News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-02-21
IN HUB MARKETS.
Quota tions 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 real shortage would
be experienced. But it seems as If 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 % cents for assorted
size tubs, ana 25 cents for large ash.
Cold storage butter, June and fall
creamery, has ruled steady for a week
past, with only moderate demand.
Holders who have fancy stocks are not
Offering except in jobbing way, and
the bulk of the market is common to
good, which moves slowly at % to %
cents. The best quality ranges from
"a to % cents. OF course the dropping
tendency of fresh butter will have it's
effect on old stock.
Jobbers have a light trade at q 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
57s. Cd. and colored SOS. Cd, and English
advices indicate an increasing demand.
Prices here are firm and unchanged,
with sales OF line September twins at 10
cents and other good fall makes at Il to
1924 cents. Some sellers are getting a
fraction or two more for fine September,
and there is a confident feeling that they
will soon command a general advance.
There is very unsettled egg market.
Fresh eastern at 16 to II cents, and fancy
new laid at 20 cents. The nearby supply
is steadily increasing. Storage eggs
quiet at 10 to II cents.
In this market flour rules quiet, with
the demand limited to immediate re-
quirements and these requirements
generally take on the upward turns of
the wheat market. Locally there are
no changes in quotations.
Cornmeal has been ruling firm on the
strength in the market on corn, and re-
mains unchanged. Oatmeal and the
cereals are generally quiet and I'M
changed.
Oats continue quiet, with little change
in the spot market, but with options a
fraction easier. Oats to arrive are also
rather easy.
Very little change is noted in the mar
ket on hay. Choice is well held, with
low and medium grades only steady.
Rye straw is quiet, with little demand
for oat straw. Mill feed is a shade
easier, all along the line.
The pork market continues firm, I'M
der still higher hogs in the west North
star, large hams, are firmer. The beef
market is a little easier, not so much on
heavy receipts as on the abundance Of
other fresh meats, with easy prices.
Muttons and lambs are dull, with
full supply, and the market inclined to
be easy. Lambs, 709c; Brightons and
eastern, S091ac; yearlings, 5Q7c; NUT
tons. 507c fancy and Brightons, 6Q7Rc;
veals, S61OBc; fancy Brightons, 1910
lie.
Poultry is in good supply, with tur-
keys rather easy, but with fairly good
demand for chickens and fowls: North
ern turkeys, 12014c; western, 1O@12c;
northern chickens, 14Q16c; fowls, 100
12c: western chickens 10Q121sc; fowls,
1O011hc; capons, 13014c; green ducks,
1O@12c; green geese, 9@1Oc; live fowls,
11b012c; chickens, 11Q11Rc.
The supply of game continues small,
with the demand also quiet. Venison
7 is scarce and high. There are no part
ridges of any account on the market.
Rabbits are scarce and high.
The latest features in the bean mar
ket are firmer tone, under the feeling
that the foreign beans coming are poor,
with better demand.
Apples have lately been selling bet
ter, with the market firmer. Quotations
are little stronger.
Potatoes are rather easy, on continued
full receipts. Quotations are easier by
at least &c per bushel on the inside range.
Aroostook green mountains, 66Q6Sc;
hebrons, 6S465c; Dakota reds, 56Q5Sc;
northern and Vermont green mountains,
6206Sc; New York, 5SG60c; whites, SEQ
] 5Se: Jersey sweet, $2.5OQS.
t Onions are plenty and rather easy.
Natives sell at $1.25Q1.50, the latter for
: good lots. Havana onions are quoted
at S175@2 per crt.
Celery is pretty firm, and quoted at
70 per dozen for good, Spinach sells at
S015O per barrel, as to quality. Beet
greens sell at 75c per bushel; dandelions,
Sl25 per bushel.
Lettuce is finer and higher at $1,000
20 per dozen. Radishes are firmer at
$3.50 per box.
Cucumbers are in small supply and
very high. Native dollhouse are quoted
at StS@2O per 100, with seconds at $500.
Tomatoes are pretty firm at $2Q25O for
S southern, and at 25c per pound for ma
c tive dollhouse.
Squashes are unchanged at 75c41.50
per barrel, as to quality.
S Beets are quoted at soc per bushel;
= turnips, S1Q1.25 per barrel for yellow,
with white at $1.25; boxes, 4OQ5Oc; car
? rots soc; parsnips, S1QI25.