News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-07-17
BOSTON MARKETS.

Boston, July 16.-The butter marker
is quiet, with an unsatisfactory demand.
The holders of the best creameries are
inclined to put them in cold storage,
rather than sell for zoe, which is about
all that the market will bring for round
lots of the best. Quotations are nom
inally unchanged. Extra creamery,
small packages, 20hG21c; northern
fresh, round lots, 2OQ2Ohc; western,
zoe; eastern, 20c; dairies, 17It1Sc; firsts,
l6Gl7c; ladies, 1141Gc; jObbing, 1zQ1c
more.
For cheese the demand is rather light,
but the position Of sellers is very steady,
and it is well known that the supply is
in pretty strong hands. Round lots,
new, 9010c; jobbing, 1201c higher
Eggs are very firm on the best fresh
stock, but the market is not yet free
from the heated stock of the recent hot
weather. But such stock has mostly
disappeared, with the market in better
shape. At marks, fresh western, ia
1Jc; eastern, 1JGf17c; nearby and fancy,
1142Oc and up; jobbing, ld115c higher
New apples are coming forward rather
slowly from the south, aud the quality
Is small and unsatisfactory. The best
lots sell at $1Q1.25 per bushel basket,
but some lots go hard at 5OGl75c. Some
are being received in small baskets and
sell at 40M5Oc.
There is small supply Of California
pears on the market, and they sell at
S3.2503.75 per box by the jobbers. Cali
fornia peaches are in fair supply for the
season, and sell by the jobDers and
dealers at 1JcQL$1. % per crate. Georgia
peaches are here, in G-basket carriers,
and these job at $1.75M225.
There is a pretty full supply of Cali
fornia plums and pruues. They job all
the way from 81 to $1.75 per crate.
ApricOts are sold at $12J01lO Cali
fornia cherries are rather scarce, and
the markets. nominal. Neither is there
/ full supply of native cherries.
Strawberries are fast approaching the
| end Of the season. They sell at 100
1Jc, with very fancy as high as poe.
RaspbTries are fairly plenty for the
j
! pints, SMl0c in crate lots. Bluebelries
4 are very plenty, and the market is easy
at 1O0l3c, with very fancy at 14c.
BlackberrieS are also plenty, with the
quality fine. They sell in crate lots at
1OM13c for good to best. There is a
full supply of currants at hand, and the
market is overloaded and easy. They
sell slowly at JUGc in crate lots, with
4 fancy cherry currantS little higher.
/ GooSeberries are in pretty full supply,
and sell at 507c.
Potatoes are quoted at 50. 1913 for
best rose, with inferior and red and
white at S2025O per barrel. They are
still coming from Norfolk and the east
ern shore with no Bristol Ferries vet at
hand.
Onions are 1irmer, with Egyptian adj
Vanced to $2Cd250 per bag. Barrel on
ions are quoted at So. Bunch onions
are quoted at SOC per bag.
Celery sells at soc per bunch for big
punches. Spinach is quoted at 20c per
bushel by the iobbers and dealers. Let
tuce is quoted at 15c per dozen. Rad
isles sell at SOC per box.
Marrow SquaShes are sold at 50 per
barrel Native squashes are on the
market at $5@S per 100. Cucumbers
sell at 50 per 100 orper box. Tomatoes
are quoted at 12c per pound for hot
house, with crates at from $102JO, as
to style and quality.
/ Cabbages are drug. Native are on
the market. and sell at 4GI5c per head in
round lots. 1urnipS are quoted at 81
per barrel for yellow. with other va
rietics about ont of the market. Beets
sell at $l.50 for bunch beets, with "cut
off, beets at 81 per box. Carrots are
! quoted at Sl.5O per box. Parsnips are
out of the market
/ String beans sell at a wide range
of prices, from soc to $3.50 per basket,
or box. Green peas are tirmer for good
They sold at $t25U1.JO per bushel for
, good to choice, though some poor ones
were cleaned up at SOC
The pork situation is a firm one, with
hogs considerably higher. Shoulders
are advanced, with other items firm at
stronger prices.
The beef market is a good deal firm
err, with the supply the thoroughly well
sold out. Prices are at least 1-4c higher,
with conditions indicating a still strong
err market.
The mutton market made very de-
cided advance, with the supply
thoroughly sold up. The demand was
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