News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-11-25
I'm HUB MARKETS
Quotations on rhe Leading
Products In Demand

Boston, Nov. 23.-Butter is quiet, but
prices are fairly firm, with outside mar
kets advancing. Receipts of fresh are
larger than year ago, and storage but
ter is offering freely. Northern cream
cry, round lots, 23@24c; western, 221s
@23Ac; storage creamery, 21@22c;
Vermont dairy, 20Q21c; renovated but
ter, l7M19c.
Cheese is quiet, with prices steadily
held. Round lots, Vermont twins, liz
012c; New York twins, II 3-4Q12 1-4c.
Eggs are firm and unchanged for
choice fresh gathered; refrigerator
stock is in good demand. Western
fresh, 26Q30c; eastern, 3OM35c; nearby,
3504Oc; refrigerator, 22Q23c.
Beans are little firmer with the de-
mand still only moderate. Carload lots,
pea, 50. 25M2.3O; medium, $225Q2.30;
yellow eyes, $315Q3.25; red kidneys,
$3.3503.45; California small white,
$2.5502 so; foreign pea and medium,
50 .1002.2 20.
Choice apples are in good demand at
firm prices. Maine pippins, 81. 25@1.75;
Harvies. $202.25; SHOWS, $2.50@3.5O;
Kings, $2.5003.3O; Baldwins, $1.75@
$50; greetings, $1,7502.50; Hubbard
stons and Huriburts, $1.5O02.25; pound
and Tallman sweets, $1.5002.50.
The apple shipments from Boston for
the week ending Nov. 81 were 1917 bbls
to London, and 55,921 bbls to Liverpool
a total of G3238 bbls.
Cranberries are steady at $2G2.25 per
bx and $6.5O07.25 per Dbl.
Domestic grapes sell at Ice per bskt
for Concords, 17M1Sc for Vergennes
and 140i15c for Catawbas. Almeria
grapes are selling at $25007 per Dbl.
California grapes are quoted at: Cor
nichon, $1.75@2; Emperor $15002.
Table nuts are in full supply and are
selling at. Walnuts. 14015c per ID:
castanas, 1O@11c; pecans, 9011c; fl
berts, 10c; almonds, 13015c; hickory,
$2.2o02.75 per bu.
Potatoes are firm and unchanged
Aroostook hebrons, roe; Green noun
tains, 70M I3C: York state Green noun
tains, 65c; sweets, Norfolk, cloth heads.
$101 90; Jersey, double heads, $2td2. %
Celery is selling at: Pascal, $500
per long bX; Boston market, So per long
bX; white, 60MS5c per doz.
Onions are quoted at: Spanish, large
crts, 1926; natives, Toe per bu; bbls,
$1.7302.5O.
Cucumbers sell at seas per bx.
Yellow turnips are selling at Soc per
Dbl, white French, S1.25 per Dbl; white,
25Q35c per bu; beets, 81 per bu: car
rots, 60075c per bu; parsnips, Coo per
bu.
Marrow squashes are quoted at S16l
1.25 per Dbl; Bay state, $3.50 per biol:
turhan, $1.75 per Dbl BY the ton
squashes are quoted at $20625.
CaDbages sell at care each for native:
Savoy, coarse Ter Dbl red, 6Oc per bx.
Lettuce is quoted at 350745c per doz
for dollhouse; radishes, SOC per doz:
mint 40c per doz; cress, 40c per doz
leeks, doc per doz; oyster plant. 75c
per doz.
String beans sell at s. per bx for
green.
Spinach is quoted at 4Oc per bu: pars-
ley, 50075c per bu; peppers, So per bu;
eggplant, $3.50 per crt.
Brussels sprouts sell at G010c per ct:
beet greens, 4Oc per bu.
Pork provisions are easier with some
cuts lower. The marketing of hogs
shows considerable enlargement in
numbers. The quality is mainly good.
Prices have further receded, prom
ineTlt markets at the close showing an
average of about &+.55 per 100 pounds.
Fresh beef is steady in price with a
fair demand The arrivals Of fresh beef
have been much smaller.
There is a good demand for muttOns
and lambs at quotations.; veals hold
firm. Western fall lambs. 7G9c: spring
lambs, S1209c; warnings, 50Gc; NUT
tons, &c; veals, 9011c.
Turkeys are in light supply, and
choice birds are selling at very high
prices. Western stock is doing better
on account of the scarcity Of eastern
and northern. Quotations are: Tur-
keys, northern, 2402Sc: western, iced,
2O021c; dry, 2O62Sc; chickens, 15017c;
western, large, 13115c; medium, 11m
12c: fowls, northern, 14Q15c; western,
12013c; ducks, 16@1Sc; western, l.
@15c.
Hay has been quiet and prices are
somewhat easier. Receipts are large
and stocks, especially of the lower
grades, are accumulating. Straw is
steady with a light demand Millfeed
is unchanged. Hay, No. 1, $40 %;
lower grades, $13Q17; rye straw, $21&i
%; oat straw, $10011.
The wheat market has been very
strong, owing to the small receipts in
the northwest and smaller stocks at
primary points. The shorts have been
pinched severely and the elevator in
terests which have been persistently
bearing wheat have been obliged to
settle at heavy loss. The settlements
by these interests amounted to ABOUT
2,750,00O bushels in two weeks. En-
porters continue TO hold Off, but the sit
uation is dominated by conditions in