News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-08-26
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

an advance of about 1-2c for the week.
Receipts are larger, but the demand is
good and prices are readily main
tanned: Northern creamery, round
lots, 21@22c; western, 21021 1-2c;
Vermont dairy, 10000; renoyate 1
butter, 16@1Sc; jobbing, 1-2@1c more.
Cheese is in moderate supply and
prices are firm for fine stock: Round
lots, new, 10@11c; jobbing, 1-2@1c
higher.
Eggs are firm for choice fresh, with
other grades in better supply: West
ern fresh, 17019c; eastern, 21025c;
nearby, 25@29c; jobbing, 1@1 lie
higher.
Beans are quiet with the supply
light. Prices are steady: Carload
lots, pea, $2.25@2.3O; medium, S2.35;
yellow eyes, s2.900295; red kidneys,
$3.45@3.55; California small white,
$26002.65 foreign pea and medium,
$2,20@2.25; jobbing, 10c more.
Apples are in very full supply, the
receipts from Maine and nearby points
having materially increased. There
tieto bCN4l a. loll lOOdl dSndnu, anu
some call for choice stock for export,
but prices are easier. Maine Astra-
chan, $202.25; duchess, $22502.5O;
sweet bough, $250@3; Williams, $3.50
@350 per Dbl and 75c0$1.25 per blu;
codlings, $2.50@3; maiden's blush,
$2.25@250.
Some down east blueberries are
still offering, and sell at 8@15c. A
few blackberries are in the market
and sell at 12015c, but the season is
about over.
The bulk of the peaches now offer
ing are Californian, but some Della
ware and Maryland fruit is in the mar
ket and sells at $1@1.25. A few New
York carriers are t''orino at $1,000
LIS.
Cantaloupes sell at $1.5O@3, DIS to
quality and condition.
Cranberries are beginning to arrive,
but the early arrivals are pale and
slow of sale. They are quoted at
$2,50@2.75 per bx.
Grapes are in better supply and
variety. Moore's Early, Wyoming and
Worden are quoted at $10125 per s.
bskt carriers; Delaware, s1.50@2;
Champion, 75c@s1.
California plums are quoted at $3.50
@2.50 per bx; peaches, S1,25@15O
Bartlett pears, $3.25Q3.75.
Potatoes are beginning to arrive
from the Aroostook country, and
prices are easier: Aroostook Hebrons
and Green mountains, Csc; Jersey
Hebrons and round white, Csc; Dbl
stock, $175@2; yellow sweets, $40
$50.
Native celery is selling at 75c@$1.5O
per doz punches.
Onions are quoted at: Native, blu,
81; bunch onions, 50e-per bx. !
HothOuse tomatoes are lower, at so
15c per lb; southern, s102 per crt;
native, per bx, 1904.
Cucumbers sell at $1@3 per bx, all
sizes
Yellow turnips are quoted at $275
per Dbl and 75c0s1 per bu; bunch
turnips, &c; beets, 81 per bu; bunch
beets, 1-2c; carrots, $3.50 per bu;
pulIL NGSl lOtC, 80 DuIICn PAL SLIIpo, COC
per doz; parsnips, $3.50 per bu.
Marrow squashes are quoted at S125
per Dbl; crooKnecks, 25c per doz;
white, 25c per doz.
Cabbages are selling at $1.25@1.50
per crit; $S@12 per 100; Savoy, $1.50
per Dbl; red, 81 per bx.
Lettuce is quoted at 25c per bu bX;
radish.s, SOC bx; mint, 25c per doz;
cress, SOC per doz: leeks. 40c per doz.
String beans sell at 75c@$1.25 for
green and $101.25 for wax. Green
peas bring Sc per Dbl for native
Spinach is quoted at Acc per bu for
native; parsley, dollhouse, 15c per bu;
peppers, 75c@$1.25 per pkg.
Green corn is in good supply and is
lower at 81 per bu.
Shell beans sell at S1.25@2.25 per
bu; y lima beans, $2.5003.50 per bu; |
eggplant, S1@15O per pkg.
Prices on pork provisions are re-
vised with some kinds lower.
There is a weak market for fresh |
beef While the total receipts have |
been smaller the proportion for Boston |
has exceeded the previous week. Only |
now and then a choice steer will bring |
8 1-2c, with the bulk of the best cattle |
at SC.
There is a quiet market for NUT
tons and lambs; veals are steady: |
Western fall lambs, 6@Sc; spring |
lambs. 1O@11c; yearlings, 5@7c; NUT
tons, sore; veals, 9@11c.
Poultry is easy and lower, the de-
mand being light and the supply |
ample; Western turkeys, frozen, $50 |
19c; iced, 14@l5c; western fowls,
iced, 1903 1-2c; fresh northern fowls,
13@14c; broilers, 14@16c; western
broilers, IL 1-2014e; spring ducks,
16@17c.
Hay is dull with common grades in
Oversupply. The better grades are
steady, though rather quiet; straw is
quiet but steady; millfeed is steady as
last quoted: Hay, No l, $20@21;
lower grades, $14@19; rye straw, SIS
@20; oat straw, $10@11.
Wheat lost all the advance of the
previous week, sliding down LAO
8 SAC, September showing the most
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