Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-05-23
In HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand.

S'A H> - =
not excessive for the season. Extra
creamery. small lots and pkgs, 20M2O1ac;
northern. fresh, round lots, 19hG2Oc;
western, 19M19kc; eastern, 19Ml9Mc;
irsts, 1GM1Sc; ladies', 14M16c; jobbing,
A01c more.
Choice old cheese is not plenty, and
h market is firm. New is rather easy.
Round lots, llA@12kc; new, 0@1Oc;
Jobblng, AM1c more; Liverpool, ATS for
white, and 46s for colored.
Eggs are Il shade easier, under a full
supply and dull request. At marks,
fresh western, 13@13hc; choice Indiana,
13h014c; eastern, 14Ml5c; nearby and
fancy, 1601Sc and up; jobbing, 1@1kc
higher.
In the bean market, yellow eyes are
reported scarce, with a firm market.
Quotations are unchanged.
Still some apples are coming in,
though it is reckoned that they are about
done. The market is firm, with good
lots quickly picked up.
C~ranberries are scarce, with barrels
about out of the market. Crates are
quoted at $4@5, as to quality. For the
week there were no receipts.
The receipts Of stra wberries have been
larger. They are beginning to come
from Maryland quite freely, with the
North Carolinas about done. A good
many have been shipped from Norfolk
the past week. They sold at all the way
from 5G2Oc per box, the latter price for
a very few fancy berries. The bulk of
the sales were from 10@15c for sound
berries. They retail ut 15@2Oc, with
fancy at 25c per box.
Khlbarb is now plenty and sells at
1hM2c per lib for native, with some
Chicago cases Oh the market that have
to be sold low. 1t is expected to be
down to 1c per lib this week.
Potatoes are firmer, under a supply
somewhat reduced. Hebrons, G5@6Sc;
rose, 6Od65c; Green mountains, 73M75c;
York state and northern white, 55M5Sc;
Dakota reds, 53M55c; North Carolina
sweets, S1.75 per Dbl; crts, $202.25.
Onions are easier, under full receipts
of Bermudas. For the week the re-
ceipts were very large. and prices are
lower at $1.25M1.50 per crt. Egyptians
are quoted mt ~ per BAG
Celery is firmer at 81 per doz for good.
Spinach is quoted at 50c per bu. Kale
is not on the market to any extent. Beet
greens are down to Acc per bu, and
dandelions are very plenty and sell at
2Oc.
Lettuce is firm at 50MS5c per dOz
heads. Radishes are SOld-at 81 per box
cor rool CoIl,,r, ,,o ,o., ,Jo,%,,
and are quoted at 75cMS1.:50 for southern
crts. Some lots have been in very bad
order and sold very low.
CucumberS are easier at $4M6 per 100
for No. 1, with No. 2 at half price. To-
matoes are still pretty firm at $2@3 per
crt for southern, us to quality, and at
15c per ID for dollhouse.
Yellow turnips are firm at $3.50 per
Dbl; white fiat, $1M1.lO per bn; white
French. 50 per Dbl; globe white, 81 per
bu.
Beets sell at 35c per bu; new bnch, 81
also per doz. Carrots sell at 45075c
per bu: new bnch. 5Uc0i$1;parsnips, soc
per bu: mint, Toe; cress. 4Oc; parsley,
$1.50M2.
Asparagus is plenty and lower, and
sells by the iobbers at S1M1.50 per doz
bnchs.
Squashes are very firm. and almost out
quoted at about $50 per ton. New
southern are quoted at S1.25 per crt.
Mushrooms are sold at 45cMS1 per ID,
according TO variety and style.
Southern green peas are very plenty.
and sell at from 75c6l$1.5O per bskt.
String beans are pretty firm at $3.50
per crt; va beans, SD.
Tie pork market is firmer, with some
items higher. Hogs are higher, and it
is suggested in the trade that they have
started on another upward movement.
The beef market dragged a good deal,
with trade dull, and prices in the buyers
favor. But later the demand was bet
ter, with a 1irmer market, and the sug-
gestion that the market is TO be firmer.
Muttons and lambs sold better, with
lambs quite firm. Muttons are only
fairly sustained, with veals very easy.
Spring lambs. $2M3 each; fall lambs,
7hM9hc; Brighton and fancy, S@10c;
muttons, 6kMS1ac; fancy and Brightons,
S720LoC, Neulo, cWCI2C, ldHCt anu DIASu'
tons, SM9c.
Poultry Is in pretty fair request, un-
der rather small receipts. Frozen tur-
keys. 9M11c; iced, 1OQu12c; fresh native
chickens, 25M2Sc; broilers, 3OM32c; fro
zen fowls, 9M1Oc; frozen chickens, 100
lie; iced fowls, 10hM11c.
Hay is steady, though the market is
quiet. Straw holds firm. Millfeed Is
a little easier than a week ago. Hay,
%$13.50G119; fancy and jobbing, $4,000
20; rye straw, $21M22; oat straw, $1O@
II.
Cornmeal is pretty firm, though corn
is a fraction easier for actual corn. with
options much lower. Oatmeal Is firm
and unchanged.
The week shows an advance of 2kc
on cash and May wheat, and Of &c for
July. 1t is believed that the improve
ment is largely due to heavy export
takipgs, with crop reports not showing