News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-09-02
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

lots, 21@22c; western, 21@2l!kc; Yer
mont dairy, 1SQ20c; renovated butter,
1G@1Sc; jobbing, 14@1c more.
Cheese is steady and unchanged, with
a quiet demand. Round lots, new, 10
Gle; jobbing, 1aM1c higher.
Eggs are in fair demand at firm
prices. Western fresh, 17019c; eastern,
21M25c; jobbing, 101hc higher.
Beans are quiet but steady. Carloal
lots, pea, $2.25@2.30 medium, S2.35;
yellow eyes, $2.9002.95; red kidneys,
$345@3.55; California small white, $3.50
0l2.65; foreign pea and medium, $500
tl2.25; jobbing. 1Oc more.
Apples are in liberal supply anl
prices are easy, though not much
changed. Maine Astrachan, $1,000
.'.25; duchess, $2@2. 80; sweet bough, 5?
M2.50; Williams, 50 5O03.5O per Dbl,
ind 75c0$1.25 per blu; maiden's blush
$1.75@225.
A few blueberries are still Offering
and bring 10@13c.
Maryland peaches bring $161 % per
bskt, and Hudson rivers sell at SIPS
W1.50 per 6-bskt carrier.
CantaloIpes sell at 75c0$1, 80, as to
quality and condition.
Cranberries are quoted at 50. 5062. 10
rer bx.
Grapes are in full supply. Moore's
early are quoted at SOcM$1 per s.
bslt carrier; Delaware, S1GI1 70:
Niagara, 75c0$1; Champion, 121sc per
bskt.
California plums are quoted Mt 81 50
02.50 per bX; peaches. $12501 80.
Bartlett pears, $4,000; Tokay grapes.
$175@2.25; Malaga grapes, $1.750
225.
Potatoes are easy in price, with the
arrivals free. Aroostook hebronS ard
Green mountains, 65c; Jersey hebrons
and round white, 65c; Dbl stock, $1...5
az; yellow sweets, $202.50.
Native celery is selling at 81 per doz
bchs.
Onions are quoted at: Native, bu,
Doc; bunch onions, SOC per bx.f
dollhouse tomatoes are lower, ut SfI
12hc per Id; southern, 75c@$1 per crt;
native, per bX, $2@3.
Cucumbers sell at $103 per hx, all
sizes.
Yellow turnips are quoted at $3.50
per Dbl, and 75c0$1 per bu: white,
15c per bu; beets, 90c per bu; bunch
beets, 1Ac; carrots, 81 per bu: bunch
carrots, &c; bunch parsnips, soc per doz:
parsnips, $3.50 per Blu.
Marrow s1uashes are quoted at S125
per Dbl; crooknecks, 25c PEI doz; white,
25c per doz; Bay state, $3.50.
Cabbages are selling at 81. 25d1. so.
per crit; $Sm12 per 100; Savoy, $15O per
Dbl; red, 81 per bx.
Lettuce is quoted at 35@5oc per bu bx:
radislIes, SOC bx; mint, 25c per doz:
cress, 30c per doz, leeks, 4Oc per doz.
String beans sell at Toe for green
and Toe for wax. Green peas bring
$1.2501,50 per bu for native.
Spinach is uoted at 25c pert bl' for
native; parsley, dollhouse, 15c per bu.
peppers. 50GT5c per pkg
Green corn is in good supply and is
lower ut 75c0$1 per~bu.
Shell beans sell at $1.5002. % per hu:
lima beans, $2.25 per bu; eggplant, 81
also per pkg; caulifower, Montreal,
S202.50 per doz.
There is a very strong market for
pork provisions, owing to the higher cost
Of hogs i'll the west. There has been IN
advance of soc per 100 lbs in the past
1oUS Tho fn
with lard higher.
Fresh beef is quiet. but prices are
fairly steady. The arrivals of fresh beef
for the week have been very much
heavier for export, the supply for POS
ton having fallen off.
Lambs are in small supply, and are
quoted steady; muttons and veals are
quiet with fair supply. Western fall
lambs, 7@9c; spring lambs, 1G012c
yearlings, 60Sc; muttons. JGlSc; veals.
0@11c.
Poultry is steady with fair demand
Western turkeys, frozen, 1SGi19c; iced,
14015c; western fowls, iced, 12612c,
fresh northern fowls, 13@15c; broilers,
1401Gc; western broilers, 13Gt1@Mc |
spring ducks, 16Q17c.
There is a good demand for choice |
hay, with the supply light. New nay is
coming forward quite freely and is
of satisfactory quality; straw
is steady for rye, with oat slow. Mill |
feed is Steady and unchanged, Hay, No. |
1, $20021; lower grades, $14@t9; 1ye |
straw, $lSM20: oat straw, $10011.
The extraordinary selling indispOsi
ton of wheat producers even-at around |
SC to Toe and 12c higher prices than a
year ago, coupled with good premiums |
for cash wheat and the depleted old |
crop spring wheat reserves are signally |
illustrated in 100000 bus reduction
in primary wheat receipts past eight |
weeks, viz: June 30 to Aug. "a, the total
being 25,410,000 bus against $3.50
600 bus.
1t has been frequently noted this
year, Bradstreets says, the farmers |
have been very Independent and have
shown an indisposition to part with
their wheat at any price below soc at |
Chicago. Farmers necessities are less
than in former years, and they seem |