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

Hay. The market for hay continues
quiet with the tone weak for all ex.
cept choice grades. Sales of No /. are
making at SIG. 30 TO 77.00 and fancy
cars will even exceed this range. Low
er grades range down as to quality.
Rye straw is quiet but the market
holds about steady.
Oats. The market has ruled slow
during the week, but prices have been
quite firm. AT the close No. 2 clipped
white on track are selling at about
1890 with other grades as to quality.
Corn. The market is dull, and buy
ers are only meeting pressing needs
from time to time. At the close,
steamer yellow is quoted at about
5515c on track, with lower grades
ranging down as to quality. No.t2
yellow to ship lake and rail is quoted
at about $500.
Potatoes Receipts have been fairly
liberal, and trade rather quiet for the
past week, but prices have been we'll
sustained, choice Aroostook Green
Mountains selling at 60 to roc At
the close the weather is too cold to
move stock safely and there is little
doing.
Butter. Receipts show further
considerable shrinkage this week, and
although demand has rot been very
active the market has been showing
increasing strength, prices at the clvse
ruling about cent higher than week
ago. Strictly extra fresh vt. and n.
III. assorted sizes are in limited supply
and selling fairly at 24c. Western as
sorted have a moderate sale at 2315 to
Olp Fresh rpnpinhS from Nnrly tot
are generally too frosty to bring full
prices. Western large ash tubs steady
at 23c. Firsts have been III moderate
demand and close steady at 22c. Low
grades quiet and unchanged. There
is more call for storage creamery and
prices have a firmer tendency Fine
boxes and prints in moderate supply
and steady demand.
Cheese. We have had steady but
quiet market for the past week
Strictly extra York State twins rule
/ firm at &c but only the finest Sept.
and Oct. lots bring the latter price.
Z Late made stock is irregular in quail
| ity and best lots have a slow sale at IL
to l11ac.
Eggs. Receipts have beef. light for
the past week. We have had short
supply of choice fresh stock for the
Thanksgiving trade and there was a
good demand for average best fresh
western at 2e to soc. Stock good
enough to pass as firsts sold readily at
Sac, but the extreme prices affect the
consumptive demand and the market
closes with shade easier feeling on
fresh gathered Best refrigerator
stock has been selling we'll and closes
steady at "a to 25c.
Meats. The beef market has been
quiet and without change of conse-
quence since our last weekly report,
best cattle moving slowly and rarely
exceeding s to SIC. Mutton and
yeaIings have been dull, with most
has been moderate but receipts have
been light and choice stock is well
sold up and firm, choice unfrozen at
91ato 10c Veals have been in steady
demand at well-sustained prices.
Country dressed hogs quiet at quota
tions.
Provisions Trade has been quiet
for the past week, with lard a shade
easier. Pork and hams unchanged in
price.
Live Poultry. There has been fair
supply and a steady moderate demand,
choice fowls and chickens selling gen.
orally at lie.
Dressed Poultry. - Receipts have
been very light for the past week,
footing up only about sixty per cent
of an average supply for ThaIksgiv-
ing. A good many of the turkeys were
light and thin, but the weather was
very favorable and most everything
arrived in good condition. No. 1
western turkeys sold generally at II to
22c, with now and then fancy mark
higher, and choice northern ranging
up to 25 to 20. Some of the best west
ern iced turkeys sold at 2lo. There
were few sales of northern turkeys
after Monday at over 25c. Best marks
sold on Monday at 81 to 22c, and the
closing sales on Wednesday were at 10
to zoe. Receipts of chickens and fowls
were light, and owing to the extreme
prices ruling for turkeys were in much
better demand than usual and prices
were we'll sustained to the end. Ducks
and geese we're also in fair demand.
Chickens and fowls are in light sup
ply and good demand. Ducks and
geese quiet.
Hides. The market for hides shows
little better tone, with more sales
being made, while the price has ad-
vanced trifie. Bluffs at Ohio points
of shipment have sold at SIG. with
CHICAGO at $40, while seconds and
BIS are quotable about lc less. New
England hides are steady at &c for
COWS, 5lSc for bulls and So to &c for
heavy steers. Calfskins are steady
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