St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-08-26
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

Receipts are larger, but the demand is
good and prices are readily main
tanned: Northern creamery, round
lots, 21@22c; western, 21@21 1-2c;
Vermont dairy, 10000; renovate1
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, 17@19c; eastern, 21@25c;
nearby, 25@29c; jobbing, 1@1 1-2c
higher.
Beans are quiet with the supply
light. Prices are steady: Carload
lots, pea, $2.25@2.30; medium, $2.35;
yellow eyes, $290@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.
Apples are in very full supply, the
receipts from Maine and nearby points
having materially increased. There
has been a fair local demand, and
some call for choice stock for export,
but prices are easier. Maine Astra-
chan, $2@2.25; duchess, $2.25@250;
sweet bough, $2.50@3; Williams, $3.50
$3.50 per Dbl and 75c@$1.25 per blu;
codlings, $2.5O@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 12@15c, 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 offering at $1,000
1.75.
Cantaloupes sell at $1.50@3, as 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@275 per bx.
Grapes are in better supply and
variety. Moore's Early, Wyoming and
Worden are quoted at $1@1.25 per s.
bskt carriers; Delaware, $1.50@2;
Champion, 75c@$1.
California plums are quoted at s1.50
@2.50 per bx; peaches, $1.25@1.50
Bartlett pears, $3.25@3.75.
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, $1.75@2; yellow sweets, $40
ESQ.
Native celery is selling at 75c@s150
per doz punches.
Onions are quoted at: Native, blu,
ST.; bunch onions, SOC per bx.
Hothouse tomatoes are lower, at so
15c per lb; southern, $1@2 per crit;
native, per bx, 1904.
Cucumbers sell at $1@3 per bx, all
sizes.
Yellow turnips are quoted at s2.75
per Dbl and 75c@$1 per bu; bunch
turnips, Sc; beets, 81 per bu; bunch
beets, / 1-2c; carrots, $1.50 per bu;
bunch carrots, &c; bunch parsnips, SOC
per doz; parsnips, $3.50 per bu.
Marrow squashes are quoted at $1.25
per Dbl; crooKnecks, 25c per doz;
white, 25c per doz.
Cabbages are selling at s125@1.50
per crt; $S@12 per 100; Savoy, $1.5O
per Dbl; red, 81 per bx.
Lettuce is quoted at 25c per blu bx;
radishes, SOC bx; mint, 25c per doz;
cress, soc per doz; leeks, 40c per doz.
String beans sell at 75c@$1.25 for
green and $1@1.25 for wax. Green
peas bring Sc per Dbl for native
Spinach is quoted at 40c 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; lima beans, $2.50@3.50 per bu,
eggplant, $1@1.50 per pkg.
Prices on pork provisions are re
vised with some kinds lower
There is 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 lie, 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, 10@11c; yearlings, 5@7c; NUT
tons, 5@7c; veals, sole.
Poultry is easy and lower, the de-
mand being light and the supply
ample Western turkeys, frozen, 1870
19c; iced, 14@l5c; western fowls,
iced, 1903 1-2c; fresh northern fowls,
13@14c; broilers, 14@16c; western
broilers, IL 1-2@14c; spring ducks,
16@17c.
hay is Gull, WIFI couuOH SIdueS Ill
oversupply. The better grades are
steady, though rather quiet; straw is
quiet but steady; millfeed is steady as
last quoted: Hay, No. 1, $20@21;
lower grades, $14@19; rye straw, SIS
@20; oat straw, $10011.
Wheat lost all the advance of the
previous week, sliding down LIDO
8 3-4c, September showing the most
decline. The decline in wheat was
caused hY better crop reports in the