Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-02-11
in HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand.


is still limited. Best creamery, small
lots and pkgs., 2314@24c; northern
22a@23c; eastern, 2211z@23c; firsts, 100
zoe; limitations, 13@16c; jobbing, 12g1c
more.
Cheese continues in quiet demand,
with little change IN prices. New,
round lots, 114a@121hc; old, 13c; jobbing,
izG1c higher; Liverpool sis for white,
and 52s for colored.
Eggs made n sharp advance OF from
&c to 2kc, but a part of this advance
has been lost. The market is more
steady, under reports of cold weather.
At marks, fresh western, 2OAW22c;
storage, 1S01S1hc; eastern, 22QI2319c;
fresh, round lots, 23@23kc; western,
nearby and fancy, 25@35c and up; job
bing. 1@11ac higher.
The demand for beans is little bet
ter, with a better feeling in the market,
especially on pea beans. Quotations
are not changed.
There is a better movement noted on
apples, and the best lots out of cold
storage are bringing better prices. The
position is generally firmer.
Cranberries are we'll sustained, with
the best bringing good prices. Some
very poor lots are on the market, how
ever. Bbls, S7@9; crts, $2.50Q3, upper
price for jobbing.
Only eight refrigerators of strawber-
ries were received for the week. They
sold at soc per bx, in refrigerator lots,
for good.
Rhubarb is OH the market in small
supply at 10012c per Id.
The supply of truck and vegetables is
pretty full for mid-winter, and prices
are reasonable.
Celery is a little firmer at $1.5002.50
per doz, the latter for choice in job
bling way Spinach is quoted at S1U
1.25 per Dbl, with kale at SOC per Dbl.
Beet green's sell at 75c per bX; dande-
lions, $3.50 per ok.
Lettuce sells at 6O0SJc per doz
Radishes are quoted at 25c per doz
bnchs.
Onions are reported firmer, at $3.50
3.25 pe.. Dbl. the latter for fancy and
jobbing. BY the bushel they are quoted
at S1.2501.50 per crt; Bermudas, $3.50
per cS.
Potatoes are selling better, with qa1o-
tations steady on the best. Aroostook
67Oc; York state and northern whites
53055c; Dakota reds, 5S@GOc; double
head sweets, S1.25M2.
Squashes are easier at S25n30 per ton,
with the jobbers selling at $1.50@2 per
Dbl.
Cucumbers are very firm at SIS per
100 for the best, with No. = about half
price. No southern are at hand To-
matoes are easier at S2.50@3.5O per crt
for southern, and at 3O0I4Oc per lib for
dollhouse.
Cabbages are rather easy at $1M1:25
per Dbl for native; Savoy, S1Gl-25 per
Dbl. Yellow turnips are easy at 100
9Oc per bbl; white French, 81 per bhl;
white fiat, 40c per blu.
Beets are quoted at SOC per bl; car
cots, soc; parsnips, 6O@65c. Mint con-
tinues unusually high at 81 per doz;
cress, Toe per doz; parsley, $3.50 per bX.
Egg plants are still higher at $3.50
M3.50 per cs. Brussels sprouts are
easy at 15c per bx. Articholles are
quoted at $3.50 per bx. Mushrooms
sell at 3O04Oc per Id. Peppers are
quoted at $1.5O@2 per crt. Leells sell
at SOC.
String beans are firmer at S2.5063 per
cs. New Bermuda potatoes sell at
about So per Dbl, and retail at $2@2.5O
per bu.
The pork market is firm, by reason
of a stronger market on hogs.
Beef sold much better near the close
of the week, with the market frmer.
Prices are very we'll sustained
There is Il full supply of muttons and
lambs, with the market rather easy.
Veals are in pretty full supply for the
season. Lambs, 7(6915c; Brightons and
fancy, 9@10c; muttons, 6@71ac; fancy
and Brightons, 7@Sc; veals, 6d101ac;
fancy and Brightons, 11M11kc.
Poultry is in fullsupply. Trade seems
dull, because every customer finds q
good deal to select from. Turkeys are
plenty and easy. Chickens are better
sold up, however, with the best little
firmer. Fowls selllhard. Western tsIr-
keys, 1O012kc; fancy and northern,
121k@14c; fresh chickens, fancy, Lea
15e; ordinary, 9k@11c; capons, 1O@14c5
fresh fowls, 9@13c; ducks, 1O@12es
geese, 9@10e; live poultry, 901Oc
Game is In small supply, with little
coming forward. In many classes
prices are entirely nominal, the only
supply being in the hands of the retail
trade in cold storage, and to be brought
out ohly in small lots, covering a long
period of time. Quotations are largely
nominal.
Hay Is in quiet request, with only the
best bringing full quotations, and that
in rather small lots. The market is
over supplied with poor hay. Straw is
also quiet. MiHfeed continues in quiet
request, with prices easier. Hay.
19.5O@2o; fancy and jobbing, S2O.5O: |
rye straw, S17@1S; oat straw, S961O.
Cheering reports from the winter
wheat belt doubtless caused much of
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