Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1899-04-14

the week the arrivals for Boston were
1873 cars with 109 cars for export, total
Of 247 cars; preceding week, 1874 cars.
with 121 cars for export, total of 25j
cars; same week year ago. 100 cars
for Boston, and 147 cars for export,
total OF 307 cars. In prices the market
Is very little changed.
The mutton market has been ruling
pretty firm, with lambs and muttons
bringing more money than a week ago.
Veals are dun and easy: Spriugers, $50
0: fall lambs, S@9Ac; Brighton fancy, s1s
0s1kc; muttons, 7Q9c: Brighton and
fancy muttons. 71k@9hc; veals, 6@9c;
fancy Brightons, 9@1Oc.
Poultry is dull, with the supply of
fresh getting to be limited Iced fowls
are arriving to some extent: Turkeys,
frozen, BOISE: chickens, fresh, 14Q2Oc;
frozen, 10@74e; fowls, fresh. 10G16c;
frozen. 9Q12c; ducks, 9@12c; geese, $40
12c; iced fowls, 11Q12c; live fowls, 11@
12c.
Game Is generally steadily held and
mainly all in first hands. Still num-
Der of fresh deer saddles came in from
Maine the other day-shipped illegally
out of the state-but they were not in
their long winter feeding on browse.
They sold very low; hardly more than
enough to pay freight and other costs.
Marketmen are not pleased with such
stuff, and generally prefer not to have
anything to do with it.
Apples are steady. with some choice
lots selling considerably above market
quotations. Occasionally lot of Bald
wins is good enough to bring $3.50, but
such is not the general market. Bald
wins. at $4,000; russets, 1904; Tolman
sweets, S4D450; spies, $9.5O@4.5O; Sec
onds all varieties, 1903; jobbing and
choice lots, $1Q1.5O more.
For the week the receipts of apples
were 3S4O bbls; preceding week, 1901 bbls;
same week year ago, 4S46 bbls. The
total exports of apples for the week were
1899 bbls, all to Liverpool; total since the
season opened, 231,7SS bbls; same time
a year ago, 1886; same time in 1897,
1,OO9,347 bbls.
Strawberries have been coming for
ward more freely, but all from Florida.
since the season is very late, especially
farther north. 1t is suggested that it
will be three or four weeks before any.
good Carolina berries will be at hand.
Florida berries have been selling this
week at 25@S5c, in refrigerator lots, as
to quality. They retail all the way from
30 to so cents, as to size of boxes and
quality.
Potatoes are very firm on seed rose
and Hebrons, with ordinary cooking va
rites about steady. Sweet potatoes are
scarce and firm. Aroostook and eastern
rose. S5090c per bu; Hebrons, S0QS5c;
Green mountains, $4,000; northern and
western, I5G9S0c; Dakota red, 75c: Jer-
sey sweet $3.50 per Dbl. New Bermuda
potatoes are on the market at $Sd9 per
Dbl.
Onions are not quite as firm, especially
on ordinary native, though the best are
yet well held. They are quoted at all
the way from 81 to So per Dbl. as to quail
ity.
Bermuda onions are very plenty, and
the market is easy in consequence. They
Job at about 81 per crt, but wholesale lots
sell for considerably less.
Yellow turnips are steady at S@1.25
per Dbl, with white quoted at 5OQ6Oc per
bush. Carrots job at 75c per bush;
parsnips. $1@1.25; beets, 75c per bush.
Cabbages are yet scarce and very firm.
They are quoted at S3QS. so per-bbl- with
red cabbage at about the same price.
Spinach is a little easier, Norfolk selling
from the last boat at $2,50@3. Jobbers
quote $4,000 per Dbl, as to quality.
Celery is scarce and firm at about So
per doz bchs. Caulihowers are scarce
and near the end of the season, with
the jobbers quoting at SO per crit Let
tuce is pretty firm at 81 per doz heads.
Southern asparagus is in rather limited
supply at $5@6 per doz. Radishes are
in pretty full supply, and jobbing at 25q
zoe per doz bchs, as to quality Beet
greens are quoted at $1.25 per bush
dandelion greens, SIPS; new beets, 50 pei
doz bchs.
, Squashes are steady at $1@1.50 per 10C
lbs. Cucumbers are a little lower at $7G
9 per 100 for native dollhouse. String
beans are scarce and very firm at $5@l
per crt.
Mint is quoted at 75c per doz bchs;
watercress, 75c per doz. Rhubarb is
lower, and selling at 6@9c per ID. Pep.
pers are out of the market for the present
New horseradish sells at 25c per lb al
retail.
The receipts of fresh mixed fish al
Gloucester for the week aggregated 1,67O,
900 pounds, as against 1.935000 pounds
landed at Boston. The receipts of al
, kinds Of fish at Gloucester for the week
were 2,0eS,0O0, against 1,537,00O for the
corresponding week last year.