The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-05-30
Current Comment.

DRESSED POULTRY. - Receipts OF iced
fowls have not been very heavy for the past
week, but full more than enough for the
demand. Best lots have been selling gen.
orally at 10c but since Tuesday it has been
an extreme price, and at the close there are
very few sales making at over Ole. Old
cocks have ruled steady at TIC. The small
lots OF fresh turkeys coming are too poor to
bring over to 10c. Frozen poultry is dull
and UNCHANGED. There is full supply of
all kinds Offering but demand very slack.
CHEEsE.-Receipts have been fairly lib
eral this week, trade quiet, and the ten
dency OF prices in buyers favor. No sales
OF full cream northern twins have been re-
ported since Monday at anything over 10c,
and at the close there are very few lots Of
ferDg good enough to exceed Ole. Com
mon to good close slow at 8 to &c.
HAY AND STRAw.-The demand for hay
continues quiet, but choice hay is firm and
fancy cars will occasionally exceed quota
tions. For choice the market ID quotable at
SIT to 10, but lower grades are dull and
values favor the buyer. Range OF sales
on lower grades is S16 down as to quality
Rye straw is steady, with strictly choice
cars firm and exceeding quotations given
below. Receipts have been more liberal Of
late, and it looks as though the advance
had been checked.
| oas.--Receipts have fallen off good
| deal during the past week, and with strong
| advices from western and other points our
market has been doing better. Since Mon
day best fresh western have been selling at
| IL to 13bc, the outside for fancy ILL.,, Ind,
| etc. Average marks Of fresh western still
| selling at 12i to 13c, with some ordinary at
| III to 12c. Dirties quiet at SO to 3.15 per
case. Eastern extras steady at 10 to 1910.
OATs.-There is quiet demand quoted
and the market is dull as whole, with
prices about steady. For fancy clipped
| xuh Oat on hi11ad tbrnuoh 70 ont
side points the close Is about 33hc, with No.
2 clipped while at about 301 to 302c Lower
grades range down as to quality.
BUTTER.-Receipts show a moderate in
crease this week, and have been a little
larger than for the corresponding week
| improvement in quality, and a much larger
| proportion OF the receipts is grading extra.
Demand has been fair and prices have been
we'll sustained. There have been some
cleaning up sales during the week at zoe,
but for strictly extra fresh creamery 201c
| has been the ruling price. Some of the fin-
est marks of western in large ash tubs have
also been bringing 201c. Good firsts have
been selling at 10 to 1910. Northern dairy
selling generally at 16 to IS, but now and
then fancy lot bring 1Sa to 100. Best i'm
| itation in moderate demand at 16 to 161c.
Boxes and prints steady but supply ample
| for the demand.
CoRN.-The market has ruled dull during
the week with prices steady, but at the
| close little stronger tone Is shown. For
No. 2 yellow on track billed through to out
side points the close is about Acc, with
| steamer yellow at about the same price.
Lower grades are dull and quoted lower as
to quality and color.
FLoUR.-The flour market continues dull
and values favor the buyer to great ex
tent. Mill values are we'll maintained but
the forcing for sale of spot fours held here
has weakened the market and buyers have
had more to say about the price. These
spot lots have been sold 1Oc or more below
the mill price in some instances, and this
has cut of the present demand for the
latter. Spring patents at the close are
quotable at about $3.50 to $50, as most
are held higher. Winter patents as a
whole are held firmer than springs, but few
flours being offered below SO 3d. but sales
are mesgre. For clear and straight winter
fours about 1880 to $50 will take in the
range OF sales.
BEANs.-Receipts have been very light of
late, but there Is still full stock OF every
| thing except choice marrow pea, and the
| supply of these Is ample for the wants of
the trade. There has been no Quotable
change in prices. Choice marrow pea SELL
ing generally at so %, with some of the
best held at $3.50. Best foreign pea quiet
at so 10 to $2.l6. Extra yellow eyes selling
in small way at So Is to $3.50. But little
call for red kidneys.
PorAroKs.-There has been little II any
change in the market for old potatoes this
week. Receipts have been fair and de-
mand moderate with prices ruling about as
last quoted. Receipts Of new are gradually
increasing, but as rule are running under
size. No. Rose are selling generally at
1850 and 81, with now and then an extra
mark little higher. Other kinds range
from So. so to $3.50 as to size and quality.
Demand is light as yet and sales confined to
small lots.
LUMBER. - In the general demand for
spruce lumber there has been no expansion
during the period covered by this report,
and in no respect has there been any de-
cided change in the aspect Of the market
A buyer in rush must pay full value in
all instances. The man who can wait can
not infrequently succeed in securing con-
cessions from combination prices unless,
indeed, he is In search OF hard schedules,
which still command full figures. That
business on the whole Is discouraging both
the Wholesale houses and retailers agree.
1t Is as rule, indeed, pronounced very
dull
WooL.-Another week of paralysis has
been sustained by the market. Dealers
generally seem to have given up hope OF
| much improvement until better news
comes from European markets, which are
now pressing so heavily upon our own.
Although the protective tariff is preventing
the importation OF heavy shrinkage woods,
and encouraging the importation OF only the
lighter woods, which are in small supply, it
is significant fact that the receipts of
foreign wool show steady tendency to in
crease. At this port the receipts of foreign
wool today are nearly three times what
they were in the same time last year, though
domestic receipts are twenty five per cent
less. There has been no particular change
in the market as far as prices are concerned
The readiness of wool to advance under the
slightest provocation was shown by the
higher cost Of quarter blood woods landed
from the West on the receipt, at the end Of
last week, of little more encouraging
news from London.