St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-02
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

16@1Sc; jobbing, 1z@1c more.
Cheese is steady and unchanged, with
quiet demand. Round iots new, 10
@11c; jobbing, h@1c higher
Eggs are in fair demand at firm
prices. Western fresh, 17@19c; eastern,
21@25c; jobbing, 1@1hc higher.
Beans are quiet but steady. Carloal
lots, pea, $225@2.30; medium, $2.35;
yellow eyes, $2.9OG2.95; red kidneys,
$3.45@3.55; California small white, $3.50
Gl2.65; foreign pea and medium, $500
Gl2.25; jobbing, 1Oc more.
Apples are in liberal supply AMI
prices are easy, though not much
changed Maine Astrachan, S1.5O@
?25; duchess, $2@250; sweet bough, s?
@2.50; Williams, $25003.50 per bhl
ind 75c@$1. % per BIZ; maiden's blush,
$1.75@2.25.
A few blueberries are still Offering
and bring 1O@13c.
Maryland peaches bring $1@1.2 5 per
bskt, and Hudson rivers sell at $1.25
11.50 per 6-bskt carrier.
Cantalo1pes sell at 75c(GS1.50, as to
quality and condition.
Cranberries are quoted at 50 5000. 70
per bx.
Grapes are in full supply. Moore's
early are quoted at S0c@$1 per s.
bskt carrier; Delaware, $161..5;
Niagara, 75c@$1; Champion, 121sc per
bskt.
California plums are quoted ut $1.50
$3.50 per bx; peaches, $1.25@1. 80.
Bartlett pears, $3.5004; Tokay grapes,
| $1.75@2.25; Malaga grapes, S1.751
2.25.
Potatoes are easy in price, with the
arrivals free. Aroostook hebrons and
Green mountains, 65c; Jersey hebrons
and round white, Csc; Dbl stock, SITS
| a.; yellow sweets, $2@2.50.
Native celery is selling at 81 per doz
bchs.
Onions are quoted at: Native, blu,
90c; bunch onions, SOC per bx.
Hothouse toma toes are lower, at So
121hc per lb; southern, 75c@S1 per CRIT;
native, per bx, $2@3.
Cucumbers sell at $1@3 per bx, all
| sizes.
Yellow turnips are quoted at $3.50
per Dbl, and 75c@$1 per bu; white.
roc per bu; beets, 90c per bu; bunch
beets, 1tac; carrots, 81 per bu; bunch
carrots &c; bunch parsnips, SOC per doz:
parsnips, $1.5O per blu.
Marrow squashes are quoted Mt $1.o5
per Dbl; crooknecks, Csc per doz; white.
25c per doz; Bay state, $3.50.
Cabbages are selling at $1.25m1.50
per crit; $Sd12 per 100; Savoy, $1.50 per
Dbl; red, 81 per bx.
Lettuce is quoted at 35@5nc per blu bx
radishes, SOC bx; mint, 25c per doz:
cress, SOC per doz; leeks, 40e per doz.
String beans sell at roc for green
and 75e for wax. Green peas bring
$1.25@1.5O per bu for native.
Spinach is uoted at 25c pet bu for
native; parsley. dollhouse, 15c per bu.
peppers, 50@75c per pkg.
| Green corn is in good supply and Ia
lower at 75c@$1 per blu.
Shell beans sell at $15O12.25 per hui:
lima beans, 1925 per bu; eggplant. 81
@1.50 per pkg; caulifower, Montreal,
S2@250 per doz.
There is very strong market for
pork provisions, owing to the higher cost
| re hCmc in fhn WASH rVbarsn ha hnr
advance of 30c per 100 lbs in the past
two days. The quotations are revised
with lard higher.
Fresh beef is quiet, but prices are
fairly steady. The arrivals Of fresh beef
for the week have been very much
heavier for export, the supply for Bos-
ton having fallen off.
Lambs are in small supply, and are
quoted steady; muttons and veals are
quiet with fair supply. Western fall
lambs, 7@9c; spring lambs, 10@12c
yearlings, 0aSc; muttons, 5@Sc; veals
9011c.
Poultry is steady with a fair demand
Western turkeys, frozen, 1S119c; iced
14@15c; western fowls, iced, 12@12c
fresh northern fowls, 13@15c; broilers
14@16c; western broilers, 13N1SMC
spring ducks, 1Gd17c.
There is a good demand for choice
hay, with the supply light. New nay Il
coming forward quite freely, and Il
generally of satisfactory quality; stra "
is steady for rye with oat slow. Mill
feed is steady and unchanged. Hay, No
1, $2O@21; lower grades, $14@19; ryt
straw, $500; oat straw, $10@11.
The extraordinary selling indisposi
ton of wheat producers even at around
&c to 10c and 12c higher prices than g
year ago, coupled with good premiuu;
for cash wheat and the depleted ole
crop spring wheat reserves are signallN
illustrated in 20,000,000 bus reduction
In primary wheat receipts past eigh
weeks, viz June 30 to Aug. a, the tcta
being 25,41O,OOO bus against 1876,
900 bus.
1t has been frequently noted thi
year, Bradstreets says, the farmers
have been very independent and hav'
shown all indsposition to part will
their wheat at any price below SOC Il
Chicago Farmers necessities are les
than in former years, and they seer
to have pretty clear idea of what thei
wheat is worth.
Another point Of bnllislr import no