St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-11-06
BOSTON MARKETS.

SLldIl phSoJ %%729-cN' H'l 'IClh AAN"oiA'
round lots, 220221ac; western, 22c;
eastern, pc; diaries, 1SQ19c; firsts, 18QI
19c; ladies', 14017c; jobbing, 1ac to 1c
more.
Cheese is steady in price, with fair
demand at quotations. Round lots,
new, 1O1a@11Kc; sage, II 1-4@11hc;
iobbing, 1ac to lie higher.
There is a good demand for fresh eggs
and the market is firmer; storage eggs
are steady. Early storage, 1S@1815c;
fresh western, 22026c; choice Michigan,
26@2Sc; eastern, 24025c and up; nearby
and fancy, 3O033c and up; jobbing, 1c
to 114c higher.
Beans are steady and unchanged.
Carload lots, New York state pea, $215;
medium, So. 10; yellow eyes, $3,10Q3.15;
red kidneys, $2.75@2S0; California
small white, $2.25@2.35; jobbing, 10c
more; Lima, 7(dSc per h.
There is a firm market for apples, with
the demand good. Prices are fully
maintained. Fancy Baldwins and
greetings, $3.5003.75; ordinary to
good, $2.5003; gravensteins, $3.50@4 25;
western Ben Davis, $3d3.50; pippns,
$203; Porters, $250G3; No. ., all
grades, $1.75@2.25; SHOWS, $250Q3.50;
pound sweets, $2.5O035 80; other sweets,
1.50d2; mixed apples, 81 25@3; bushels,
50c@$1.5O; choice and jobbing lots, SOC
@$1 more.
There is a good demand for pears, with
the market still we'll supplied. Bart
let's are selling out of cold storage at
$202.75 for good; seckels, $2.75@4; Shell
don, S203.
Crapberries are steady is price, with
the demand good. The supply has
fallen off somewhat. They are quoted
at $406 for bbls, the latter price for
fancy in a jobbing way. For the week
the receipts of cranberries were 1902
bbls; same week year ago, 1888 bbls.
Crab apples are about out of market.
They are quoted at about $1.25 per bx
for good in a jobbing way.
There is a firm market for potatoes,
with the demand active; sweets are
steady. Aroostook hebrons 7SdS0c;
green mountains, 7S@S0c per bu; York
state white, 7O@75c; Virginia sweet,
S1.7502 per Dbl; Jersey double head, So
@2.25.
Onions are firmer at So. 25 per Dbl; per
bu, $11O; Spanish, $3.50 per crit; pick
ling, yellow, 75c.
Celery is in full supply and at wide
range of prices, 50cM$125 per doz bchs;
the latter price for Pasquale and other
fancy varieties. Spinach is plenty at
15c per bu; caulifiOwers, $3.50 per bX.
Radishes are quoted at 25c per bX; let
tuce, SOC per bx of three dozen. Beet
greens sell at 25c per bu.
Squash sells at $25@40 per ton, accord
ing to variety and quality.
Tomatoes are steady at $101.25 per
bx; green, 40c per bX; dollhouse, zoe per
lb. Citrons are in small supply and
quoted at 25c per bx.
Turnips are steady at 75c per Dbl for
st. Andrews yellow, and at 90c for
Canadian; white French, 81; white fiat
at 2Jc per bu. Beets job at SOC per bu;
carrots, 40c; parsnips, 60c. Mint sells at
40c per doz; cress, Soc; parsley, 25c per
bu.
Cabbages are easier at $264 per 100;
egg plants, $3.50 per bx; oyster plants,
Toe per doz; Brussels sprouts, 10M15c
per pit. Mushrooms are easier at 50c0
81 per ID. Leeks are quoted at 40c per
doz artichOkes $3.50 per bu.
Native string beans are out of the
market; southern are still to be had at
$1.75d2,25 for green and wax; Lima,
$1.50d3; civa, $1.5063.
Chestnuts are quoted higher at $55O@
6 per bu by the jobbers.
There is a fair demand for pork pro-
ducts, with prices revised and gen
orally lower.
The situation in the market for fresh
beef continues unchanged. There is
still a scarcity of choice heavy cattle,
but light cattle are in full supply and
easy.
There is an easy market for muttons
and lambs; veals firm. Lambs, 6GS1hc;
fancy and Brightons, S1a09c; yearlngs,
5071ac; muttons, 6@7c; fancy, TIC;
veals, 7010c; fancy and Brightons, 1O1s
011c.
Poultry is in full supply and prices are
easy. The warm weather has hurt
trade, which is quiet. Fresh northern
turkeys, 16620c; western, 12015c; ic d,
10013c; fresh native chickens, 1261Sc;
western, 9@13c; fresh fowls, 11G12c;
iced fowls, 91A@10hc; iced chickens 10
@11c; live fowls, Sd9c; live chickens, s
09c; green ducks, 13015c.
There is firm market for hay at full
prices; straw is steady and unchanged
millfeed is tirmer. Hay, $1201S; fancy
and jobbng, $1S019; rye straw, $16@
IT; oat straw, $S09.
The movement of wheat from Min,
nesota and adjacent states was lighter
last month than during any October il
many years, according to the Mime
apolis Tribune, which says there is {
general disposition to hold the croI
until spring, and it is generally consid
cred unlikely that the movement vii
increase before the end of the year
Duluth, which customarily has a grail
blockade during late October, and unit
the close Of navigation, yet to be taxed
to its elevator capacity. The situa
ton among the farmers of the north
west, a Great Northern railroad Off
cial asserts, is peculiar. Many of then