St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-11-27
BOSTON MARKETS.


ira creamy, small pkgs, 241a025c;
western, 231ac; eastern, 23hc; diaries,
19@21c; frsts, 191a@22c; ladies, 15@1Sc;
jobBing, 1ac to 1c more.
Cheese is well held, with the demand
fair. Prices are generally steady.
Round lots, new, 10k01115c; sage, II IA
@11Ac; jobbing, hc to 1c higher.
Eggs are fairly sustained though New
York lost cent. Here quotations are
unchanged at: Storage, 1Sd19c; fresh
western, 22025c; choice Michigan, $50
30c eastern, 25030c; nearby and fancy,
32Q3Sc and up; jobbing, 1c to 114c
higher.
Beans are still in only moderate re-
ceipt of the new crop, with the market
steady.
Apples continue firm, with arrivals OF
good well taken care Of. The markets
abroad are firm, and lots are taken
freely about as fast as they arrive.
Quotations are firm, with many choice
lots bringing even more. Fancy Bald
wins and greetings, $4,000; ordinary to
good, $2.5003.25; gravensteins, $500
4.25; western Ben Davis, $30350;
SHOWS, $2.5003.50; pound sweets, $3.50
"a; Tolman sweets, $30350; No. 2, all
grades, $262.50; mixed lots, $2.5003;
very choice and jobbing lots, 50c@$1
more.
Pears are in small supply and all in
cold storage. They are taken out al
most every day and sold at s., 25@3.50
per bx, as to variety and quality. Some
seckels, from cold storage, were sold
at $3.50.
Cranberries are in good supply and
the quality is particularly fine. They
sell we'll and bring good prices from $3.50
as per bl. and $1.5002.50 per crt, for
wholesale and jobbing.
Ounces are about out of market and
sell at 81 .5002 per bu, with small pkgs
all the way from SOC to$1.
Potatoes are very firm, and prices
were considerably advanced. Sweet
potatoes are also firmer. Houlton green
mountains, S50SSc; Hebrons, S0t0S5c;
rose, 75dS0c; Dako+a reds, 75080c;
Chenangoes, 75c; western Hebrons and
green mountains T5@S0c; Virgin
sweet, S2.25@25O per Dbl; jersey
double head, $250@3.
Onions are scarce and very high.
They are quoted at $404.50 per Dbl for
native and at $1.75@2.2 % per bu. Span
ish are quoted at $3.50 for small crts,
with large crts at 1925.
Celery is in good supply, with little
change in prices. PasQuale, $1G125 per
doz; Boston market, $1.25@1 80; white,
5O060c. Spinach is quoted at 15c per
bu. Caulifowers sell at $1@2 per doz,
as to quality. Radishes are higher at
50c0$1.25 per bx; lettuce, 50@75c per
/ bx of three doz. Beet greens sell at SOC
per bu
Squashes are remarkably high and
have made another advance of $50060
per ton, including all kinds. They have
to be iobbed at $2.750$3.25 per 100 lbs.
Pumpkins are sold at 50cd75c per bx.
Tomatoes are scarce and bring 25c per
lb for dollhouse. Cucumbers are
higher at $407 per 100, with seconds at
half price.
Cabbages are higher at $305 per 100;
yellow turnips, 75@90c per Dbl for st.
Andrews and Canadian; white French,
81 per Dbl: globe white and white fiat.
4Oc per bu Beets job at 50G60c per bu;
carrots, 4Oc; parsnips. 50060c. Mint
sells at 40c per doz; cress, 40c; parsley,
SOC per bu.
Southern string beans are scarce and
bring Sc per basket or crate for either
wax or green.
Pork and lard are not changed from
the stronger prices.
Beef is about steady, with the mar
ket fairly sold up. The best beef is
scarce and very firm, but the supply OF
medium and light is very full, with the
market easy.
The mutton market is dull, with too
great a supply for Thanksgiving. The
receipts, particularly of lambs, have
been large of late, while the demand has
been hardly up to the usual volume
owing to full supply of poultry. Thu
market is easy, with yeals fairly steady
Lambs, 5120Sc; fancy and BrightOns
70Shc; yearlings, 466c; muttOns, 4G6c
fancy, 61kc; veals, S010c; fancy an,
Brightons, 10h011c.
Thanksgiving turkeys are pretty high
Other poultry is dull and rather easy
Choice northern young turkeys, 1S019c
good northern, 15@17c; western, 126i16C
! iced, 9E011c; fresh native chickens, 1
allie: western. 9mt2c; fresh fowls, 1
M11c; iced fowls, 9010c; iced chicllC n
1Oa111ac; live fowls, S@9kc; live chicl
ems, S1b010c; green ducks, 13M15c.
Game is in small supply A fe7
: quail from the west are selling at abor
e S4.25 per doz at retail. Grouse are yer
e scarce and retail at So 25G2.30 per pal
4 Rabbits sell at wholesale at about q
e per pair, with only a few yet on han
e Jack rabbits sell at 50c per pair ;
: wholesale. Venison is rather scarce, ;
e whole, though deer have been comiT
{ In rather more freely since the sno
t in Maine. Whole deer sell at 12015
e saddles, 1601Sc; moose, whole, Gas
S saddles, 14@16c.