St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-12-03
BOSTON MARKETS.

northern fresh, round lots, 261$@271sc;
western, 2512@26Ac; eastern, 25@2Gc;
jobbing, Zee to 1c more.
Cheese is also quiet, with no change
in quotations. Round lots, 13@13Ac;
sage, 13@14c; jobbing, 1z@1c higher.
There is a very firm market for
choice fresh eggs and higher prices are
predicted. Storage stock is firm.
Western fresh, 26029c; storage, 21025c;
eastern, 30035c: nearby and fancy, 40
@42c; jobbiDg, 1c to 11ac higher.
Beans are easier, with quiet de-
mand and fair supply. Carload lots,
pea, $235@2.4O; medium, $2.35@240;
yellow eyes, $290@3; red Kidneys $3.25
$3.50; California small white, $4,000
2.65; jobbing, 10c more.
Apples are steady in price, with the
market still amply supplied with com
mon stock. Baldwins and greetings,
$125Q2 per Dbl; eravensteins $202 50;
pippins, $iQ1.50; Hubbardston, $1.25Q
2; pound sweets, $17502; 20-ounce,
$1.2501,75; snow and wealthies, S263:
Maine Harvies, $150@1.7 Kings. S20Q
3; Tolman sweets, $15002.2 common
apples, cooking, 25@50c; choice eat
ing, 75c@$1,25. Small lots and job
bling from SOC to 81 per Dbl more.
A few Catawba grapes are coming
forward, and sell at $4,000. Cali
fornia emperors sell at $1.75@2.25 per
crt, and Cornichons at S1.75@2.25.
Pears are about out of the market,
but a few are still offering in a small
way from cold storage. In iobbing
way they the quoted at: Beurre Bose,
$4@4.5O; Beurre dAnjou, $2@3.
Cranberries are firm and higher.
Barrels, $6.5O0S50; crts, $2.256275;
jobbing, 5Oc0$1.
Nuts are in good supply, and sell at:
Walnuts, 11@131ac per lib; castanas, 8
@11c; filberts, l1@12c; Texas pecans, II
015c; almonds, 12013c for hard and Il
Ollie for soft shell.
There is a firm market for potatoes,
with better demand. Houlton Green
mountains, S00S3c; hebrons, 70073c
per bu; York state, Green mountains
and round white, 6S@70c: western, 65c;
Virginia sweet, $15002 per Dbl; double
heads, S25003.
The supply of Boston market celery
is not so large and prices are frmer,
at 81 per long bX, three doz to the bx;
Pascl'el, 5000 per long bx; white, S1.50
02 for long bxs; cauifowers, 81 .5002
per long bx; lettuce, 81 2501 80 per long
bx; radishes, 75cd$1.5O per bx.
Onions sell at So per Dbl, with job
bers by the bushel higher; Spanish
long crts, 1915.
Cucumbers sell at $10@12 for choice;
medium, $40G; No. 2, $304. Hothouse
tomatoes sell at 35M50c per ID.
Cabbages are quoted at Coo per Dbl:
savoy, SOC per Dbl.
Marrow squashes are quoted at So
per ton; Hubbard, 500; turban, S150l20
per ton. Pumpkins sell at 25c per bx.
Mushrooms are scarce, and sell at
Sl.DUuZ per IBID DX.
Yellow turnips sell at 75c per Dbl:
white French, 81 per Dbl; white fiat, 25c
per bx, beets, SOC; carrots, SOC; pars-
nips, 50d60c; egg plants, $1.50d2 Ter
crt; mint, Toe per doz; cress, SOC; parsley,
81 per bu for dollhouse; satisfy, TIC per
doz; Brussels sprouts, S010c per at,
by the cTt.
Southern string beans sell at $2(G2. 50
per bskt for green and wax.
Spinach sells at 40c per bu; eskro, 40c
per bu; endive, 25c 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 sti(fened un lit
tie after Thanksgiving, the cooler
weather also helping the market; vcals
are steady and unchanged. Spring
lambs, 7@9c; yearlings, care; muttons,
607c; veals, 7010c; fancy and Brighton,
10H011c,
Poultry cleaned up very we'll ut
Thanksgiving time, owing to the snail
supply, and choice dry picked sold at
very good prices, For the same reason
prives have held up we'll with a fair
demand. The quotations are: West
ern turkeys, 16@19c; northern fowls,
14@15c; chickens, western, 14G16c;
northern, 1S020c; iced turkeys, 17Gl1Sc,
fowls, 13014c; chickens, 13015c; ducks,
15017c; Rhode Island geese, 15c; live
fowls, 10RGl11c.
There is still fair supply of venison
offering; whole deer selling at 156l1Sc,
with saddles at 20025c, and legs at %
02Sc, with skins on. Bear meat sells
at 15M1Sc for whole carcassos. Moose
meat is quoted at 1OG12c for the whole
animal. There is fair stpply of
game Black ducks sell at $1.G0Gl1 -
per pair; red headed ducks, $3.50:
widgeon, $1@1.25; teal, $1.1O. Philadel-
phia squad are firm at $4,000 per
doz, with natives at $303.5O; quail, 81
per doz; plover, scar per doz.
There is a continued firm market for
choice hay, with low grades dull and