News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-05-22
BOSTON MARKETS.
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand.

prices well held. Still the arrivals are
not excessive for the season. Extra
creamery, small lots and pkgs, 2OG2Ohc;
northern, fresh, round lots, 100000;
western, 19@19hc; eastern, 19919kc;
frsts, 16@1Sc; ladies, 14d16c; jobbing,
h@1c more
Choice old cheese Is not plenty, and
the market is firm. New is rather easy.
Round lots, 11h@121Ac; new, 9@10c:
jobbing, h@1c more; Liverpool, Ats for
white, and 46s for colored.
Eggs are shade easier, under a full
supply and, dull request. At marks,
fresh western, 1301312c; choice Indiana,
138@14c; eastern, 14@15c; nearby and
fancy, 1601Sc and up; jobbing, 1d1hc
higher.
In the bean market, yellow eyes are
reported scarce with a firm market.
Quotations are unchanged.
Still some apples are coming in,
though 1t is reckoned that they are about
done. The market is firm, with good
lots quickly picked up.
Cranberries are scarce, with barrels
about out of the market. Crates are
quoted at $4Q5, as to quality. For the
week there were no receipts.
The receipts of strawberries 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 5@20c per box, the latter price for
a very few fancy berries. The bulk of
the sales were from 1G115c for sound
berries. They retail at 15020c, with
fancy at 25c per box.
Rhubarb is now plenty and sells at
1k@2c per lb for native, with some
Chicago cases on the market that have
to be sold low. 1t is expected to be
down to 1c per lb this week.
Potatoes are flrmer, under a supply
somewhat reduced. Hebrons, 6506Sc;
rose, 60065c; Green mountains, 73075c;
York state and northern white, 55@59c;
Dakota reds, 53@55c; North Carolina
sweets, $1.75 per Dbl; crts, $262.25.
Onions are easier, under full receipts
of Bermudas. For the week the re-
ceipts were very large, and prices are
lower at $1.25d1. 80 per crt. Egyptians
are quoted at So per bag.
Celery is frfner at 50 per doz for good.
Spinach is quoted at SOC per blu. Kale
is not on the market to any extent. Beet
green's are dowp to 40c per bu, and
dandelions are very plenty and sell at
zoe.
Lettuce is firm at 500S5c per doz
heads. Radshes are sold at 81 per box
for good. Cabbages are very plenty,
and are quoted at 75c6$1 80 for southern
crts. Some lots have been in very bad
order and sold very low.
Cucumbers are easier at $4d6 per 100
for No. l, with No. 2 at half price. To-
matoes are still pretty firm at $203 per
Crt for southern, as to quality, and at
15c per lib for dollhouse.
Yellow turnips are firm at $3.50 per
Dbl; white fiat, $1@t.50 per bu; white
French, 50 per bbl; globe white, 81 per
bu.
Beets sell at Csc per bu; new bnch, 81
also per doz. Carrots sell at 45675c
per bu; new bnch, 50c@$1; parsnips, SOC
per bu; mint, T5c; cress, 40c; parsley,
$1.5O@2
Asparagus is plenty and lower, and
sells by the jobbers at $1@1. 90 per doz
bnchs.
Squashes are very firm, and almost out
of the market for old. They may be
quoted at about S35 per ton. New
southern are quoted at $1.25 per crt.
Mushrooms are sold at 45cd$1 per ID,
according to variety and style.
Southern green peas are very plenty,
and sell at from 75c6i$1.50 per bskt.
String beans are pretty firm at $3.50
per crt; wax beans, So.
The pork market is tirmer 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 trmer market, and the sug-
geStion that the market is TO be tirmer.
Muttons and lambs sold better, with
lambs quite firm. MuttOns are only
fairly sustained, with veals very easy.
Spring lambs, $2Q3 each; fall lambs,
71sM91ac; Brighton and fancy, Sd10c;
muttons, 61zUS1ac; fancy and Brightons,
1900; veals, 5@S1ac; fancy and Brigh
tons, Sd9c.
Poultry is in pretty fair request, I'M
der rather small receipts. Frozen tur-
keys, 0M11c; iced, logic; fresh native
chickens, 2562Sc; broilers, 30d32c; fro
zen fowls, 9M10c; frozen chickens, 100
lie; iced fowls, 10h@11c.
Hay is steady, though the market is
quiet. Straw holds firm. Millfeed is
little easier than a week ago. Hay,
$1350d19; fancy and jobbng, $19.50@
%; rye straw, $21G22; oat straw, $100
II.
Cornmeal is pretty firm, though corn
is fraction easier for actual corn. with
options much lower. Oatmeal is firm
and unchanged.
The week shows an advance of PIC
on cash and May wheat, and of &c for
July. 1t is believed that the improve
ment is largely due to heavy export
takiugs, with crop reports not showing
the Improvement that was noted for q
couple of weeks preceding. Wheat ex-
ports for the week show an increase of
nearly 100 percent over year ago.
while sales for export, in both flour and