Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

IOW lNt, JluDlllS, f2ttiN ulolt.
Cheese is steady and unchanged, with
quiet demand. Round lots, new, 10
Q1ic; jobbing, hnlc higher.
Eggs are in fair demand at firm
prices. Western fresh, 17Ml0c; castcrl,
yIM25c jobbing, 1ml1ac higher.
Beans are quiet but steady. Carload
lots pea. $2.25n230; medium, $3.50;
yellow eyes, $2.30W2.95; red Kidneys,
S345G3.55; California small white, SIG
M2.6j foreign pea and medium. SO
OPS; jobbing, 1Uc more.
Apples are in liberal supply ant
prices are easy, though not much
changed. Maine Astrachan, Sl.50m
?.25; duchess. S2I2 so; sweet hough, !?
az 30 Williams, SO 5OJ3.50 per Dbl,
tnd 15cdS1.25 per blu; maidens blush,
s1.75M2.25.
A few blueberres are still Offering
and bring 1OM13c.
Maryland peaches bring S1M1 % per
bskt, and Hudson rivers sell at S1.25
q LOO per 6-bskt carrier.
CNntalo1pes sell at 75cGS1.50, as to
quality and condition.
Cianberries are quoted at S2.50M2.75
Ter bx.
Grapes are in full supply. Moore's
early are quoted at socm$1 per S
bskt carrier; Delaware, S16I1 70;
Niagara, 75c0$1; Champion, 12iac per
bskt.
California plums are quoted Mt s1.50
G2.50 per bx; peaches. S1.25T1.50.
Bartlett pears. $3.5OU4; Tokay grapes.
Sl75d2.25: Malaga grapes, S17od
30.
Potatoes are easy in price, with the
arrivals free. AroostoolS hebronS ard
Green mountains, 65c: Jersey hebrons
and round white. 65c; Dbl stock, S1..J
o.: yellow sweets. S2d2.5o.
Native celery is selling at 81 per doz
bchs.
Onions are quoted at: Native, bu,
00c; bunch onions, 50c per bX.
dollhouse tomatoes are lower. Mt SGf
12Ac per ID: southern, 75cM$1 per crit;
native, per bX. S2u3.
Cucumbers sell at $103 per hx, all
eizes.
Yellow turnips are quoted at $3.50
per bbl, and 7jcMS1 per bu; white
75c per bu: beets. 90c per bu bunch
beets, 1l4c; carrots, 81 per bu bunch
carrots, &c: bunch parsnps, SOC per doz (.
parsnips, $3.50 per bu.
Marrow sQuashes are quoted Mt 81 o5
per Dbl; crooknocis. 25c PEI doz; white,
25c per doz: Bay state, $3.50.
CabbaC es are selling at 81 2561 20
per crit; $Sd12 per 100; Savoy. $1.5O per
Dbl; red, 81 per bx.
Lettuce is quoted at 3505oc per hu bx
radiShes. soc bx: mint. 25c per doz;
Cress. soc per doz, eeks, 400 per doz.
String beans sell at TIC for green
and 75c for wax. Green peas bring
81 25Gl1 80 per bu for native.
Spinach is uoted at 25c per bu' for
native; parsley, dollhouse, 15c per bu
peppers, 5NdT5c per pkg.
Green corn is in good supply and is
lower at 75c6S1 per bu.
Shell beans sell at 81 SOAP % Dor hu.
lima beans, So 81 per blu: eggplant. 81
also per pkg; caulifower, Montreal |,
*2n25 80 per doz.
There is a very strong market for
pork provisions, owing TO the higher cost
cf hogs in the west. There has been an
advance of SOC per 100 lbs in the past
two days. The quota tons are revised
with lard higher.
Fresh beef is quiet but prices are
fairly steady. The arrivals of fresh beet
for the week have been very mucl
heavier for export, the supply for Bos
ton having fallen off.
Lambs are In small supply, and mr.,
quoted steady; muttons aud veals ar,
quiet with fair supply. Western fnl
lambs, 7@9c: spring lambs, 1nM12c
ycarlings, CO Sc; muttops, jUSc; veals
BM11c.
Poultry is steady with fair demand
Western turkeys, frozen, 1SM l9c. iced
14n lJc; western fowls iced, 12T12c
fresh northern fowls, 1870 15c; broilers
140 1Gc; western broilers, 13Gi13M
spring ducks, 16M1Tc.
There is a good demand for chCic
hay, with the supply light New nay i
coming forward quite freely. and i
generally of satisfactory quality; stra
IS steady for rye. with oat slow. Mil
feed is steady and unchanged. Hay, NJ
], ScOu21; lower grades. $ltN19; y
straw, SIS020; DAT straw, S1OM11
The extraordinary selling indspos
ton of wheat producers even at aroun
Sc to l0c and 12c higher prices than
wear ago coupled with good premium
for cash wheat and tie depleted oil
crop spring wheat reserves are signal
illustrated in 20O0OU00 bus reductio
IN primary wheat receipts past eigl
weeks, viz; Jule 30 to Aug. 81, the tcti
being 25,4l0,0GO bus against 45,3I5
600 bus.
1t has been frequently noted tht
year, Bradstreets says, the farmer
have been very independent and hay
shoWa an indisposition to part wit
their wheat at any price below SOC :
Chicago. Farmers necessities arc L.,
than in former years, and they see,
10 have pretty clear idea Of hat the
wheat is worth
Another point Of buliSh imrort n,
yet given much, if any. weight in II
discussion Is the possibility of interim
ton to shipments from, the Black $,
md Deighboring ports in case preseI
complications should bring about
collision between some of the larc,
towers. It e safe to say that Il
wheat situation will bear close watc
ing until the outlook in this respc