O. Yellow eyes are up to $3.50 and
red kidneys sold at 81 to $2.10 per busheI.
The flour market is steady, with the
tone rather better. Prominent milling
concerns note a better trade within the
past day or two. Quotations are very
we'll sustained.
Cornmeal is rather easy, under the i'm
preston that corn is easier. Oatmeal
has been advanced in price, with the
situation reported firm. The cereals are
generally we'll sustained.
Corn is pretty firm on track here, by
reason of a limited supply at hand and
nearby, while the market to arrive is a
little easier.
Track oats are we'll sustained, because
of the limited supply. In the west the
market is rather easy.
The hay market is firm especially on
choice hay, with low grades scarce, as
compared with former seasons. Rye
straw is firm, with prices high. Cot
tonseed meal is especially firm at the
unusually high prices, and the same is
true of linseed meal. A demand for
export is one reason of the very high
prices: Hay, $12@17; fancy and jobbing,
$175O@1S; rye straw, $12@13.
Barrel pork, loose salt pork briskets,
leaf lard and shoulders are firmer and
higher, with fresh ribs 1ac lower.
Boston packers have made about their
usual kill of hogs for the present sea-
son the last week, the total being about
32,S00 The volume of exports in Bos-
ton-packed meats has been good, the to-
tai value for the week having been about
1925, 600.
Only an easy beef market is noted, as
a whole, though choice beef is in small
supply, and is held at very firm prices
But the trade has been obliged to seek
cheaper beef, and this being here in
full supply, lower quotations are the re-
suit.
The arrivals Of beef for the week were
the largest for several weeks, being a
total of 1872 cars for Boston, and las cars
for export.
An easy mutton market continues to
be noted, with full supply coming for
ward. Veals have been a little firmer
till within a few days, when they have
been in full supply enough to make the
market easier. Lambs, 6@8c: Brightons
and eastern, 71a@S12c; yearlings, 5@61Ac;
muttons, 5@7c; veals, 6@1Qc; fancy
Brightons, 9G11c.
Fresh poultry is arriving more freely,
on the cooler weather, and the market is
easy. In the meantime, iced is in full
receipt with prices easy. Alive is very
dull, with prices low. Northern chick
ems, fresh, 12@1Sc; fresh fowls, 11@14c;
western iced chickens, 1019@121ac;
fowls, 10@111zc; iced turkeys, 12@15c;
fresh ducks. 12@15c; live fowls, 5000;
chickens, $3.50.
The arrivals of apples have continued
free, while the market has been only
fair on fall and perishable fruit, with
storage and export lots moving pretty
we'll The latest reports indicate that
almost every New England orchard will
have more apples than at first estimated.
while southern and western orchards are