News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-12-09
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

have fallen Off but prices show very
little change, though very firm. North
ern creamery, round lots, 24A@25c;
western, 24024hc; Vermont dairy, p
022c, renovated butter, 1701Sc.
The request for cheese continues light,
but prices are steady for all choice lots.
Round lots, Vermont twins, 111h@12c;
New York twins, 120121Rc.
The high prices which have ruled for
eggs have caused the demand to fall
off, and the market is easier at lower
range of prices. Western fresh, 300
32c; eastern, 33@35c; nearby, 40@42c;
refrigerator, 25026c.
Beans are quiet but steady. Carload
lots, pea, 2.2512.30; medium, $2250
2.3O; yellow eyes, $3.15@3.25; red kid
neys, $3.35M3.45; California small
white, $2.5502.6O; foreign pea and me-
dunn, $2.1O@2.2O.
There is a quiet trade in apples, only
choice red fruit being in demand and
bringing full prices. Maine pippins,
81 .250175; Harvies, $2M225; SHOWS,
81. 50a3; Kings, $25OM3 so; Baldwins,
$1.75@2. 80; greetings, $1.7502,5 so; Hud-
bardstons and Hurlburts, $1.5002.25;
pound and TOlman sweets, $1.J002.20;
northern spies, $1.5002.50. The ex-
ports of apples from all ports for the
week were estimated at about 10000
bbls.
Cranberries are steady at $202.25
per bx and $Gtd7.25 per Dbl.
Domestic grapes sell at 15M17c per
bskt for Concords, 17M20c for Niagara,
and 15c for Catawbas. Almeria grapes
are selling at S2.30M7 per Dbl. Cali
fornia grapes are quoted at: Cornichon,
$1.7502: Emperor, $1.5002.
Table nuts are steady and are selling
at: Wdlnuts, 14Gt15c per lb; castanas,
1O011c; pecans, 9M11c; filberts, 10c:
almonds, 13M15c; hickory, $2.2502.75
per bu.
Potatoes are steady at unchanged
prices. Arooostook hebrons, 6SQ70c;
Green mountains, GSd70c: York state
Green mountains, t5c; sweets, Nor
folk. cloth heads, 75c0$1.50; Jersey,
double heads, $?.51Q3.
Celery is selling ut: Pascal, $1,000
4 per long bX, Boston markets, So per
long bx; white, S5c0$1 per doz.
Onions are quoted at: Spanish, large
crts, $50; natives, 75@S5c; per bu.
bbls, $1.75G2 90.
Cucumbers sell at $1.2507 per bx.
Yellow turnips are selling at 81 per
Dbl, white French, $1.25 per Dbl; white,
25035c per bu; beets, 81 per bu; car
rots, 60@7Jc per bu; parsnips, 81 per bu.
Marrow squashes are quoted at $1Gl
125 per Dbl; Bay state, $3.50 per Dbl;
turban, $1.75 per Dbl.
Cabbages sell at So per Dbl for native;
Savoy, $l.25@1.50 per Dbl; red, 81
per bX.
Lettuce is quoted at 406J0c per doz
for dollhouse; radishes. 15c per doz;
mint, 75c per doz; cress, SOC per dOZ;
leeks, 40c per doZ; oyster plant, 81 per
doz.
String beans sell at S. per bx for
green.
Spinach is quoted at 81 per bu; beet
green's, T5c per bu; parsley, $3.50 per
blu; peppers, 81 per bu; eggplant, So
per crt.
Brussels sprouts sell at 10Gl12c per at.
Caulihower sells at So per pkg.
The hay market is weak with liberal
receipts. Low grades are especially
easy. Straw is in good demand with
light offerings. Millfeed is steady and
unchanged. Hay, No. 1, $17@1S5O; low
grades, S12M1G; rye straw, $21@2250;
oat straw, S9M10.
Pork products are generally easy,
with quotations revised. The holiday
conditions lessened the marketing of
hogs to some extent. The offerings
have fallen moderately short of same
period last year. Prices are well sus-
tanned, the average for prominent mar
kets indicating about S4.40 per 100
pounds.
Fresh beef is dull and neglected, will
dealers finding it difficult to get full
top quotations. The arrivals of fresh
beef have been very heavy.
Muttons and lambs are steady in
prices, though the market is we'll sup
piled; veals are firm and unchanged.
Western fall lambs, 9@10c; spring
lambs, 9M10c; yearlings, 6Q7c; NUT
tons, 607c; veals, 9011c.
Poultry is quiet in demand, with
prices steady and unchanged. Tur-
keys, northern, 20023c; western, dry,
17019c; chickens, northern, 1SM20c;
western, large, 1+@15c; fowls, northern,
15@16c; western, 1+@15c; ducks, 16@
1Sc; geese, 15@11c.
The wheat market has been feverish
and excited. The remarkable upturn
in December has been a natural out
growth of the bullish cash situation
finally making its impression on the big
short interest in that option. Current
gossip has it that the outstanding short
account here in December is fully .
100000 bushels, but some conservative
people place it at a smaller figure. Be
sides local traders, this shortage is
distributed among northwest operators
and Europe, representing hedges made
some time ago. On two occasions, some
No. hard winter wheat aggregat-
ing $4,000 bushels, has been sent
around, presumably designed by par
ties here to break the market, but with