St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-12-23
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

DO0lOu, OCNs 49, A~NeN~N ~" 49,
prices somewhat lower on fresh made.
Receipts have been larger and the de-
mand is quiet: Northern creamery,
round lots, 241a@25c; western, 24W
24Kc; Vermont dairy, 21@22c; reno
waited butter, 17M10c.
Cheese is in light demand, with prices
steady and unchanged. Round lots'
Vermont twins, 11A@12c; New YORK
twins, 12@12Ac.
Eggs are very strong, with the sup"
ply small owing to the cold weather"
Refrigerator eggs are in steady demand
prices going higher for choice lots.
Western fresh, 350l3Sc; eastern, 31W
4Oc: nearby, 40M42c; refrigerator
2S@29c.
Beans are steady with firmer ten
dency, owing to strong country mar
kets. The supply is limited. Carload
lots, pea, $2.15@2 20; medium, S2.15g
2.2o; yellow eyes, $3@3.1o; red kid
/ neys, S3.1505. 25; California small
white, S245@25 IS; foreign pea and me-
dunn, So; jobbing prices higher.
Apples are doing better, with choice
lots quoted higher. The supply OF
common fruit is gradually being re-
duced. Harvies, $225@2.5O; SHOWS
s2.5o@3; Kings, S2.5093.50; Raldwlns'
s202.75; greetings, $2@2.7h; Hub
bardstons and Hurlburts, $1.5NG2,25;
pound and Tolman sweets, $1.5o@2.2o;
northern spies, $1.75@2.T5. The apple
shipments from Boston for the week
ending Dec. 10 were 272 bbls to Lon
don and 1882 bbls to Liverpool.
Cranberries are firmer at $2eg2'oo PEI
bx and $G1S per Dbl. 800.
Domestic grapes sell at 12015c for M
aeara and 13015c for Catawbas. AL
meria grapes are selling at $3.5OG6 pei
Dbl. with the market being pretty wei
cleaned up. =.
Table nuts are steady and are selling
at: Walnuts, 12h@15c per Id; cas-
tanas, 1o@11c; recans, 1o012c; I'll
berts, Toe; almonds, 13@15c; hickory
50 per bu.
Potatoes are quiet but steady. ARGOS
took hebrons, zoe; Green mountains
73c: York state Green mountains, toe
sweets, Norfolk, cloth heads, I5cS9s1.oe
Jersey double heads, $2.500i3.
Celery is selling at: Pascal 1904 pc
long bx; Boston market, $416 per Ion
; bx. white. S1.25 per doz,
Onions are quoted at: spanlsl
large crts, $3.50; natives 81 per bt
: bbls, So. 5003.
Cucumbers sell at $1.50GS per bx.
Yellow tur Alps are selling at 81 p
: Dbl: white French, $50 per Dbl; whit
Z soc Der bu: beets, 81 per bu; carrots, q
per bu; rarsnips, 75cG$1 per blu.
: Cabbages sell ut S225 per Dbl for n
; tive: Savoy, $1.25 per Dbl; red, $2''
. per Dbl.
L Lettuce is quoted at $1.50025o p
); bx; radishes, SOC per doz; mint, Z
; ner doz; cress, SOC per doz; leeks, 4
). per doz; oyster plants, 81 per doz
u String beans sell at $40 per bx
= green.
! Spinach is quoted at 81 per bu; be
i greens, 81 per bu; parsley, $l.oo(gl'
o Der bu; peppers, $3.50 per bu.
lz Brussels sprouts sell at 10c per qt'
T Caulifower sells at 81 per Dbl.
W HAY is very dull, with prices weak
IS and lower on some grades Receipts
IS heavy and the demand light. Strs
Is is steady for rye, with oat IN I
Ia supply and easy. Millfeed is stea'
lg HAY, No. /, $17@1s.5o; low grades,
II @16; rye straw, $21.5o@23; oat stra
.e $9@10.
III Pork provisions are easier and so
d. cuffs are lower. There has been a t
co ther moderate enlargement in the nj
10 Der of hogs marketed, the total be
a! of fairly liberal proportions, and C
20 siderably in excess of last year.
on quality is good. Prices show a sn
ny gain. the average for prominent n
no kets indicating $40 per 100 pounds
le' Fresh beef has been very q
wv and prices are easy, with only now
&C then a very choice steer bring
r 3-4c, or even TIC.
Nuttons and lambs are quiet
ors steady; veals hold firm. Western
les lambs, 709c; spring lambs, oG
DO. yearlings, 6l7c; muttons, 607c; We
zap 9@11c.
- Choice northern turkeys are in s.
eet sunply and some lots are held at
KEY zoe. The bulk of the sales, howe
on are around 27c for really choice
- There is good supply of western
rho KEYS. and prices are not exorbit
we'd Fowls and chickens are in large
.ish NV both for western and nortf
roit The quotations are Turkeys, NJ
ua. ern. 25027c; western, 20G22c; cl
.ow ems. northern, 15@17c; western,
nan 13c: fowls, northern, 13@14c; ives
,ees 111s012hc; ducks, 14@l7c; g
tied 14015c.
,sas The enormous increase in the
,urt production of the interior mills
O in Minnesota and the Dakotas is OF
Iaze the striking features of this except
ally wheat year. a year in which rel
ain nrices in most markets have
O be greatly out of joint, and in which
cts- nrices in all markets have rule
,ank premiums over futures instead
rers, discounts, as customary in most y
ex- Northwest expert opinion is tina
at county is not far from the turni
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