Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-07


! 14@16c; fowls, 10@11hc; fresh ducks, 15@
! Ice; live fowls, 111a@12c; chickens, 800
! 15c.
The supply of apples is very large, from
| the southern and middle states, though
/ a few natives are beginning to come.
For the week the receipts of apples were
4466 bbls; last year, 2281 bbls. The mar
ket is easy, by reason of the over supply
The very best Nyack pippins will hardly
bring above So per Dbl, with many that
have to be sold for less. The market
for round lots may be quoted at: Nyack
pippins, $2.50@3; Williams, $1.75@2. so;
fair to good lots, $2@25O; red astrachans,
$1@1.50; ordinary, $1.25@15O per Dbl.
Crates and baskets sell from Csc to Csc.
Strawberries are done for the season
Of 1899. except possibly a few more
crates from the provinces. Raspberries
are very abundant, and the quality is
fine, in spite of the fact that early re-
ports said that the crop had been ruined
by the drought. They sell at 6@Sc for
pints, in case lots, with jobbing lots
possibly lie to &c more. Blueberries
are also very abundant, with the mar
ket easy at S@1Oc, as to quality. Black
berries continue to come forward from
Jersey and Delaware, with a few lots
from farther north. They sell at 8@1Oc,
in case lots. For currants. the market
is easy at 5@7c per quart box, in case
lots. Gooseberries are very plenty,
with a good many here in boxes holding
a peck, more or less. They sell at 81,
with limited demand.
For the week the total receipts Of
berries was 6406 crates; same week
year ago, II, 123 crates.
Potatoes are decidedly dull, under the
fao Of h 1oo Chi, he
than the market required. Prices have
continued to break till the best Bristols
were only quotable at S1.75 per barrel,
with other lots at S1@15O, as to quality.
Only a few sweet potatoes are at hand,
and the market is very high, say, $4@5
per barrel for choice yellow sweets.
Tomatoes are very plenty, with prices
low and wide range. HothOuse sell
at 4G5c per pound, with natives at $1@
1.25 per bushel. Jersey crates are dull
at 50@60c per bushel.
Cucumbers are plenty, with good to
best native quoted at $1.25 per box.
Other lots sell for less. Squashes are
fairly plenty, and are quoted at 50c@$1.50
for crates and barrels.
Watermelons have continued in very
full supply, and the market is easy at
10000 with possibly a few fancy bring
ceipts were 72,815; same week a year
ago, $780,
Cantaloupes are in bad shape, from an
oversuppIy, and have to be sold at low
prices, unless of the very choicest va
rites. No really Rocky Forts have yet
been in the market. though raised in the
south from seed of that variety. But
this week there are some melons from
the same valley as the genuine Rocky
Forts, and the flavor should be good.
Prices on cantaloupes are at wide range;
all the way from SOC to So per package
Green corn is more plenty, and sells
at 50c@$1 per bushel, as to quality. Egg
plants are quoted at $1.25 per dozen.
The arrivals of mackerel from the
fleet have been the largest of any week
for the season; 1910 barrels landed by
the fleet at all ports. While this guam
tity is by no means large, yet it shows
that more mackerel are being taken,
with the outlook rather better. But the
mackerel being taken are mainly small
The market on Goldfish is very firm.
The late arrivals from the banks are
being quickly taken up at higher prices,
and it looks as if the market would soon
be bare of Goldfish again. The jobbers
and dealers note very good business
at firmer prices. Large dry bank, 1925
$3.50; medium, $4.75@5; large picked
bank, So; medium, $4.25@$4.50; large
shore and Georges, $5.50@6; medium,
$3.50 picked pollock, $3.50; slack sailed
pollock, So 25@3.50; hake, $2.75@3; had
dock, $3@3.25; homeless hake, 4@7c per
pound; homeless cod, 6@12c.
Picked herring are in quiet move
ment, with a firm market. Prices are
unchanged. Nova Scotia
split, $6.50Q7; Newfoundland, $5.50@6.50;
$5@5.50; fancy Scatterie, $40
s; round shore, nominal, $47505.
American sardines are steadily held
at full prices, with only a limited move
ment Wholesale and jobbing, Il oils,
50. 9O@3; p mustards, 50. 95@3.1O; a mus
tards, So. 25@3.3O; y oils, $4.75@5.
The great frmness in canned Holsters
is continued, with the offerings very
small. Flats, $3.10@3.25; tails, $3@3.1O;
canned shri;nps, $1.35@1.40; clam and
fish chOWder, $1.60@1.75.
Smoked halibut continues in both linn
tied demand and supply, with the mar
ket nominal Strips, 1000; chunks.
91a@12c, wholesale and jobbing.
The Gamers have obtained quite a
quantity of good mackerel for canning
lately, and they are being put up for the
market. Quotations are unchanged.
One-pound regulars, $1.50@1.55; 2-pound
ovals. $2.5O@2.75: 3-pound ovals, $2.75@3.
Dry and picked fish are in small re-
ceipt, with the possible exception of her
ring, which have been coming in little
more freely.