Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-07-11
BOSTON MARKETS.
Quotations on the Leading Products in
Demand.


ket for choice fresh butter, and prices
do not show much inclination TO weak
en-. The supply is still moderate and
readily taken care of. Extra cream
cry, small pkgs, 231aM2Gc; northern
fresh, round lots. 23d23hc; western,
23c; eastern, 22hM23c; firsts, 2O621hc;
jobbers. 1kc to 1c more.
Cheese is firm and prices have adj
vanced during the week. The closing
was steady. New, 8 3-4@101ac; old,
12@13c; sage, 121s@131ac, jobbing, 1zc
to 1c higher.
Eggs are firm at about last weeks
prices. The demand is good. Western
fresh, 1TM1S1ac; eastern, 19G2 Oc; near
by and fancy. 20023c and up; jobbing,
1c to 1lkc higher.
Beans are steady here, with the coun-
try firmer. Carload lots. peas, S1.101
1.15; medium, S1.7O@1.75; yellow eyes,
S2.25M2.30; red kidneys, S2.30G2.35;
California small white, $21002.15;
jobbing, Zoe more; Lima &c per ID.
Old apples are quiet, with only small
offerings. Some new apples are selling
at 75cM$1.25 per bskt. Quotations are
fairly sustained. Ben Davis, $4N4.5O:
russets S4@5.50; No. 2, all varieties,
S2.50M3.50; very choice and jobbing
lots, 5OcG1S1 more.
California cherries sell at 7jct0S1 so:
apricots, S1M1.50; plums, S1.5ON2.jO.
The strawberry season is practically
over, though receipts are still noted
both of native and down east fruit.
They sell at 10d15c. The receipts are
not separated.
Hay is firm, with a shortage probable
In the new crop; millfeed is very firm;
straw is steady. Hay, S14M1S; fancy
and jobbing, $1S.50M20; rye straw, 81
ais; oat straw, S11M12.
There is firm and advancing market
for pork provisions; lard is higher.
Fresh beef is firm for choice heavy
cattle, with the supply short. Light
cattle are in full supply. Trade is fair
Muttons and lambs are steady in
tone, with prices fairly well held.
Lambs. 12O13c; eastern. 1oM15c; year
lings. 71A@Sc; muttons. 51aM71ac; veals,
6M10c: fancy and Brightons. ora orc.
Poultry is in fair demand at steady
prices. Broilers have advanced. Iced
turkeys. 15M Ice; iced fowls, 12N13c:
fresh native fowls, 13M151ac; south
shore and eastern broilers. 20N 23c :;
western. 1GM2ic; fresh ducks, 14d1Gc;
live fowls, 11M12c.
There is II good supply of Georgia
peaches of fine quality, which sell at
S1.5O01.15.
Watermelons are in ample supply
and sell ut 1JM25c by the load.
Rocky Ford canteloupes sell at $2.5O0
2.75 per crt.
Old potatoes are about out of the
market. though Il few are still Offering
at 0OcdS1 per bu.
New stock is i'll heavy supply. and is
easy at $2.5Om2.15 per bbl.
Onions continue firm. Egyptian. So
per bg; Bermuda, 50 per crt; new bunch,
25c per dOz.
Marrow squashes are quoted ut $50
INl NAAs Suillilitl 'lNNft = ~
per pkg for good. Cucumbers sell at
S102.50 per bX. Tomatoes are selling
at S1M1.50 per crt. Hothouse are still
on the market ut 10c per ID.
Asparagus is still Offering and sells
at S4M9 per bX of three dozen. Celery
is at wide range, from 81 for large
bchs to Doc for small. Spinach is
| no I,,, I.
at Toe per Blu. Cauliflowers are sold al
50 per doZ. Lettuce is demoralized al
5G1Jc per bX of IL doz. Radishes ale
lower at SOC per bX.
Cabbagcs sell at 81 per Dbl for Long
Island. New bunch turnips bring S20
per 100. Carrots are sold at Loo pei
bu for old, with new bunch at seas pei
100. Beets are quoted at 50 per 100 fol
new bunch. Leeks sell at 81 mint, 25C
per doz; cress, 50c; parsley, Toe pei
bx; egg plants, 50 per crt.
String beans sell at S1.50 per crit fol-
southern and S2.25 for native for botf
! green and wax. There was a furry il
green peas, owing to a small supply
| Some sold as high as $40 per Dbl. The
price later dropped to S3M3.50.
The hay crop of the states, as In
Dictated in several hundred reports t.
The Hay Trade Journal, will be fully
up TO an average tonnage except il
New England, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and the south, making the
prospects promising for good trading
year.
There has been more activity an(
strength in the Chicago grain marke
than for any week since the Letter dea
of 1895. Corn led the market, but July
wheat made a gain for the week O
about &c per bu.
The advance in wheat was caused
principally by the unfavorable croI
weather and heavy rains in the winter
wheat country. Also the prospect of
corner in July wheat is causing som,
anxiety. Some of the leading houses
are credited with having long line,
aggregating over 12,000,0 900 bus.
George II. Phillips, the corn king
says. regarding the whe6t market
| ss\Vbaat will produollv sock n biohpr