News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-01-25
In HUB lIARAETS.
Butter Quiet, Cheese Firm,
Eggs More Steady.

Lutte Efrmer-QuOtatious ON Fruits
and Vegetables,
Boston, Jan. 24.-Butter has ruled
quiet, but there is a feeling that prices
are pretty well down, with tone of
more confidence within a day or two.
Best creamery, small lots and packages,
21a2ll3c; northern creamery, round lots.
20E@21c; western, 1915G2O1lc; eastern.
1920; irsts, 17@19c; limitations. $50
16c; jobbers, u to 1c more.
The tone of the local cheese market
is firm, with prices well sustained.
Round lots, 11@111ac; sage 1l1zQ12c; job
bling, 12to 1c higher Liverpool, 49s.
Eggs are more steady. with feeling
that cold snap might send them up.
Fancy fresh eggs are still selling at csc
in Boston. Storage, I6017c; western
fresh, 10000; Michigan and Indiana.
z0@2lc; eastern fresh, 21622c; nearby
and fancy, 24Q35c; jobbing, u to lie more.
Inc position of beans is pretty firm,
though the market is quiet. Carload
lots, pea and medium, 81. 3061 .321b: veil
low eyes, $l.55Ql60; red kidneys, 81. $50
l-9o; California small, white, 81 .9O62;
Lima, 4Q5c per III; jobbing, 1Oc more.
flour mas ruled quiet for more than
a week, and yet the market is very well
sustained. Mill shipment prices are at
$4Q4.30 for spring wheat patents with
one or two fancy brands sc to 1Oc more
Trade committee prices are: Sprinc
wheat, clears, $3@350; patents, $46D4.75:
winter wheat, clears, $34O03.85.
stralghts $4,000; patents, $3.850440.
Cornmeal, oatmeal and the cereals are
little changed, with trade quiet.
Corn is only fairly steady, with re-
celpts more free. Offerings on track
here are little more abundant
oats are quiet and rather easy. with
offerings more liberal.
The hay situation is mentioned as
firmer, with the supply better worked
up. Rye straw is pretty firm, with mill
feed firm: Hay, $S014; fancy jobbing
lots. $l5016; rye straw, 5000; oat straw.
$685.
The market on hogs in the west is
reported firm, and pork products here
are firm for that reason. along with a
very fair trade. Boston packers have
made pretty liberal output of hogs
Tor the week, the killing total amount
ing to about 41,400; preceding week, 49,
600; same week a year ago. 4G. 100 There
Is reported to be better demand for
Boston packed pork products for the
markets abroad. The total value of the
exports of these products for the week
was about $2350O0; preceding week, $14O.-
GOO; same week a year ago, $4,000
Pork packing in the west has been
CT hot I'M rs
total having been about 565, 900 hogs;
preceding eek, $1,000; same week a
year ago, 100000. Since the new pack
ing season began, Nov. 1, the pork pack
ing in the west has amounted to g.
$4,000 hogs; same time year ago, s.
900; increase, 1,250,000
Beef has continued to be quoted at
firm figures here, with reports from the
west indicating still higher prices paid
for cattle. Trade has been duh, how
ever, with choice cattle scarce and hard
to find.
The arrivals Of beef here, though still
small to stop in this market, are a little
larger than noted week ago, the total
for the week having included 140 cars for
Boston and 100 cars for export, a total of
300 cars; preceding week, 1871 cars for
Boston and So cars for export, a total Of
ZIG cars; same week year ago, 1874 cars
for Boston and lis cars for export, a total
of 272 cars.
The mutton market has been duh of
late, under full supply, and prices have
receded little: Lambs, 7@81ac; Brigh-
ton fancy, SQ9c; muttons, 51207c; Brigh-
ton and fancy muttons, 7G712c; yeals. Z
G010p. fancy T2Ti0b tnpc 10EI1O1yo
Poultry has been a little ffrmer of
late, with choice chickens and fowls, as
we'll as turkeys bringing good prices:
Turkeys, western, 11014c; northern, 120
Ice; chickens, northern. 12016c; west
ern, 10@12c; fowls northern fresh, 90
lac; western, 10@1lc; live fowls, S091hc;
chickens, SQ9c; ducks, 9012c; geese,
10013c
The game supply is pretty fair with
trade also fair. Prices are pretty steady,
with little coming forward. The Job
bers and dealers quote at: Whole deer.
SQ10c; saddles, 12@14c; grouse, 81. 2501.5O
per pair; quail. S1.50@2 per doz: canvas
back ducks, $3@3.5O per pair; mallard
ducks, $1.50q2 per pair; black ducks,
$125ep per pair; red heads, $1.25; rabbits
1202Oc per pair; jack rabbits, 4@6c per
pair; pigeons $1.25 per doz; wild tur-
keys, zoe per Id.
Apples are in only fair request, though
there is an undertone OF firmness in the
situation. At present it takes strictly
choice carload lots to bring the full!
quotations. though later the market may
be stronger, under a limited supply.
Baldwins and greetings. 50. 7563.25; Toll
man sweets, $2.25@3.25; spies, Kings and
SHOWS 1894; seconds, all varities, SITE
@250; jobbing and choice lots, $1@1.5O
more.
For the week the receipts of apples
were 6091 bbls; same week a year ago
s053 bbls. The total exports of apples
for the week were 6S31 bbls, all to Liver
pool; same week year ago, 475G bbls;
total since the season opened. 1856. $50
bbls; same time year ago, las, 5S6 bbls;
same time in 1896, TOPAZ bblg.
Pears, out Of cold storage are still
at wide range, though fewer are Offering
than a week ago They may be quoted
at $250@450 per bbl and at S2035O per
bu, in jobbing way.
Florida oranges are getting out of the
market, though the prices are about
steady at $3.50@4, for bright; russets.
S3@3.5O Jamaica oranges are plenty
and easier at $37504.75 per Dbl. Cal