Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-05-13
in HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand.

easy, though there Is not great sup
ply at hand. The feeling is that it all
must be sold ut once and this makes an
easy market. Extra creamery, small
pigs, 19G1912c; northern fresh, round
lots, 1S@I1S5zc; western, 1T1201Sc; east
ern, 1712@1Sc; frsts, 16017c; ladies, II
@15c; jobbing, 1a@1c more.
Cheese is steady for old, with some
new beginning to arrive. A lot of new
choice has been sold for 10 cents Quo
tations are at: Round lots, 111a0121kc;
new, SG10c; jObbing, 1z01c higher;
Liverpool, AIS for white, and 46s for
cOlored.
Eggs are steady. Some storing is
still being done, and choice lots, fit for
putting in cold storage, bring full prices.
At marks: Fresh western, 131A014c;
choice Indiana, 1401415c; eastern, no
15c; nearby and fancy, 15017 and up;
goose eggs, 2502Sc; duck, 1S02Oc; job
bling, 1011ac higher.
Beans are very steady in demand,
with little firmer prices reported.
There is Il firm apple market, with
good trade for the season. Some fancy
lots have been sold at very full prices.
Indeed, the quality of apples offered is
unusually fine for the first of May.
Quotations are fully sustained.
Cranberries are in limited supply and
very firm, with crts quoted at 1891;
bbls. S9012.
Strawberries are getting into better
supply, though the season is certainly
late with the weather unfavOrable for
ripening the berries and giving them the
desired flavor. They are now coming
from as far north as North Carolina.
At retail they sell at 2Od5Oc per bx, as
to size of bXs and quality Of the fruit.
Rhubarb is still scarce and firm, and
sells at Sc per 10 for good in a whole
sale way.
There is Il pretty firm market on po-
tatoes, with prices fully sustained.
Hebrons, 63065c; rose, Coo; Green
mountains, 65IIOc; York state and
northern whites, 4S0J3c; Dakota reds,
53GI55c; double head sweets, $2G2. 80;
Bermudas. seas per Dbl.
Native onions in round lots are about
out of the market, though there are still
a few offering at 50. T505.25 per Dbl and
iobbing at S1-1501.6O per bu. Egyp-
tan onions are steady at $2.50d2.75 per
bx. Bermudas are in full supply and
easier at S1.S5d2 per crt. There are
no Spanish onions on the market.
Celery is more plenty and sells at 81
per bnch for big bnchs. Spinach sells
at S1.5OG2 for good choice; kale, 75c0
81. Beet greens are high at zoe per bu;
dandelions. 4Oc.
Lettuce is very firm at 75c6$1 per
doz heads; radishes, Soc per dOz for
round; long. Zoe; Norfolk, very low, at
SAGE. Satisfy is sold at roe per doZ
bnchs.
Native cabbage are about out of the
market. Southern crates are firm at
1910. Cucumbers are pretty firm at
IS per 100 and down, as to quality. To-
matoes are quoted at 1G12c per 10 for ma
tive dollhouse; southern crts, S2.2502.75.
Yellow turnips are very firm at $40
1.2J per Dbl; white fat, 81 per bu; white
French. 81 per Dbl; globe white, 81 per
bu
Beets sell at Soc per blu; new bnch, 50
per doz Carrots sell ut 35c per Blu;
new bnch, none; parsnips, soc per bu;
mint, JGI15c; cress, 40cd$1; parsley,
$3.50.
Asparagus is more plenty with the
range of prices wide, $2d5 per doz
bnchs.
BrightOns. T1a@S1zc.
Poultry is in easy movement at rather
easy prices. Iced fowls are plenty and
a fraction lower. Frozen lots are get
ting out of the market. Frozen tur-
keys. 9012c; iced, 11012c; chickens, 8
113c; fresh fowls, 11Q12c; iced fowls,
961Oc; frozen, 9010c; ducks, 0012c;
geese, sale; live poultry, 1001O1Ac-
The hay position is little changed.
Good to best is firm. with low grades
and medium easy. Straw is in rather
small supply, with a pretty firm market.
MiIlfeed more steady. Hay, $13.50@ !
1850; fancy and jObbing, $19.5O62O; !
rye straw, $1SG19; oat straw, S1O611.
Cornmeai is very firm, on the strength |
III the market on corn. Oatmeal is
steady, with the cereals firm and IN
changed.
Oats are firmer, with prices fully suS- |
tanned. 1t is believed that the Phillips |
corner on corn is being extended to oats, |
since there has been a pronounced adj |
vance on options. For this market |
quotations are very firm.
Squashes are quoted at $50 per ton |
for good. and to job at S202.5O per
pkg of 100 lbs. Artichokes are quoted |
at S1.25 per bu. Mushrooms are sold |
at 40c per ID.
Green peas are still scarce. and COM
ing in all sorts of packages. Prices are
very hard to quote by reason of the diff
ference in the size of packages and the
quality of the peas: say, $1.5O@2. so fo-
rather small pckgs.
String beans are scarce and firm for
good, with prices from S3@4.5O per CRIT
and butter beans about the same The
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There is still some maple sugar of
fering at 13G14c. Maple syrup is in
such supply that it cleans up very slow
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