Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-02-19
in HUB MARK LET'S.
Quota tons on the Leading
Products In Demand.


and in most places there is not enough
for the demand. Butter makers do not
see any chance for much of an increase
for some time to come, and if there was
anything like an active demand for but
ter in this market a real shortage would
be experienced. But it seems as II con-
sumers are getting along with smaller
allowances every week, and While this
continues there is no use of talking of
a scarcity.
Receivers are not disposed to talk of
over &c cents for the finest lots Of Yer
mont and New Hampshire fresh cream
cry The best western creamery is hard
to place at over 25 cents for assorted
size tubs, and % cents for large ash.
Cold storage butter, June and fall
creamery, has ruled steady for a week
past with only a moderate demand.
Holders who have fancy stocks are not
offering. except in a jobbing way, and
the bulk of the market is common to
good, which moves slowly al % to %
cents. The best quality ranges from
"a to % cents. OF course the dropping
tendency of fresh butter will have its
effect on old stock.
Jobbers have a light trade at 81 to %
cents, and with the small supply Of
fancy lots it looks as if this rate might
be maintained, but this will depend upon
the future; developments in wholesale
values.
The cheese situation is steadily i'm
proving from a statistical standpoint.
Stocks are being reduced and common
and medium grades have almost wholly
disappeared. The Liverpool quotation
was advanced Cd, white being cabled at
SIS. Cd. and colored SOS. Cd, and English
advices indicate an increasing demand.
Prices here are firm and unchanged,
with sales of fine September twins at 13
cents and other good fall makes at II to
12A cents Some sellers are getting a
fraction or two more for fine September,
and there is confident feeling that they
will soon command a general advance.
There is a very unsettled egg market.
Fresh eastern at Is to IL cents, and fancy
new laid at 20 cents. The nearby supply
is steadily increasing. Storage eggs
quiet at 10 to IL cents.
Cornmeal is firmer, on the strong posi-
ton of corn Oatmeal and the cereals
are quiet and unchanged.
Corn has remained steady and pretty
firm for some time, with the receipts at
primary points rather small, and a good
been ruling quiet. but with the market
firmer-
Oats are pretty firm in the west, with
the supply limited here. and the market
firmer in consequence.
Hay is we'll sustained with choice hay
scarce. Straw is steady, with mod
crate demand. Mill feed is in fair de-
mand, with prices a little easier. Hay,
S14@17.5o; fancy and jobbing, s17@1S;
rye straw, S14-5O@15.
Great firmness in pork and lard is
the feature of the market. Hogs are
scarce and higher. Prices have been
advanced with the higher rates fully
sustained.
The beef market is firmer, with better
prices being obtained. While the
receipts for the week have been some
what larger, it is explained in the trade
that the market is better sold up than
for some time. trade having been much
better. Quotations are firm.
The market on lambs is easier with
rnuttons steady. Veals are we'll sus-
tanned. Lambs, 712@91ac; Brightons
and eastern, S@19c; yearlings, 514@7Ac;
muttons, 51a971zc; fancy and Brightons,
66Sc; vea1s, S@101ac; fancy Brightons,
101s611c.
OF poultry the supply is ample, al
though the demand is fairly good.
Prices are fairly steady. Northern tur-
keys. 12@15c; western, 10@13c: north.
ern chickens, 14@161sc; fowls, 1O@12c;
western dickens, 1917 @121ac; fowls, 100
11kc; capons, 13@14c; green ducks 100
12c; green geese, 961ec; live fowls, 100
lie; chickens. 9Q10c-
Only a very small supply of game is
at hand. with venison so scarce as to
he almost out of the market, except
what there is in cold storage in the
hands of the trade. Partridges are also
in very small supply.
Beans are firm in the country, and
steady here few are arriving from
abroad but they are all sold before they
get here Still the fact that the mar
ket is up to the importing point will be
against any further rise.
Apples are selling we'll at firmer
prices A few carloads of fancy Bald
wins and greetings are being put out at
rather better than quotations.
Potatoes are firmer with firmer out
look. Maine potatoes are evidently find
ing a new field. From the west side,
New York, 80 cars, or Il, 900 bus, of Maine
potatoes were exported last week; sold
to the British government to feed the
soldiers in South Africa The ship
ment is largely experimental, and if
thew reach the other side in good shape
other orders are expected to follow, as
England's potato crop, last year, was
largely a failure.
Here the market is firm: Aroostook
Green mountaSns, 6S@7Oc; hebrons, Csc;
Dakota reds, 5S@60c; northern and Yer
mont Green mountains, 63c; New York,
63c; whites, 56@5Sc.
Onions are rather easy for native and
quoted at s1.50 per Dbl. Cubans are
quoted at 80 15@2.2 5 per CRIT.
Cucumbers continue scarce and firm at
s15M1S per 100 for native dollhouse with