Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-28
IN THE BOSTON MARKETS.
Quotations on Leading Products
i'm Demand.

has been IN buyers favor and prices
have settled down 1 to , cents, with a
slow trade. This is no great surprise to
tn trade, as declining market is al
ways expected at this time of the year,
but the drop is a little more than was
anticipated this week. At the low prices
last week there was a fair cleaning up of
the finest grades. and a steadier tone
was counted on. but the decline in the
west and New York has necessitated
further concessions here, in order to pre-
vent accumulations. Nobody wants to
put away any of the butter now coming
in. and if there is more than enough to
supply regular customers the surplus
has to be forced off at one price or an
other.
one of the principal receivers of YER
mont and New Hampshire creamery
said his price for assorted tubs was liz
cents, and for boxes is cents, and that
he would not sell for less. Another said
that he asked LIE cents but buyers went
of and did not come back, so he sup
posed they got what they wanted at II
cents. Several said they were satisfied
that the Wholesale price for most of the
offerings should not be quoted at over II
cents. as that was all they could get for
fair-sized lot Of the best. Perhaps a
quotation of II to liz cents may be given
as covering the sales Of fine northern for
the day, with the understanding that
11l2 cents was more of an asking than
selling price.
The stock of old cheese is cleaning UP
a steady prices, and it will probably
soon be all gone. Sales run along at
12la to 10 cents, in small lots as wanted.
with few fancy twins at a higher rate
There is very little demand for new
fodder cheese. 1t is arriving in small
lots, and selling slowly at 10 to II cents
Choice new full cream make is not ex-
pected for several weeks.
At Montreal Old cheese is in small
stock, and selling at II cents. Several
factories in Canada have secured con-
tracts for new fodder cheese up to May
10 at 10 cents. The fodder make in Can
ada is estimated at TO- 900 to Il, 900 boxes
There is moderate demand for eggs,
with little easier tendency in prices
For the general run of choice western
IA cents is the ruling rate, with some
sales of Michigan and Indiana at 14A.
and select lots for cold storage at 14M
cents, but it is hard to get over Az
cents for the best marks of northwest
ern. Southern, 13s4 to IA cents. East
have increased a little and buyers are
rather slow to pay the full prices asked
The stock in cold storage is IA, 1926 cases,
against 1858 cases the same time last
year. Last week there were 2512 cases
put in, and 1923 cases taken out.
Receipts Of sugar have been light the
past few days. and it looks as if but
little more will come forward this sea-
son. The receipts for the season so far
have not been one-quarter as much as
last year. and the crop must be con-
sidered a failure. Sales of best small
cakes at II to 13 cents, and in tins and in
large cakes at to II cents per pound
Sirup in moderate supply and selling at
rs to 50 cents per gallon, as to quality.
In beans trade is quiet, with very
little change in prices: Carload lots
pea, $LS712 q1.40; medium, $1.3715@1.4O;
yellow eyes, $1.50d1.55; red kidneys,
S1.S0G190; California small white. sl9O
OILS; Lima, &c per lb jobbing, Toe more
Apples are in small supply and very
firm. Very high prices are being paid
for choice lots in a small way. Bald
wins have been sold at retail as high as
$3.50 and even more, with spies up to SO
and over at retail. The whole quota
lions are firmer at: Baldwins. $465:
russets, $3.5O@45O; spies, Sac; No. ., all
kinds, $9q35O; jobbing and choice lots,
$101.50 more.
Strawberries are more plenty and are
selling at lower prices. For the week
the receipts of strawberries were 1871
crts same week year ago, 2456 crts. A
few berries are being received from as
far north as lower North Carolina, but
they are yet rather green. Some berries
a rin nd to
ter shape. They sell in case lots at 20d
S5c as to quality. At retail they are
selling at 9O@4Oc, as to quality.
a duh market on corn here is noted
with the west and options a little easier.
The export demand for corn is very
quiet.
Potatoes are firm, with the receipts
rather small. The roads are exceeding
ly bad in the potato countries, especially
in northern Maine. Sweet potatoes are
a little easier, with more of the white
variety arriving: Aroostook and east
ern rose, 90c@$1 per blu; hebrons S5cm
81; Green mountains, $4,000; northern
and western, 75@S0c; Dakota red, 75c 2;
Jersey sweet. S3@35O per Dbl; crates,
S2,5OQ2.75; Bernudas, $7@7.5O per Dbl.
The flour market has been very quiet
for several days, although there has eX-
listed a tone of firmness in winter wheat
fiours, for the reason that the millers
have found that class of wheat scarce
the farmers refusing to market it, un-
der the present condition of bad croT
reports. Shipping directions on spring
wheat flours have lately been receivctl
in good volume, plainly indicating that
there is a good demand for flour to 60
into consumption.
Flour prices may be considered easy,
though but little changed. Mill ship
ment prices are a little easier at $4d
Abs on spring patents winter patents
S3.95@4.25. Trade committee prices are:
Spring wheat, clears, $Sq35O patents
S4Q4.75; winter wheat, clears, $3.5Od
4; straights, $S.65@415; patents, $3.50
$50
Cornmeal is rather easy on the dull
market on corn, but with prices little
changed. Oatmeal and the cereals are
rather easy though nominaly I'M
changed.
oats have continued to rule very dull
in this market, with the west slightly
easier.
The hay market seems to be firmer
especially ON good to best hay. The
burning of several hundred tons the
other day at the Lewis wharf fire was
something of a reduction in the local
supply, though prominent hay mer-
chants say that this alone would have