News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-12-02
In HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand


! patuy with New DIX and the west
ana prices are about 1c higher. North
eln creamery, 'ound lots, 24u25c; west
err, 231aW2412c; ' ermont dairy, 20
ZI42Cj renovated butter, 11MlSc.
Cheese is quiet but firm. Round lots
Vermont twins, 1112g12c; New lorl
twins, 12Ml21sc.
The supply If eggs is very short ant
all fresh gathered are firm at the recent
advance. Western fresh, 330l35c; east
ern, 3103Sc; nearby, 4OQ45c; retugera
tor, 25M26c.
Beans are quiet, but steady. Carload
lots, pea, $2.2502.3O; medium, S2.25@
80; yellow eyes, $3.15Gi3.2J; red kid
neys, So 25W3.45; California small
white, $2.55M2 so; foreign pea and me
dium, $2.1OQ2.20.
Apples are in good demand for al
choice table fruit, but common grades
are still SLOW and easy. Maine pippinS
$l.25M1.T:i: Harvies, $2M2.25; SHOWS
$25OM3.5O; Kings, $25O@3.50; Bald
wins, $1,75@2.50; greetings, $1,75@
$50; Hubbardstons ana Hurlburts
S1.5O02.25; pound and Tolman sweets
S1.5O02.jO
Cranberries are steady at $2@2.25 per
bX and $Ul7.25 per Dbl.
Domestic grapes sell at 15N17c per
bskt for Concords, and 1501Gc for Ca
tawbas. Almeria grapes are selling at
S2.5OQ7 per bhl. California grapes are
quoted at: Cornichon, $1.75M2; EN-
perOr, $l.JOd2.
Table nuts are steady and are selling
Mt: Walnpts, 14013c per ID; castanas,
10011c; pecans 9011c; tilberts, 1Oc; al
monds, 1870 15c; hickory, $z.25@2.7J
per Gu.
Potatoes are quiet but steady at the
decline. AroOstook hebrOns, Use; Green
mountains, GS070c; York state Green
mountains, GOMG3c; sweets, Norfolk,
cloth heads, $2M225.
Celery is selling at: Pascal, $3.50@4
per long bX; Boston markets, IS per
long DX; white, SccNS1 per doZ.
Onions are quoted at: Spanish, large
crts, 1925; natives, 70MS5c per bu; bhls,
$1.75M25O.
Cucumbers sell at seas per bX.
Yellow turnips ae selling at SIC per
Dbl; white French, S1.25 per Dbl; white,
25035c per hn; baets, 81 per bu; car
rOts, G0@75c per bu; parsnips, GO075c
per bu.
Marrow squashes are quoted at $10
10 per bbl; Bay state, $50 per Dbl;
turhan, $1.75 per bill.
Cabbages sell at $1.2J per Dbl for ma
tive; Savoy, 750S5c per Dbl; red, SOC
per bX.
Lettuce is quoted at 35Ii4jc per doH
for hCthOuse; radishes, 15c per doH;
mint, 40c per ;loz: cress, 4Oc per doz;
leels, IOc per COZ; oyster plant, 75c per
doz.
String beans sell at 81 per bx for
green.
Spinach is quoted ut 4O050c per hu;
parsley. $3.50 per bu; peppers 50 per
bu; eggplant, $3.50 per crt.
Brussels sprouts sell at case per ct.
CaulihOwer sells at So per pkg.
The receipts of hay continue heavy
and the market is weak. under a quiet
demand. Medium and low grades espe-
cialy are in full supply and are easy.
Straw is in full receipt especially for
oat straw. The demand is light. with
prices easy. Hay. No. 1, S1S619: lower
grades, Sl2016; rye straw, $21022; oat
straw. $l0M11.
Barrel pork is lower with otherprices
revised. Lard has declined 3-Sc during
the week. There has been a fair run
of hogs. with considerable gain over
previous receipts, but not quite equal
to Il year ago. Prices show consider
able reduction, with the prominent
markets Indicating IN average of 1926
per 100 his
Fresh beef has been very steady.
the demand being very good, probably
owing to the high price OF turkeys.
Prices are steady, a few choice steers
selling at full top quotations.
The arrivals of fresh beef have been
about the same as for the previous
week.
Lambs are firm and selling better with
the supply rather short: muttons and
yearlings are also firmer yeals are
firm and unchanged. Western fall
lambs, SMlCc: spring lambs. 9m1Oc:
yearlings, 6Q7c; muttons, 6Gi7c; veals.
0011c.
Choice northern turkeys still hold I'D
high, with short supply, but western
are easier; chickens and fowls are firm.
Turkeys, northern, 22Gf25c; western.
dry, 1S@20c; chickens. northern, 1S0
zoe, western, large, 1501Gc; medium.
l2014c; fowls, northern, 15i16c: west.
hrn, 14d15c; ducks, 156f16c; geese,
14015c.
May wheat sold at $3.50 Aug. Is last,
and at 81 34c Sept IS and there is no
question that these prices are far better
warranted now than on either of the
dates named. 1t is now definitely
known that the crop estimates cur.
rent at those dates were largely in eX-
cess of the harvest returns. This is
true of the Manitoba and of the entire
Pacific coast spring wheat crop, as we'll |
rs the California winter wheat crop. and |
also of the aggregate remainder of the |
spring and winter yields of the other
states.
Between any ordinary movement of |