The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-12
Current Comment.

Flour. The flour market is steady,
with quiet demand. Mill shipment,
spring patents, a. 10 to 4.55; trade
committee, spring wheat patents,
1920 to 8; clears, So. 40 to 4.75
winter wheat, patents, $500 to 4. 80;
straights, $3.70 to 425; clears, So. 60
to 4. 10.
Corn meal.-Corn meal is steady
oatmeal quiet but firm; Barrel corn
meal, $2.65 to 2.70 bag meal, Slip
| to /. IA; graduated and bolted, SO. 20
to 3. 90; rolled oatmeal, "a. 80 to 400;
cut, 81. 10. to .; rye flour, SO, to 3.75;
graham flour, 80. 80 to 4; rye flour,
Gle per bu.
Corn is very steady at 81 to 5716c
for spot; i'll transit, 5619 to 81; to
ship, 81 to $3.50.
Oats. Oats are quiet but steady:
Track No white, acc; No. 3, 451ac;
rejected, Az to 45c; no grade, 49,
to 44c.; for shipment, 36 to SO lbs,
A to 4416c; IS to 40 lbs 4419to 4519c;
40 to ~ lbs, 46 to 4619c; fancy, 4Sc.
Hay. There is a steady market for
hay at unchanged prices mill feed is
firm: Choice hay, $50 to 21 No. 1,
3l7 to 49,; low grades, SIP to 10 and
up; rye straw, $14 to 10. so; oat straw,
50 to 10; sack, spring bran, to ship,
$2l.75 to %; winter, $22. 70 to %;
middlings, sci. 10 to 49, mixed feed,
$23. 80 to "a 80; red dog, $24. 10; cot.
tonseed meal, $2775; for shipment,
linseed meal, $2E.75.
Pork and Lard. Lard is higher, but
other pork provisions are steady and
unchanged. {: Short cut and heavy
backs, 1922; long cut, 1922; medium,
$50. 10; lean ends, S22. so; bean pork
$lS to 10; fresh ribs 12%to 1890;
corned shoulders 1910; fresh shoulders
1015c smoked shoulders, II &c; lard,
i1c4 in pals, IL to 1215c; hams,
1419 to 1s4c; skinned hams, 1890;
sausage, 10@c; Frankfurt sausages,
10c; boiled hams, 10 to l919c; bacon,
10 to 16c; bolognas, SIC; dressed
hams, 12c; raw leaf lard, l2c; rem
dered leaf lard, 12o; III pals, 1924 to
13c; pork tongues, $22; loose salt
pork, l1Mc; briskets, 12c; sausage
} meat 9$4c; country dressed hogs,
$40.
Beef. Fresh beef is easy with fair
trade. A few choice heavy cattle still
sell at re; extra sides, ~ to TIC;
heavy, 6 to &c; godod, 6 to 61ac;
light grass and COWS, 51a to &c; extra
binds, ga to 90; good so to Sc;
light, 81 to Sc; extra fores, $50
heavy, to 51a light, AZ to sc; backs
to nc rattles, to 416c; chucks, AZ
to 518c short ribs, s to lie rounds, 6
to 715c rumps, s to lie; rumps and
: to &c., loins, to 13c
, Mutation and Lambs -Muttons and
} lambs are firm and unchanged veals
are steady: Spring lambs. 8 to lie
yearlings, to Sc muttons, 6 to Sc
veals, 10 to 1l1@c.
Poultry. There is quiet market
,xritb fnxx-1c
chickens easier: Western turkeys, Is to
20c northern fowls, IA to &c., west
ern fowls, IA to 1419 chickens western
IA to Ice; northern, Is to 22c geese,
~ to 14c.
Hides and Pelts. The market for
hides is dull but prices are quoted
5 about the same. The quarantine rul-
) ! ing which prevents hides from being
r shipped out of the State interferes
! with business. Bluffs are held at S31
t to SIC at the lower freight points of
> shipments, but trade is dull at the
top prices. Seconds and BIS range
r about lc below Bluffs New England
hides are slow at to 61sc for butch
ers' weights, the latter for heavy
steers Calf skins are steady, with
pelts unchanged.
Butter. Butter is easier, in sym
patty with New York: Northern
fresh, round lots, 2619 to 2719c; west
rem, 2616 to &c; jobbing, &c to 1c
more.
Cheese. Cheese is firm and I'M
changed: Round lots, 141a to loo ;
sage, 10 to l519c; jobblng, . to &c
higher. Liverpool is quoted at 62s Cd
for colored and 62s Cd for white.
Eggs, Eggs are firm for choice fresh
WESTERN Western fresh, IS to 1890 ;
storage, 10 to loo; eastern, 90 TO 2lc I;
nearby and fancy, % to 23c; jobbing,
) lc to 11ac higher.
Beans. Beans continue quiet and
easy: Carload lots, pea, 50. 40; medi.
um, So 40; yellow eyes, 50. SO to 2. 80;
| white, So go to s.65; jobbing, l0c
more.
Apples. There is quiet demand
for apples, with lots selling above quo
tations Fancy Baldwins, 80. 25 to
So 90; No. l Baldwis, 81 90 to q;
Greetings, 81. 80 toe; Noe, all kinds,
81 to 1875; Russets, 81. 90 to q Hub
bardston, 81. 20 to 9; pound sweets,
81. 90 to 2; northern spies, ST. 90 to
s50 Kings, 50 to 81 Tolman sweets,
$50 to 400; common apples, 75c TO
$l.25. Small lots and jobbing from
SOC to 81 per Dbl more.
Potatoes. - Quiet but steady market
for potatoes; Houlton Green noun
tains, rs to SOC Hebrons, 70 to roc
per bu. York State Green mountains
and round white, zoe western, to
CSC; Dakota reds, 63 to, &c; sweets