St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-02-11
BOSTON MARKETS.
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

quiet but steady all the week, with
prices but little changed. Extra
creamery, small pkgs, 2S'd2S1sc; north
ern fresh, round lots, 27G2Sc; western,
27G27Ac; eastern, 24@25c; jobbing,
zee to 1c more.
Cheese is firm in price, but the de-
mand is quiet. The quotations are
steady at: Round lots, 14@141ac; sage,
1414@15c; jobbing, 1a02c higher.
Eggs are in short supply for fresh laid,
but other grades are coming in freely
and prices are easy. Western fresh,
23@24c; storage, 1S@19c; eastern, 25@
26c; nearby and fancy, 2S@30c; jobbing,
1c to 11ac higher.
The country markets are firm on
beans and locally prices are steadily
held, though the market is rather quiet.
Carload lots, pea, $2.45@250; medium,
$2.45@2.50; yellow eyes, $2.90@3; red
kidneys, So 25@3.30; California small
white, $2.G0@2 60; jobbing, 1Oc more.
Very choice selections of apples are
bringing good prices, but for ordinary
qualities the market is dull at: Fancy
Baldwins, $2.2JM2.50; No. 1 Baldwins,
$1.50M2; greetings, $15002; No. 2, all
kinds, $101.25; Hubbardston, $1.25M2;
pound sweets, $i.50@2; northern spies,
$1.5002.2J; Kings, $2M3; Tolman
sweets, $150M250; common apples,
75cW$125. Small lots and jobbing
from soc to 81 per bbl more.
Cranberries are jobbed at $3.5005
per crt and $10@15 per Dbl. The re-
ceipts for the week were 337 bbls; last
year. 176 bbls.
Nuts are fairly steady at: Walnuts,
11G15c per lb; castanas, 12c; filberts, IL
Gl12c; Texas pecans, 10014c: almonds,
13Gl15c for hard and 14M16c for soft
shells; peanuts, No. I, 412c; iumbos, 6
061ac.
The market for potatoes is rather
quiet, at steady prices, Houlton Green
mountains, 7SGlS0c; he brons, T3MT5c per
bu; York state, Green mountains and
round white, roc; western, 6506Sc:
Dakota reds, 63065c; sweets, double
heads, $2.5003; Vinelands, 81.
Boston market celery is bringing
higher prices ut $609 per long bx; Pas
chal, $4M6.
California caulifoWer is offering at
$2.75 per crt; Brussels sprouts, 15c per
at by the crt.
Onions are selling at Sc. 1908 per Dbl,
with jobbers by the bushel higher;
Spanish, long crts, $3.50.
Cucumbers are selling at Sic for
fancy long green; good, $14; medium,
| $10d12; No >, $406.
HothOuse tomatoes are quoted at 40c
per lb, with mushrooms at SOC per ID.
Some new rhubarb is in the market and
selling at Toe per ID.
Cabbages sell at Sc for native and
Savoy.
Squashes are quiet and unchanged.
Marrow squash, SIS per ION: Hub
bards, $20025; turbans, $20@25.
Yellow turnips sell at 9'lc per Dbl:
white French, $101.J0 per Dbl, white
fat, SOC per bx; beets, SOC; carrots, soc;
parsnips, Coo; egg plants, $50 per crit.
Lettuce sells at J0075c per doz; rad
ishes, SOC per doz; hint, 81 por doz;
cress, 75c per doz; parsley. S 1.5O for hot
house, per bu; satisfy, 75c per doz;
leeks, 40c per doz.
Southern string beans sell at $3Gt4
per bskt for green ami wax, according
to quality.
Spinach is quoted at 30ct0$l.50 per
bbl kale, 50cM$1 per Dbl; esliro, $3.50
per bu; endiye, $50 per on, romainc,
So per bu; artichoAcs, SIS per bu:
dandelons, $150 per bu.
There is no improvement to note in
the hay market. Choice grades are
scarce but low grades are slow of sale,
with a full supply; straw is quiet and
steady; millfeed is lirmer. Choice hay,
$2O@21; No. 1, $I1019; low grade, So
015 and up; rye straw, $140I5; cat
straw, $9010.
Hams and fresh ribs are higher, but
other pork provisions are unchanged.
There is an easy market for fresh
beef, with a very few choice cattle still
bringing Sc.
Muttons and lambs are quiet but
steady at quotations. Veal5 are I'M
changed. Spring lambs, S010Hc; year
lings, 5@Sc; muttons, 5@oc; veals, 10
@11c
There is an easier tone to the market
for poultry, especially on western tur-
keys. Northern chickens are scarce.
Prices are not much changed. West
ern turkeys, 1S0:20c; northern fowls,
14@16c; western fowls, 13@15c; chick
ems, western, 15@16C; northern, 1702Oc;
ducks, 1601Sc; geese, l2@14c.
Venison is still in moderate supply
from cold storage, whole deer being
quoted at 15020c, with saddles at 25Gl
Csc; skins on, and legs at 3003jc. Bear
meat is in moderate supply at 13Gl20c.
There is little smaller supply of game
prices being steady and unchanged
Black ducks sell at Sf,7502 per pair;
red headed ducks, $3.50; Widgcon, 81 {;
teal, $1.10. Philadelphia SQUAD are
firm at $404.50 per doz. with natives at
$3.50@3.75 quail, 81. 23@4.50 per doz;
plover, $5@6 per doz.
The flour market is quiet, with buyers
Indifferent, and taking only enough for
pressing needs The advance of sc in
prices during the week is no more than
| natural with thn advance in ,vboc+