News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-09-25
in HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand.

1sc within day or two. Extra cream
cry, small pkgs, 216211kc; northern
fresh, round lots, 20a@21c; western,
2O1sc; eastern, 201ac; dairies, 17d1S1kc;
frsts, 16Q171Ac; ladies, 11Q16c; jobbing,
1ac to 1c more.
Fresh eggs are frmer, with a rather
better demand. Early storage 1661Sc;
fresh western, 1561Sc; choice AIichi-
! gan. 19020hc; eastern, 1S022c; near
by and fancy, 21@24c and up; jobbing,
1c to lie more.
Beans are lower by reason of heavier
receipts, both of foreign and do,
nestle.
The apple market is decidedly easier,
with an oversupply of perishable fruit.
! Quotations are nominal. Gravensteins,
$3.25Gi450; astrachans, $1.50@25O;
duchess, $3@3.50; pippins, $2.5O03;
Porters, $25003; mixed apples, S203;
! bushels, 50cd$2; choice and jobbing
lots, 50c0$1 more.
Pears in full supply, and the market
is easy, except on choice of the best
varieties. Bartletts are selling all the
way from $3.50 to So per biol, with very
fancy in a jobbing way, even higher.
| Odd varieties sell all the way from 81. so
to $3.50 per Dbl, as to the quality and
condition. Seckles are yet scarce, and
are nominally quoted about the same as
Bartletts. California pears are still on
the market and job at S2.5003 per bx
Peaches continue to come forward
| pretty freely. Prices are rather hard to
quote, by reason of the great variety of
packages in which they are received.
Michigan, bu bsEts, $2d2.50; Connect
cuts, $1Q125 for regular bskts; $2@2.25
for carriers; York states, $1.25@2 for
| large bskts.
Plums are not quite as abundant as
previously noted. Domestic plums and
damsons sell at 30645c per 10e1b bskt,
or at about .6@Sc per at, in a jobbing
way. r.a ...
Grapes are very abundant, and the
crop is large one. They are. now COM
| ing in pony bskts, and sell at 13014c for
! Delawares; Niagaras, 10(d11c; Wordens,
| 10c; Brightons, 9Q10c; Salems, 10@11c;
Marthas, Sc; jobbing, 1@2c higher. >'~.,
Cranberres are in pretty full supply,
and the market is easier ut $506 for
bbls and at $2.5002.75 for cs.
The supply of vegetables and garden
truck is large, but the demand has been
| good all the week, and a large amount
has been moved.
Potatoes are fairly firm. with sweets
easy. Hebrons. 63@65c per blu; Green
mountains, 63@65c; bbls, 50; eastern
shore sweet, $1.7j per Dbl; Norfolk, $1.75
az; Jersey double head, $2.25@2.5O.
| Celery is quoted at 75c per doH cauli-
| flowers 50d15c for long boxes Spin
ach is very low at 10c per bu, while the
quality is very fine. Lettuce is quoted
Tat 25as0c per bX, as to quality. Rad
ishes job. at 25c per bX.
Squashes are a little firmer at $1.50
per Dbl for marrow; hubbards, $175.
| Tomatoes are plenty with domestic in
fine quality. They sell at 2505Oc per
bu bX; green, 40c.
Turnips are easier at 81 per Dbl for ST.
Andrews; white, nominal; white fiat,
40c per bu. Beets are iobbed at soc per
bu; carrots, 40c; parsnips, Toe. Mint
sells at 25c per doz; cress, 25c; parsley
15c per bu.
String beans are plenty at 25Q50c per
bx for both wax and green; shell beans,
20G40c; Lima beans, 50c0$1; civy
beans, ST per bX. Green peas are out
of market, for native.
! Green corn is still very abundant at
20Q50c per bX, as to quality and the
quantity in question. Egg plants are
quoted at 81 per doz. Leeks job at soc
per doz. Peppers bring SOC per bx for
ordinary, with very choice higher. A
few mushrooms are coming and selling
at 81 80 per lb.
Pork products are still further adj
vanced. Prices are getting to be abnor-
mally high, based on the tremC ndous
prices of hogs. Packers suggest that
the end of the advance is not yet in
sight.
a tirmer beef market is noted, with
trade good, though the arrivals of beef
for the week were larger.
There is a better request for lambs,
with the market steady. Muttons are
a little firmer and veals are in shorter
supply snd firm. Lambs, 7d9lac; fancy,
and Brightons, 10c; yearlings, 6d71Rc;
muttons, 6d71ac; veals, SM10c; fancy
and Brightons, 10hQ11c.
The poultry market is well sustained
to firmer though iced is not as firm as
early in the week. But the demand for
fresh is good. Iced turkeys, 10Q11c;
| frozen, 9111c; fresh native chickens, IA
@20c; western, 13d17c; fresh fowls, II
0H4c; iced fowls 10011kc: iced chick
ems, 11012c; live fowls, 10@12c; spring
ducks, 11d13c.
The hay situation is very steady one
for good to best hay, and all that binders
a very firm market is the fact of a good
deal of poor and ordinary hay arriving.
Straw is steady and pretty firm for the
best quality NHlIfeed is remarkably
firm and high, owing to the great de-
mand for animal food, as noted above.
Hay, S12@1S; fancy@nd jobbing $3.50
6t9; rye straw, $15,50M16.50; oat
straw, S9G10.
With the flour people the market is
still generally very quiet, though it is
fact that some Of the larger houses in
the trade and especially those handling
Gonna of tho host known brands of