Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-06-23
in HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

continues rather easy, under Z. ore lib
eral offerings, though the supply is
scarcely up to the usual one Of the June
season. Extra creamery, lail nkgs,
23@2312c; northern fresh, round lots,
221aQ23c; western, 22kM23c; e: stem,
2219c; firsts, 20@22c; jobbers, &c to 1c
more.
Cheese continues steady, with a fair
demand. Round lots, 130t3;Ac; new.
110111sc; sage, 1212@14c; iOobing. lzM
lie higher
Eggs are firm under a rather short
supply. All along the demand has been
we'll up to the supply, with the volume
going into store less than in former
seasons. Western fresh, 17BM1Sc;
eastern, 1S@19c; nearby and fancy, 20
@23c and up; jobbing, lie to 11ac higher.
Beans are little firmer in the coun-
try, with this market about steady.
Apples are in quiet request, but the
supply is small and high prices are real
lied. Receipts are small having been
but 167 bbls for the week; same week
last year, 1876 bbls Quotations are
firm. Ben Davis, $464 30: 1us sets, 81
$3.50; No. 2, all varieties, $2.50@3.50;
very choice and jobbing lots, 50cG$1
more.
There are few southern blueberrieS
at hand of rather poor quality, and sell
ing slowly at 10@12c per ct in crate
lots. Southern blackberries are also
hero ond SoI1inC at 12m1Sc
Strawberries are about done coming
from Jersey, and now the natives and
Hudson rivers are at hand. They sold
in crit lots from 12c to 3Jc, The LITTER
price for fancy Marshalls. which were
very fine. These same berries retailed
for from Soc to SOC.
Rhubarb is getting toward the end of
the season, and sells at S1@1.50 per bx,
as to quality.
Old potatoes ere firm, with new pretty
steady. Houlton Green mountains, S16n
Ito; York state, soc; Dakotas, 65175c;
hebrons, 75@S5c; extra new, S414 %
per Dbl; fair to good, $3.5003.75; peach
blows, $3@3.50; reds, $2.75G3.
Onions continue firm at So 121kGI3.2 %
for Egyptian; Bermuda, $175@2 per
crt; new bunch, SOC per bx.
The supply of watermelons is large
for the season. They sell at 25G30c, as
to quality.
Southern canteloupeS are also in very
full supply for SO early in the season.
They have been selling at $2.5Od3 per
crt. Marrow squashes ore here in
pretty good supply, from the couth, and
the high prices of squashcs that pre-
vailed last winter ought to break. They
sell at S1.75 per crt. Summer sqnashes
are in pretty good supply, and sell at
$ld3 per pkg, as to size and quality.
There is pretty good supply Of gem
eral truck on the market. Celery is
quoted at $1.25 per bch; spinach. 2oc per
Blu; beet green's, 15c per bx; caulitlowor rs
are higher at $102 per doz. Lettuce is
| at wide range, from Toe to 25c per Coz
heads. Radishes sell at 4Oc per bx.
| Cabbages are sold at So 2572 80 for crts
and bbLs. Cucumbers are easier N 81 o.
$3.50 per bx. Tomatoes are more plen-
ty, with the Mississippies selling at nOc
/ (1S1 per CRIT, and other varieties I'D TO So,
as to quality. Hothouse are QUO ted at
15c per Id.
Canada yellow turnips ere scarce and
sell at So per Dbl. White french are out
of market. White fiat, new, sell at ST
01.25 per bx. New bunch Hing seas
per 100. Carrots are quoted st S1.2J
per bu, with new bunch ut ,jOcd$1 per
100. BeetS are quoted at 81 or 1CO for
new bunch. Leeks sell at 75c: mint. Soc
per doz; cress, 40c; parsley, 25c per bx;
southern string beans, $1.5O per crt:
wax beans, $1@1.25 per crt; green peas,
$l75@3 per CRIT or pkg, rs to size and
quality. Egg plants are q1oted at So so.
The pork position is very firm one
with still higher prices I,oted. Hogs
reached the highest known record last
week.
The beef position is very firm, not
withStanding it has been hard for the
trade to sustain the full advance. Cat.
tie in the west have made a,lotbr re-
markable high record, reaching So. 10 fol
prime steers. This price has been paid
by butcher outside of any ''big four
or any other form of combination. II
is also suggested that cattle are even
going higher. Choice steers Lave also
sold at high prices here, returns fgur-
ing up to II 3-4c and 12c Cor whole
sides, though the market has hardly
been Quotable at that price. One ex.
ceeuingly choice steer has been sold al
be. Higher prices than .dotations are
being obtained.
The mutton market is only fairly
steady, it being hard to sustain prices
so high. Muttons and warnings are
positively lower, with lambs only fair
ly sustained. Fall lambs, 13@13Kc
fancy and Brightons, 13A@14c: sprine
lambs, 12@15c; eastern, $207 each
yearlings, 71h@81Ac; muttons, 7kMSsc
veals, 6@10c; fancy and Erigl tens
9ta@101Ac.
Poultry continues to be wei sus
tained with the receipts not heavy
| Iced turkayS 15n17c. icad fowls 1O1