The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-13
KENTUCKY AND INDIANA,
PULLED AND SECURE
Current Comment.


OAIs.-The market shows q steady tone,
and fair sales are making at about the same
basis OF prices. Most OF the present ariiv-
ais are new oats AT the close fancy clip
ped white range up to Bic on track, with
No. clipped white Al 29c.
BEANs.-Receipts continue moderate but
trade is quiet, and although q good many
lots OF marrow pea are held at 81 40 it is
difficult making sales except In q jobbing
way at over s1.35 Yellow eyes and red
kidneys are steady but in light demand.
CoRS.-The market continues quiet but
the tone is hrmer as the week advances
and prices close higher; For No. 2 yellow
ON track billed through to outside points,
the close as about 424 to 42Ac, with Gamer
yellow at AZ to 424c, and lower grades rang
ing down as to quality aud color.
HAY AND STRAw.-The demand for hay
continues moderate but receipts are small.
er, and this is helping the market some
what The best hay is steady with most
sales at about S15 to 16, while for lower
grades the range is down as to quality
There Is yet considerable old hay Of lower
grades on hand that helps to depress the
market on that grade. Rye straw is quiet
but the market holds steady with sales rul-
ing at SO to 10. Dat straw dull.
BUTTER.-Receipts continue fairly liberal
but fine fresh goods keep we'll sold up, and
there Is no great accumulation OF any grade
OF fresh made butter. Fine fresh creamery
cleaned up we'll at II to 2lAc last week and
the market opened Tuesday, after the hoi-
day Monday, with more active de nand,
and firmer tendency in prices. At the
close there is a moderate supply of northern
fresh creamery and best marks are in de-
mand and firm at 22c, with some holding q
fraction higher. Extra west creamery is
firm at quotations with some fancy held at
22c.
CHERSE.-Rpppipta for q 1O2 hoyEa
The arrivals for local account are light and
supplies on he market are very moderate
but the advance in prices has cut off all
demand except for immediate wants, and
sales are in small lots only. Strictly extra
northern twins are very firm at III TO 11bc,
and there is very little stock to be had
under lie. Fair to good grades at 10 to lie
closely sold up. Western twins in light
supply and generally held at 1llc. Ohio
| flats tirm at 10 to 10ac.
! EGGs.-Receipts continue liberal for this
season OF the year but have fallen off con-
siderably from last week Quality and
condition is still irregular, a large propor-
| ton OF the arrivals being more or less
heated. There has been a very good de-
mand for strictly choice fresh stock with
| prices gradually working upward. AT tue
close fancy Michigan, etc, are firm at tic,
with other selected western steady at 16 to
! l63c, and ordinary marks ranging down TO
15c. Fancy nearby and strictly extra
eastern in moderate supply and held for full
prices.
DRESSED PoULTRY.-Rt ceipts have fallen
off considerably this week, and since FRI
day supplies have run little short. West
ern fowls sold Friday at 104 to lie. Mon
day was a holiday. Tuesdays sales were
mostly at 111c. Since then the market has
been steady at III to 12c. Chickens have
been selling more freely but with little
change in prices. Old turkeys selling in
small lots at IL to 12c. Northern and east
ern receipts are in small lots and meet with
fair sale at quotations.
FLOUR.-The market shows an absence OF
| life, the volume of business sing very
small, with only car or so being taken
| here and there as buyers are forced to have
supplies. The tone is rather weaker as a
whole, with the range on spring patents
about 10c lower than week ago, as shown
| by recent sales. Spring patents are mostly
| being sold as business averages, at SO 30
| to S400 for choice brands, some special
brands higher, but little can be sold above
even money. Winter patents are dull at
1915 to 80 with some held higher, while
about So % to 3 60 will cover most sales of
clear and straight winters. Stock Of -four
in Boston September / was 100, 555 barrels,
Unloading 80, 404 barrels in warehouse and
store, SO $40 barrels in depots and on track
and 4,181 barrels for export on through
bills Stock August 1 was 100005 barrels
and September l, 1898, the stock was 49,
fSJ UdIIclS
LUMBER.-The mills are all loaded with
orders. Some have already sold their cut
to The end Of the season. and OF those who
have OF done so quite few are simply
waiting because they believe they will be
able to reap richer harvest by waiting a
little. The most interesting news item from
Maine this week ia, however, that the long
talked-of lumber syndicate in the Machias
| Valley is now practically accomplished, the
first contracts OF sale having been signed.
The new company will be known as the
Machas Lumber Company and will have
| for its president Wellman Hall, the Boston
lumber merchant and former reform may
or of Cambridge. John Irwin OF Duxbury,
Mass, will be its treasurer. The mills in
the deal are the Holway & Ames and three
fifths of Holway, Sullivan q Co.'S mill.
| Several large tracts OF timber land are in
cluded as we'll as the Machias boom prop
| erty.
WooL.-The market is very firm and has
been active in spots. The American Wooden
| Company and one or two other large con-
sumers have bought freely in large blocks,
and these transactions have swelled the ag-
| gregate sales TO large figures. Aside from
these operations, in which only few
houses have participated, the market has
been quiet. There has been steady de-
mand, however, from the smaller buyers,
and there are no dealers that have not had
| something to report. The situation is
healthy and il anything growing stronger.
The fact that some OF the shrewdest buyers
are prepared to operate in such large way
as has been the case the past week is proof
that they at least are believers in current
prices; that is, that the market is about az
low now as 1t is likely to be in the near fu-
ture From the sellers standpoint the sit
uation is also entirely satisfactory They
find no difficulty in placing supplies al q
good profit, and while considerable of the
stock here cannot be sold at present at
profitable figures, such supplies are conf
| Iontlu Hold In tha haliaf that tho market