Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-09-01
IN THE BOSTON MARKETS.
Quotations on the Leading Prod
ucts In Demand.


sellers are a very cheerful lot of men
just now, and from them nothing but the
most confident reports are heard. After
the recent heavy buying the trade have
had their temporary wants well sup
piled and are in no apparent hurry TO
lay in more butter. The consumption
continues steady and is likely to increase
with the beginning of September, 50 that
it may not be very long before buying
on a larger scale will have to be resumed.
To Offset the queter tone to the market
is the fact of continued small receipts,
and there is no current evidence to indi-
cate any increase in this respect in the
near future. Outside markets are steady
and firm in all instances. giving good
support to the strong, If not buoyant,
feeling in butter circles here.
The price position is about the same as
1t was last week. An outside quotation
for some of the fancy and popular lines
of creamery is % cents, and sales of such
during the week have been on that basis
For the general run of Vermont, New
Hampshire and northern New York
creamery Ply cents is readily paid for
such lots as buyers need, and the home
trade do not fight against the price. The
next best grades have been selling mod
erately at 20 to 2Oh cents per pound and
there is nothing on the market in the
way of really fresh creamery that can
be bought at less than 20 cents.
There has been a slight Improvement
in the trade in eggs within the past day
or two. Prices are not much changed
! from a week ago. The best lots of west
ern have been selling at around l6 cents.
! with occasionally 1615 cents obtained for
the finest Michigan and Illinois goods.
! Ordinary western have been In good sup
ply and selling at Is to l5l5 cents. East
ern fresh have been selling at is cents,
| principally for best. with fancy nearby
bringing 20 cents. The receipts from the
west have continued large and con-
siderable Of the stock has been heated.
A good deal of storage stock that went
in late has been taken out and disposed
of.
The excitement i'm the cheese market
continues undated. The latest from
country markets shows that there is no
halt in the upward tendency Of prices
there, and at leading centres in the
United Kingdom values have made
liberal advances almost every day OF
late. The situation here has strength
ened so that 1O1h cents is past quota
twins. Dealers are asking l0A cents
for such stock. and 1t looks as though
the market will be at II cents The
higher prices are naturally a check on
the demand. which has not been very
lively for over a week past. But there
has been something doing at old prices
on home account, and with more set
tied market it is believed that trade
will be good The advance has come
so quickly that buyers find it difficult
to follow it, while the very high cost
in the country makes receivers indif
ferent about entertaining any but tbs
highest bids.
Beans are firmer Reports from York
state bean sections continue to note a
firmer market, with injury to the croI
from dry weather. The government /:
/, still sending beans to Porto Rico. Here
r the market Is quoted at: Carload lots
pea, $1.375R61.40; medium, $L37l5Ql. 40
! small pea, $3.50; yellow eyes, Sl.45; rec
3 kidneys, $1.75qlSO; California small
e white, $1S0d1S5; Lima, sc per ID; job
bling. 1Oc more.
Wheat has continued in very good ex
port request, with the contention mad'
that If the export demand continues II
no better ratio than at present there
will be only a very moderate supply lef
for home use and for seed.
The flour market is little easier. with
prominent milling concerns down from
i sc to 10c per Dbl within a few days. a
!, the same time they are notifying thei
agents in the east that higher prices ar,
-. to be looked for. Here agents were re
ceiving advces ito go slow" and to ex
y pect further advance as soon as the mar
o ket on wheat comes to a more settled
W basis. Quotations are: Mill shipment
e spring wheat patents, $4,l0q4.35; trad
It committee spring wheat clears, $310G
1 $50; patents, $4.10Q475; winter wheat
l. clears, $3.4O9S.s5; straights, $4,000
'r patents, S3.s0Q4.35.
:" Cornmeal is steady, with very littl
n change. The demand is slack. Oatmea
and the cereals are little changed.
n Corn changed about, and was slight
as easier to arrive, and little firmer fo
* corn on the spot. Reports from til
le growing crop continue to be of a yer
I'd buoyont nature, with indications of
l. tremendous crop. Oats have continue
quiet with new oats Offering in sui
ficient volume to make the positio
no rather easy. The quality of these ne
a. oats is excellent, and the term new
4d as applied to oats, is to be dropped o
e, sooner this year than usual, by agree
~ ment of the chamber of commerce.
es The position of hay is little changes
ig with trade dull Straw is also quie
IS with the market rather easy. Millfee
II is very firm. with good trade and higl
e. er prices. Hay, $9Q16; fancy and jol
re bling, $16.5O@17.5O; rye straw, $1O@11.
" Pork provisions have continued in ia
ID demand with few changes In quotation
us Boston packers have shortened the
ny killing of hogs considerably, owing
n the high cost, while provisions are han
TO realize from in the shape of bett,
80 prices. The demand for pork pr
of visions for export has been shortenC
Id. somewhat by the higher prices, a r.
Sc suit of the larger cost of hogs.
le. Still greater firmness is the feature
the beef market, with still higher price
lin being paid for cattle by the packers
go go is also noted that the supply of good
81 choice cattle is also very small, with III
Ill, arrivals made up largely of poorer ar
~ grass beef. This beef sells hard, al
to- causes much dissatisfaction in the trad
he The best beef is very decidedly fir
,st The arrivals of beef in this market ha'
been heavier, and this has had a depres
ing effect upon the trade, the cattle a
irving being smaller and of poorer qua
- ity. 1t is suggested that though Il
o. number of cars has been greater, 1t
tou probable that the number of pounds