The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-24
NARKETS.
Current Comment.


For No.2 clipped white about 49, to
44c will cover sales making with low.
er grades ranging down az to quality,
The cost to ship is about 42 to 44c for
30 to 80 Id oats.
Corn. The demand is slow and sales
drag, but the market shows firm
tone owing to the strength in the
west. For steamer yellow on spot the
price is about 5619c, with lower grades
ranging down as TO quality ard color.
The cost of old No. yellow to ship
from the west is 5519 to 56c, with new
yellow. 30 days Shipment, at 30 to
5316c.
Hay. Thee market for hay is dull
and sales making are slow. BUYERS
are operating to meet pressing needs,
and in this quiet way prices are fairly
maintained. Abou SIG. 80 to II. 90 will
cover sales of No. hay with some
fancy cars higher, while for lower
grades the range is dow n as to quality.
Arrivals for the week include 81 cars
for export on through bills and 250
cars for local use. Rye straw is in
very light supply and quotable at
S21. 90 to 90. Oau straw is in full
supply and dull, most arrivls being of
this kind.
Potatoes. Receipts have been fairly
liberal but the weather has been so
cold that trade has been very quiet.
No change in prices. Hebrons hold
steady at SO to 65c and Green Noun
tains at 6S to roc A cargo of 5000
bush. arrived from p E. Island Mon
day but has not been opened yet on
account of the cold
Provisions. Demand has been light
for the past week but prices have been
well sustained. Lard is fraction
higher than last quoted.
Meats Beef has been in liberal
supply for the past week. demand has
been slack and prices on best cattle
have dropped another half cent, choice
steers offering freely at ~ to 73lc.
Mutton and yearlings have been dull
and weak. Receipts of lambs have
been liberal and there are large stocks
Gu hand. Best lots are in light de-
mand at s to Sic. Veals have been
plenty and good to choice lots in mod
crate demand at to l01sc. Country
dressed hogs selling in small lots at =
to 615c.
= Furs. Trade is moderate, but choice
furs hold steady.
Hidessand Pelts. The hide market
shows frmer tone and values are
slightly advanced in some instances.
/ Bluffs at Ohio points OF shipments are
| quotable at So to S5sc, with Chicago
at 838to SIC. Seconds and BIS range
! 1c below Bluffs. New England butcher
hides are quiet at &c fiat for COWS,
with heavy steers at 81 to &c. Calf
skins are steady with pelts quiet.
Butter. We are receiving about the
average quantity of fresh butter for
this season of the year, and as usual
but very small proportion is good
enough for best trade. The bulk Of
receipts grade very little, if any,
higher tnan tirsts and have to be
worked off at easy prices in compete
ton with the free Offering of fine
| storage goods. Storage creamery has
had only a moderate sale and closes a
shade easier. But little doing in me-
dunn and low grades. Fine box and
print butter in moderate supply and
steady demand
Cheese We have had another quiet
week in the cheese trade and but
little improvement is looked for until
after the turn of the year. Strictly
| fine Sept. and Oct. twins are firm aud
holders are not urging sales of York
| State lots at l2c but there are few
sales of VT stock at over IL &c. There
is full supply of late-made stock and
most sales are Irregular in quality and
value. Sage cheese dull and I'M
changed.
Eggs. Receipts of fresh stock have
been very light for the past week and
with very few retrigerators left in
| first hands supplies have been short,
and we have had a firm and advanc-
ing market. AT the close the fresh
west. good enough to pass as frsts
sell easily at SAC, but such goods are
very scarce. Most western are simply
fair to good and have to sell accord
ingly Refrigerators closely sold up,
higher and firm.
Dressed Poultry. - Receipts have
been heavy for the past week and
there has been large increase in
stocks ON hand. Western turkeys Rave
! been coming forward freely since
Monday but have been generally held
above the views of buyers, good
many lots under shippers limits of 81
| to 22c Sales have been light so far
and generally at 10 to goo for choice
large No. l, with fair to good lots at
about II TO 1Sc, There is more inquiry
for turkeys today than there has been,
but no improvement in pieces. Chick
ems and fowls have been in very heavy
supply, dull and unchanged. Most
lots of both chickens and fowls have
been moving very slowly at IL TO 12c,
and only small sales of choice large
roasting chickens and selected heavy
flows have been made at full quota
tions. Ducks have been in steady de-
mand, and at the close there is more
inquiry for choice geese. Receipts of
northern turkeys have been very light
and small lots of choice stock have
been selling at 23 to 25c. Chickens
and geese steady at quotations.
Live Poultry Receipts have been
rather light and choice fowls have
been in steady demand at li16c.
Chickens generally too STACEY to bring
over 10 tn 1c