News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-07-10
BOSTON MARKETS.


fresh. round lots, 20Q2Oac; western,
zoe; eastern, zoe; diaries, 17G1Sc; firsts,
16@17c; ladies, 14Q16c; jobbing, kd1c
more.
Cheese is dull, but prices are steady
and unchanged. Round lots, new, 0Q
10c; jobbing 19G1c higher.
Eggs are firm for choice, nearby, fresh,
with. others easy. At marks, fresh
western, 13014c; eastern, 15d17c; near
by and fancy, 17019 and up; jobbing.
101hc higher.
Beans are in fair demand at firmer
prices. Carload lots, pea, and medium,
$220; yellow eyes, 1925; red kidneys,
$240; California small white, scarce,
$3.75d3.00; jObbing, 10C more.
Old apples are out of the market, and
are no longer quotable. Some new are
coming forward.
There has been a good supply Of Cali
fornia deciduous fruit, the jobbing
prices being: ApricOts, $l.250150 per
crate; plums, $1.25@2.5O; peaches, $125
01.50. California peaches have been in
especial prOfusion.
Georgia peaches have been in fair sup
ply, and sell at $1.25a2 per 6-crate car.
rier. The crop is said to be one of fine
quality, but not large.
Strawberries are still in ample supply,
though the natives have passed the
height of the season. The best berries
are now coming from New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia, though the CswegOes
are still fine. Quotations are: Native,
case; Oswegoes, Sld13c; New Bruins
wick and Nova Scotia Sd13c.
Other berries are coming in freely and
the season is now in full swing. Ma
tive blueberries, sell at 1o@2Oc, with
North Carolina berries at 10d13c.
Hudson river raspberries sell at 405c
for thirds. and Sc for piuts Currants
are in full supply and easy at 3G5c.
Some blackberries are Offering at ITO
lac.
The receipts Of all kinds of berries
for the week were S445 crates, against
1908 crates for the same week last
year.
There is little firmer market for new
potatoes; old potatoes are nominal. EX-
ira rose, $2n2.25 per barrel; red and
white, $1.250175; old, Go41Jc per
| bushel
Rhubarb is quoted dull at SOC per box.
Onions are steady at $L75 for Egyp-
tan. Bermudas are getting out of the
market, but are still on hand in limited
| quantities, at 50 per crate. Bunch
onions are quoted at soc per box.
Celery is sold at 5Oc0$1 per bunch,
for big punches. Spinach is higher at
25c per bushel. Lettuce is quoted at
25c per doZ heads. Radishes are sold
at 75c per box.
Cabbages are in full supply and cheap
| ut Sl.50 per barrel for Baltimore; Nor
folk, S1@1 p per Dbl, as to quality.
! Marrow sQuasheS are sold at S1.15 per
| crate. Summer squashes are sold at
50cN$1 per package, as to quality, va
riety and style of package.
Cuculnbers sell at S2a3 per 100 for
| good to best with seconds AT half price.
Tomatoes are sold at $1.j0M250 per
crate for southern. Native dollhouse
sell at poe per pound.
Yellow turnips continue firm at S3per
barrel; white flat, 15c per buShel as to
quality; white French, 81 per Dbl.
Bunch bcets are quoted at Jcgacb. Car
rots are sold at $1.50 per buShel, bunch,
| SOC per dozen
Green peas are firm q &1ll1.50 per
bushel String beans are sold at $3.50
for green and at $50 per basket for
wax. Baltimore. 75c1lS125.
Watermclons have been more plentt-
full. and have sold at 40d50c for choice
large FIoridas; Georgia melons running
smaller. have sold at 2U023c by the
board
There is a lirmcr market on pork pro-
ducts, and prices are marked up on
shoulders, and some other cuts.
The hot weather restricted trade IN
fresh beef, but the cooler weather helped
matters somewhat. Choice beef was
firm, but anything else was dull and
weak. Prices are fairly steady with the
above modification.
The market for muttUus and lambs
has been very dull, owing to the hot
weather. There was a little better
feeling later, but the relief came too
late to have much effect. Noals are
very steady. Spring lambs l0012%c;
fall lambs, 7G9c; Brighton and fancy,
SGg1ac; muttons, 507c; fancy enc Hri@h.
tons. 7GSc vcals, 5@9r. fancy md
Brightons, S010c.
Poultry is quiet and easy, win the
demand small Iced fowls are stc'dy.
Iced turkeys, 9610c; frozen, M'lic;
fresh native chickens 21HSnr' western,
1Sa25c; fresh fowls, 11Ml3c; ICED fowls,
9lbM1Ohc; live fowls, 9a@l0c; live
chickens, 20@32c; choice spring ducks
14M15c.
The unfavorable crop reports have
strengthened the market for corn. TAX
ing the crop as a whole, the recent hot
spell has done very little permanent
damage to the crop, it is said, but al
present large portion of the crop is in
a critical condition, by reason Of dry
hot weather.
The market for oats has strengthened
in the west, owing to unfayorable croE
reports.
There is only a quiet demand for old
hay at steady prices; straw is quiet and
unchanged millfeed is steady Hay
S13aIS; fancy and jobbing, $1Sd19; rye
straw, $1,000; oat straw, S1OG11.
A most noteworthy feature connected