The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-04-18
COW at II to 12C,

COW at II to 12c.
s.-Receipts of white beans have
continue d light for the past week and he
market has improved a little. There has
been moderate demand for choice marrow
pea AZ 1920, and towards the close come
small sales at So %. Best foreign pea
steady at So 90 Yellow eyes and red Kid
neys quiet and unchanged.
HAY AND STRAw-There have been more
free arrivals Of hay of late, and the general
demand is quiet. Choice grades sell fairly
at about $16 30 to II 80 and are quite firm
in price. Lower grades continue dull with
sales mostly at S14 to Is for the better lots,
with the range down as TO quality Few
er cattle shipped to Europe from this port
OF late has reduced the call for low grade
hay. Rye straw is quiet but the market is
steady at S14 to IA 80 for best cars.
OATs.-The demand is quiet, and the
tone is steady with pric about the same.
eral. At the close fancy clipped white
range at 30 to 351c as to quality. with No,
clipped white at about 334 to 33lc. No.
clipped white are quoted ut 33c, with lower
grades down rs to quality.
CORN The market is better supplied
and prices are quoted slightly easier I'M
der quiet demand. No. 2 yellow on
track billed through is quoted at about 49,
to aye, with steamer yelo" at 4c less as a
general range. Lower grades are scarce,
ana range down in price as to quality and
color.
FLoUR.-The market yet shows an abb
sence OF life and the demand is slow, and
transactions confined to meeting hand to
mouth necessitos as they come up. Where
buyer is in need of supplies he will pur-
chase Few cars or car, as 1t may hap
pen, but this is the extent of operations.
Values have tiuctuated little during the
week, but close steady. Spring patents are
selling "a supplies are needed at about
$3.50 to 80 as general range, but some spe-
cial brands are quoted above the latter
inquire. Winter wheat patents are slow Of
sale, with most business at about So rs to
3S5. but choice Ohio flours are held above
the latter figure. Low grades are dull and
nominal.
POTATOES Receipts have not been very
heavy for the past week, but trade has been
so dull that stocks have accumulated con-
siderably, and receivers have been obliged
to make sharp cut in prices. Buyers are
taking hold more freely at the decline, and
there is fair demand at the close at QUOTA
tions.
EGas.- Receipts have been liberal again
this week. There was a steady, good de-
mand following our last weekly report with
prices gradually hardening until Tuesday,
when some sales of fancy fresh west. were
made at 13c. Yesterday trade was a little
slow with sales at 12l to 1926 generally
The market closes With tone steady and q
moderate demand at quotations. Fancy
west. packed for storage are quotable at
III to l3c, but there has been lutte done in
this line as yet. Duck and goose eggs con-
tinue in moderate supply.
BUrTER.-Receipts have increased con-
siderably for the past week and the market
for fine creamery has settled down to zoe
basis. Trade was quiet following our last
weekly report and considerable stock had
to be carried over, but since Tuesday, when
the zoe price was established, there has
been some Improvement in the demand.
The market has steadier tone at the close,
with fair demand for strictly extra fresh
creamery at quotations. With fancy cream
cry at zoe there are few buyers for off
grades, and IS to 100 goods are moving
slowly. Northern dairy has a slow sale UNI
less strictly extra Imitation creamery and
ladle goods lower and dull. Boxes and
prints in heavy supply and most lots selling
at the price of tubs.
LUMBER OF the demand for spruce it is
not possible to speak so encouragingly this
week. AS whole, business since our last
report has been quiet, and at time Of writ
ing the wants of buyers are easily satisfied.
The few in a position to ship SCI edules
promptly can still find customers and OBJ
tain full prices, but this is all that can
truthfully be said Of cheering nature.
The feeling as to easy random is inclined to
be weaker, as the result of slack request.
Inquiries as to hemlock are not verv plenti-
full. If they were prices would stiffen ma
terislly, as there is no doubt about the de-
cded scarcity OF dry boards.
WooL.-Roston buyers and solicitors are
already streaming through the West, and
though the stock on hand Of domestic wool
in this city is at present not far from forty
million pounds, they have already con-
tracted for over twelve million pounds at
full prices in the wool growing districts.
This confidence in the future is based on
such news as that which comes this week
from Sydney, Australia. John Paxton &
Co., OF that city, vnder date of March 18th,
state that THE Custom House returns
show that there has been decrease of 49,
GIT bales in the quantity of wool exported
from this colony during the first eight
months of the statistical year"