St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-04-30
BOSTON MARKETS.

! pound in a week, or 33c week ago
against 24c at present Extra cream
cry, small pkgs, 24Q241ac; northern
fresh, round lots, 231a@24c; western,
23@23Kc; eastern, 23@23Ac; ftrsts,
22023c; renovated, 22d221ac; jobbers,
1ac to 1c more.
Cheese is very firm under a limited
supply, with high foreign market.
Round lots, 12@131ac; sage, 12A@14c;
jobbing, 1a@1c higher.
Eggs are rather easy, but there is a
demand for storage that cannot he
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, 17017hc;
eastern, 171a@18c; nearby and fancy.
20023c and up; jobbing, 1c to 11zc
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, $4.5065; ordinary
to good, $3.5O0450; No. 2, all varieties,
$2.50@3; mixed lots, $32503.75; very
choice and jobbing lots, 5Oc0$1 more.
Under the very high prices of mill
feed, hay is well sustained, with straw
steady. A premiuns of 81 a ton is
readily paid on spot and nearby feed.
Hay, $12018; fancy and jobbing, $3.50
@19.5O; rye straw, $16.5O0175O; oat
straw, $11@12.
Pork products are still further ad-
vanced, under higher cost Of hogs.
Boston packers have paid the farmers
here DC per ID for dressed hogs, while
only few years ago they were bought
as low as SIC. Hogs in the west are
equally high.
Beef is very firm, though trade is dull
Buyers have held off as much as DOS
sible, under the feeling that the cost
is too great.
Mutton and lamb continue to rule at
high prices, as well as beef, though
lambs are a shade easier, with NUT
tons firm and veals easy. Lambs, Ii
012c; fancy and Brightons, 11Hd12hc;
spring lambs, eastern, $30S; western,
l4gl5c; yearlings, 11@12c; muttons.
lOA012c; fancy, 12@12kc; veals, ga
Zoe; fancy and Brightons, 1O01Ohc.
The poultry market rules steady, with
a pretty good demand, considerably
helped by the high prices on beef and
mutton. Quotations are firm. Tur-
keys, frozen, 15017c; western chick
ems, 12Q14c; fowls, 11012Ac; iced
fowls, 120121ac; fresh fowls, 1910
131ac; live fowls, 126131bc.
Strawberries were frmerbyreasono of
limited receipts. They sold at 3514Oc.
in crate lots. Atretail they were selling
at 25@4Oc per bx, according to size and
quality.
Onions are very firm. Natives are
quoted at $4@4.50 per Dbl for good;
bushels, $1.2501.5O; Egyptian, S2.750
3; Bermudas, $23503; Spanish, small
crts, $1.2501.50.
Potatoes are very firm, with higher
prices quoted. Best stock, Green
mountains, $105; Hebrons, $1G1. O5:
rose, 9Sc'4$1; York state white, S809Oc;
Dakotas, S50SSc; silver dollars, SSGI
soc; magnums, $25O0275 per bg;
South Carolina sweet, $4,000 per crt;
new Bermudas, $650@7 per Dbl.
Truck and vegetables are generalIyin
good supply. Celery is quoted at soc
S125 per doz; spinach, $1@1.25 per Dbl;
kale, SOC; asparagus, $500 per doz, as
to quality and size of punches; lettuce,
25d75c per doz; radishes, $1.25; beet
greens, SOC per bx; dandelions. 2OGa5c:
new cabbages, $3.50 per crt; old, 50 per
Dbl; red, 81 per bx; cucumbers $4G6
per 100: tomatoes, crts, $25003; hot
house, 25c per lb; peppers, $3.50 per
crt; egg plants, $3.50 per crt; mush-
rooms, SOC; squashes very firm, $40
per ton; per 100 lbs, $6.5O67; satisfy.
81 per doz; leeks, 75c per doz; Canada
yellow turnips, 81 per Dbl; white
French, SOC per bX; white fiat and
globe white, 75c per bx; beets, 1.75 per
bu; carrots, $1@125; parnsips, 40c Der
bu; mint 75c per doz; cress, 75c per
doz; parsley, 81 per bu; southern string
beans, ESQ per crt; wax beans, 250@3;
green peas, $2d3 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 I'D to
full quotations, while heavy clearances
from nearly all ports indicate that
there will be no actual shortage Of that
grain. The interior movement of
wheat is light, with the idea that the
farmers are not giving their attention
to the marketing of wheat, but that
later there will be a scramble to get
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 several
days, with the jobbers and grocers
buying only on their actual necessi-
ties. 1t is understood that nearly one
third of the capacity of the Minnea-
polls Touring mills is shut down, and
shut down wholly on the low prices
of flour, as compared with what they
have to pay for milling wheat.
After a very sharp advance early in
the week, corn is again easier, with
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