News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-05-27
In HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

thus far been maintained here, how
ever. Northern fresh, round lots, %
G23Ac; western, 230231ac; Vermont
4 dairy, 21@23c; renovated butter, $50
19c; jobbing, 1z@1c more.
New cheese is in fair demand; old
cheese is about cleaned up. Prices are
| steady. Round lots, Did. I41ad l5c; new
cheese, 124@13c; iobbins 120.c
higher.
There is nothing new in the egg mar
ket. Choice lots bring full prices, but
supplies are liberal. Western fresh, 1914
! M17c; storage packed, 170I714c; east
ern, 1S019c jobbing, lie to lie higher
Beans are firm both here aid in the
country and prices have beenady1nced.
Carload lots, pea, 50. medium $2.45;
! yellow eyes, $2.700255; red Kidneys,
$3.2503 30; California small white,
| $3.50; jobbing, 10c more.
The warm weather and the liberal
supply Of fresh fruit has had depress-
ing effect upon the apple trade Prices
| are easy, with the demand qlter. Bald
wins from cold storage. s.. 5003; No. 2,
ell kinds, $1.25M150; russets. S203;
northern Spies $203; Maine Ben Davis.
$2@2.50 Small lots and jobbing, 50c0
81 per Dbl more
The receipts of strawberries have
been more liberal, the total for the
week being 36,161 crts. Prices have
ruled low, quotations being Gll13c, ac-
/
cording to quality.
Potatoes hold steady, with fair de-
nand and full receipts. Green noun
tains, 90M95c; hebrons, soc per bu;
York sta&s, Green mountains, T5GlS0c;
western round white, 7O075c; Dakota
reds, zoe; new Floridas, S4.50Gt5 per
Dbl; Jersey sweets, bskts, 81; southern
white sweets, $1.5001.75.
Bunch celery is Offering at 50c0$12 %
per bch.
Onions are firm at: Egyptian, bgs,
So; Bermudas, 81 per CRIT
Hothouse tomatoes are quoted at 1871
M15c per lb; southern, $1.50022 % per
CRIT, with mushrooms at 81 50Gi2 per bx.
Cucumbers Sci! at 81 .5OGtl per bx for
dollhouse, all sizes.
Yellow turnips sell at So per Dbl:
white French, So per Dbl; white fiat,
| 81 per bX; beets, soc; carrots 5OG175c;
| parsnips, 50d75c; egg plants, So per
| CRIT.
Cabbages, Norfolk, sell at S12501.75
per Dbl.
Squashes are quoted at $40 per ton
for Hubbard.
Lettuce sells at 25fi60c per doz; rad
ishes, 10c per doz; mint, Toe per doz;
cress, 35c per doz; satisfy, $3.50 per doz:
leells, soc per doz.
New string beans sell at $364 per
crt for wax and 1904 for green.
Asparagus is quoted at $2M3 for
southern large punches, and 81 .50ti2
! per doz for native.
Spinach is quoted at 12A015c per
bx for native; kale, 15c per TX for IA
i tive artichokes, $3.50 per bu: parsley.
! dollhouse, S1.25 per bX; dandelions, 75c
per bu; beet green's 40c per bu; native
beets F5c0$1 per doz bchs; bunch
/ onions, SOC per bX.
Bermuda potatoes job at $JG15 80 per
Dbl; Florida potatoes $4.5005: horse
radish, SO per Dbl; peppers, So per crt
Choice hay is scarce and prices are
firmer. The drought promises to seri-
| ously affec. the hay crop. Straw is
| quiet; millfeed is firm. Choice hay, SO
@23: No. /, $17019: low grades, S14
015 and up; rye straw, $t7020; oat
straw, 5000.
Fork provisions are easier, With some
cuts marked down. The week shows
!. considerable increase in the marketing
of hogs in comparison with the re-
cent past and also last year.
The unusually heavy receipts of fresh
beef have had the predicted result and
prices have declined. Scarcely any
thing is choice enough to bring over
| 3-4c for whole cattle The demand
is only fair.
Choice lambs are somewhat easier
but prices are still very ligh, with
only a moderate demand; vcals are
| steady. Spring lambs, 12013r, with
some choice Kentucky at 1-l0l15c;
!earlings, 10@10hc; muttons, 9M1t0c;
veals, 10011c, with some fancy higher
There is quiet market for poul-
try, with prices steady and unchanged.
Western turkeys, frozen, 1SGt20c: iced
l6c; western fowls, iced, 13lsmltc;
frozen western fowls, 131hc; western
+. frozen chickens, 14M16c; fresh killed
northern chickens. 2502Sc; fresh Killed
northern fowls, 15016c; broiIcrs, 500
Soc; western broilers, 25@30c. SQUAD
broilers, per pair, 75@90c; spin;
ducks, 200 23c.
The Armour wheat interest in Chi
! cago has attracted attention by rea-
son of furry in May on Friday and
good support of July in face of greatly
improved weather. Kansas and the
southwest generally has had abundant
moisture, but up to Thursday night the
Ohio valley was so dry as TO cause
! general anxiety among the trade.
Good showers have now fallen there,
however, relieving the situation great
ly Low temperatures in the north.
west early in the week disappeared
without extending to winter wheat
sections and have been replaced by
warm, showery conditions.
The statistical position in the north
(, west, on the ether hand, is such as to