Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-09-30
In HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand.


demand. Prices have hardened about
15c within day or two. Extra cream
cry, small pkgs, 21@21Hc; northern
fresh, round lots, 2O1z@21c; western,
2014c; eastern. 2O1zc; dairies, 1T01S1kc;
firsts, 16@1712c; ladies, 11016c; jobSing.
&c to &c more.
Fresh eggs are hrmer, with a rather
better demand. Early storage. 1611Sc;
fresh western, 15d1Sc; choice Michi-
gan. 1902012c; eastern, 1S022c; near
by and fancy, 21@24c and up; jobbing,
1c to 112c more.
Beans are lower by reason of heavier
receipts, both of foreign and do
nestle.
The apple market is decidedly easier,
with an Oversupply of perishable fruit.
Quotations are nominal. Gravensteins,
S3.25GI4.50; astrachans, $1.5002 50:
duchess, S3@3.5O; pippins. $2.5OG3;
Porters, S2.5OG3; mixed apples, S2@3;
bushels, 5OcQS2; choice and jobb ng
lots, 5GcG$1 more.
Pears in full supply, and the market
is easy, except on choice of the best
varieties. BartIetts are selling all the
way from $3.50 to So per bbl, with very
fancy in a jobbing way, even higher.
Odd varieties sell all the way from 81. so
to $3.50 per Dbl. as to the quality and
condition. Seckles are yet scarce, and
are nOminally quoted about the same as
Bartletts. California pears are still on
the market and job at $2.5O03 per bx.
Peaches continue to come forward
pretty freely. Prices are rather hard to
quote, by reason of the great variety of
packages in which they are received.
Michigan, bu bSkts, S202. so; Connect
cuts. S1G1.25 for regular bskts; S2@2 %
for carriers; York states, $125M2 for
large bskts.
Plums are not quite as abundant as
previously noted. Domestic plums and
damsons sell at 3O645c per 1O-Ib bskt,
or at about case per qt, in a jobbing
way.
Grapes are very abundant, and the
crop is a large one. They are now COM
ing in pony bskts, and sell at 13@14c for
Delawares; Niagaras, 1O@11c; Wordens,
Zoe; Brightons, 9010c; Sa]ems, 1O011c;
DIarthas, Sc; jobbing, 1@2c higher.
Cranberries are in pretty full supply,
and the market is easier at $566 for
bbls and at S2.5O62.75 for cs.
The supply of vegetables and garden
good all the week, and a large amount
has been moved.
Potatoes are fairly firm. with sweets
easy. HebrOns. 63@65c per bu; Green
mountains. 63065c; bbls, 50; eastern
shore sweet. S1.75 per Dbl; Norfolk. S175
a.; Jersey double head, S2.25@2.5O.
Celery is quoted at roc per doX; cauli-
flowers, 50G75c for long boxes. SPIN
ach is very low at 10c per bu. while the
quality is very fine. Lettuce is quo-ed
at 25@5Oc per bX, as to quality. Rad
ishes job at 25c per bX.
Squashes are a little firmer at $3.50
per Dbl for marrow; hubbards, S1.75.
Tomatoes are plenty with domestic in
fine quality. They sell at 2505Oc per
bu bX; green, 40c.
Turnips are easier-at 81 per Dbl for ST.
Andrews: white. nominal; white flat,
40c per bu. Beets are jObbed at soc per
bu; carrots. Zoe; parsnips. 75c. Mint
sells at 25c per dOZ; creSS, 25c; parsley,
15c per bu.
String beans are plenty at 2565Oc per
bX for both wax and green; shell beans,
2Od40c; Lima beans, 50c@$1; civy
beans, 81 per bX. Green peas are cut
of market. for native.
Green corn is still very abundant at
20050c per bX, as to quality and the
quantity in question. Egg plants are
quoted at 81 per doz. Leeks job at soc
per doz. Peppers bring SOC per bX for
ordinary. with very choice higher. A
few mushrooms are coming and selling
at S1.50 per Id.
Pork products are still further adj
vanced. Prices are getting to be abnOr-
mally high. based on the Tremendous
prices of hogs. Packers suggest that
the end OF the advance is not yet in
sight.
A firmer beef market is noted, with
trade good. though the arrivals of beef
for the week were larger.
There is a better request for lambs,
with the market steady. Muttons are
a little firmer. and veals age in shorter
supply and firm. Lambs, 7M91ac; fancy.
and Brightons, 10c; yearlfags, 6QI71ac:
muttons. 60I14c; veals, SG10c; fancy
and BrightOns, 1O1aQ11c.
The poultry market is we'll sustained
to firmer. though iced is not as firm as
early in the week. But the demand for
fresh is good. Iced turkeys, 1O011c:
frozen, 9d11c; fresh native chickens, IA
G20c; western, 13611c; fresh fowls, IL
6H4e; iced fowls, 1O611hc: iced chick
ems, 11@12c; live fowls, 1O012e; spring
ducks, 11@13c.
The hay situation is very steady one
for good to best hay, and all that binders
q very firm market is the fact of good
deal of poor and ordinary hay arriving.
Straw is steady and pretty firm for the
best quality Millfeed is remarkably
firm and high, owing to the great de-
mand for animal food, as noted above
HAY. S12d1S; fancy and jobbing, $3.50 ,
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