Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-02-11


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Cornmeal is rather easy. on the DO
sition of corn. though quotations are
unchanged. Oatmeal and cereals are
quiet and rather easy.
Corn Is easier. with trade quiet. The
speculative markets are fractionally
easier possibly more In sympathy with
wheat and corn than from facts con-
corning the oat market alone.
Hay remains quiet, with only the best
nay hrm In prices. Straw is dull,
though steady, Millfeed is easier. HAY,
ssQl4; fancy jobbing lots. sl5Q1S; rye
straw, $s@16; oat straw, s6@S.
The pork market Is fairly steady. with
the tendency pretty firm. Boston pack
ers have made a slight decrease in the
number of hogs packed for the week the
total being about $4,000; preceding week,
$4,000; same week a year. ago, AZ, 900.
There Is a very good movement of Bos-
ton-packed pork provisions and lard into
export, the total value for the week hay-
ing been about 1907 900; preceding week.
$3.50, 900; same week a year ago, S16b, 900.
Pork packing in the west has been kept
up to exactly the same figures as previ-
ously noted, according to the figures of
the Cincinnati Price Current, the total
packing for the week having been 535. 900
hogs; preceding week, $50, 900; same week
a year ago, 475,000 The total packing
for the winter season to date has been
1906, 900; same time year ago, 6,555. 900:
increase 1,350,000
A quiet home trade in beef is noted.
with the markets of the west firm.
Shippers continue to complain Of the
scarcity and high prices Of cattle and
to urge upon sellers here the need of bet
ter prices. But better prices are hard to
obtain, SO long as full supply is shipped
to this market. The shipments of beef
to this market seem to have been short
ened somewhat. According to recent
government figures, the number of cattl
in the country was short on oxen an,
steers over 1,250, 900 on Jan. of the mum
Der year ago, and nearly 10, 900 900 shor
of 1892. For the year there has been
slight increase in the number of heifer
and cows.
The mutton and lamb market is rattle
better, with the supply in better shape
| Prices are also rather better: Lambs
6@Sc; Brighton fancy, 7@shc; muttons
6@7c; Brighton and fancy muttons, "a
&c; veals, 7Q10c; fancy Brightons, loo
| 101ac.
| Turkeys are fairly steady, with chick
ems steady and fowls better sustained
| Turkeys, western, 1Q@13c; northern, 12d
lie; chickens, northern 12@16c; western
| 10@12c; fowls, northern fresh, 9@15c
western, 10@12c; live fowls, 8@9hc
chickens, 5000; ducks, 9@12c; geese, 100
i3c.
| Not much game is coming forward
and the supply is mainly in the dealer
hands.
Cold weather has been against goo
| movement in apples, but the position
pretty strong, with the idea that tn
supply is pretty we'll in hand. Quota
! tations are very well sustained: Bald
wins and greetings, $275@325; Tolma
sweets, $2.50@3.25; spies, Kings an
SHOWS, 1904; seconds, all varieties, ST.
Q2.50; jobbing and choice lots, $1@1.E
more.
Even cold storage pears are getting
be in short supply, and high prices ar
the result, with the jobbers chargin
| $2.50@3.50 per bushel.
Potatoes are quiet in demand, Will
the weather has generally been agains
any movement. Prices rule fairl
steady, with sweet potatoes little firm
| err. Aroostook and eastern hebrons
63@65c per bu; Green mountains 72G
75c; northern, 43@55c; Jersey sweets, 5
| per Dbl.
Onions are about steady. Small bar
| rels have sold at $1.75@2,- with large bar
| rels at $2@2.25, and with $3.50 for job
| bling.
Cabbages are firmer at $1@1.25 per Dbl
| red cabbage, $1.75 per Dbl; per bx, SOC
| 90c.
Squashes are still plenty, with price
| low, though fewer are coming forward
They are jobbing at 75c@$1 per 100 lbs.
Celery is firmer at $4Q6 per bx. Cauli
| flower is quoted at $1.5O per bx. Spinacl
| is very high and quoted at 1908 per Dbl
by the jobbers. Kale is jobbing at SIT
| per Dbl.
Radishes are little easier at soc pc
| dozen punches for round, and at Soc TO
| long. Lettuce is in rather small suppl,
at 100000 per dozen.
Cucumbers are still more firm, and ar
| jobbing at $14@16 per 100 for native hot
house.
Turnips sell at 75c@s1 per Dbl, for vel
| low, and job at SOC per blu. Frencl
white are sold at $1.75 per Dbl, or a
Toe per blu.
Parsnips are firm at zoe per bu, or 5
per Dbl; beets, 60@75c per blu; carrots
75c per bu.!
,Watercress is quoted at $3.50 per blu
parsley, So per bu; minis, 75c per doz
egg plants, 81. so per crate
String beans are short, and job at s.
@350 per crate. Tomatoes sell at $25'
per crate, with fancy higher.
Dandelion green's sell at $50 per bu
beet greens, $1.25 per blu. Native hot.
house rhubarb jobs at 10c per Id.
Dwight W. Ellis Of Monsoon, Mass, 4
well-known wooden manufacturer, is
dead. Hewas born in 1924.
A man, who is supposed to be John B.
Mcdonald, was run over and killed by
a train near Shirley, Ne.
The Hallowell News, formerly owned
and published by c. A. Prescott, has been
sold to S. B. Thayer, q well-known news
paper man.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. s.
The Pollard Manufacturing company,
manufacturers of ladies' wear, has
moved into a new building at Chester,
VT. The company is to increase its
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