St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-04-05
BOSTON MARKET.

Boston, April 1.-The butter marke
is rather quiet, with a dull trade. Quo
tations are steady Best creamery,
small lots and packages, 22@22hc;
northern creamery, round lots, 2l32W22c;
western 21G2l12c; eastern, N@2lRc;
first. 17@1Sc; limitations, 15@l6c; Jobbers,
EM1c more.
Cheese holds firm. Round lots, l2%
m13c; sage, 13@13hc; jobbing, Rc higher;
Liverpool, SIS Cd.
Eggs are in very full supply, with
good many going over from last week
unsold. Prices have sagged steadily,
and are lower at the close. western
fresh, 12R@l|c; eastern fresh, l3@l3Rc;
southern, 12c; nearby and fancy, lo@
21c; duck 26@D2Sc; goose, 24W25c; 1obbing,
1@1hc more.
Beans are in more quiet demand, with
the market fairly steady. Carload lots,
pea, $1.37h@1.40 medium, $1.37Hs@1.4O;
yellow eyes $150@1.55; red kidneys, $l.SO
al 80; California, small white, $1.9O@1.95;
Lima, Sc per pound; jobbing 1Oc more.
The flour market has improved a good
deal Prominent Minneapolis milling
concerns have sold a good deal of flour,
especially for export. Quotations are
steady. Mill shipment prices are very
steady Spring patents, $4.15@4.5O; win
ter wheat patents, $3.50Q4;. Trade COM
1nittee prices are firm at: Spring wheat,
clears, $3@350; patents, $4.1O@4.75; win
ter wheat clears, $3.3O@39O; straights,
$4,000; patents, $3.S0Q4.35.
Cornmea is steady and unchanged.
Oatmeal and the cereals are quiet.
The markets on corn are rather quiet.
1t has been firmer on corn to arrive
than for corn on track here nearly all
the week. Even small arrivals have
seemed too much for the dull trade here.
Oats are in quiet request, with prices
in buyers favor, though but little
changed. The spot market has been
dull and unsatisfactory of late.
Hay is in fair demand, especially for
the best, with poor and ordinary dull.
Rye straw is well sustained. Millfeed is
easy. Hay, $S@14; fancy jobbing lots,
s15017; rye straw, $9W9.50.
The market on pork and lard Is quiet,
with little change. Hogs have been
coming forward steadily with little
| changes in prices. Boston packers have
made about an even output Of hogs fol
the week, the total kill having amounted
to about 36,500 preceding week, $4,000;
same week year ago, 10000. For export
there is a very fair movement in pork
provisions, the total value of these eX-
ports from Boston for the week having
been about 100000; preceding week
| S125 900; same week a year ago, $4,000
The receipts of beef, to stop in Bos-
ton, have been small, the total for the
week having been but 1874 cars, with 121
cars for export, a total of 255 cars; pre-
ceding week, 149 cars for Boston anG
104 cars for export, a total of 253 cars
same week a year ago, $50 cars for Bos-
ton and rs cars for export, a total of 25I
cars. The beef market has been dull
but better trade is looked for. Price
have been ruling in the buyers favor
except for choice steers, which are reall,
scarce.
The mutton market Is little firmer
with lambs in rather better demand
Veals are ruling easy, and are likely t
continue so, though the roads in tn
country are yet very bad: Springer.
S5@lO; fall lambs S@9c; Brighton fancy
S1a@9lAc; muttons. rosie; Brighton an
fancy muttons, 7h@S%c; veals, 6@91sc
fancy Brightons, 10c.
Poultry is ruling quiet, with only a fai
demand. Neither is the supply exces
sive especially of fresh. Live poultr
has been ruling very firm, but is likel
| fA he Ci hA tc, ~
feasts are over
The game supply Is generally in tn
$ refrigerators and in the jobbers' and r,
' tail dealers hands, but occasionally
{ small lot or two is received by the con
= mission dealers.
Apples are in quiet demand vii
prices even firmer than a week ago. Pc
= maps such prices are too high for muC
of general trade, while the supply
small at the same time: Baldwins.
y $4,000; russets, 1904; Tolman sweet
s3@5; spies, $3.5O@45O; seconds, all vari
y ties. sos; jobbing and choice lots, 81
= 1.50 more.
For the week the receipts of appl
:. were 1901 bbls; preceding week, 1907 Dbl
same week a year ago, 1891 bbls. II
;s total exports of apples for the we
a were 2052 bbls, all to Liverpool: sa,
~ week a year ago, 29O1 bbls; total sir
=, the season opened, 2277i9 bbls; san
III time a year ago, 174,3S5 bbls; same tin
in 1897, 1,006,665 bbs.
Strawberries are coming more fire.,
from Florida, with berries from SON
w what farther north expected this we
10 In refrigerator lots they have been 81
e. ing at S0@35c, and retailing at 35@5Oc.
We to quality.
e. There is a fair trade in potatoes, w
re the market rather easy. Sweet DO
nd toes are scarce and firmer: AroostC
SO and eastern rose, S5@90c per bush;
~ brons, S0@S5c; Green mountains. S
- 90c; northern and western, soc; Oak
~ red, 75c; Jersey sweet, $2.75@3 per BIB
' onions are not quite as firm on
Gu tives, with the best large bbls of ca
ON ern selling at wholesale at about
to and with western in smaller bbls at S
@275. Bermudas are decidedly Low
lys with wholesale lots quoted at s.. 25
Home Notes.
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