Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-03

pippins. s2.50m3; Williams, sl.75m2.5O;
fair to good lots. s2@250 red astrachans,
s1I1.50; ordinary, s1.25m15O per Dbl.
Crates and baskets sell from Csc to Csc.
Strawberries arc done for the season
of 1899. except possibly a few more
crates from the provinces. Raspberries
are very abundant, and the quality is
fine, in spite of the fact that early re-
ports said that the crop had peen ruined
by the drought They sell at 6aSc for
pints in case lots, with jobping lots
possibly 1c to &c more. Blueberrics
are also very abundant, with the mar
ket easy at SGtl0c, as to quality. Black
berries continue to come forward from
Jersey and Delaware, with few lots
from farther north. They sell at S@10c.
in case lots. For currants. the market
is easy at 517c per quart box. in case
lots. Gooseberries are very plenty,
with a good many here in boxes holding
peck, more or less. They sell at 81,
with limited demand.
For the week the total receipts OF
berries was 6iO6 crates; same week q
year ago, Hips crates.
Potatoes are decidedly dull, under the
fact OF more having been shipped here
than the market required. Prices have
continued to break till the best Bristols
were only quotable at S115 per barrel
with other lots at s141.50, as to quality
only few sweet potatoes are at hand,
and the market is very high, say, S4M5
per barrel for choice yellow sweets.
Tomatoes are very plenty. with prices
low and wide range. Hothouse sell
at 4@5c per pound with natives at S1d
1.25 per bushel. Jersey crates are dull
at 50T60c per bushel
Cucumbers are plenty, with good to
best native quoted at Sl25 per box.
Other lots sell for less. Squashes are
fairly plenty, and are quoted at 50cM 80
for crates and barrels.
Watermelons have continued in very
full supply, and the market is easy at
10m20c, with possibly few fancy bring
ing 22l3m H1.. For the week the re-
oeipts were 12,S15; same week a year
ago, IS. 300
CantalOupes are in bad shape, from an
oversupply, and have to be sold al low
| prices, unless of the very choicest va
rites. No really Rocky Forts have yet
! been In the market. though raised in the
| south from seed of that variety. But
this week there are some melons from
the same valley as the genuine Rocky
| Forts, and the flavor should be good.
| Prices on cantaloupes are at wide range;
all the way from SOC to SO per package.
Green corn Is more plenty, and sells
at 50C0Sl per bushel as to quality. Egg
plants are quoted at S1.25 per dozen.
The arrivals of mackerel from the
| fleet have been the largest of any week
| for the season. 1910 barrels landed by
the fleet at all ports. While this guam
tity is by no means large, yet it sW)ws
that more mackerel are being taken,
with the outlook rather better. But the
mackerel being taken are mainly small.
The market on goldfish is very firm.
| The late arrivals from the banks are
being quickly taken up at higher prices,
and It looks as if the market would soon
be bare of Goldfish again. The iobbers
| and dealers note very good business
at firmer prices. Large dry bank, 1925
$3.50; medium, s475Q5; large picked
bank, S.; medium, s4.25@ $3.50; large
shore and Georges. s55O@6; medium.
! $3.50: picked pollock. $3.50; slack sailed
pollock, $325M350 hake, S275@3; had
dock. s3M3.25; homeless hake, 4Q7c per
| pound; homeless cod, 66t12c.
Picked herring are in quiet move
| iIlfHt, Will al III Ill 1T - hi Z
nominally unchanged. Nova Scotia
split. sG.50M7; Newfoundland, S. 30;
medium, s5G550; fancy Scatterie. $40
! s; round shore nominal. s4.75Q5.
American sardines are steadily held
a full prices, with only limited move
ment. Wholesale and jobbng, II oils.
S2.90d3: z mustdrds 81. asa $40; a mus
tards, $3.25Qi $50; y oils, S4.75G5.
The great firmness in canned Holsters
is continued. with the offerings very
small. Flats. $500 325; tails, $3Gt3,10;
canned shrimps, sl.35G lao; clam and
fish chowder, sl.6oQ1.75.
Smoked halibut continues in both linn
tied demand and supply, with the mar
ket nominal strips, 70ac: chunks,
9laM l2c. wholesale and jobbing.
The Gamers have obtained quite a
| quantity OF good mackerel for canning
lately and they are being put up for the
| market. Quotations are unchanged.
One pound regulars s150d1.55; 2-pound
ovals. $2.50G2.75. S-pound ovals, s2.1503.
Dry and picked fish ara in small re-
ceipt. with the possible exception of her
ring which have been coming in little
more freely.