News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-12-16
In HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Produces In Demand


light receipt and the market h3s stiff
feued up somewhat. Prices, however
though firm, have not advanced ma
terially. Northern creamery, round
lots, 25d25lac; western, 241A025c; Yer.
mont dairy, 21023c, renovated butter
1712M19c.
Prices are steady and unchanged on
cheese, with no special feature in the
market to note. Liverpool has de-
cllned. Round lots, Vermont twins, 111a
0I2c; New York twins, 126lI2Ac.
The market for eggs has been fairly
steady all the week, receipts being
light and the demand moderate. West
ern fresh, 30032c; eastern, 33M35c;
nearby, 3S0fOc; refrigerator, 24M2Gc.
The demand for beans is quiet, and
prices are easier, with full receipts.
Carload lots, pea, 50. 2Om2 20; medium,
S2,21ll2. %; yellow eyes, $3.O503. 10; red
kidneys, 81. 2503.45; California small
white, $2.55M2,60; foreign pea and
medium, $40.
Apples are selling fairly well for
choice red fruit, but common grades are
still in too large supply to allow work
ing prices higher. Maine pippins, 81 %
Oils: Harvies, $2M22 20; SHOWS, $3.50
M3; Kings. $2.50M3.J0; Baldwins, $1.75
@2.5O; greetings, $1.75@2.50; Hub
bardstons and Hurlburts, $1.50@2, %;
pound and Tolman sweets, $1.50@2.2 %:
northern spies, $1.500250.
Cranberries are steady at $2M2. %
per bX and $5M7.50 per Dbl. The re-
ceipts for the week We're 25S5 bbls.
against 1452 bbls for the same week
last year.
Domestic grapes sell Mt 10015c for
Niagara and 10M15c for Catawbas.
The receipts for the week were 1906
bskts and no carriers. Last year the
receipts were 3D. 1853 bskts and no car
ricrs
Almeria grapes are selling at $2.73
[l6 per Dbl. The receipts for the week
were 81 bbs; same week a year ago,
81 bbls.
Pineapples are quoted at 20G40c each
for Jamaicas. The receipts for the week
were 373O; same week a year ago,
300.
Turkish figs sell at S017c per ID;
California, in 10-lb bXs, soc per bx;
pulled figs, 17020c per ID.
Potatoes are steady and unchanged.
AroostCok hebrons, Csc: Green noun
tains, 6S070c; York state Green noun
tains, GO065c; sweets, Norfolk cloth
heads, 75c0$1.50; Jersey, double heads,
s.. SOFAS.
There is an easier market on hams,
)acons, ribs and shoulders, but generally
pork provisions are steady. The offer
ings of hogs have increased, and the
number for the week is fairly liberal,
The quality continues good, with ir-
in weights. Prices are n lit
tie lower than a week ago, prominent
markets averaging So per 100 lbs.
The market for FIRE sh beef is very
much demOralized, and low prices are
being quoted. The top is about TIC for
whole steers, though it is claimed that
occasionally a very choice steer would
bring Sc. The receipts have been very
heavy, especially OF beef intended for
domestic consumption. The result is
strong pressure to sell.
There is d full supply of muttons and
lambs offering, though choice lambs are
still selling at Sc; veals are steady.
fall lambs. 709c; spring lambs,
9d9c; warnings, sac; muttons, G07c;
7eals, 9011c.
Choice northern turkeys are scarce
md firm, but western ere quiet and
Easy: chickens and fowls are easier.
Turkeys, northern, 2O023c; western,
Try, 17U20c; chickens, northern. 150
L7c; western, 12W13c; fowls. northern.
l3Gi14c: western, 11h0t121&c; ducks,
I3@15c; geese, 13G15c.
Hay is in full supply and the market
IS weaker. though rot much changed.
Tile demand is quiet, and full outside
quotations are very hard to get. Straw
S in heavy receipt and easy. Millfeed
s steady and unchanged. Hay, No. /,
low grades, $126716; rye
straw, S21022; oat straw, $961O.
Present wheat condition of 500 is the
smallest December condition, save S1.4
n 1895, and 1913 in 1891, in which
ears the respective winter wheat
fields were 257O0O,0OO and 800, 100000.
Ihe highest December conditions were
'9.7 in 1902, 99.5 in 1896, 9S.4 in 1890
nd $50 in 1899.
The December condition is in nearly
very year the highest and the acre
lge as well, the latter annually suffer-
ne from winters killing and other
disasters. Last year the acreage loss
vas nearly 100000 acres, and two
ears ago nearly 100000. The indi-
ated crop two years ago, when condi-
ions and acreage very closely par
lleled the present year, was 45S,000,-
100 bushels, or within 100000 bushels
{ our present estimate of 4G0,O0OOOO
ushels and the final crop 412OOO,O00
ushels.
The final official estimate of the total |
creage productions and value of the
rincipal crops of 1908 will be issued |
DEC. 2S.
A London letter says the grain ware
ouses there are so filled with poor Rus
Ian wheat that it is impossible to get |
ny room for other grain, and that the
fixture Of this wheat with the poor
lnglish wheat is making such poor
ours that the trade is going from
alive tlours to American. The poor