Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-04-24

well sustained, with options closing at
full figures.
Hay is firm for the best, with such
bringing full quotations. Straw is
steady, with the best rye straw very firm.
Millfeed is about steady, with little
change. Hay, $S@14.50; fancy job1ing
lots, $15@17: rye straw, $9@9.50.
F'irmer hogs in the west, with very
small receipts, make the pork situation
firm, although quotations for this mar
ket are not changed: Barrel pork, $3.50
1880; light backs. $12; lean ends, $1450;
fresh ribs, TIC; corned and fresh Shout
ders, &c; smoked shoulders, 6a4c; lard,
61sc; in pals, 6as@7Ac; hams, 9@91zc;
skinned B hams, SIC; bacon, $1,000;
sausa ges, 7@Sc; Frankfurt sausages, 71a
@Sc; pressed ham, lie; raw leaf lard,
&c; pure leaf lard, TIC; in pals, S@81Ac;
pork tongues, So; loose salt pork, &c;
briskets, &c; sausage meat, &c; bolognas,
71ac; city dressed hogs, &c; country, &C.
Boston packers killed fewer hogs for
the week, the total having been about
&c, 300; preceding week, SO, 100; same week
a year ago, $4,000. For Boston packed
provisions for export there is a good de-
mand. The total value of the exports
of such provisions for the week was
about $2O5, 900; preceding week, $135, 900;
same week a year ago, S1SO,OOO.
Fresh beef has continued in small de-
mand, with a rather easy market, all
though the supply of choice beef has
been small, and hence the quotations on
that grade fully sustained But as a
whole the market has favored the buy
er: Very choice steers, sac; good
steers, S1ac; light and cows, ~ @Sc; ex-
ira heavy binds, lie; good binds, 101sc;
light kinds, 9@10c; heavy fores, 6Ac;
good, &c; light, 51h@5Ac; backs, 7@8c;
rattles, 41a@4Ac; chucks, 6@7c; short
ribs, 1O@12c; rounds, those; rumps, 11@
13c; rumps and loins, 11@141Ac; 1oins, 11@
16c
Muttons and lambs have been pretty
well sustained, with muttons compare
lively high Spring lambs have begun
to be more abundant, and sell at rather
smaller prices, except for very fancy.
Veals have continued easy. Springers, SIS
@9; fall lambs, 5000; Brighton fancy,
S@91ac; muttons, 1000; Brighton and
fancy muttons, 7@91sc; veals, 5000;
fancy Brightons, 9@10c.
Fresh poultry comes in sparingly, and
keeps we'll sold up. Frozen is reported to
be cleaning up well. Iced is coming
along only moderately. Turkeys, frozen,
12016c; chickens, fresh, 14@2Oc; frozen,
1UU14C, 1OW1S, 1IGSIl, 1OU1oC, 1IOAG1, 59U
12c iced fowls, 111a@1214c; live fowls, IL
Ole.
There is little that is new in the game
market From the jobbers' hands the
quotations are about: Venison, sad
dies, 5@18c; grouse, $1.25@150 per pair;
quail $1.75@2 per dozen; canvasback
ducks, $2.50@3.50 per pair; mallard ducks,
S1.5O per pair; black ducks, $1.25 per
pair; red heads, SIPS; wild ducks, fresh,
50@$1 per pair; pigeons, slips per doz.
Strawberries are coming forward more
freely. The last sales were at 20@40c per
bx, in wholesale lots, according to quail
ity. They retail all the way from 25c to
soc, as to quality and size of boxes. The
season is yet very late.
Potatoes continue to rule firm on the
best seed rose and hebrons. The de-
mand is good for such, with ordinary
cooking stock only steady. Receipts are
falling off, however, and are likely to be
small during the season of bad roads in
Aroostook county and other northern
potato sections: Aroostook and eastern
rose, 9Oc@$1 per bu; hebrons, 85c@$1;
Green noun aims, $4,000; northern and
western, 7508Oc; Dakota red, 75c; Jersey
sweet, $3.25@3.5O per Dbl; crates, $2.5O@
2.75.
Bermuda potatoes are quoted at $7@9
per Dbl.
Native and western onions are at wide
range. They are quoted at all the way
from 81 for small barrels and inferior
lots, up to So for choice NeWburyports
in large bbls. Egyptian onions are Of
fering at $20250 for 112-Ib bgs. Ber-
muda onions are yet rather easy at $1.T5
GD1S5 per crt.
Yellow turnips are quoted at $1.25 per
Dbl by the jobbers, with white the same.
Wholesale lots sell for less. Carrots job
at 75c per bu; beets, Soc per blu; par
ships, 81.
Cabbages are scarce and bring high
prices They are quoted at $3@5 per
Dbl, for white and red, with some lots Of
white sold at the upper quotations.
Spinach continues very firm, and is
quoted at $305 per Dbl by the jobbers.
Celery is also very firm, and is quoted at
$5 per dozen. Caulif1oWer is done for
the season. Dandelion greens are quot
ed at 81 per blu, with beet green's the
same. Lettuce is more plenty, and sells
by the jobbers at 75c per dozen punches.
Asparagus is in limited supply, and
jobbing during the week at 5000 per
dozen punches. Tomatoes are also short,
and sell at 100000 per pound. Cucum-
bers are little easier. with native quoted
at $500 per 100. Radishes are plenty
and rather easy. They job at 40c per
dozen punches.
New bunch beets are jobbing at 81 per
doZ Green peas are scarce and job at
$5@6 per crate. Squashes are steady at
about 81 per Dbl of 100 pounds.
Mint is quoted at 75c per doz; water
cress, 75c per doz. Peppers sold last
week by the case at SIS. Rhubarb is
easier at SC per pound, by the jobbers.
Fish has been quite plentiful dur
ing the week, and quotations have ranged
much lower on an average than they did
in the Lenten season.
Nothing has been landed yet by the
southern mackerel fleet. Receipts of