The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-02
Current Comment.

alton in lard during the week, but the
net changes are small. Fresh ribs are
considerably higher Boston packers
have made larger kill of hogs for
the week. The marketing of hogs has
been further reduced, and partly
owing to the unfavorable condition of
interior roads
Mutton and Veal. Mutton and
lambs are firm but quiet; veals are
steady: Spring lambs, 10 to lie;
yearlings, s to &c. muttons, 8 to 10c;
veals, 10 p to lie.
Beef. There is an easy market for
fresh beef, with very few cattle sell
ing at over &c.
Poultry and. Game. There is only
quiet demand for poultry, and prices
are easier. especially on western
stock: Western turkeys, fresh killed,
II to 18c; frozen, 16 to 19c; north.
ern fowls. IA to l5c western fowls,
1879 to 1870; chickens, western, 10,
to loo; nothern, Is to 22c; spring
broilers, 81 per pair; capons, IS to
2Oc; geese, IL to 14c.
Eggs. Prices are not expected to
go much below 10 cents. Business
in the egg market is exceedingly brisk.
The expected large supply of eggs
from the west began to come in Mon
day, and prices went down half cent
over closing figures Saturday. This
year, owing to severe weather in the
west about the first of March, the
hens became chilled and did not lay,
with the result that for the last two
weeks there has been shortage.
Fancy fresh table eggs are firm but
quiet, and eastern nearby hennery
are held at 20 to 2lc. Outside quota
tions are; New York dropping at
14A; Chicago steady at 1870; st.
Louis steady at 1134c, loss off, packed
cases included.
Butter The butter Emarketl..con-
tinues on 2S cent basis for the best,
which is not in over supply. New
York is steady at 30, Elgin is firm at
2S15, and New York is steady at 2715.
Prices would have gone higher had
it not been for the large quantity of
renovated that has been on the market.
The extent of the late holdings of
summer goods throughout the country
was surprise to most holders. The
western manufacturers put away mil
lions of pounds of packing stock last
summer, and as this butter cost high
a great deal of it was carried along in
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up that would help them out.
Cheese. There is a tirm market for
cheese at unchanged prices: Round
lots, 10 to 1515c; sage, 10 to 16c ;
jobblng, to &c higher New York
is firm, with small fall made colored
at loo, white at 1870, large colored
at 141a to 1890, large white at 1414
to l419c.
Grain and Feed. -Cornmeal is low
er than week ago by four cents a
bag, but is steady oatmeal is steady.
Oats are also lower. Millfeed shows
material decline, amounting to
about So, 80 per ton ON spring bran
within short time.
There has been sharp decline in
wheat. There is generei uniformity
in crop conditions throughout the
winter wheat belt. The weather has
been mild and spring-ilKe, with fire.
quent rains. The wheat is generally
in good to fine condition.
The flour market remains practical
ly unchanged, notwithstanding the
lower wheat market, the sharp decline
in millteed obliging millers to main
tain prices on flour
Lumber.-There is firm market
Tor spruce lumDer, ana premium
would have 60 be paid for prompt de-
livery. 1t is reported that logs have
sold down east at high prices, and
the outlook is for an advance in lum-
Der shortly. There is a better demand
for southern pine lumber, with price
firmer, both here and in the south.
Cypress lumber is firm with prices
higher.
Wool. There has been little more
wool selling during the past week,
but generally in small way ana the
aggregate is made up of many small
lots, rather than large sales. Man
ufacturers have been looking around
considerably, and may sample bags
have been sent out from dealers
stores. There is no doubt that buy
ers, large and small, are keeping a
sharp watch over the market, and are
waiting for what they nope will be a
break in prices. Thus far this break
has not come, for though there is an
easier feeling, and here and there
"a nominal shading of prices, the
changes are usually confined TO woods
of which the stocks have been reduced
to "A minimum.