Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-01-11
IN HUB MARK ETS.
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand.

maintains a full degree of strength on
all grades. and prices are higher than a
week ago. but there is no increased
activity. Buyers are slow TO respond
to the extreme prices asked on the fine
lots arriving. and are looking around
for something little cheaper, but there
B. ms to be no surplus of any kind, and
concessions are almost out OF the uues-
ton. 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 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 n curtailment of 80 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
enough 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 deficiency
to be accounted for.
Held butter, including June and fall
make has been in demand. and buyers
have taken all offered at q to 2S cents
Occasional lots have been reported al
% cents, but fp'- dealers are willing to
pay over IS ccl 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
success. Very little butter can be found
under rs 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 well up a range
of from IL to 121a 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 a further adj
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 % to 81 cents, but only fancy
lots bring over % cents. New laid lots
continue to increase. Storage eggs sell
nflp tn1 q 70 A
casional fine lots al is cents. and while
the cold weather lasts dealers will he in
clined to use up a good many Of this
kind, but receivers do not give much
announcement TO country shippers to
send many here.
Buyers of -four are Indifferent. They
are taking only small present wants,
and claim to be expecting to buy at lower
figures.
Cornmeal 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 we'll sustained, es-
pecially on choice. which is in small
supply. Rye straw is in quiet demand,
with the market steady Mlllfeed con-
tinues quiet.
Pork ribs are easier, with lard very
firm. Boston packers are still ma king
light kills of hogs. Pork packing in the
west has again been reduced, doubtless
owing to the holiday season.
Beef is firmer. and trade has been
rather better, though still far from sa it's
factory. The market in the west is firm.
with shippers claiming that the beef
shipped to Boston is paying them 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
tons are rather easy: Lambs, 6hQS1bc :
Brightons and eastern, 7Q9c; yearlings,
4h4612c; muttons. 5Q6lac fancy and
Brightons, sale; 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
iiioi ''Se' -~oI lHeIN turkeys, $50 lbc +,
western, l0@12c; northern chickens. 14a
lie; fowls, 10Q12c; western chickens. 90
12Rc; fowls, 8@l0c; green ducks. 1O@ l2c:
green geese, 10Ql2c; live fowls, s@lOc;
chickens. 9ladl0hc
The feature in the game market is a
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 ra Their 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 $3Q45O for best
| varieties.
Florida oranges are coming forward
in pretty good volume. with the report
that the quality is nice.
| Potatoes have shown more frmness
OF late, with rather better prices quot
ed: Aroostook hebrons, 60a63c; Green
mountains, 63q65c; northern white, $50
soc; Green mountains, 6OQ63c; Jersey
| double head sweet 81.