The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-04-04

There is an active consumptive demand at
the lower prices and the market keeps we'll
cleaned up. Choice Nd. duck eggs have
moderate sale at 26c.
BEANs.-Receipts are moderate, and
prices well sustained az a rule, but trade
quiet. Best domestic marrow pea and me-
diums are selling generally at 50 20. For
eign pea steady at So co to 210. Yellow
eyes and red kidneys moving slowly and
have to be fancy to bring full quotations.
PoTAToEs. Receipts have not been 30
very heavy for the past week, but trade has
been quiet and prices have eased off a lit
tie. AT the close best Aroostook Green
Mountains are slow at co to e3c and He.
hrons have to be fancy to bring over Csc.
Choice Aroostook Rose selling fairly at CSC.
York state and VT, stock in moderate sup
ply and light demand at quotation.
CHEEsE.-Receipts are moderate but de-
mand light, and the market barely steady.
Best north. fall twins are selling slowly and
in small lots at 12l to 13c, with fair to good
at IL to 12ac. Western twins dull at II to
125c. Ohio flats hard to sell at over 12c.
HAY AND STRAw.-There is firm tone to
choice hay, with sales making at SIT to
1880, some occasional fancy cars higher.
The demand is not very active for choice
hay, but fair sales are making. Lower
grades on the other hand are dull and weak
in price. The great falling off in shipments
OF cattle from this point, owing to the lack
of steamers to Europe, has taken away one
OF the best outlets for the lower grade hay,
and this is being felt by the trade. Rye
straw is quiet, but the market is steady at
S14 to IA 30 for choice.
CoRN.-The spot market is bare of sup
plies and while the demand is quiet prices
are ruling higher in the small way sales are
made. Steamer yellow is quoted on track
billed through at 4el to 47c with No. 2 yell
low at the same price. Lower grades
range down in price as to quality and color.
OATs.-The market is quiet but spot Of
ferings are small, and ices hold firm at
quotations. Fancy clipped white oats on
track Ibilled through are quoted at 21f to
4lc, with No. 2 clipped white at 32i to 81 &c,
and No. clipped white about &c less. Low
grades are dull and nominal in price.
WooL-The demand still halts. There
are buyers looking around but they do not
operate very freely Only one large tram
saction is reported in territory wool and the
rest of the weeks business is made up of
small lots Sampling is still &C tive and
undoubtedly some big sales would be made
could all sellers get down to the ideas Of
! buyers. There is great amount of wool
now here that is practically held off the
market for better times. This is particu-
larly true of choice lines, which cannot be
| replaced at the prices forced sales would
| have to be made on today's market
LUMBER.-The wholesale houses declare
that conditions this week warrant another
very cheerful report of the market for
spruce. For frames orders are coming in
so plentifully that the car mills have about
all they can do to keep up with the de-
! mands made upon them, and present indi-
cations are for continuance of this state of
things until shipping by water becomes
practicable. For hemlock the request is
very fair and its scarcity and consequent
| frmness are as remarkable as heretofore.
Amongst the retail yards there are some
who complain of this as a dull March. The
discrepancy between their reports and
those OF the wholesalers can only be ac-
| cour ted for on the supposition that business
is not quite so evenly distributed as usual.