Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-23
IN HUB MARKETS.
Butter Higher--Cheese Firm.
Eggs Selling Well.
Better Outlook In Flour and Grain
Trades-Potk aud Lard Firmer-Beef
Duli-Improvement In Muttons and
Iambs-Poultry Steady,

Iambs-Poultry steady,
Boston. March 22.-Thc butter market
| has gained additional strength, and fine
/ grades are bringing y to cent more
than last week. This is owing to the
comparatively light receipts and the
fact that all the desirable old stock has
been used up. Buyers are forced to
work on new supplies and the result is
that current receipts are barely enough
/ for the demand. All the under grades
/ have been sought after, and there arc
now very few accommodations of any
kind. This put the market i'm a very
clean ana healthy condition. and the in
dications are that all arrivals for the
present week will meet with a ready
sale.
/ But country shippers must understand
! that present prices may not bc long
maintained. The make is gradually in
creasiug. ana there must he a larger
supply Last year the upward turn
came the last week in March, and in tn ,
first week in April the price was up To
30 cents, but it dropped tho second week
to 90 cents, and steadily declined during
/ April and May, till 16 cents was touched.
10th buyers and sellers admit that
! prices are y to | cent higher than Il week
I ago, and that there is no more than
enough butter to go round at that. Fine
Vermont and New Hampshire lots bring
% cents. Firsts are selling at 20 to
81 cents. The finest i'm boxes sells at
/ 22ia cents, and some lots are held at %
! cents.
The cheese market continues firm.
with "A moderate demand from the trade.
Sales of best northern twin are at 12ia to
1914 cents, and some holders are indf-
fercnt about selling undcr l3 cents.
Large sizes are firm at IL to 12il cents.
Nearly all of the low priced stock has
| been disposed of. Stocks of all kinds
! are being steadily reduced. The Eng
lish markets are reported strong with
most of the cheap goods used up. The
! Liverpool cable has been advanced to
! 80 shillings.
There is a good demand for eggs. with
| fresh western at 1884 to II cents. East
ern sell ut the same price as western,
as the quality is about the same, but a
| few fancy marks go a little higher. The
| prevailing opinion is that the price of
| eggs will not go as low as last year.
Beans are firm, with even higher prices
quoted in the country, though this mar
ket is unchanged: Carload lots, pea,
N:25&1.37ia medium. $1.37ta@1.40; yellow
eyes, Sl.55Gl so; red kidneys. $1.S56t1 80:
California small white S1.90M2; Lima, sc
per ID; iobbng. Zoe more.
Receipts of maple sugar are increas-
| ing, and the high prices obtained for the
( first lots cannot be realized for more.
! RnHpiNare TO 4 4
| Syrup is also coming more freely. and 80
| to 80 cents per gallon is now a full rate
In the flour and grain trades the mar
| 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 -four to their agents
! here, but later they are taking much
| greater interest. 1t is understood that
the Minneapolis millers have taken a
great deal of wheat within a 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 a 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 at
above s4,15 for the best known spring
wheat patents, mill shipment prices.
! Considerable flour was also sold at $40
while some Of the cheaper spring wheat
patents are quoted as low as 1918 Nil,
shipment prices are also a little lower.
The meal and cereal markets are lit
/ tie changed, though rather easy, on the
easier grain markets. The position of
corn is little better than a few DAYS ago
though still considerab bly, easier than a
week ago. Their is no particularly firm
point in, he situation, beyond the fact
that 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
cuiet and rather easy: Hay, SSM14:
fancy jobbing lots Sl5m17: rye straw. 50
$3.50
Pork and lard are firmer, with fresh
ribs tirmer and advanced i5c. 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 IS 900; preceding week
$4,000; same week a year ago, Fl 500.
There is fair movement going on. the
total Vaule of these exports for the week
having been about SPAS 900; preceding
week, $235,O00; same week a year ago,
$3.50 900. In the west the volume of
pork packing has been somewhat re-
ducod.
The beef market has been rather dull.
though there was a 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 ii can only be temporary. Lambs
Slam9c Brighton fancy, Sla@9ihc; NUT
tons, 6071ac; Brighton and fancy NUT
tons, 7dSEc; veals, "a Toe; fancy Brigh-
tons. 10ffllc.
Poultry is steady, with live poultry
Arm. Choice fresh chickens are very
| tirm Turkeys, western. 10013c; north
| ern, 12Gl6c; chickens, northern, l4G2Oc
western, 10T14c; fowls. northern fresh
50lGc; western 1O@1oc; ducks, 9@l2c;
| geese. 10M13C; live fowls, 10Ml2c
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 a pretty