Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-01-14
in HUB MARKETS.
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand.

Boston, Butter is firm, with
but little change, and trade quiet. Best
creamery, small lots and packages, 2o12
acc; northern fresh, round lots, 2o0
2515c; western, 24@25c; eastern, 249
25c; frsts, 21022c; limitations, 13G11c;
jobbing, 1kG1c more.
Cheese is believed to be firm, though
trade is quiet. New, round lots, 1114Q
12c; old, 13c; jobbing, 12Q1c higher;
Liverpool, sis Cd for white, and 52s Cd
for colored.
Eggs continue very firm, although
trade has been quiet for several days.
At marks. fresh western, 26c; choice
Michigan and Indiana, 26Cd21c; storage,
211502215c; eastern, 2S032c; nearby
and fancy, 30040c and up; jobbing, 10
11ac higher.
Beans are in the state of dizziness
noted at the beginning of the year
usually. but the market is firm.
The apple market is tirmer, though
trade has been quiet, by reason Of the
cold weather. Still the movement has
been better within few days. Quota
tons are i little higher.
Pears are in the market only in the
hands of the jobbers and retailers, out
of cold storage. They sell at $2.5OG
4 per box.
Cranberries are plenty and the mar
ket is easier at $4,000 per barrel; per
crt, S2.5OG3.
Potatoes have continued in quiet de-
mand, with the Weather against the
trade. The market is still rather easy.
Aroostook Hebrons, GS070c; Green
mountains, 7O073c; York state and
northern whites, 6O@65c; Dakota reds,
60c; clOthtOp sweets, nominal; double
heads, S1.7502
Onions are firm Native, S25OG3
per Dbl; per bu, 90c@S1.25; Spanish,
scarce, az S1.5O per CRIT. Cabbages sell
at S1G1.25 per Dbl, with Savoy at the
same price.
Celery is still quoted at $102 per doz.
Spinach is selling at 65075c per Dbl for
Baltimore; Norfolk, $10l1.25 per Dbl.
Native dollhouse is quoted at soc per bx
Lettuce is sold at S1.5O02 per bx. Rad
ishes are higher at 50@S5c per doz
bchs.
Squashes continue firm at $50 per
ton for round lots; jobbing, S1.7502
per Dbl. CucumberS are easier at So
per 100 for dollhouse; southern crtS. So 80
"a.
Beets sell at soc per bu; carrots. soc;
parsnips, soc. Yellow turnips are
little lower at 75aS5c per Dbl; white,
French, $3.50 per biol; white fat. 4Oc
per box.
Mint sells at SOC per doz: dollhouse
cress, $3.50 per dOz; common. Soc per
doz; parsley, 75c per bx. Brussels
sprouts sell at 16c per ct; egg plants,
from S1Q4 per cs; artichokes, $3.50
1.5O.
String beans are firm at S2Gl3 per pkg,
as to size and quality. Mushrooms are
quoted ut 40060c per lb. New Bermuda
potatoes are on the market at $3.50 per
Dbl, or $3.50 per bu. Peppers are quot
ed at 81 per crt.
Pork is firmer, with prices advanced
25c per Dbl. Lard is also firmer. with
prices advanced.
There is Il better demand for beef. and
the market is firmer 1t is suggested
that prices will be advanced.
Muttons are steady, with lambs a
little firmer- Eeals are well sustained.
Lambs. 701Olac; Brighton and fancy
9011c; yearlings, 5Gl7c; muttons. 507c;
fancy and BriGhtOns, 70Sc; veals. Ga
Zoe; fancy Brightons, 10011c.
The supply of turkeys has continued
full, with the market rather easy.
Choice chickens and fowls are doing
rather better. with a firm market
northern, 2613c: fresh chickens,
fancy, 14011c; ordinary, 9012c; fresh
fowls, 12013c; ducks. 1O012c; geese, 8
@11c; live poultry, 91914c.
The supply of game that is good is
short. This is especially true of grouse
Really fine grouse are scarce and quick
at $3.50 per pair, but there are grouse
Offering that will hardly bring soc per
pair The supply of venison is small.
and almost entirely in the hands of the
retail dealers. None is coming forward
legally, at least. Whole deer. 1201
Ice; saddles, 1701Sc: grouse, S101. so;
fancy. $1.75; quail, $2.5002-75 per doz.
Mallard ducks, $1.25 per pair; black
ducks. S1.25; rabbits, western. S013c
per pair; pigeons, ST. per doz.
The hay position is firm, and is doubt
less rendered considerably stronger by
the destruction of hay by fire in the Bos-
ten and Maine sheds Saturday after
noon and evening. Rye straw is firm.
Hay. S2OG20.50; fancy and iobbing.
S2O.5OG21; rye straw, $17.5O@2O: oat
straw. S9G1O.
The market on cornmeal is a little
firmer, on the stronger position of corn
but prices are not changed nominaIly.
Oatmeal and the cereals are quiet. with
little change.
Corn is firmer. Options advanced a