Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-05-29
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

CnBnge0, WITH the Ieellng ratner easy,
on account of the fact that the season
of the best creameries is close at hand,
as well as the season of plenty. Extra
creamery, small pkgs, 23h@24ihc;
northern fresh round lots, 23623iac;
western, 23c; eastern, 23c; frsts, 2lM
22c; renovated, 2o@22hc; jobbers, Nc
to 1c more.
Cheese is firm and unchanged. The
season of new cheese is beginning with
rather moderate arrivals. Round lots,
~ 1-4@13Mc; new, 11M@12c; sage, 12h
@14c; jobbing, A@lc higher.
Eggs are in firm position. and prices
are high, especially for storing 1t Is
suggested that not the usual volume of
eggs has gone into cold storage so far.
by reason Of the high prices. Western
fresh, 16N617hc; eastern, 1918 Lac;
nearby and fancy, 19d22c and up; job
bling. &c to Inc higher.
Beans are in quiet demand, with
prices about steady.
Apples continue slow Of sale, with the
arrivals also small. Prices are firm by
reason of high cost. Baldwins. $3.50
M5.5O; Ben Davis, $464.50; russcts,
$4Q5; No. 2, all varieties, $2.H003. 25;
very choice and jobbing lots. 50c@$1
more.
New California cherries are on the
market and sell at 81 256S 90 per crt.
Strawberries are abundant and sell
at pretty low prices. Generally. they
are coming from Virginia and Mary
land. but a few choice Delawares have
been received. Choice Candles and
Hoffmans bring the highest prices. At
retail they sell all the way from 12c per
bx up to 3Oc for choice. The quality Of
the strawberries is expected to improve
rapidly now, under warmer weather.
Cranberries are scarce and sell at
S3.75M4.5O per crt. There are none COM
ing forward.
There is very little change to note in
the market on pork and lard, with a
fair trade going on, considering the very
high prices.
The beef market is firm. In some in
stances the best sides are selling at
II lac, or 121ac for the binds and 1Oc
for the forequarters. But this ia a high
price and buyers hold of from paying
it.
The mutton market Is a little. easier
though quotations are very little
changed. Lambs, 12613c: fancy and
Brightons, 13@13Mc; spring lambs. east
ern, $3G7; western. 14915c: yearlngs.
Halle; muttons. 1l012c: veals, 6t1oc;
fancy and Rrightons, sa01oHc.
The poultry market is quiet, with not
very large offerings. Prices are steady,
with alive firm. Iced turkeys, l8017c;
iced fowls. 12kM13c: frozen fowls nd
chickens. l2013c; fresh native fowls. IA
d15c: south shore chickens, 2OG25c; live
fowls. 12d12hc.
Onions are not quite as firm at S3@
3.25 per By for Egyptian: Bermudas,
$1.15 per crt.
Potatoes are sustained at the recent
advance Best stock, Green mountains,
S1,o5@11O; Hebrons. 81: Dakotas. IS
assoc: Chenangoes, Soc; York state
white, 90c@S1; magnuma s225f2. so
per Big: new Bermudas. $3d5 per Dbl;
per blu, 81 .50@2.5 so; Carolina sweet,
S3@3.5o per CRIT.
Truck and vegetables are in good
early summer supply with more Of ma.
tive and less of southern in the market.
Celery sells at s161.hO per bnh for big
punches. as to size and quality. Cauli-
flowers are on the market at So per doz
Spinach is very low at sc per BIZ dH nde.
lions. Soc; kale, CSC; beet greens, CSC.
Asparagus Is less plenty and sells all
the way from S. to IS per crt, as TO size
and quality. New southern ca bbages
are quoted at $1501l.75 per crt. Gu
cumbers are quoted at 81. SOFAS per bx,
as to quality and quantity. Tomatoes
are firm at So per crit for southern,
with native dollhouse at 15c per ID;
peppers. $3.50 per CRIT egg plants, So 80
per crit; mushrooms, ST per Id; leeks
Toe per doz.
Summer squashes bring $2625O per
crt, as to quality. Canada yellow tur-
nips are almost out of market at 81 %
also per Dbl. White French sell at
S1.25 per Dbl. White fiat and globe
bunch sell at 81 per doz: bunch beets,
81 per doz for native; southern, 6Oc per
doz; old carrots, 75c per bx: new bunch,
s1.50 per doz; parsnips, 75cG$1 80 per
bx as to quality; mint 35c per doz;
cress. 35c; parsley. 10c per bx: southern
string beans. $1,5Od2 per crt; wax
beans, $l.50G2. Green peas are rather
easy at $1d1.75 per bskt, as to quality
and condition. Rhubarb sells at 81 per
| 100 lbs.
A pretty firm hay market is continued
Straw is not plenty, in the way of the
best rye straw, and the market IL firm.
Millfeed is firm. with even higher quo
tations on some grades. Hay. Sf211S:
fancy and jobbng, S1S50@10.5O: rye
straw, $17M1S; ont straw, SLAP,
In considering the market on -four,
the fact must not be lost Sight of that
cash wheat at Minneapolis, the actual
grain of which spring wheat -four is
made-not Chicago options--is Just as
Fl rm as it has been of late. Again the
winter wheat position is very firm. with
winter wheat nours costing as ouch as
spring wheat -four, a condition of the
market hich is rare. This comes from
the scarcity and high cost Of winter
wheat. 1t Is now figured that the crop
of winter wheat, though generally be-
licved to have been q large one, is
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