News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-04-04
~ HUB MARKETS.
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand.

Boston, April 2.-No improvement in
the butter market here can be reported.
Although receipts are not large, there
seems to be more than enough to meet
current wants, and dealers complain of
a slow trade
Makers of dairy are hurrying forward
their output, and very few of these lots
are worth over % cents, while. some run
down to Is and 20 cents. Renovated but
ter continues to meet with a fair sale at
70 to y cents. This seems to be preferred
to ladies, limitations or ordinary dairy.
Cold storage butter is about out of mar
ket and has only a nominal value Old
ladies' are Slow at II to Is cents.
Jobbers have been meeting the wants
Of their customers at 26 to q cents, with
some fancy quality at rs cents. AS the
market stands at present this is about as
low as the best grades can be bought at,
but but poor quality can be obtained
lower
NO more than a steady market can be
reported for cheese. The demand con-
tinues to be better for small lots to meet
current wants, and nobody seems to be
willing to stock up. Sales of fine Sep
TENDER twins run along at IS to 1872 cents.
Very few buyers are ready to pay over
IL cents for q wholesale lot. Stocks are
small.
Receipts of eggs have materially in
creased, and prices have dropped 3 or
cents per dozen from last week. Sales
of best marks of western are made at
1912 to 13 cents. Sales for later delivery
are made at Il cents Eastern rule at
1872 to IA cents.
The flour market has been ruling firm
er for several days, under the frmer
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 a 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 an
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 well sus-
tanned. Straw is firm with a quiet de-
mand. Millfeed is pretty firm.
The pork market continues excited.
and is very firm. All hams. are higher.
with lean ends and bean pork advanced.
Boston packers have killed a few more
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; fail lambs. SO
lO15c; Brightons and eastern 9@11c;
yearlings 6QSc; muttons, 61a@Sc; fancy
and Brightons, rosie; .veaIs. Sa9c.
fancy Brightons, 715010c.
Poultry continues in quiet request
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. 100
l2c; fresh, 11@14c; northern chickens.
l9014c; fowls, 1O012c; western chickens.
1Oc; fowls, 10G11c; capons, 12@14c;
green ducks, 1O@12c; green geese. 90
1Oc; live fowls, 11Q12c; chickens, ITO
12hc.
Game is in limited supply, with the
season drawing to a close.
Beans are well sustained: Carload
lots, pea and medium, $225; small pea.
$3.50; yellow eyes, $2,3O0235; red kid
neys, $2.30Q235; California small white.
Sac; jobbing, 1Oc more; Lima, 6061sc
per Id.
Apples are firmer. 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 $40
OLA per Dbl for good, with crts at $3.50
Q3.50.
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 3OG35c per
bX, in refrigerator or crate lots.
Potatoes have continued quiet and
rather easy, under full arrivals: Aroos-
took Green mountains, 63065c hebrons,
Coo; rose, zoe; Dakota reds, soc; north
ern and Vermont Green mountains, soc:
New York 5Sc whites soc; Jersey
sweets, $2.50Q3
Onions are much frmer, with good to
choice selling at 80 per Dbl. The job
bers quote at that price, and at 60d70c
per bu. Cuban onions are quoted at 81
per cTt.
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 IQ150 per bunch
Spinach continues at rather wide range,
selling at S1Q150 per bbl with fancy
higher. Beet greens are higher at 75c
per blu; dandelions lower, 81 per blu.
Lettuce is plenty and easy at 50d75c
per doz; radshes, 1925 per bX.
Cabbages are steady at $292.50 per Dbl,
with no new on the market. Savoys are
quoted at So per Dbl.
Squashes continue very firm, and sell
as high as SI5 per ton. Cucumbers are
easy at seas per 100 for native hot
house, with seconds at half price. To-
matoes are pretty plenty at $2025O per
CRIT for southern. Native dollhouse are
frmer at 25d35c per Id,
Beets are frmer at COO per Blu. Tur-
nlps are 1rmer for yellow at $1.25 per
Dbl, with white at SIPS; bxs, 5O660c; car
rots, 60c persnips firm, $1.256150 per