News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-05-13
In HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading.
Products In Demand


check to the downward turn of prices
on butter, though receipts are still in.
creasing. The demand has improved
somewhat. Northern fresh, round lots,
22c; western, 22c Vermont dairy, 1Sll
zoe; renovated butter, 17@lSAc; job
bling, h@1c more.
Old cheese is cleaning up well at firm
prices. Receipts Of new are increasing.
but as yet the quality is not entirely
satisfactory. Round lots, AZ GI15c;
new cheese, 13@13lsc; jobbing, Hd2c
higher
Eggs show very little change. Re
ceipts are liberal but prices ire well
sustained with good 'lemand. West.
ern fresh, 1G@17c; storage ia cked, 17Kc;
eastern, 17@19c; jobblng, lie to 1kc
higher.
Beans are quiet in demand with
prices fairly steady. Carload lots, pea,
S2.30Cd2.35; medium, S230G2.35; vel
low eyes, $2.70@2.75; red Kidneys, $40
t3,15; California small white, $2550
2.6O; jobbing, 10c more.
Apples are in steady demand, with
prices firm on choice stock. Baldwins
from cold storage, 50 25Q2.I5; fancy
Baldwins, S2d275; 40. 1 Baldwins,
$150a2; No. 2, $125td1.5D; greetings,
$1.50Q2.25; russets, $202 10; northern
| spies, $2Q3; Maine Ben Davis, 81 .50Gl
2.25. Small lots and jobblng, 50c0$1
per Dbl more.
| Strawberries were in heavy re-
ceipt, with prices lower. Later, how
ever, the market was poorly sup
| piled, prices advancing, the quotations
being 1501Sc.
Potatoes are rather quiet, with prices
easier. HOultOn Green mountains, So
| @S5c; hebrons, 750lSc per bu; York
state, Green mountains. G5d70c; west
ern white, G0MG5c; Dakota reds, EDO
60c; New FlOrdas 81 50Q5 per Dbl:
Jersey sweets, bskts, SIGII25; south
ern white sweets, $1.50Nl2.
A little bunch celery is offering at
75cQ$1.25 per bch.
Onions are firm at: Egyptian, rs,
So; Bermudas, $1.75 per CRIT.
HothOuse tomatoes are quoted IT 35c
per lib; southern, 81 30I350 per CIT,
with mushrooms at g per bx Rhubarb
sells at &c per lib for native
Cucumbers sell at $2504l5 per Tx for
dollhouse, all sizes.
Yellow turnips sell ut 50 per Dbl;
white French, $3.50 per Dbl; white fiat,
81 per bx beets, 50d i:1c: carrots, 80
@75c; parsnips, 50@75c; egg liant, So
per crt.
Cabbages, new southern sell at $150
@1.75 for large crts; Norfolk Ibis, 81 %.
Squashes are quoted ut $40 per ton
for Hubbard.
Lettuce sells at 50GlS3c per doz; lad
ishes, 30c per doz; Mint, %5c err doz:
cress, 35Q50c per doA; satisfy, $3.50
per doz; leeks, 75c per doH.
New string beans sell III S3JO6l4 Per
crt for wax and S275Gf3 for green.
Asparagus is quoted ut S3Gt5 for
southern large punches, and 81. 500250
per doz fo~ native.
Spinach is quoted ut 50 per Dbl Tor
southern, and Soc per Tx for native:
kale, 15c per bX for native; artichol;cs.
$3.50 per bu; parsley, dollhouse, $3.50
per bX; dandelions soc per bu; beet
greens, 400 soc per bu; new native bcCts,
$3.50 per dOz bchs; bunch onions, zoe
per bx.
Bermuda potatoes job nt $3.50 per
hbl; Florida potatoes, S4.50Gf5; horse
radish, Sc per Dbl; peppers, So per crt
Pork provisions are easier. with
lower prices quoted IN some cuts.
There is tirmer marizrt for fresh
beef and higher prices are expected.
The receipts for the week were il total
of 164 cars
There is a very irm market for
lambs, with some Brighton stock sell.
ing at 14c and above; muttous and vtGlS
are steady and UNCHANGED. Spring
lambs, 12M13c, with some fancy
higher; yearlings, 90lOc; muttons, 9@
10c; veals, 9010c, with some fancy
higher.
There is very quiet ma rkrt for pOul.
try, with prices steady as quoted:
Western turkeys, frozen, 1S020c; iced,
Ice; western fowls, iced, 13hd14c;
frozen western fowls, 130131sc; western
frozen chickens, 14Q1Gc; fresh killed
northern chickens, 14GIGc; fresh
killed northern fowls, 15@lGr: broilers,
30@35c; SQUAD broilers, per pair, 70
090c; spring ducks, 25030c
Hay has been a little more active,
with the best grades selling readily;
poor grades are slow aud hard to move;
millfeed is flrmer and was marked NJ
again. Choice hay, sgt; No. l, $17G19;
low grades, $13@15 and up; rye straw,
S1G017; oat straw, S90i0.
Speculative wheat shows Il slight de.
cline for the week, and scare over pos
sible damage to the winter wheat crop |
having lost much of its force. Armour !
has cut quite as much figure in the mar
ket as have crop advices, for he was !
credited with dumping out about 7,000,- !
900 bushels of July wheat and is now |
to have cleaned out his line |
In that month, although later his ac-
tons seemed to denote fresh purchases
around re. He is generally credited |
with being short of considerable Sep
TENDER Exporters have taken only a
interest in cash wheat
Abroad the crops lave shown general
as reflected in declining
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