News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-08-19
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

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prices. Receipts are well cleaned up
and choice grades are in demand
Northern creamery, round lots, 21@
81 1-2c; western, 21@21 1-2c; Vermont
dairy, 10000; renovated butter, 100
1Sc; jobbing, 1-2@1c more
Cheese is firmer, with the demand
moderate: Round lots, new, 8 1-2@
10 lie; jobbing, 1-2@1c higher.
Eggs are steady in demand, but
prices are firm, especially on choice
fresh stock: Western fresh, 16@18c;
eastern, 20@23c; nearby, 25@2Sc; job
bling, 1@1 lie higher.
Beans are easy in price, with only a
fair demand: Carload lots, pea, $225
@2.30; medium, $2.35; yellow eyes,
$2,90@2.95; red kidneys, $3.45@3.55;
California small white, $2.60@2.65;
foreign pea and medium, $2,20@2,25;
jobbing, 10c more.
There is a good supply of new ap-
pies coming forward, and the quality
is constantly improving Maine AS
trachan, $2.25@3; duchess, S2.250
2.75; sweet Dough, $2.50@3; Williams,
5000 per Dbl, and 75c@$1.25 per bu;
Coddings, $25OW3; Maiden's Blush,
$2.25@275.
Berries are getting scarcer, except
for blueberries, which are still in good
supply. Blueberries are quoted at 10
@14c and blackberries at 10@13c.
Maryland peaches are selling at SO
per crt. but much of the fruit arriving
is in bad order.
Watermelons are in full supply, and
sell at 12@25c by the load. The re-
ceipts were 92,626, against 63,7O6 last
year.
Catalogues sell at 5O@$1.25 per crt,
as to quality.
California plums are quoted at $3.50
@2.50 per bx; peaches, $1.25@1.75;
Bartlett pears, $2@2.25.
Southern Delaware grapes are
quoted at $1.75@2 per carrier, with
Niagaras at $125@1.50 and Moore's
Early at $1.25@1.50: The receipts of
grapes for the week were 1887 car
riers, against 1929 carriers last year.
Potatoes are in steady demand, with |
prices easy under full supply: |
Choice Jersey stock, $225@2.5O per
bbl and 75c per bu; Rhode Island and |
Bristol Ferry, $2@2.25 sweet, yellow,
$250@3; white, $175@2; red, $1.5O@2.
Native celery is selling at $1.50@ |
LIS per doz punches.
Onions are quoted at: Native, bu,
ST.; bunch onions, soc per bX.
Hothouse tomatoes are lower, at
10@15c per ID; southern, $1@2 per
crit; native, per bx, 1904.
Cucumbers sell at $1@4 per bx, all
sizes.
Yellow t1rrips are quoted at 1925
perabbl and 81 per bu; bunch turnips,
Sc; new beets, 75c per bu; bunch
beets, 1-2c; carrots, $3.50 per blu;
bunch carrots, &c; bunch parsnips, soc
per doz; parGnips, $1.75 per bu.
Cabbages are selling at $1.75 per
CRIT; native, $o0l2 per 100.
Marrow squashes are quoted at
$1.25 per bbl crooknecks, 25c per doz;
white Csc per doz.
Lettuce is higher at 25@35c per bu
bx; radishes. 75c bx; mint, 25c per
doz; cress, 35c per doz; leeks, 40c !
per doz.
String beans sell at s1@1.75 for
green and $1.25@1.75 for wax. Green
peas bring S. per Dbl for native.
Spinach is quoted at soc per bu for
native; parsley, dollhouse Csc per bu;
peppers, S1.5O@1.75 per pkg.
Green corn is in good supply and
is selling at S1@150 per bu.
Shell beans sell at $1.25@2.25 per
bu; eggplant, $1@2 per pkg,
Lard is higher, but other pork pro-
visions are easy.
Fresh beef is easy, with the market
heavily supplied. Receipts are run
ming about double those of last year.
Lower prices are possible this week,
though an effort will undoubtedly be
made to sustain the market.
Spring lambs are slightly firmer,
the market being well cleaned up:
Muttons and veals are steady: West
ern fall lambs, 7@9c; spring lambs,
11@12c; yearlings, 6@Sc; muttons,
60Sc; veals, 9@11c.
There is a quiet market for poul-
try. prices being easy but not much
changed: Western turkeys, frozen,
18019c; iced, 15@16c; western fowls,
iced, 14015c; fresh northern fowls,
15@l6c; broilers, 1601Sc; western
broilers, 14015c; spring ducks, ITO
1Sc; pigeons, $1.6O@1.75 per doz;
squads, $2.5003 per doz.
Hay Is slow of sale and the market
is weak, though not substantially
lower; straw is quiet; millfeed is
steady and unchanged: Hay, No. l,
S2O@21; lower grade, $14@19; rye
Straw, $1S02O; oat straw, $1O011
The effect of the bullish, government
crop report on wheat has been felt in
expanding trade and steadily rising
prices, though at first discounted by
the professional element. Europe has
also bought freely, having at last
awakened to the idea that active pur-
chases must be made if supplies are
to be replenished at anything like
reasonable prices. The Northwest is
keen competitor for hard winter
wheat, owing to depleted stocks in