News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-03-01
LATEST BOSTON MARKETS.

For Poultry-Easier Prices on Potatoes.
Boston, Feb. 27.-The butter market
is quiet and rather easy, with all.
though prices are little changed. Best
creamery, small lots and pkgs, 221a@
! pc; northern creamery, round lots. &
! W22lac; western, 22W2215c; eastern. pc;
! firsts, $4,000; limitations, 15@16c: Job
! bers, 32c to IL more.
Cheese is firm, with a better call.
There has actually been a call for cheese
the past week to go west, something I'M
usual. For this market, quotations are
firm. Round lots, 11@111ac; sage, 11B
! 0l2c; jobbing I5c to lie higher; Liverpool,
49s.
The egg market is still excited and I'M
! certain, though both New York and
western markets have declined sharply.
! The market here is certainly much low
er, and continued pleasant weather is
! expected to work a still easier position.
! Quotations are decidedly irregular, and
in some instances nominal Western
! fresh, 35Q3Gc; Michigan and Indiana, sc
! Q37c; eastern fresh, 35G36c; southern,
! &3U34c; nearby and fancy, 37Q3Sc; job
bling, 1c to 11ac more
Beans are firmer, with still stronger
! reports from New York state and west
| ern shippers. Here the market is also
! firmer,With sales at better prices Car
load lots, pea and medium, $13OG1 80;
yellow eyes, $1.55@1.6O; red kidneys, 81. IS
| 0L90; California small white, $1,000;
! Lima, sc per Id; jobbing 1Oc more.
! Flour has been ruling rather quiet for
/ 10 -
| buyers favor. Cash wheat dropped OF
a fraction in some of the principal cash
wheat markets; said to be caused by
| lessened buying by the millers and this
| may depress the flour market Mill
shipment prices on spring wheat pat
ents are at $410@45O. Trade committee
prices are: Spring wheat, clears, $1,000
3.65; patents, $41O@475; winter wheat,
clears, $3.45@3.90; straights, $4,000; pat
| ents, $3.9O@4.40.
The meal and cereal markets are
| steady and little changed.
Corn was stronger on the rally in
wheat and the fact of a better export
demand. The market here is quiet, but
fairly sustained.
Options on oats were a fraction easier.
while trade in this market was dull.
The supply on track here is small, but
doubtless fully up to the demand.
Hay continues quiet, with a full sup
ply at hand, especially of the lower
grades. Straw rules dull, though offer
ings are only small. Millfeed is a shade
easier. Hay, $S014; fancy jubbfng lots,
| $15@16; rye straw, $9Q16; cat straw, SEQ
| s.
The pork market is easier on barrel
| pork, with leaf lard easier. Ordinary
lard is unchanged. Boston packers
have killed for the week a total Of about
| $1,000 hogs; preceding week, 33.S0O; same
week a year ago. 10000. There is a good
movement of Boston-pacNed pork pro-
visions into export, when there are
steamers to be had. The total value of
| these exports for the week was about
| $205000, preceding week, $780, same
| week year ago, $122, coo.
! The supply of beef coming to Boston
! has continued rather small, and it is
| noted that best steers are positively
scarce, the arrivals running to only me-
dunn quality.
| Quotations on beef are not much
changed, though the best is firm: Very
choice steers, 909Ac; good ers, SEC;
light and cows, 7%@S1ac; extra heavy
kinds, 1112c good hinds lie; light kinds,
! 91&O1O1ac; heavy fores, 61@c; good, GHc;
light, 5al@6c; backs, rose; ratEes, 280
SIC; chucks, G1207c; short ribs, 1O@12c;
rounds, S@9c; Pumps, 111a@l3c rumps
and loins, 12015c; loins, 12@17c.
| The mutton market is fully supplied,
| though about steady. Trade has been
| only fair, owing doubtless to the ex-
! ceadingly bad condition of the roads, es-
! pecialy outside of the cities A few early
| spring lambs have been in the market
! and sold from 81 to $40 each. Veais are
more plenty and rather easy.
Poultry has not changed much There
| is a fair demand for choice young tur-
keys The best fowls are in good re-
| quest, with choice chickens doing gWell.
Turkeys, western, t1@14c; northern, p
! m1Sc; chickens, northern. 12W1Sc; west
! ern, 10@14c; fowls, northern fresh, go
| 15c: western, 10013c; ducks, 9012c;
! geese, 10m13c; live fowls 1lWl2c.
The game supply is now mainly in the
hands of the dealers and jobbers, with
but little coming forward A few sad
dies Of deer came in last week, Illegally
shipped out of Maine. The condition
was unsatisfactory.
There has continued to be a pretty
good request for apples, with a fair
movement, considering that prices rule
high, compared with other seasons
Quotations are firm with arrivals only
moderate.
Potatoes have been in better slpplN
and prices are easier. Sweet potatoes
were very high Just after the storm and
cold weather, but they are now down
again. Aroostook and eastern Hehrons,
GOM63c; Green mountaius, 10U Zee; north
ern white and Green mountains, 45@
55c; Jersey sweets &202-5.
Onions are pretty firm and selling at
S2.2502.5O per Dbl for large lots, with
jobbing lots at $2.5OG2.75. Sweet pota-
toes are sold by the joDbers at $2,25@250.
Yellow turnips are frmer and sell at Sjc
al in round lots and job at 81 per Dbl;
white turnips, $1.75. Beets job at 75c
per bush; carrots, 75c; parsnips, $3.50
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Some people in Readsboro are getting un
easy over the prospective shortage of wood
before many years The town uses more