News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-12-23
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

Boston, Dec. 2l.-Butter is dull, With
prices somewhat lower on fresh made.
Receipts have been larger and the de-
mand is quiet: Northern creamery,
round lots, 2414M25c; western, 24@
24Hc; Vermont dairy, 21022c; reno
waited butter, 17M10c.
Cheese is in light demand, with prices
steady and unchanged Round lots,
Vermont twi IS, l1A@12c; New York
twins, 12G12Ac.
Eggs are very strong, with the sup
ply small owing to the cold weather.
Refrigerator eggs are in steady demand,
prices going higher for choice los.
Western fresh, 350t3Sc; eastern, $40
4Oc; nearby, 40Gt42e; refrigerator,
2S029c.
Beans are steady with firmer ten
dency, owing to strong country mar
kets. The supply is limited. Carload
lots, pea, $2156l2 20; medium, S2.150g
2.2o; yellow eyes, $3@3.10; red kid
neys, $3.1505.25; California small
white, $2.45@255; foreign pea and me-
dunn, 50; jobbing prices higher.
Apples are doing better, with choice
lots quoted higher. The supply of
common fruit is gradually being re-
duced. Haryies, 50. 25@2.50; SHOWS,
$2.5O03; Kings, $25O@3.50; Raldwins,
$262.75; greetings, $242.75; Hub
bardstons and Hurlburts, $1.5002. %;
pound and Tolman sweets, $1.50d2 %;
northern spies, $1.75@2.75. The apple
shipments from Boston for the week
ending Dec. 10 were 272 bbls to Lon
don and 1882 bblstO Lily erpool.
Cranberrles are firmer at $2Q250 per
bx and seas per bbl.
Domestic grapes sell at 120E15c for Nj
agara and 13M15c for Catawbas. AL
meria grapes arc selling at $3.50M6 per
Dbl, with the market being pretty well
cleaned up.
Table nuts are steady and are selling
at: Walnuts, 12h@15c per lb; cas-
tanas, 10M11c; pecans, 10012c; fill
berts, Toe; almonds, 13@15c; hickory,
81 per bu,
Potatoes are quiet but steady. ArOos-
took hebrons, zoe; Green mountains,
73c; York state Green mountains, G5c;
sweets, Norfolk, cloth heads, 75cMS1.50;
Jersey double heads, $2.5O03.
Celery is selling at: Pascal, 1904 per
long bx; Boston market, STAG per long
bx; white, $1.25 per doz.
Onions are quoted at: Spanish,
large crts, $3.50; natives, 81 per bu;
bbls, $250@3.
Cucumbers sell at $1.5O0S per bX.
Yellow tur Alps are selling at 81 per
Dbl: white French, $3.50 per bbl; white,
soc per bu: beets, 81 per bu; carrots, 75c
per bu; rarsnips, 75cd$1 per hu.
Cabbages sell ut s.. % per Dbl for ma
tive; Savoy, $1.25 per Dbl; red, $3.50
per Dbl.
Lettuce is quoted at $1.50d2.50 per
bx; radishcs, Soc per d0z; mint, 75c
per doz; cress, soc per doz leeks, 40c
per doz; oyster plants, 81 per doz.
String beans sell at $40 per bX for
green.
Spinach is quoted at 81 per bu; beet
green's, 81 per bu; parsley, S1.500l.75
per bu; peppers, $3.50 per bu.
Brussels sprouts sell at 10c per at.
Cault1owpr sells at 81 per bbl
Hay is very dull, with prices weaker
and lower on some grades. Receipts are
heavy and the demand light. Straw
is steady for rye, with oat in fun
supply and easy. Millfeed is steady.
Hay, No. l. $1TM1S.50; low grades, $12
01G; rye straw, $21,50023; oat straw,
S9M1O.
Pork provisions are easier and some
cuts are lower. There has been a fur
Their moderate enlargement in the NUM-
Der of hogs marketed, the total being
of fairly liberal proportions, and con-
siderably in excess Of last year. The
gain, the average for prominent mar
kets indicating $50 per 100 pounds.
Fresh beef has been very quiet
and prices are easy, with only now and
then a very choice steer bringing
Z 3-4c, or even T1Ac.
Muttons and lambs are quiet but
steady; veas hold firm. Western fall
lambs, 7W9c; spring lambs, S09c;
yearlings, 6@7c; muttons, G17c; veals,
9611c.
Choice northern turkeys are in short
supply and some lots are held at $50
soc. The bulk of the sales, however,
are around &c for really choice lots
There is good supply of western tur-
keys, and prices are not eXorbitant.
Fowls and chickens are in large sup
ply both for western and northern.
The quotations are; Turkeys, NORTH
ern. 25627c; western, 2OG22c; chick
ems. northern, 15td17c; western, 120
13c; fowls, northern, 13@14c; western,
ducks, 14@l7c; geese,
14015c.
The enormous increase in the -four
of the interior mills of
Minnesota and the Dakotas is one of
the striking features of this exceptional
wheat year, year in which relative
prices in most markets have been
greatly out of joint, and in which cash
prices in all markets have ruled at