Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-05-01
TN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

Boston, April S0.-Butter has made
. still further decline. fully &c per
pound In week, or 83c week ago
against 24c at present Extra cream
cry, small pkgs. 24@24hc: northern
fresh, round lots, 23A@24c; western,
2SQ23hc; eastern, 23@23Ac; hrsts,
20Q23c; renovated, 22@22Ac; jobbers,
Nc to 1c more.
Cheese is very firm, under limited
supply, with a high foreign market.
Round lots, 12@13lAc; sage, 12AN lac;
jobbing, h@1c higher.
Eggs are rather easy, but there is a
demand for storage that cannot be
supplied. 1t is explained that consider
able storing is being done in the west.
hence the eggs do not reach the east
ern markets. Western fresh, 17@1714c;
eastern, 171a@18c; nearby and fancy.
2OQ23c and up; jobbing, 1c to 1Ac
higher.
Beans are firmer, with a fair trade.
Apples are getting toward the end of
the season, and yet the receipts are
large for the season. Prices are firm
for good stock, with the tendency
strong. Baldwins, $4.5OQ5; ordinary
to good, $3.50@4.50; No. 2, all varieties,
| $2.5OQS; mixed lots $3.25@3.75; very
choice and jobbing lots, 5Oc@$1 more.
Under the very high prices of mill
feed. hay is we'll sustained, with straw
steady. A premiunI Of 81 a ton is
readily paid on spot and nearby feed.
Hay, $12@1S; fancy and jobbing, $3.50
Q10.5O; rye straw, $16.50Q17.50; oat
straw, $11@12.
Pork products are still further ad-
vanced, under higher cost of hogs.
Boston packers have paid the farmers
here &c per Id for dressed hogs, while
only few years ago they were bought
as low as 31zc. Hogs in the west are
| equally high
Beef is very firm, though trade Is dull.
Buyers have held Off as much as pos
sible, under the feeling that the cost
is too great
Mutton and lamb continue to rule at
high prices as we'll as beef, though
lambs are shade easier, with NUT
tons firm and veals easy. Lambs, II
012c; fancy and Brightons, 11k@12lac;
spring lambs, eastern, $3@S; western,
14Q15ci yearlings, 11012c; muttons
10k@12c; fancy, 12@12kc; veals, ga
Toe; fancy and Brightons, 1O61OAc.
The poultry market rules steady, with
a pretty good demand, considerably
helped by the high prices on beef and
mutton. Quotations are firm. Fur
keys, frozen, 1o@17c; western chick
ems, 12M l4c; fowls, 11@12kc; iced
fowls, 12M12hc; fresh fowls 12h@
13l3c; live fowls. 12M131sc.
Strawberries were firmer byreason OF
limited receipts. They sold at 35M4Oc,
In crate lots, Atretail they were selling
at 2oM40c per bx, according to size and
| quality.
Onions are very firm. Natives are
quoted at $4M4.5O per Dbl for good:
bushels. $1.25@1.5O; Egyptian, $2.75@
3; Bermudas $2.3503; Spanish, small
crts, $1.25@l.5O.
Potatoes are very firm, with higher
prices quoted Best stock. Green
mountains, $1.05; Hebrons, $10l1 .O5;
rose, 9ScM$l; York state white SS@9Oc;
Dakotas. S5MSSc; silver dollars, SSGl
90c; magnums, $2.5O@275 per by;
South Carolina sweet, $4,000 per crt ;
new Bermudas, $6.5O@7 per Dbl.
Truck and vegeta bles are generally in
good supply. Celery Is quoted at soc
SIPS per doz; spinach $1@1 25 per bbl
kale, SOC; asparagus, $30G per doz, as
to quality and size Of punches; lettuce,
25@75c per doz; radishes, $1.25; beet
green's, 30c per bx; dandelions, oO0o5c;
new cabbages, $3.50 per crt; old, 81 per
Dbl; red, 81 per bx; cucumbers, $4@6
per 100; tomatoes, crts, S25OQ3; hot
house. 25c per Id; peppers, $3.50 per
crt; egg plants, $3.50 per crit; mush-
rooms, Soc; squashes very firm, $40
per ton; per 100 lbs, $6.5OQ7; satisfy,
81 per doz; leeks. 75c per doz: Canada
yellow turnips, 81 per Dbl; white
French, soc per bx; white fiat and
globe white, roc per bx; beets, 1.75 per
blu; carrots, S1G1.25: parnsips 4oc yer
bu; mint, 75c per doz; cress, 75c per
| uOA, pdIoIey, Fl per Uu SoutleIl SlrlllS
beans, $50 per crt; wax beans, 2.50@3;
green peas, $2M3 per crt for California.
as to quality; rhubarb, So per 100 lbs,
Outside of crop reports there is lit.
tie that is new in the wheat situation
Exporters are scarcely bidding up tt
full quotations, while heavy clearances
from nearly all ports indicate tina,
there will be no actual shortage of thai
grain. The interior movement OF
wheat is light with the idea that tie
farmers are not giving their attentio
tu the marketing of wheat, but tina
later there will be a scramble to ge,
their savings of wheat into the sea-
board markets before new wheat be-
gins.
The flour market is little changed
though trade has ruled dull for severa
days, with the jobbers and grocer:
buying only on their actual necessi
ties. 1t is understood that nearly one
third of the capacity of the Minnea