Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-04-03
IN HUB MARKETS.
Butter and Cheese Quiet; Eggs
Are Easier.


Boston, March 29.-The butter market
Is rather quiet and receipts are not
cleaning up as we'll as last week. Prices
are without material change, so far as
asking rates are concerned, but sellers
find it difficult to get the extreme quota
tions and will shade a little rather than
let buyers go. Last week receipts were
a little under the previous weeks, but
more than the corresponding week last
year.
All were agreed that the upward ten
dency has been checked for the present,
owing to the light trade, but what the
result will be later on nobody can tell.
There is no surplus of butter yet to feel
uneasy about, and unless receipts con-
tinue to increase all may be wanted. at
full prices. Still this is an uncertain
period, and receivers will not be likely to
allow accommodations if a slight conces-
sion can effect a clearing.
The general conditions for an increased
make, however have but slightly i'm
proved. The wintry weather and bad
roads in most of the dairy districts in
New England and the west have ma
terially restricted the make of butter so
far. Then. too, we are told that the
cheese factories are opening earlier than
usual, and that already a great deal of
milk is going into cheese instead of into
butter, owing to the high price of the
former. These factors tend to lessen our
supply of butter, and it may be several
weeks before there will be more than
enough to meet the demand. On the
other hand it must be remembered that
the winter is about over, and that fine
spring weather is likely to set in at any
time Tho mako of h11ttnr will n 6nI1bt
be hurried to market is fast as possible,
and receivers here will be anxious to
move it into consumption without delay.
There is no change to note in the
cheese market. Demand has been mod
crate, and sales of best northern run
along at 121A to 12A cents, and fair to
good at 111a to II cents. Stocks con-
tinue to decrease, and are in a very few
hands. Holders are as confident as
ever of the outcome of the season. The
Liverpool cable quotes 81 shillings s
pence an advance of pence since Mon
day.
Advices from Montreal report prices
firm at 1913 to IL cents. The available
stock there is estimated al not more than
10000 boxes, the remainder being held
for instructions from England.
There is an easier tendency in eggs,
under the influence of liberal receipts
and a falling off in the demand. The
best marks were not offered under 1872
cents, later 1874 cents was free selling
price, and still later there were sellers
of western at - cents. Most sales We're
at 1874 cents. Duck eggs in fair demand
at 25 to % cents. Goose eggs very scarce
and noninaIly so to 80 cents.
Beans are yet reported very firm in
the shipping country, with stronger
T0T.iceS SpPT70iT1D! 0XnpctP0 Here the
market is steady. Carload lots, pea,
$1.35@1.3715; medium, $1.37 Il @1.40; yell
low eyes, $1.55@1.6O; red kidneys, $1.85G0
1.9O; California small white, $4,000;
Lima, &c per 10; jobbing, 1Oc more.
Under the influence of firner wheat
the flour market has become more ac-
tive. It is a feature still that buyers
have been sending in shipping directions
more freely of late with a good deal of
-four being sent forward. Leading mill
ing concerns also note a better export
demand, with full prices being paid by
foreign houses.
In this market the mill shipment prices
on spring wheat patents are frmer, at
$3.95D4:45. Trade committee prices are
also ffrmer at: Spring wheat, clears, SO
@3.5O; patents, $4@475: winter wheat,
clears, $3.30@390; straights, $350@4
patents, S3.SO@43O
The position of cornmeal is not yet
changed, though corn is a little firmer.
Oatmeal and the cereals are steady and
unchanged.
Corn is frmer, though trade is quiet
locally. Options were evidently some
what in sympathy with wheat. Corn
continues to go forward steadily into
export.
Oats are also firmer, though trade has
continued quiet
The best lots of hay have been selling
more freely of late, but the market is
still oversupplied with ordinary and
poor which it is hard to sell at any
price. Rye straw is very steady, with
a fair demand. Millfeed has ruled
little easier of late. Hay, $S@14; fancy,
jobbing lots, $15@17; rye straw, $9@9.50.
The pork and lard market is fairly
steady, though pure leaf lard and bris-
kets are slightly reduced in prices. Hogs
are reported steady in the west. Boston
packers have reduced the killing of hogs
somewhat, the total output for the week
having been about 36S00; preceding
week, 3S, 900; same week a year ago, 80, 800.
The movement of pork provisions into
export has been smaller for the week.
the total value having been about $125,-
COS; preceding week, $235, 900; same week
a year ago, S26S, 900. Since the season be-
gun, March l, the total packing in the
west has amounted to 100000 hogs;
same time a year ago, LOSS, 900; increase
65, 900.
The beef market holds fairly steady
though the arrivals have been too free
for the good of rather dull trade For
the week the arrivals amounted to 149
cars for Boston and 104 cars for export,
a total of 253 cars; preceding week, 129
cars for Boston and los cars for export.
Trade has been fair for few days, with
quotations nominally unchanged.
MIlttonS and lambs have continued in