News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-06-10
I'M HUB EARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

/ is firm in sympathy with New York and
the west, with slight advance shown
for the week. Northern fresh. r0uI d
lots, 23h024c; western, 230L23Hc; YER
mont dairy, 21022c; renovated butter
11Q19c; jobbing, AG1c more.
New cheese is in moderate demand.
with prices easy Liverpool has adj
yanced. Round lots, old, 14AM15c;
new cheese, 11h012c; jobbing, rue
higher.
Eggs hold steady at the recent nd
vance. Arrivals of strictly fresh west
ern are not large. Western fresh, II
| 01Sc; storage packed, 17hM1Sc: east
ern, 1S019c; nearby, 20Q21c; jotbing,
1c to 112c higher.
There is firm Il arkct for heans, both
here and iii the country, though no fur
Their advance is noted. Carload lots,
pea, $2.45; medium, $2.4J; yellow eyes,
$2.70@275; red kidneys, So 30Q333;
California small white, $3.50; foreign
pea and medium, $22502 80; jobbing,
| Toe more
The apple market is very quiet. Bald
wins from cold storage, $2.5O03; No. .,
all kinds, 81 250150; rusSets, $203;
northern spies, $203; Maine Ben Davis,
$202,50. Small lots and jobbing, 50c0
| 81 per Dbl more.
There is a quiet market for all kinds
Of nuts, with prices unchanged.
California cherries sell at $212J0
per bx.
The market for potatoes IS very firm
| for old stock, owing to small arrivals,
as fires in the Aroostook section have
| delayed shipments to a considerable ex-
| tent, Green mountains 90c0$1; he
brons, $4,000; Dakota reds, 65El70c;
new, rose and hebrons, bbls, 1893 80:
white Bliss, bbls, $25OG3; red Bliss,
| S225QI2.75; sweets, crts, So; White
sweets, bbls, $15O0175.
Bunch celery is selling at 50c@$1.25
per bch.
Onions are firm at: Egyptian, bes,
S2T5; Bermudas, 500 per crit.
Hothouse tomatoes are quoted at 15c
per lb; southern, $1.2502 per crt, with
mushrooms at So per Alb bskt
Cucumbers sell at $1.50a4 per bx
for dollhouse all sizes.
Yellow turnips sell at $3.50 per khl:
heets, soc; carrots, 5O0S5c; parsnips,
81; egg plant, $3.50Q4.50 per crt.
Cabbages sell at $1.5001.75 per large
crt, Norfolk.
Marrow sQuashes bring S15su175
per crit; crookneck, 50 per crit.
Lettuce sells at 2506Oc per doz; lad
ishes, 10c per doz; mint soc per doz:
cress, 35c per doz; satisfy, $3.50 per do4;
leeks, 60c per doz.
New string beans are selling at So
per crit for wax, and $3.50 per crt for
green.
Spinach is quoted at 1502Oc per bu
for native; parsley, dollhouse, S1.25 per
Tx; romaine, $3.50 per Blu; beet green's,
15c per bu; native beets, 15t4S5c per doz
bchs: southern, 606S5c per doz. bunch
onions, 60c per bX; bunch carrots. T5F1
| 81 per doz; Bermuda potatoes, S4Gii.50
per Dbl; rhubarb, 1c per Id; hOrseradish,
sc per Dbl; peppers, 50. 5002.75 per crt.
Pork provisions are somewhat firmer,
| though few chances are noted. The mar
ketingS of hogs indicate a moderate
reduction in number in comparison with
the preceding week, but continuance
of enlargement in comparison with cor
responding time last year.
There is Il firmer market for fresh
beef, prices having been advanced, not
withstanding slightly increased re-
ceipts.
There is very firm market for lambs
and choice Kentucky stock is held at
high prices: muttons and veals are
steady. Kentucky lambs, 14ZIlGc;
spring lambs. 13d14c; yearlings, T89
&c; muttons, 1900; veals, 9G11c.
Poultry has advanced slightly for
| fresh killed fowls and chickens. The
supply is moderate and the demand Of
| Il sea sonable nature. Western turkeys,
frozen, 1S020c: iced, 15M1Gc; western
fowls, iced, 13h@1413c; western frozen
chickens. 14M16c; fresh killed South
Shore chickens, 30G32c; fresh killed
northern fowls, 14M1Jc; brollers 500
35c; western. broilers, 2302Sc; SQUAD
brolers, per pals, 75080c; spring ducks,
| 20M21c
Hay is very strong owing to the
drought, which promises to materially
shorten the crop; millfeed is firm. but
not further advanced. No. /, $23@25;
low grade, $15@10 and up; rye straw.
| $25025; oat straw, $9011.
The shorta ge in feedstuffs throughout
the east means a much larger consump-
| tion of all western grain, particularly
| of corn and oats. Eastern dealers al
ready have made heavy purchases in
| the west for forward delivery, particu
| larry of oats. The oats area will I'M
doubtedly show a heavy shrinkage from
| that of last year, and of corn also,
conservative estimates of the probable
corn yield being less than 2,000,000,000
| bushels, against 2,500,O00,00O bushels
| last year. as
The improved eastern demand has
found its effect in Chicago in sales for
eastern shipment of 100000 bushels
corn and $4,000 bushels oats Included
| in the latter was sale of 10000 bushels
standard oats for shipment to st. Louis,
certainly a novel transaction. There
were also sales of upward of 100000
| bushals of wheat for export cash No 9