Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-02
In HUB MARKETS.
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand.

Boston, March 2S.-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
4 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 fair sale at
20 to p 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 a II to Is cents.
Jobbers have been meeting the wants
Of their customers at 26 to q cents, with
some fancy quality at % 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 IL to 1872 cents
Very few buyers are ready to pay over
13 cents for q wholesale lot. Stocks are
small.
Receipts of eggs have materially in
creased, and prices have dropped or
cents per dozen from last week. Sales
OF best marks of western are made at
1212 to IL cents. Sales for later delivery
are made at II cents. Eastern rule at
1872 to IA cents.
Cornmeal is firm, with oatmeal and the
cereals generally steady, but unchanged.
Corn is very firm. It is reported the
supply is very small, with no particular
additions to come in sight for several
months. Locally the market is very
firm, with little or no track corn offer
ing. Nearby is also firmer and higher,
with the prices to arrive higher.
The position of hay is reported firm,
with a fair trade. The recent destruc-
ton Of hay by fire greatly reduced the
immediate supply, and yet there has been
no particular lack of quantity to meet the
demands of the trade. Rye straw re-
mains quiet. Millfeed is fairly steady.
The pork position is very firm. Hogs
are the highest since 1898. Here lard
is higher, with barrel pork very firm.
Fresh ribs are II cent off, however
The beef situation is less firm than last
week, when it was declared that prices
must advance, by reason of the firmness
in the west, while it was promised that
less beef was to be sent forward. But
it was found that beef enough was COM
ing, while trade was positively quiet, it
being one of the later weeks in Lent, and
near to the last of the month. Still
quotations are nornina1ly sustained.
Lambs and muttons have continued
rather easy under the continued full
supply. Spring lambs are also easier
from the fact that more have come for
ward than could be readily sold at the
fancy prices asked for them. Springers
S7910; fall lambs, 7@3c; Brighton and
eastern, S@912c; yearlings, 6@71Ac: NUT
tons, 512@712c; fancy and Brightons,
61A@S1ac; veals, S@10c; fancy Brightons,
10@11c.
Poultry is in full supply, with the
market rather easy. Capons have been
arriving more freely, and are binging
easier prices. Frozen turkeys, 10@12c:
fresh, 11@14c; northern chickens, 14@16c:
fowls, LOG 1212c; western chickens, 100
13c; fowls, 1O@111zc; capons, 12@14c;
green ducks, 1O@12c; green geese, 9@1Oc;
live fowls, 11@12c; chickens, 11@121ac.'
There is little in the game situation
that is really new. 1t is possible that
few more light grouse are coming for
ward, but dark grouse are very scarce
There is only very little venison at
hand, and that is in the hands of the cold
storage market men.
Domestic beans are short in supply
and very firm. The country is so short
that prominent dealers will not at
tempt to sell carloads to arrive. The
country is short, and but for the foreign
beans coming forward, prices would ad-
vance very sharply. Still these foreign
beans are so poor in quality that they
cannot take the place of the best do
mestic varieties. There are no pea
beans among them.
Apples have not been in the most
satisfactory position for the week. I
is felt that the damaged apples from
the wrecked steamer Californian hurt
the market, at least on No. 2 and low
priced lots. Now, the understanding is
that the poor stock has been worked off,
and that the market is feeling better.
Florida Strawberries have been il
small supply. They have been selling
at 40G50c per box in refrigerator lots.
This has made them very high at retail
Potatoes are rather quiet, though pos
sibly a little firmer. Sweet potatoes are
dull and sell only very slowly. Aroos-
took Green mountains, 65067c; hebrons.
60662c: Dakota reds, soc; northern and
Vermont Green mountains, 60063c; New
York, 5Sc; whites, 55@57c; Jersey sweets,
s22502.75.
Onions are doing rather better, and are
quoted at $3.50 per barrel for good ma
tive Cubans, or Bermudas, are selling
at 81 per crate.
Southern string beans are on the mar
ket at 81 per crate. New Florida red
peppers are at hand and quoted at So so
per crate.
Celery is scarce and very firm at