Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-05
BOSTON MARKETS.
Quotations ON the Leading Products in
Demand.

Boston, Dec 2.-There is firm mar
ket for butter, but trade is very quiet.
Extra creamery, small pkgs, 211AM2Sc;
northern fresh, round lots, 26h@271ac;
western, 25h@26Ac; eastern, 25@2Gc,
1obbing 1ac to 1c more.
Cheese is also quiet, with no change
in quotations. Round lots, 13@13hc;
sage, 13@l4c; jobbing, M@1c higher.
There Is very firm market for
choice fresh eggs and higher prices are
predicted. Storage stock is firm.
Western fresh, 26a29c; storage, 21@25c;
eastern, 30d35c; nearby and fancy, 40
@42c; 1obbDg, 1c TO 1kc higher.
Beans are easier, with a quiet de.
mand and fair supply. Carload lots,
pea, $235@2 40; medium, $235@24O;
yellow eyes, $290G3; red kidneys, S325
$3.50; California small white So GOO
2.65; jobbing, Zoe more
Apples are steady in price, with the
market still amply supplied with com
mon stock. Baldwins and greetings,
$1.2502 per Dbl; gravensteins, S2No 80;
pippins, $i01.50; Hubbardston, $1.2j6l
2; pound sweets, S1.75@2: 20-ounce,
$125M1.75: snow and weathies. S2d3;
Maine Harvies. 81 50m1 10; Kings. S26l
g. 1oman sweets, 81 50d2 %; common
apples, cooking, 25M50c; choice cat
ing 75cQ$l %. Small lots and Job
bling from soc 10 81 per Dbl more.
A few Catawba grapes are coming
forward, and sell at 1S020c. Cali
fornia empcrors sell at 81 75M2 % per
crt, ana CornichOns at $1.75m225.
Pears are about out of the market
but few are still offering in small
way from cold storage. In a jobbirg
way they the quoted at: Beurre Bosc,
$4d4.50; Beurre d'Aniou, $203.
Cranberries are firm and higher.
Barrels, $6.5OGS.5O; crts, $225Q2. 70;
jobbing, 50cM$1.
Nuts are in good supply, and sell at:
Walnuts, 11@131hc per ID; castanas. 8
G111c; fllberts. l1d12c; Texas pecans. If
@15c; almonds. 12d 13c for hard and l.,
@17c for soft shell
There is firm market for pota toes
with better demand. Houlton Green
mountains S0dS3c; .hebrons, 700 &c
per bu; York state, Green mountains
and round white GS67Oc: western, Soc.
Virginia sweet, 81 SOAP per Dbl: double
heads, $25OQ3
The supply OF Boston market celery
is not so large and prices are firmer
at 81 per long bx, three doz to the hx:
Paschel, $2M3 per long bX: white. $40
az for long bxs; caulihowers. 1.5OG2
per long bx lettuce, 81 2jG1 30 per long
bX; radishos, 75c0t$1.5O per bx.
Onions sell at 50 per bbl, with joh
bers by the bushel higher; Spanish
long crts. $21J.
Cucumbers sell at $10d12 for choice;
medium, $40G; No. .. S3N4. Hothousa
tomatoes sell at 3JGtJOc per ID.
Cabbages are quoted at soc per Dbl:
savoy, SOC per Dbl.
Marrow squashes are quoted ut So
per ton; Hubbard, 500. urban S15N2o
per ton. Pumpkins sell at pc per bX
Mushrooms are scarce, and sell at
81 5Od2 per Alb bx.
Yellow turnips sell at 75c per Dbl:
white French, 81 per Dbl: white fiat. lic
per bX, beets, J0c carrots, soc: uars
nips. 5VdGOc; egg plants. S1.5OT2 Ter
CRIT; mint, 1Ic per dOZ; crcss, SOC; parsley.
81 per bu for dollhouse; satisfy, lac per
doz; Brussels sprouts SMlOc per at.
by the crt
Southcrr string beans sell at S2M?50
per bskt for green and wax.
Spinach sells at 40c per bu: oskro. 4oc
per bu; endiVe, pc per bu. romaine, 75c
per bu; artichokes, 81 per bu.
There is an easier market for pork
provisions, with a substantial decline
for the week. Cut meats were marked
off again.
Fresh beef has been rather quiet as
usual at Thanksgiving time. Prices
are fairly steady, and an advance is
expected by the trade, though the SIT
uation indicates that it will be small
If any movement upward is made.
Muttons and lambs stiffened 40 lit
tie after Thanksgiving. the cooler
weather also helping the ma rket: vcals
are steady and unchanged Spring
lambs, 7m9c; yearlings. GM7c: muttons,
6@7c; veals, 7@1Oc; fancy and Brighton.
10hM11c.
Poultry cleaned up very well 1T
Thanksgiving time, owing to the snail
supply, and choice dry picked SOLD mt
very good prices For the same reason
prives have held up well with fair
demand. The quotations are West
ern turkeys, 1S0l9c; northern fowls.
l4Ml5c; chickens, western. 14G13c;
northern, 1Sd20c; iced turkeys, 1701Sc;
fowls, 13M14c; chickens, 100 loo; ducks,
l5@17c; Rhode Island geese, 15c; live
fowls, l0hM11c.
There is still fair supply of venson
offering; whole deer selling at l501Sc.
with saddles at 2O@25c, and legs at %
02Sc, with skins on. Bear meat sells
at l5dlSc for whole carCasses. Moose
meat is quoted al 10d12c for the whole
animal There is fair supply OF
game. Black ducks sell at LOCAL -
per pair; red headed ducks. $3.50:
widgeon, $1@1 20; tenl, $ll0 Philadel-