The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-08

Current Comment.

DRESSED POULTRY. - Receipts continue
fairly liberal but the stock coming is mostly
frozen. Western iced fowls have been in
ONLY moderate supply but have been sell
ing slowly and since Monday 10c has been
all thai could be realized for best marks.
Ordinary lots slow at Ole. Fresh turkeys
dull at TO 10c. Old COCKS steady. Frozen
poultry in full supply and moderate de-
mand at about former prices.
CHEESE Receipts for export %, 399 boxes.
There has been no material change during
the past week. Receipts of new cheese are
moderate and best n. Y. twins are S, ling
in small lots AT 70 9lc, with common to
good Al to Sc. Western twins and Ohio
flats quiet at quotations.
WOOL There is more or less machinery
shut down for various excuses. The Amer
lean Wooden Company, for example,
promptly shut wn their Oswego mills
when the weavers refused TO instruct APP
prenlices After a weeks shutdown, the
mills were, however, started Thursday at
the urgent request of the operatives. The
Stafford blanket mills at Manayunk have
shut down on account of Insufficient stor-
age facilities. Still, though the demand for
goods is decidedly irregular, there are goods,
uDdressed worsted sand fine cy worsteds
for example, that are doing well. Actual
advances OF per cent on one or two lines
of high fancies we're made this week by the
American Wooden Company the first IA
months.
BEANS. There has been little il any
change during the past week. Receipts
continue light and best domestic marrow
pea have a moderate sale at $40 Foreign
beans steady at 81 80 to 2. Yellow eyes in
limited supply and moderate demand. Red
kidneys dull.
Receipts have been heavy and
trade rather quiet for the past week with
prices ruling little easier. Since Monday
14c has been the top for fancy Michigan,
Indiana, etc, and choice marks OF other
western have been Offering (, eely at 49, TO
1890. Fair to good western and south
western hard TO place at anything over l3c
Dirties quiet. Eastern have to be fancy TO
bring over 14c. Duck and goose eggs sell
ing in small lots at quotations.
BUTTER, There has not been the slight
est improvement in the demand since our
last weekly report and TRACE was never
duller or more unsatisfactory than II is at
the present time. Receipts continue liberal
and most receivers have large stocks ON
hand which they are unable to move at any
reasonable concession. The finest fresh
crea merry settled to 100 on Monday, and
has been selling slowly at that figure since,
but there is 80 little doing today at over
1Sdc that a higher quotation Is hardly war
ranted. Some very coed marks are re-
ported sold at 17a to 1885, Mediums and low
grades dull at quotations. Northern dairy
in full supply and most lots very hard to
move. The supply Of boxes and prints is
lighter than it has been and best marks are
selling little more readily.
LUMBER. The few spruce mills that are
actually under way are experiencing a
sharp demand, and at the prices quoted be-
low the market for dimension lumber is
very firm aud will probably continue so for
at least three weeks, or until the saws are
all at work. 1t is pleasant to be able to
note that, although there is still p good
deal OF rain falling in Maine and the streams
are all swollen, there is no longer any good
ground for fearing further actual danger
from freshets and floods. The inconyen-
fence caused by the recent violence of the
waters is still very much in evidence in
many instances, but no new trouble Is APP
pretended. The driving on the brooks and
streams tributaries of the Penobscot, has
been good. The only trouble, indeed, is to
hold the logs back from the river until the
Blooms are ready for them, and these can
not always be hung until the water sub
sides little. In all probability everything