Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-01-15
in HUB MARKETS.
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand.

I'll grades, and prices are higher than q,
ryeek ago, but there is no increased
NJ activity. Buyers are slow to respond
10 the extreme prices asked on the fine
lots arriving, and are looking around
Tor something a little cheaper, but there
De. ms to be no surplus of any kind, and
concessions are almost out of the ques-
lion. The stock of low and medium
grades has not been SO small for several
years, and all the odds and ends are
cleaning up at prices that were not
Thought of a few months ago.
The general impression is that con-
sumption is steadily falling off, and some
Dealers claim that if the present high
prices are kept up much longer there will
be a curtailment of so percent. This
may be an extreme view of the situation,
but from the way that most people in the
trade report their sales, there must be
a big cutting off somewhere. Receipts
are not running much more than half
en- SIgh to meet the amount figured out
for the average weekly consumption in
Ordinary times, and even after making
allowance for the quantity used from
cold storage, there is quite a deficiency
to be accounted for.
JULIET, June ana IdIl
make, has been in demand. and buyers
have taken all offered at 81 to % cents.
Occasional lots have been reported at
% cents, but few dealers are willing to
pay over % cents for held stock New
York buyers have been here looking for
some cheap stock, but could not find it.
Others went from here to New York on
the same errand, with the same want Of
under 25 cents.
There is just enough increased in
quiry for cheese to show that buyers
are thinking of taking hold more freely,
but it has not developed into any active
demand, and prices are without change.
The top price for choice York state
twins is Is cents, in wholesale lots, and
when the quality is not we'll up a range
OF from II to 1212 cents has to be ac-
cepted.. Holders talk confidently Of
higher rates in the near future, and the
slight advance on the Liverpool quota
ton is an indication that further ad-
vance may be expected in England, but
until the English market does take a
start it will be hard to get prices up here.
The improvement noticed in the egg
market last week as been partially lost
this week, and prices have eased off a
little. 1t is hard to get over "a cents for
the very best western. Eastern fresh
sell fairly at rs to II cents, but only fancy
lots bring over 25 cents. New laid lots
continue to increase. Storage eggs sell
moderately at IL to II cents, with oc-
caSional fine lots at Is cents, and while
the cold weather lasts dealers will be in
clined to use up a good many of this
kind, but receivers do not give much
encouragement to country shippers to
send many here.
Buyers of flour are Indifferent They
are taking only small present wants,
and claim to be expecting to buy at lower
figures.
Cornmea1 is steady, with oatmeal and
the cereals unchanged. Corn is in quiet
request, with the market rather easy,
though Quotably little changed. Oats
are in quiet request, with the market
fairly sustained.
The hay market is well sustained, es-
pecially on choice, which is in small
supply. Rye straw is in quiet demand,
with the market steady. Millfeed con-
tinues quiet.
Pork ribs are easier, with lard very
firm. Boston packers are still making
light kills of hogs. Pork packing in the
west has again been reduced, doubtless
owing to the holiday season.
Beef is frmer, and trade has been
rather better, though still far from salts
factory. The market in the west is firm,
with shippers claiming that the beef
shipped to Boston is paying them a loss
The quotations are pretty firm. For the
week the receipts of beef have been
pretty heavy, and yet the quantity to be
sold on the Boston market has not been
so much increased as the quantity for
export.
On muttons and lambs the situation
is easy, with the supply ample. Quota
lions are rather easy: Lambs, 61a@81kc;
Brightons and eastern, 1890; yearlings.
414@61sc; muttons, 5@612c; fancy and
Brightons, Sole; veals, S@1Oc; fancy
Brightons, 10@11c.
Poultry is in quiet request, with the
market fully supplied. The turn to
milder weather is rather against the
market: Northern turkeys, 13@15c:
western, 10@12c; northern chickens. 14@
lie; fowls, 1O@12c; western chickens, go
1214c; fowls, S@1Oc; green ducks, 1O@12c:
green geese, 10@12c; live fowls, 9@1Oc:
chickens, 91a@1O1ac.
The feature in the game market is q
scarcity of venison, with very little com
ing in. Almost none at all is getting out
from Maine, while the west is also pre-
venting its shipment. Quail are easier.
with partridge and grouse rather scarce.
Beans are firmer and higher, with re-
ports from the bean growing country in
York state all much firmer.
Apples are in better request, with the
market in a firmer position. Both Bald
wins and greetings are bringing rather
better prices. The receipts of apples
have fallen off somewhat, doubtless a
result of the cold weather
Pears, out of cold storage, are still on
the market. but in limited quantities.
They are quoted at S3@45O for best