Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-09-08
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

Boston, Butter is fairly
steady, with pretty full offerings. The
stock is generally good, however, and
will bear storing, il it does not sell
readily. Extra creamery, small pkgs,
2lR022c; northern fresh, round lots,
21@21Ac; western, 2OA@21c; eastern,
2OA@21c; firsts, 19@19Ac; jobbers, nc
to lie more
cheese is firm with trade fair. Round
lots, lo@1O 3-4c; sage, 10 3-4@11hc;
jobbing, .A@1c higher.
Eggs are firmer. with the supply
more limited. Western fresh, 1S@21c;
eastern, 22@24c; nearby and fancy, %
Q2Ic and up; jobbing, lie to 11ac higher.
Beans are in quiet demand, pretty
full supply and barely steady. Carload
iots, pea, W; medium, 50; yellow eyes,
$2.4o@2.5O; red kidneys, S2.75@2. so;
California small white, $2.2O@2. %;
JoDDlng, lOc more; Lima, 4@5c per- lib.
The apple market is easier. 1t is
rlght In the season of fall fruit, and
the pretty full prices of a few days ago
nave drawn a good many apples to
market. Every farmers wagon has
been loaded with boxes Of apples for
several days, and apples that must be
sold Astrachans, $1.75@2; williams,
S2.5Od3; pippins, $1.5O@2 %; sweet
boughs, $2G2.50; gravensteins, 500
275 per Dbl; bx apples, 25@75c.
1t is now certain that the crop of
pears in this section at least is small.
The receipts are small and prices firm.
Native Bartletts, $4,000. 25 per Dbl; per
bu, $1@1.25; California pears, $4,000
per bx.
reaches are in smaller receipt than
year ago, with the market pretty firm.
Delawares sell at 75c@$1.5O per bskt,
with Jobbing higher. Georgia peaches
are nearly over. There have been
few Connecticuts in the market. and
sold at $1.50@2.5O per crit, as to quality.
Plums are in only fair supply, with
CALIFORNIA; jobbing at $1.5O@2.5O per
crit, as to quality. Native plums sell at
507c in crts for OTIS, with Damsons,
etc., on the market at 75c@$1 % for
peach basket sizes. There are still
few prunes on the market at $1@1. so
per crit.
Grapes are getting to be pretty
plenty. They sell at $1.5O01.75 for
Delawares; Brightons, $1@1. 25; Nj
agaras, 75c@$1.25; Moore's Early and
Wordens, 75c@$1; baskets of black
grapes, 10@13c.
Blueberries are in short supply, with
the market better at 12@14c. Black
berries are about out of market on
good, with some inferior lots selling at
1O012c. New cranberries are at hand
and have sold at $275@3 per crt.
Canteloupes are in smaller receipt,
with many of the varieties done for
the season, Rockyfords and limitations
being the main supply. Genuine Colo
RADIO Rockyfords are coming, and sell
at $2.50G4 per crit, with imitation
Rockyfords for much less.
Potatoes are fairly steady, with
sweet in full supply and easy. The
quality of the sweet potatoes Offering
is tine, and at present prices consumers
will do well to use them. Hebrons and
round white, 45@5Oc per bu; Green
mountains, 50@55c; barrels, 81. GOAL .G5:
Virginia sweet, $1.5002 per Dbl.
Onions are in full supply and easy,
with native quoted at $1.50@1.75 per
Dbl; per Blu, 700S0c. There are still a
rev Egyptian onions on the market,
but they are scarcely quotable.
Celery is jobbed at 75c@$1 per doz:
spinach, 15c per bx; lettuce, the market
In bad shape at 10c per doz; radishes.
25c per bx; caulifiowers, 50c0$1 per bx.
Cabbages sell at 75c@$1 per bb,, or at
$4@45O per 100. Cucumbers continue
in full supply at 5Oc@$1 per bx. To-
matoes are plenty and very fine. They
sell at 5O675c per bx.
Squashes sell at $1@1. so per Dbl. FOR
marrow; turban So; Bay state. 50;
summer about SOC per 100. Peppers
sell at about SOC per bx; small picking
onions, S203.50 per blu, according to
quality; Gerkins, SOC and upward. ac-
cording to quality and size of package.
Egg plants sell at $1.25 per Dbl; white,
50075c per bu; beets, 35c per bu; car
rots, 4O050c; leeks, 40c per doz; pars-
nips, 75c@$1 per blu.
String beans sell at 50c0$1 per bx:
butter beans, 50c@$1; shell beans. soc
@S1; green corn, 25@5Oc per blu.
The pork situation is little changed.
with lard lower and hams easier.
The beef market is very easy on light
and medium grades, with a very full
supply at hand. But still choice heavy
sides are scarce and firm and bring full
quotations.
Mutton and veal are fairly steady,
with lambs in full supply and easy.
Spring lamb, 9kM1O1kc; fancy, lie; fall
lamb, Sh@9c; yearling. 607Ac; NUT
ton, 6A@711c; veais, 9@1Oc; fancy and
Brighton, 1O@1Onc.
Poultry is in pretty full supply and
easy. Iced turkeys, 15M16c; iced
fowls and chickens, 13@131ac; fresh ma
tive fowls, 13@16c; chickens, 100 iSc:
south shore and eastern broilers 1917
21c; heavy eastern chickens, 2O62oc;
western. 15@17c; fresh ducks 15@17c;
live fowls and chickens, 11@12c.