Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-09
IN HUB MARKETS.
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand.

been brought about by the slow trade
and increased supplies from northern
sources, and the market is still un-
settled and in buyers favor.
The indications are that the market
will rule easy until the demand is large
enough to absorb all the make as fast
as it comes along, and in order to in
crease the demand it will be necessary
to put prices down where consumers can
afford to use genuine butter in place Of
cheap substitutes.
Jobbers have been forced to follow the
course of the wholesale market as near
as they could, and have met the wants
of their customers on the basis of "a to
% cents for the best quality in tubs and
boxes. This rate may be shaded later
but really fine lots are not plentiful and
most of the butter that is being offered
at the decline is not first-class.
No increased animation can be re-
ported in the cheese market With a
fair demand from the trade, prices are
steady, and sales of fine fall run along
at Is to 1872 cents, and good to choice at
IL to 1212 cents. Holders are disposed to
meet buyers on this basis, and there is
less talk of an advance than a few weeks
ago.
The active season for storage eggs has
begun, and buyers have been operating
freely on the basis Of II to 1919 cents for
choice western, the outside for best
marks of Indiana and Ohio. Eastern
fresh have been selling for 1215 to 13
cents. Except for some fancy lots, east
ern eggs do not bring any more than
western. Two carloads were put into
cold storage last week, and from this
time forward the stock will probably in
crease.
A few small lots Of New Hampshire
maple sugar of this seasons make have
been received and sold at fancy price.
One or two small lots of new strip also
received and sold at 81 per gallon. Old
sugar and sirup dull and nominal
The flour market has been ruling firm
er for several days, under the firmer
position of wheat
Cornmeal is in a very firm position,
under the advance in corn. Oatmeal
and the cereals are quiet and unchanged.
The corn situation is strong one
Corn is up over SO percent above what
1t was six months ago, and the end Of
the advance does not seem to have ap-
peared. Generally the position is re-
garded as very firm, with an increasing
export demand. Locally the market is
unsettled, with prices generally higher,
but difficult to accurately quote.
Oats are firm, with prices somewhat
higher. Track oats are scarce and high
er prices are the result
Hay is firm, with prices we'll sus-
tanned Straw is firm, with quiet de-
mand. Millfeed is pretty firm.
The pork market continues excited
ana IS very firm. All hams are higher,
with lean ends and bean pork advanced.
Boston haI Iii
hogs, but not nearly as many as would
have been handled but for the high
prices.
Beef has sold better, with best steers
scarce and firm. But low grades are
plenty and easy.
Muttons and lambs are selling rather
better, with veals easy. Spring lambs
are getting more plenty with easier
prices: Springers, 4@9c; fall lambs. 80
101Ac; Brightons and eastern, 9011c:
yearlings, 6@Sc; muttons, 61a@8c; fancy
and Brightons, 7@S1Ac; veals, S@9c;
fancy Brightons, 712@10c
Poultry continues in quiet reorest
with a pretty full supply of frozen. and
with fresh in more limited supply Alive
is also rather scarce, and the demand is
likely to be better: Frozen turkeys. 1O@
12c; fresh, 11@14c; northern chickens.
13Q14c; fowls, 1O@12c; western chickens.
1Oc; fowls, 1O@11c; capons, 12014c:
green ducks, 10@12c; green geese, 90
1Oc; live fowls, 11@12c; chickens. 11@
1212c.
Game is in limited supply, with the
season drawing to a close.
Beans are we'll sustained: Carload
lots, pea and medium, 81. 25; small pea.
$3.50; yellow eyes, s.. 3O@23 So; red kid
neys, $4,000. 35; California small white.
$40; jobbing, 10c more; Lima, 6@61hc
per Id.
Apples are 1rmer. The market has
recovered from the effect of the wet and
sailed apples from the steamer Cali
fornia, and now there begins to be a
sharp demand for No. 2, with No. l in
better demand.
Cranberries continue scarce and very
high for good. They are quoted at s1O
OLA per Dbl for good, with crts at So so
@3.5O.
Florida Strawberries are coming along
in fair volume for the season. For the
week the receipts were 191 refrigerators
and 1SS crts. They sold at 3O@35c per
bx, in refrigerator or crate lots.
Potatoes have continued quiet and
rather easy, under full arrivals: Aroos-
took Green mountains, 63@65c; hebrons.
Coo; rose, zoe; Dakota reds, SOC; north
ern and Vermont Green mountains. she:
New York, SIC; whites, SOC; JERSEY
sweets, S2.5O@3.
Onions are much firmer, with good to
choice selling at 81 per Dbl. The job
bers quote at that price, and at 6O@7Oc
per blu. Cuban onions are quoted at 50
per crt.
Celery is practically out of market for
native, and brings as high as Sc per doz.
Large bchs of new southern, New York
style, are quoted at S1@15O per bunch.
Spinach continues at rather wide range
selling at $1@1.50 per Dbl, with fancy
higher Beet green's are higher at 70