The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-24
KENTUCKY AND INDIANA
Current Comment.

CHEEsR.-Receipts for export, 684 boxes.
New cheese has continued in moderate sup.
ply and the market has ruled steady a. 81
to l0c for fine twins with under grades quiet
and easy
BEANs.-We have had dull market for
all kinds Of beans for the past week. Re-
ceipts are still moderate but there is no lack
OF supplies and the market has barely
steady tone Best marrow pea are moving
slowly at $135. Extra yellow eyes dull at
S1.40.
OATs,--There is yet quiet demand with
the market about steady, Buyers are oper-
ating to meet their pressing needs Fancy
cIlpped white oats on track are quotable at
~ to 313c, with No. clipped white at about
soc; For lower grades the demand is quiet
with prices about steady.
CoRN.-The market continues quiet but
local spot supplies have been interferred
with by the labor troubles at Buffalo, and
prices have ranged higher. In the quiet
way supplies are needed. No. 2 yellow
commands 44c on track billed through to
outside points with lower grades ranging
down as to quality and color.
PoTAToEs.- Receipts Of old potatoes have
been larger again this week and demand
has been light, even for the hest fresh stock.
Prices have been ruling lower and in buy
er's favor but at the close the feeling is
steadier. Choice fresh stock has a moder-
hlo ooJO dO QuOldllOub Dub IutTb IL no I'M
pIovement on common soft, sprouted lots,
which have to clean up for what they will
bring.
HAY AND STRAw.-There is a firmer tone
in the market for choice hay, with prices
advanced. The receipts are running large
" to lower grades and fancy hay is hard TO
find at any price. Best grades in large balls
are quotable at $40 90 to S1G50 with small
at SO to IS, but these figures are largely
nominal in absence Of such hay. For No.
l about S14 to 10 is the price, with lower
grades down as to quality Rye Stray is
quiet, but choice lots are quoted frmer,
with sales at 50 to 10. Dat straw dull.
DRESSED PosLTRY.-Receipts have been
| light, and on Friday following our last
weekly report, choice western fowls sold at
, 12ac. But since then demand has been
slack. A good many buyers have a stock
| of fowls in cold storage, put away at the
| low prices ruling about the first of the
month, which they are now using in place
| OF fresh arrivals. Since Monday fresh
fowls have been selling slowly at III to 12c.
Nearby broilers are coming more freely.
EGGs.-There have been but slight chang
es in the egg market during the past week.
| Receipts have continued liberal but have
had steady sale with prices ruling shade
tirmer than last week. Since Monday Sc
! lected western have been in fair demand
at IA 10 l44c with some extra marks for
stol age, held at lilc. There is more varis-
| AlOh III QudllbS dS INC btdbOu advances anu
prices take a wider range. Fair TO good
western and southern are selling at Is to
1870. Eastern extras steady at IA to 14lc.
LUWBKR.-The high waters in the rivers
is gradually subsidiDg and the number Of
mills at work is increasing appreciably and
! very OPPORTUNITY, as tie piles of lumber
left over from last year are all the time
growing smaller and smaller and beauti-
fully less under the influence of demand
which evidences the reality of the revival
in business of which SO much has been said
and written. The milmen, indeed, one
and all, speak of orders as numerous and
important and look forward to an entire
season OF profitable prices.
WooL.-The market continues strong,
healthy and buoyant. There is, of course,
no such chance for rise as there was in
1897, still the prospects are extremely en-
| couraging. A glance at the table OF re-
| ceipts will show that it is practically i'm
possible to import foreign wool at current
quotations in Europe, and not only are our
imports confined most exclusively to carpet
wool, but we are exporting it steadily from
the stock of foreign clothing and coating
woods held here There is no room for SEN
sational advances, but as the glut of foreign
wool is consumed and exported the { fleet
OF the Dingley tariff is at last beginning to
be felt and the farmer at the present time is
getting the benefit of it.
FLoUR.-There is yet slow call for sup
| plies, recent business having been very
limited. The asking range on prices is
easier or fiTmer each day. they being con-
trolled by the cost of at, but this does
not appear to start the demand Prices
compared with a week ago are not mate
rally different. For spring patents the
range is about $3.50 to S4 90 covering most
sales, although some special brands are
held 10 to zoe higher. Buyers do not APP
pear disposed to buy much, even at inside
prices. Winter patents are dull, but the
| range on prices is about the same. Most
sales makiDg are within the range of S3,75
to $50 with some special brands held high
er. For clear and straight winters the
range is about 1925 10 $40 with sales ruling
slow. Low grades continue dull, with
| prices mostly nominal.
BUTTER.-There has been a further sharp
and rather unexpected advance in prices
since our last weekly report. The market
| cleaned up well last week, some of the clos
| ing sales on Friday and Saturday at 1Sc.
| There was but little done on Monday, but
under the influence of the strong advices
| from western and other leading markets,
| the finest fresh creamery was generally
held at 19c, and since then this has become
we'll established price. Buyers are not
taking hold very freely, however, and only
strictly extra goods command full prices
The supply is mostly from New York and
Vermont, western receipts running light
Grades just below the best at II to 1Sc are
selling fairly. Receipts OF boxes have in
creased a good deal of late, and for NEST
lots it is hard to get any advance over the
same grade in tubs, Prints rule steady at
quotations.