Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-08-25
IN THE BOSTON MARKETS.
Quotations on the Leading Prod
ucts In Demand.


couraging. with values firm at all points,
and foreign markets have also been
strong and tending upward There are
not many new features to the situation.
All the strong ones noticed last week
have been retained. Receipts have con-
tinued small. and the demand for home
consumption sufficiently large to keep
them pretty well cleaned up The To-
cal market has not been as highly active
as was the case in the previous week,
but there has been a steady demand
from the domestic trade, and this has
kept a good amount of butter moving all
the time. The warm weather has
doubtless served to check the demand
some as have the comparatively high
prices asked by all sellers. There has
been some inquiry from exporters, but
actual sales on this account have been
light. 1t remains to be seen whether
or no the foreign buyers will follow the
advance. The general opinion, how
ever, seems to be that prices have been
forced so high that there is n very small
margin, IL any, for the shipper. Still,
the situation abroad both in the United
Kingdom and on the continent. is very
strong, according to the latest advices,
and the liberal receipts there from this
side have been quickly gobbled up. The
drought throughout Great Britain and
the continent has been so severe that
large importations from other countries
| are necessary.
There has not been much further ad-
vance in prices from those quoted a
week ago The falling off in the de-
mand has temporarily checked the up
ward movement but should exporters
| renew their active operations further
advance would doubtless occur There
Is nothing in really good northern
| creamery to be had at less than 2lR
cents, and that price may now be con-
! sidered as the inside quotation on such
| stock For western creamery the mar
ket is also firm, with extra lin assorted
sizes generally quoted at 19la@20 cents.
and possibly 20l5 cents might be OBJ
tained.
The price OF June creamery remains
at 20 cents. and there has been some
thing done on that basis.
The receipts of ladies' and limitations
have been light, and prices remain the
same, ranging from IA TO 10 cents.
The market for cheese has continued
firm. High country markets and adj
vices indicating drought in the producing
sections are the principal causes of the
firm tone to all markets. At under l0h
cents it is not possible to buy to finest
northern twins, and the range is from
that price down to 10 cents for some
thing not strictly choice. The demsnd
continues moderate and wholly for the
immediate wants of the home trade,
buyers, as usual, hesitating to operate
at the prices asked The export de-
mand also halts.
ba mo rlret has rttlad ctaQdy m 90
and trade has been very good. The
principal business is in western stock
that sells at 10 to 15ia cents. though
something choice win bring l6 cents.
Ordinary receipts have been disposed
Of at 10 to Il cents. Choice fresh east
ern have been in very good demand and
selling at Il to Is cents. with fancy
nearby lots bringing 20 cents
A purchase of number OF thousand
bags Of beans by the government to go
to Porto Rico has caused considerable
strong talk in the market. coming as it
does in connection with reports of dry
weather and small crops. Here the
market is firm. Carload lots pea. 81. 81
@1.37lA; medium, $1.35Gl.371a; small pea,
SlG0; yellow eyes $l,45; red kidneys
$1S5; California, small white, Sl.S1ia;
Lima. &c per pound; joDbing, lOc more.
The flour situation is positively firmer
with the millers all asking higher prices
The claim is that they are not getting
the full cost of wheat and milling out
of their flour even at the advanced
prices. The cash wheat markets of the
: northwest are mentioned in proof OF
+ this position. There is no doubt but
!, what the millers have been eager buy
{ ers of wheat, and that they continue tc
make a full output of -four.
No changes in cornmeal are noted
while oatmeal and the cereals are dull
and unchanged. On corn the market
2 shows a little stronger front, though
there is nothing in the demand here 10
encourage such a feature. The feeling
: is that the coming crop is to be very
large one, while there Is a good deal OF
Z old corn offering. Here the quotations
are a shade firmer, with very little track
corn Offering. oats are quiet and rather
easy. New oats are coming forward
freely, and it is mentioned that the con.
dition is so good that the trade car
scarcely tell them from the old
The demand for hay is quiet with TIT
supply full. Straw is quiet with new
rye straw at hand. Millfeed a littl
firmer: Hay, $9Q16.5O; fancy and job
bling, $17@1S; rye straw, S10Q11.
Pork is firm with hogs higher. Tit
market here is not changed. The firme
prices on hogs prevent the packers from
killing as freely as they would other
wise. The total kill by Boston packer
for the week was about 81 500. There 1
a pretty good movement of Boston
packed pork products into export, tn
total value Of these exports for the weel
=, having been about $685. 900; preceding
p week. $4,000; same week a year age
$751; 900.
The beef market is very firm an
prices have been further advanced. TIL
shippers of beef here say that cattle ar
paying. them a loss, and that they mus
4. get more. Cattle are last reported yer.
firm. The arrivals of beef have beel
small, with the report that the packer
k will still further reduce the quantit
shipped here. The total arrivals for tn
week included 1870 cars for Boston an
129 cars for export.
Lambs have been pretty steady 0
late because little short, but mutton
have been in full supply, and the mar
ket is easy. Veals have been in ful
supply, with a rather easy market
z. Lambs 9Q1l1sc Brighton and fame!
:. 9hQ12c; yearlings. 6QSc; muttons, 7QSc
~ fancy, SQS1Ac; veals, 6@9c; fancy Brigh
70 tons, S1A@9Ac.
= Live poultry has been coming in NOR
% freely and the market IA easier Ire