News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1904-04-27
In HUB MARKETS
quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

ana storage stock. Other grades are
Z rrthe slower. Receipts are far be-
low those of last year. Northern
creamery, Pc 2112c; western, 2O1g02lc;
Vermont DAIRY. ISU1Jc; renovated but
tel, IlQLlT12c.
The market is we'll cleaned up Oh
choice tall twin cheese, but the demand
is quiet, and prices hold steady. Round
lots, Vermont twins, 10010hc; New
York twins, 1O12M11c.
The cold wea ther has stiffened up the
egg market, especially in the west, and
quotations here have advanced about
1c Oh the best marks during the week
\ good part of the receipts is being put
into cold storage. Choice nearby, 21M
22c; eastern, $4,000; western, 800
1870.
There is a frmer tone to beans in the
country, but the demand here is light
and prices are barely steady. Carload
lots, pea, $195M2: medium, $1.95@2;
yellow eyes, $27502S0: red kidneys,
$31OM3.20; California small white,
$23Oa231; foreign pea, $1.S5@1.95;
foreign medium. S1.9OM1.95; jobbing
prices 10@15c higher.
Another week OF prolonged cold
weather has had the effect of holding
up or advancing prices on most Of the
vegetables and green stuff coming from
the south, while native dollhouse pro-
ducts are also held at firm prices in
spite of the advancing season.
Bermuda potatoes are about 81
bushel higher than a week ago for the
very best stock, and sell now at SIS.
Spanish onions, fiat turnips parsley,
Florida tomatoes, parsnips, native rhu-
barb and southern wax beans are
quoted at considerably higher prices
Old cabbage has been succeeded by
new cabbage, which sells at $202.75 a
crate. Native rhubarb is 1c a pound
higher than week ago, while the Cali
fornia rhubarb is selling very much
lower A temporary shortage has stiff
fened the price of Philadelphia mush-
rooms to 81 pound. Best cucumbers
are selling 81 bushel lower
POtatoes-IebrOns S115M1.2O
bushel, green mountain 81 .2OM1.2j. Da-
kota red $1.OJM1.1O, sweets S175
basket, Bermuda So bushel, $76S.5O
barrel.
Onions-Natiye $3.50 a barrel, $1.75
az bushel, Spanish 1928 crate, Ber-
muda $1.G5 a crate, leeks S5c0$1 a
dozen punches.
Spinach, etc,-Spinach $1.2501.5O
barrel, cabbages new $202.75 a crate,
beet greens a}c a bushel, daHdelions Toe
@$1 bushel, parsley $1.25 a bushel,
kale $1,50a1.75 Il barrel.
Lettuce-Hothouse 50c0$1 a dozen
heads, hothouse watercress 75c, mint
75c a dozen.
Omatoes-Hothouse 4Oc a pound,
fancy Floridas $1.75 a crate.
AIiscelIaneous-Cuc ScG7 a
box, radshes 40c dozen, peppers So. 80 !
a crate, turban squash $3.50 a barrel |
Hubbard $50 ton, California celery 81 |
a box, S125 a dozen, carrots 75cM$1,25 |
a bushel, Philadelphia mushrooms a |
a Alb bskt, native 81 pound, beets |
$1.5001.T5 bushel, dollhouse bunch |
Deets S1.25 a dozen, artichokes 50 a box. |
asparagus 1906 a dozen, parsnips $1@ |
1.25 Il bushel, rhubarb native &c a
pound, California $3.50 a case, peas 50 |
a2.5O a basket, string beans $2.5Od3 a |
crate, SO $3.50 a basket, wax. 81 SOAP |
a crate, $2.5O03 basket.
Apples are dull and are held at I'M |
prices. There is a strong de- !
mand for oranges at the prevailing
prices ana although arrivals continue |
heavy the market is well cleared up.
About the last of the Florida straw
berries have been sent to the Boston
market, and the first pickings of the
North Carolina berry were sent for
ward this week. They arrived rather
green and Sot above fair in condition.
The best brought 80 cents Il quart by
the crate. Reports from the south
state that a few days more will greatly
improve the quality and quantity.
Fresh ribs are lie lower, but all bar
rel pork is soc per Dbl higher. The
of hogs continues to repre-
sent moderate numbers. The quality
IA 'Diil| I'iNl"ll'CS - lIOL btllS uldJH-
tanned. Prices are lower than a week
ago, the average for prominent mar
lets at the close being about s. per 100
pounds.
Fresh beef has been firm. while re-
2eipts have not been larger. Some
,hoice cattle sell at Sc and the quarters
10 even better than that.
Lambs are firmer, but veals have
been in over supply and prices have
ruled lower; muttons and yearlings are
steady. Lambs, 1od11c; yearlngs, ga
Toe; muttons, S@9c: veals, 969kc.
The market for poultry is quiet. but
fresh killed western fowls and eastern
md northern fowls and chickens are in
moderate supply and are firm. Prices
ire not materially changed. Fresh
killed western turkeys, 1761Sc: frozen
western, 1SQ19c; fancy northern chick
Ems, 1S@22s: western, 14616c: fowls.
lorthern, 15d16c; western, 146141hc.
Hay is generally steady with some
what smaller receipts: straw is steady:
nillfeed is unchanged. Hay, No. 1, $40
100; low grades, S13Q1S: rye straw, S25 i
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