Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-08-08
IN HUB MARKETS
on the Leading
Products In Demand

steady. with the demand moderate
for all grades. Receipts are liberal,
with buyers and sellers apart. North
ern crcamer.-, 19G191kc; western, 1914
@1gc; frsts, 17d1Sc; dairy, 17@17Ac.
Cheese continues in light demand and
prices are easy. Receipts of medium
grade stock are large. Round lots, York
state SIS SIC; Vermont twins, 71aGSc.
Eggs are very firm for choice nearby
stock. but much of the supply from the
west is in bad order and sells low.
Choice nearby, 27@2Sc; eastern, 23@
25c: western, 19d22c.
Beans are in light demand for all
kinds. with prices steady and I'M
changed. Carload lots, pea, 81 .S5d1 80;
medium, $2d2.O5; yellow eyes, $2.T5@
go: red kidneys, $3.1O03.20: Cali
fornia small white, $2.3002.35; foreign
pea. $1.S5d1.95; foreign medium, $1.90
6195; jObbing prices, 1Od15c higher.
The receipts of potatoes have been
moderate and prices have ruled firm.
Trade was good. Norfolk sweet pota
toes are here in a small way and offered
at $3.50 a barrel
Vegetable quotations follow:
Potatoes-Jersey new, 81. 25d2.50 a
barrel; 756S5c a bushel; Norfolk sweets,
$3.50 a barrel.
Onions-Native, 81 a bushel; bunch
onions, soc a box; leeks, 75e a dozen
punches.
Turnips Yellow. $125 barrel;
white, 5O675c a bushel.
Spinach, etc-Spinach, 25c bushel;
native cabbage, $2d3 per 100.
Lettuce, etc-Lettuce, 40050c dozen
heads; mint, 25c a dozen punches;
sley, 1215c a bushel
Tomatoes 5M10c pound /;
| Jersey. 35d50c a crate; Norfolk, 50c0
| $3.50 Il crate.
MiscellaneOus-Beet soc bushel;
| carrots, $1.50 a bushel: bunch parS-
nips, SOC dozen punches; cucumbers,
| 25cGd$1 a box: egg plants, native, 81. 80
q dozen; southern, 50 a crate; peas, ma
tive, $1@1.25 a bushel; peppers, 81 a
| crate; marrow squash, $1.25 a barrel
| crate; native string beans, green, 500
| 75c bushel; wax, 50d75c bushel;
| shell beans, $101.50 a bushel; native
| celery, $1d1.50 dozen punches; rad
| ishes, SOC a box; caulifower, $2.5O03
| a dozen; native green corn, 75cd$1. p
a box.
There is a fair supply of apples. The
demand is good, the quality better and
prices are somewhat higher. Black
berries are firm under moderate re-
ceipts. BlueberrieS have been coming
in more freely and are lower Very
few good raspberries are arriving
Cantaloupes are in good supply anC
selling fairly well at steady prices
Watermelons are plentiful, but with q
good demand prices hold up we'll
Fruit prices follow:
Apples-Native astrachan, $2Q3 {
barrel; Jersey, $2d3 a barrel; jersey
pippin, $2.25@3.25 a barrel; jersey
sweet bough, $202.5O a barrel; Jerse!
southern green, 5Oc@$1 half barre
| hSkt
kberries-i1udsOn river, 12015c
York state, 12@15c; Jersey choice, II
@13c.
BIueberries-Nativ 11@12c Qt; New
York, 9011c at; Pennsylvania, 9Q11
OF; Nova Scotia, 12013c.
Cantaloupes-CaIifo 45s $3.50
crate; 54s $4.5O a crate; southern, SO
$50 a crate.
Watermelons-Florid $15025
hundred.
Peaches Georgia, S2@2.5O a carrier
Pears-California bartlett, $1.7502
box; southern lie conte choice, $3.50
n barrel; common to good, $203 barre
: Plums-California S1.25@2.75 a cal
}. rier
Raspberries-Native, 56Sc pin
Hudson river, 3@4c 1-3 cup; 5@Sc
pint cup; Delaware, 5dSc a pint.
Gooseberries-G 1dSc a quar-
h Currants-Large red, S01Oc Oft.
l. Barrel pork and some cuts were az
d vanced. the whole market being fri
y The labor disturbances have further +
stricted packing operations. Pric,
are about the same as a week ago, i
- dicating an average of about $40 D.
100 pounds for prominent markets.
Prices have slowly advanced
- fresh beef, owing to the strike T
NJ trade is, however, Sedulously avoidil
any appearance of boom, and there
no doubt there is beef enough ava
able in the market to supply all re
sOnable demands. A still better SUPP
is promised later 1t is reported I'll
there is considerable Brighton-kill
beef in the market. Choice whole c
tie are quoted at 1012@10 3-4c,
latter being an extreme price. I
bulk If the best beef sells at 1OQ1O1
Kinds are quotable at 12Q13c and fol
at SdS1ac.
= There is no change to note in Ian
and muttons, both supply and dema
being light; veals are steady. Vest
fall lambs, 1OQ12c; spring lambs, 1
ms 14c: warnings, 9Q10c; muttons, ga
ers yealS, Std9c.
de There is only quiet demand
poultry at steady prices. Frozen We