Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-02-18
in HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand.


very steady. Best creamery, small lots
and pkgs. 2412@25c; northern fresh,
round lots. 231a@24c; western, 800
231zc; eastern, 23@231kc; f1rsts, 1870
2O12c; limitations, 13Q16c; jobbing, 10
1c more
Cheese continues in quiet request,
with the markets abroad easier than
early in the week. Here quotations
are steady. New, round lots 11129
121ac; old. 13c; jObbing, 1a01c higher;
Liverpool sos Cd for white, and sis
Cd for cOlOred.
Eggs advanced 2 to SC on cold and
stormy weather. but at least 1c has
been lost of that advance. Later. how
ever, shippers were much firmer, and
wire receivers here to hold their eggs,
on stormy weather west, with chances
for further blockades ana a cold wave.
At marks, fresh western, 22023c; stOr-
age, 1SG19c; eastern, 23M24c; nearby
and fancy, 25035c and up; jobbing, 10
11Ac higher.
In the market on beans there is no
new features. Trade is quiet, with
prices firm.
In apples there has been a good trade
of late, with Il good many apples moved
The best selected cold storage lots are
considerably firmer, with fresh arrivals
very steady to frmer.
Cranberries are rather irregular, some
sellers asking high prices, with others
selling for considerable less. Bbls, 81
$3.50; crts, 81. 5O03.50; upper prices for
jobbing lots.
For the week two crates and % re-
frigeratOrs of strawberries came for
ward. The berries have sold at from
40c to soc for best lots, with some poor
that had to be sold for less.
Rhubarb is on the market and sells
at logic per Id.
Truck and vegetables are in more
limited supply than before the recent
cold weather, and the market is gen
orally firmer.
Celery is considerably frmer at SEQ
$50 per dOZ. Spinach is little firmer
at S1.5O01.75 per Dbl, the latter price
for jobbing lots. Ka1e, 25075c per
Dbl. Beet greens are higher at 75cQ
81 per bu; dandelions, $15O@1.75 per bu.
Lettuce is firm at 60c0$1 per doZ.
Radishes are quoted at 20@30c per doz
bchs
Onions are still more firm at $2.T5@
$50 per Dbl, the latter for fancy and
jobbing. BY the bushel they are quoted
at 81. 2501. 80 per crt; Bermudas, $1.5O@
1.75 per cs.
The market on potatoes is a little
better in tone, with little change in
prices. AroostOok hebrons, 60M65c;
Green mountains sell at 65070c;
York state and northern whites, 53@55c;
Dakota reds, 53055c; double head
sweets, $1.25@1.5O.
SquaSheS continue easy at S2503O per
ton, with the jObbers selling at S1.5O0
Ito per Dbl.
CucumberS are firmer at $14016 per
100 for dollhouse No. /, with no south
ern at hand. Tomatoes are frmer at
$3.50 per crt for southern, and at 400
45c per Id for dollhouse.
Cabbages are firmer at S1.25@1.50 per
Dbl for native; savoy, $1.25 per Dbl.
Yellow turnips are firm at 75@9Oc per
Dbl; white French, $202.5O per biol;
white fiat, 3O04Oc per bu.
Egg plants are scarce and high at
$3.50 per cs. Brussels sprouts are
higher at 1Sd2Oc per bX. ArtichOkes
are quoted at S1.50per bX. Mushrooms
sell at 40G5Oc per ID. Peppers are
quoted at 50 per crt. Leeks sell at soc.
String beans are scarce and very high
at $3G4 per crt, as to size and quality.
New Bermuda potatoes are higher at
S5.5Od6 per Dbl and at S2.5O0I3 per bu,
the latter price at retail.
The pork market is a shade easier on
fresh ribs and some Of the cuts.
Here the beef market is we'll sus-
tanned, with quotations firmer. The
general report is that the market is
very we'll cleaned up.
The market on lambs and muttons
was again easy, On free arrivals, al
though trade was fairly good. Quota
ton are rather easy: Lambs, 7@71ac;
Brighton and fancy, 9010c; muttons,
6dT1hc; fancy and BrightOns, 70Sc;
veals, 6G101ac; fancy and Brightons, II
@111ac.
Poultry is in quiet demand. Turkeys
are easy. For best chickens and fowls
the demand is a little better Western
turkeys, 9d12c; fancy and northern.
121k014c; fresh chickens, fancy, 12@
15c; ordinary, 91z011c; capons, 12015c;
fresh fowls, 9013c; ducks, 1O@12c;
geese, 9G1Oc; live poultry, 901Oc.
Inc supply OF game Is sui reported
to be unusually small, with little COM
ing in. Prices are nominalIy little
changed, although generally firm
Whole deer, nominal, 1401Sc; saddles,
1S622c; grouse, S101.5O per pair; fancy,
S1.5O61.7 Per pair; quail, S2.5003 per
doz: 8IaIIard ducks, S1.2501.7 10 per pair;
black ducks, 81. 2jd1.5O; rabbits, west
ern. 1OG15c per pair; northern, 2O025c;
lacks. 5O065c; pigeons, S1.2O@1.25 per
dOz.
Flour continues dull. with prices I'M
satisfactory to everybody who sells it.
The miIlers are free to declare that all
l. H. n,c,,- Inninoc sold is naYincr more