St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-22
BOSTON MARKET

cries In rather small supply, anu selnng
quite readily, If good enough. Still, a
large supply Of any sort of butter, or
market like the present would result in
lower prices: Best creamery small lots
and pkgs, 21@21hc; northern creamery,
round lots, 2O1h@21c; western, 2OQ2O1ac;
eastern, 2O@2Ohc; first, 17@1Sc; imita.
tions. 15@16c jobbers, Nc more.
Cheese has continued very firm, with
prices actually higher The supply is
small and we'll held: Round lots, 12bd
13c; sage, 13@13hc; jobbing, nc higher;
Liverpool, SIS Cd.
Eggs are easy, with the demand
limited to the few that can be quickly
sold to the consuming trade. While the
price is really pretty low for the season,
there Is a fear that 1t may soon go lower:
Western fresh, 141ac; eastern fresh, 1874
0161ac; southern, lac; nearby and fancy
1S@2Oc; jobbing, 1@1hc more.
Beans are firm, with even higher prices
quoted in the country, though this mar
ket is unchanged: Carload lots, pea
$1:95&1S71a; medium, $1.37k @1.4O; yellow
eyes, $1.55@1 so; red kidneys, $1.S5@19O;
California small white, $4,000; Lima 90
per ID; jobbing 10c more.
ket Is looking better, with well informed
merchants looking for a still sharper
reaction. In the first place, the millers
had been Indifferent to the lower prices
of wheat and had wired but little about
either wheat or flour to their agents
here, but later they are taking much
greater interest. 1t Is understood that
the Minneapolis millers have taken
great deal of wheat within day or two.
and that they are still ready to take all
the cash milling wheat there is offered
them at present prices. 1t Is still a curl
Gus feature that cash wheat at Mime
apolis Is still at premium over May
The flour market Is more active, on a
rather lower basis of prices. The larger
milling concerns have sold some flour
within a couple of days, but scarcely al
above $415 for the best known spring
wheat patents, mill shipment prices.
Considerable flour was also sold at $4.1O
while some of the cheaper spring wheat
patents are quoted as low as 1915. Mill
shipment prices are also little lower.
The meal and cereal markets are lit
tie changed, though rather easy, on the
easier grain markets. The position of
| corn is d Hllle DelleT tHdu d lew udyS ago,
though still considerably easier than a
week ago. There is no particularly firm
point in, the situation, beyond the fact
that a speculative turn has evidently be-
/ gun. Oats have also shown some i'm
| provement, with options a shade firmer
Hay is quiet and fairly steady on the
best grades, with low grades easy. Straw
is quiet and fairly steady. Millfeed is
quiet and rather easy: Hay, sSQ14;
fancy jobbing lots, $15Q17; rye straw, SO
@950
Pork and lard are firmer, with fresh
ribs firmer and advanced 15c. Hogs are
firmer relatively than provisions. Hams
are very firm.
Boston packers have made a larger
kill of hogs, the total for the week hav-
ing been about $4,000; preceding week.
$4,000; same week year ago, S1,SOO
There is a fair movement going on, the
total vaule of these exports for the week
having been about $24S,000; preceding
week, 1926, 900; same week a year ago.
$685., 900. In the west the volume OF
pork packing has been somewhat re-
duced.
The beef market has been rather dull.
though there was rather better trade
recently Quotations have settled
somewhat during the week, and are firm
now only on choice beef, which Is scarce.
The market on lambs, and muttons
especially, has shown considerable i'm
provement within two or three days, and
higher prices are being obtained. Veals
are also higher, though it is suggested
that it can only be temporary. Lambs,
$4,000; Brighton fancy, S16@9hc; NUT
tons, 6@71Rc; Brighton and fancy NUT
tons, 7@Shc; veals 7@10c fancy Brigh-
tons, 10011c.
Poultry is steady, with live poultry
firm Choice fresh chickens are very
firm. Turkeys, western, 10013c; north
ern, 12@16c; chickens, northern, 14Q2Oc;
western, 10614c; fowls, northern fresh,
0@16c; western, 1O@12c; ducks. 9@12c;
geese, 10Q1Sc; live fowls, 10@12c.
All the game in the market is in the
hands of the jobbers and dealers, with
! very little coming in.
, There has continued to be pretty
fair movement in apples, though prices
} are hardly as we'll sustained as previous
ly noted, owing to the anxiety of some
holders to sell. Still the largest holders
are firm: Baldwins, at $3.25@3.75;
greetings, $3@S.25; Tolman sweets, $50
6; spies, $S.5O@4.5O seconds, all vare-
ties. $1.75@275; jobbing and choice lots,
$l@15O more.
Very few Strawberries are coming, and
but few are expected till the ripenng
has got far enough north to find where
the berries had not advanced far enough
to be killed by the severe winter frost.
Prices are nominal and at wide range
The potato market Is firm, and has ad
vanced considerably. The markets in
the country are reported firmer, with the
supply cut down considerably by FREE
Il ing during the severe winter wealth
Aroostook and eastern rose, hebrons arr
e Green mountains, soc per bush; northern
I and western, 70@75c: Dakota red, zoe;
= Jersey sweet, $2,25@2.50 per Dbl.
t Onions have continued firm, with the
: best native selling at $3@375 per Dbl
with the jobbers at S325@4.50 York
a state are quoted at $2.25@2.5O for large
! bbls, with small bbls at $1.75@D2.
yellow turnips are firm at so per bush
e by the jobbers, and with wholesale lots
! at $1@125. White are jobbing at 81.
n Beets are steady at $1.5O@1.75 per bush;
/ parsnips, $1.50; carrots, 75c.
Celery is pretty firm, and jobbing at
$3.50 per doz for good. Caulihowers are