St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-06-01
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on rhe Leading
Products In Demand

Boston, May 30.-Butter receipts are
lighter and the market shows steady
tone. A fair demand is noted for ex-
ira fresh creamery, but other grades
are quiet with prices unchanged.
The arrivals of new cheese are mod
crate and the best lots have fair sale
around Sc. Medium and low grades
are quiet and easy. Old stock is slow in
demand at low and Uneven prices.
With liberal receipts and warm wea-
Their the egg market, except for the best
stock, is dull and easy. The movement
il westerns is slow and storage packed
western frStS are quiet.
Butter-Ve and New Hamp-
shire extra creamery, 1870; northern
New York, 1S12c; western, 1S1ac; north
ern firsts, 171a@1Sc; western firsts, liz
@1Sc; eastern best marks, 111aQ1Sc;
eastern fair to good, 15@16c; cream
cry seconds, 15M16c; Vermont dairy eX-
ira, tic; New York and Vermont dairy
irsts, 16c; seconds, 12Q14c; western
imitation creamery extra, Ice; frsts,
14c; ladle firsts, 1870; seconds, 127A@
13c; packing stock, 11@12c; renovated
100151zc; boxes extra northern cream
cry, 19c; firsts, 1Sc; extra dairy, tic;
firsts, Ice; common to good, 13@14c;
prints, 13@1S14c.
Cheese-New York and Vermont
twin, new extra, SC; frsts, &c; seconds,
506c; New York and Vermont twins,
old best, S@9c; common to- good, 6@7c.
Eggs-Fancy hennery, zoe; Maine,
Vermont and New Hampshire extras,
19c; firsts, 171kc; York state firsts, 171ac;
western firsts, 161a@1712c; fair to good,
16c; dirties, 13@14c; checks, 10@12c;
storage packed western frsts, 17k
@1Sc.
The above quotations are what ship
pers sending butter, cheese and eggs
to Boston may expect to receive; job
bling prices are somewhat higher.
Sweet potatoes-North Carolina
stock is costing about $3.5O@4 per Dbl,
with Delaware at $303.5O Offerings
continue small, with the demand light
Potatoes-The demands continues
quiet, with prices quoted steady. For
Aroostook Hebrons the market is about
$1@1.1O, with Green mountains at $1.15
@1.25 and Dakota reds at 75@S5c per
bu. New Bermuda potatoes are quoted
at $5@5.5O per Dbl, with best southern
at $4.5O@5.
Vegetables-The market continues
quiet, prices fairly steady. Spinach is
selling at 25@35c per bu for native;
cabbages, new southern, per Dbl, 1926
$3.50; onions, Egyptian, per bag, $40
225; dollhouse tomatoes are selling at
15@20c per lb; lettuce, per doz, 75c@$1;
Bermuda onions, per crate, $1.6O@1.75.
Southern string beans are selling at
$1.7502 per basket for green, and So
@2.25 for wax, with tomatoes at 1926
@2.75 and native rhubarb at 75c per 100
pounds. Hothouse cucumbers, per 100
count, $404.5O; asparag gus, per 3-doz
box, $4,000, with giant higher; and
southern peas at 75c@$1.5O per basket.
There are cherries and peaches In the
market this week, but they are SO
scarce that dealers don't want to quote
them. In fact they are so few that
only half a dozen dealers have any.
There wasn't any desire manifested on
the part of stall owners to buy the
first invoices, because of the fact that
no one dealer could get enough of them,
and besides exorbitant prices would
have to be asked for them.
The freight handlers strike has
caused serious interference with bust
ness interests in all eastern points. En-
route to the Boston market was large
amount of fruit, vegetables, poultry,
game, ETC., which was either held up
or delayed.
Some of the fruits, poultry, game and
eggs show declining quality because of
abnormally slow transportation from
the west
Lard is higher, but other port pro-
ducts are generally unchanged.
Fresh beef is quiet but firm as last
quoted.
Lambs and veals are quiet with still
an oversupply offering; muttons and
yearlings are steady. Western fall
lambs, 11@12c; eastern springers, $5@7
each; yearlings, 9@1Oc; muttons, 90
1Oc; veaIs, S@9c.
Poultry and game-Turkeys, good,
2702Sc Id; westerns, 23@25c Id; chick
ems, 2O@25c ID; native chickens, 3O@35c
lb; fowl, 17@1Sc ID; geese, zoe ID; ducks,
25@2Sc Id; capons, 25@33c Id; squads,
1904 per doz; pigeons, $2.75 per doz.
Hay and straw are steady; feed is
firm but unchanged. Hay, No. 1, $2O5O
@21; low grades, $13@19; rye straw,
$25@26; oat straw, $1O@11.
To Reduce Mill Hands Wages
Fall River, Mass, May PA move
ment FLAVOR of general reduction of
10 percent in the wages of the cotton
textile operatives of this city has been
formally set ON foot by the Fall River
Manufacturers association. The ex-
ecutive committee has been instructed
to secure signatures binding the 80 cor
porations represented in the associa-
ton to abide by cutdown in the
schedule. The operatives, of whom at