Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-17


quality and condition.
The supply of potatoes is rather full,
but the quality is better than noted a
week ago. Still, the market is little
easier. Best southern, s3@3.25 per bar
raj; fair to good, $2@2.75. Sweet po-
tatoes are out of the market for the
present.
Egyptian onions are in full supply, but
the market is pretty we'll sustained at
S2@2.25 per bag for good stock.
Celery is in rather limited supply, and
sells at 60c per doz bchs. Lettuce is in
full supply, and jobbing at 4Oc per doz
heads. Beet greens are quoted at 40c
per blu. Spinach sells at Coo.
Asparagus is rapidly coming toward
the end of the season, and sells slowly
at 81 per doz. Mint is quoted at 40c per
doz; cress, 40c; parsley, $1.25 per bx.
String beans are not very plenty, and
sell at better prices for good. Wax are
quoted at s1@1.50 per bx, and green at
$1@2, as to quality. Green peas are not
very plenty, with choice natives selling
at S2@2.5O per bu.
Tomatoes are very plenty, indeed, and
sell at low prices. Georgia, 6-bskt car
riers, sell at 75c@s1; Mississippi, 4-bskt
trays, $4,000. Watermelons are plenty,
and the quality is getting better. They
are selling at 15@25c, as to quality. For
the week the receipts of watermelonS
were 64,693; same week year ago, rs, 621.
Cantaloupes are plenty and at wide
range; say, from 81 to 81 per crit or Dbl,
wholly as to quality and condition.
Choice Rockyforts, in small crts, sell at
$2@2.50.
Caulifower sells at s1@1.5O per bx.
Cabbages are more plenty, with Dightons
all -.
$1@1.5O per CRIT or Dbl.
Cucumbers are very abundant and are
selling at 75c@s1.5O per 100; as to quality.
Turnips are jobbing at $1.5O@2 per Dbl
for yellow, with bunch turnips at &c.
Beets are jobbing at 60c per blu, with
bunch beets at &c. Carrots are sold at
80c@$1 per bx.
The fish trade has been light and the
situation is without much change. Mack
erel continue in light receipt from the
fleet, and the advance has been main
tanned, with a further upward tendency.
The Cape Shore catch has practically
proved a failure and the vessels have
nearly all returned to waters on the
American coast.
There has been quiet market for cod
fish, with no change in prices. Offerings
have been light from first hands, and no
orders of any consequence have been re-
ceived by dealers. The only transactions
to note have been in homeless, which is
steady at previous rates.
There. has been a fair trade in fresh
fish and prices have varied somewhat.
The market fleet landed 965,25O pounds
Of ground fish, mostly cod and haddock,
and these kept dealers pretty well sup
piled. Steak cod ruled lower. Halibut
al a a
Bluefish scarce and higher. Eastern
salmon advanced, but declined again.
Large mackerel have become very scarce
and high. Swordfish have been on the
market for the first time this season.
HOLSTERS have been arriving more
freely from Nova Scotia, but no more Of
any consequence are expected during the
summer. Sales by the crate have been
at SIS to SIG, and from dealers at Is to IL
cents per pound, including boiled and
raw. CLANS in steady demand for the
beach trade. Nothing of consequence
doing in oysters.
The cherry growing business has been
by the horticulturist of the
Vermont experiment station, who finds
that all those varieties known in pomol-
ogy as Dukes and Morellos can be sue
cessfully grown anywhere in the state.
Inc sweet cherries (EeafCS ana Blggdr-
eauX) are not hardy enough for this
climate.
The experiment station has also tested
q large number Of the varieties recently
imported from Russia and other parts
Of northern Europe. These all belong
to the Morello, or t'pie cherry class, and
are perfectly hardy. Some Of them are
valuable and will secure a
permanent place in American horticul-
ture.
The varieties specially mentioned by
the experiment station as suitable for
planting in Vermont are Early Rich
mond, Morello, Montmorency, Brusseler
Braun and Bessarabian. The two last
are among the new Russian varieties re-
ferred to above. All are perfectly hardy
in the coolest sections of Vermont. They
belong mostly to the Morello class, which
furnishes the best fruit for canning,
cooking and pie making. Ali are pro-
life bearers and but little subject to the
attacks of insects or fungi. All of them
have been successfully and profitably
grown in orchards in northern New Eng
land and can be depended on from every
point of view.