St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-03-09
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

Boston, March 7.-Choice fresh
creamery butter is in moderate supply
and prices have strengthened. Poorer
grades are quiet and easy. The quota
lions are: Northern creamery, round
lots, 26@261ac; western, 25k@26c; Yer
mont dairy, 20@22c; renovated butter,
17Q19c.
There is a little frmer tone to the
market for choice fall made twins, but
quotations are not changed. Round
lots, Vermont twins, 11@12c; New York
twins, 11A@121zc; Liverpool is quoted
lower at ass Cd for white and SOS Cd
for colored.
Eggs dropped still lower, but cold
weather stiffened up prices little. The
market is firm at: Choice nearby, %
Q26c; eastern, 25c; western, 24@25c.
Beans are firm and unchanged. Car
load lots, pea, Sc. 2O@2. 25; medium, So 90
@2.25 yellow eyes, $2.S0@2.S5; red kid
neys, $3.30@3.4O; California small
white, $2.45@2.5O; foreign pea and me-
dunn, 50; jobbing prices higher.
The decline in the apple markets
abroad caused several carloads of
apples designed for export to be thrown
on this market The result has been
an easier market, with moderate de-
mand. Choice fruit is held firm, but me-
dunn and ordinary goes slowly. The
quota lions are: Kings, $3@4; Bald
wins, $2.25@3.25; greetings, $2.25@3;
Hubbardstons and HurIburts, $1.5O@
2.25; pound and Tolman sweets, $1.5O
@2.25; northern spies, 1908; Virginia
York imperials, $3.25@3.5O; No. 2, all
grades, $1.5O@2.
Cranberries are unchanged, choice
Cape fruit selling at So per bx and $500
per Dbl. Jersey cranberries are quoted
at 1925 per bx.
Strawberries sell at 25@4Oc per at.
Lower prices are quoted on potatoes
as spring approaches, though the mar
ket is not over-supplied. The quota
tons are: Aroostook hebrons, 93@95c;
Green mountains, 95@9Sc; Dakota reds,
90c; sweets, Jersey, double heads, 1904.
Celery is very firm at: Pascal, $2@
| $50 per doz; Boston market, 1894 per
doz.
| Onions are firm at: Spanish, large
crts, $3.50; natives, $1.5O per bu; bbls,
| $3@3.50.
Yellow turnips are unchanged at 81. so
per Dbl; white French, So per Dbl; white,
75c@$1 per bu; beets, $3.50 per bu; car
| rots, 81 per bu; parsnips, $3.50 per bu.
Marrow squashes are quoted at $3.50
| per Dbl; Hubbard, per ton, $40.
| Cabbages are higher at $3.5O@4 per
| Dbl for native; Savoy, So per Dbl, red,
| $3.50 per Dbl.
Lettuce is in full supply at 25c@$1. 80
| per long bx; radishes, 25c per doz; mint,
| 81 per doz; cress, doc per doz; leeks, 81
| per doz.
String beans are lower at $25O@3. sc
per bx for green.
| y Spinach is in full supply, native hot
| house being quoted lower at $1.5O@1.7
| per bu. Southern spinach is selling al
| S. per Dbl and $3.50 per bu Beet
| green's are quoted at 75c for dollhouse:
| parsley, So per bu; peppers, $4@5 per bu
Brussels sprouts sell at 22c per qt
| Cauliflower sells at So per crt fol
| California.
Pork provisions are again lower, the
net decline for the week being about
| $1.5O per bbl There is continued
fairly liberal supply of hogs finding the
markets. The quality is good in most
| instances. Prices have been somewhat
reduced, prominent markets averaging
about $3.50 per 100 pounds.
| The winter packing season has now
reached its close and careful survey
| of the returns and indications point to
a total of about 9,25O,OOO hogs for the
western killing for the four months
| from Nov. 1 to March /. This implies
an increase of about 100000 in numbers
| compared with last year. Returns from
four of the five large western centres
| furnishing monthly stocks of provisions
show an increase of about 100000
| pounds of meats and $4,000 tierces OF
lard, for the past month, and as com
pared with a year ago a gain of 4SOOO,
| 900 pounds of meats and $4,000 tierces
| of lard.
| Fresh beef is in full supply, and with
| q quiet demand prices have eased of
about 14c.
Lambs have been in full supply and
| prices have ruled easy. Muttons and
veaIs are steady. Lambs, S09c; year
lings, 51A@61kc; muttons, 6@7c; veals
| 9@11c.
The market for poultry continues
quiet for all kinds. Choice chickens are
scarce, but ordinary stock, both chick
ems and fowls, is plenty and cheap
Turkeys are steady. Turkeys, western
1S@19c; chickens, northern, 14@15c
fancy, 1S020c; western, 14@15c: fowls
northern, 15@151kc; western, 14014ac
ducks, 14015c; geese 11@12c.
The wheat market mas been very er
ratio during the past week. The ex
IRENE range on the May option in the
Chicago market was 96c to $1.O3 ga
the lower price being made Friday
Later there was a slight reaction, the
market closing firm. The fuctua lions
have been sharp, the tendency being III
favor of the shorts most of the time
| Naturally after So great q decline there