The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-05-12
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Current Comment.

| STEADY. ABOUT SIS % to ~ Will cover
sales of the best hay, with No. at
$500 to 1890, and lower grades
down as to quality. The past weeks
receipts include "a cars for export on
through bills, and 1888 cars for local
use, Rye straw is qoiet with buyers
not stocking ahead in the least. About
$24 to 20 will buy choice, and it is
difficult out sell car lots. Dat straw
is plentiful and dull.
Corn. The market in only moder-
ately supplied but the demand is slow
and values are more or less nominal.
Steamer yellow on track is uuotable
at 63c, with No. 2 yellow at SO to 64c
while lower grades range down as to
quality and color. The cost to ship is
about 81 to 6l19c for grades below No.
2 yellow.
Oats.-The market is quiet, and al.
though supplies are not large the tone
is dull and only fairly steady. At the
close about SOC is the price for No. 2
clipped white on track, with lower
grades ranging down as to quality.
The cost to ship is about 49, to sic
as to quality. Some fancy grades
higher.
Fresh Meats Beef has been in
moderate steady demand for the past
week at unchanged quotations. Ex-
ira mutton has had moderate sale
at to loo. Yearlings quiet at to
sc. Fall lambs hvae been in good
supply, and good to choice stock in
fair demand at 81 to 1917. Receipts
OF spring lambs have been liberal, and
since Monday we have had dull
weak market, receivers being obliged
to make liberal concessions to keep
stocks moving. Az the close Sc. 90 is
the extreme for best, and large pro.
portion have to sell at $500 and
under. Veals have been coming freely,
and stocks have accumulated, especial.
ly common calves and have to be forced
off at low prices. At the close most
sales are at to &c with SC about the
top for best.
Live Poultry. has been no
Improvement III the demand for fresh
fowls since our last weekly report.
Trade has been very quiet all the
week and since Monday 13c has been
about the top for best marks of west
ern fowls, and some ordinary south
western have been selling at 10 to
1870. Demand for old cocks has also
been lighter than usual and late sales
have been at 10 to 1910. Very little
| OohOl lloeH pOullTy COIUluR. rOZ6u
stock steady but quiet
Live Poultry. Receipts have been
light and best eastern fowls have been
selling in small lots at about 13c.
Provisions. Trade has been quiet
with prices for pork and lard ruling
lower Hams steady at quotations.
Butter. There has been large in
crease in the receipts of fresh butter
during the past week. Demand has
been moderate. and since Monday the
tendency has been to easier prices.
Sales of strictly extra creamery Oh
Monday and Tuesday were at 221@c
generally. Wednesdays sales were
at 22c, and today there is fair sup
ply offering at 2lHc. The proportion
of extras in the receipts is still very
small. most lots being more or less
defective, and selling in the range
quoted Tor firsts. There has been little
if any change in the medium and low
grades. Boxes and prints have been
in moderate demand but only occa-
sional marks exceed the price of tubs
Storage creamery dull and weak.
{. Cheese. There is no sign of i'm
provement in the condition of the mar
ket. Old stock is still in full supply,
and most lots are urged for sale with
out much regard to price. Holders are
asking 916c to 10c for fine Sept. and
Oct. twins, but most sales are at a
lower range, a good many defective
lots going at to &c. Some small
lots of new Vermont cheese held at
about to Sc, but no quotable sales as
yet 49,
r Eggs. - Receipts have been liberal
for tho xyoaE nd fhara hac
steady, moderate demand with but
little change in prices. Western firsts
have been selling at IS to 1870 ac-
cording to the section received from.
Choice marks from Mich. northern
Ohio and Indiana have ruled firm at
1S1@c. but there has been good deal
of other stock that has been we'll sold
| at 1Sc. Dirties and checks have been
in full supply, are ruling lower.
Kentucky, Tenn, and other southern
quiet. Storage packed stock has been
steady at 1879 to 1890.
Maple Sugar and Syrup. Receipts
have been liberal, and demand for
both sugar and syrup has been light
! There is a large accumulation on the
market, most of it ordinary in quality
and receivers are urging sales at easy
| prices.
Beans. - Receipts have fallen off
considerably this week, but trade has
been very quiet. Average best lots
of dome site pea have been moving
slowly at $l.95 with some small sales
of choice York State stock at 5000.
| Foreign pea quiet at Sl.75 to 1.S5.
/ Yellow eyes and red kidneys selling
in small lots at quotations.
! Potatoes. - Receipts have been a
little lighter than last week but there
has been no change in prices Strict
| ly choice Aroostook Green Mountains
have been in steady fair demand at
1926. Other kinds have had a fair
| demand at $1.25. Other kinds have
had moderate sale at quotations.
The weather has been warm since
Monday and trade generally quiet.