Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-29
Market Review.
reported

by the commercial agencies. But UNI
lseasonably cold weather seems TO be
the root Of the trouble With warmer
days business will improve. But It
must be remembered that a presiden-
tial year causes conservative ten
denotes.
The butter situation is not much
different from what it was a week
ago. Chicago has remained steady at
% cents. New York has braced up a
half cent and is now 221a. While
Boston has just about held its own at
/ 20A al; although 20 cents win buy
/ long lines of good butter The fact
/ that the western market continues
/ higher than the eastern markets
something that has not occurred be-
fore in the memory of the oldest in
habitant--is yet the cause of much
speculation and comment. The gem
eral opinion is as / have previously
stated that the east is more heavily
overloaded with storage butter than
the west The Boston stock has been
further reduced to 10000 tubs but is
$4,000 more than last year at this
time. This means that there wiz not
be clearance before the new season
opens. Possibly the season is rela-
lively earlier east than west as an
other reason for the disparity In
price for the make is increasing rap
idly in New England and Boston is
burdened with an over-suppiy of
fresh, in addition to the storage but
ter on this account some Vermont
and northern New York butter is GO
ing to the New York market. The
situation is such as to make the trade
talk low prices for May and June. (
Dealers who lost heavily the past
season are going to be conservative /
in buying for next season. Storage /
butter is selling at 1401S cents in
New York and Boston that cost last (
June 21623 cents. A good consump- (
tive demand is the only bright spot I
on the horizon; the Boston figures .
which l reported last week show in .
March a consumption of half a million
pounds more than in March, 1908.
Eggs are firmer and a cent higher
than a week ago. Cold weather is the
cause most generally given for this.
Storage buyers are not operating
much, yet many of the receipts are
going into storage.
Cheese is coming forward freely but
under a quiet demand is lower In ten
dency.
Apples are in good demand for
choice and fancy fruit for table use
will bring higher prices. Florida
strawberries are now done and sup
plies are coming from North Caro-
lima.
The cold weather has had a firming
effect on most kinds of vegetables, po-
tatoes in particular which have been
firm and advancing all of the week.
Hot house products hold up well in
price in spite of the advancing sea-
son. New cabbage has now sup
planted the old, and new Bermuda
potatoes and onions are quite plenty.
Fresh beef has been firm all of the
week, but the quotations are un- ,
The exports of cattle for
the nine months ending March, 1904.
were 10000 head more than for the
period of last year. Ex- (,
ports of dressed beef also show a
great increase. Shipments of beef
and sheep since the beginning of the .
year have been the heaviest on rec
ord. Fat hogs average So per 100
pounds ten cents lower than last !
week in the leading markets of the !
in spite of which barrel
pork has advanced so cents in the
Boston market. Veals are in over /
supply and the market has gone off .
,adly. having declined a cent and a
lalf during the week. Lambs de-
lined and then reacted so that the I
orice is now about where it was a !
week ago. .,
Grain is generally lower, although !.
pot corn in Boston is higher. May Il
orn has dropped materially in Chi
ago on account of the Armour ma
lipulation. The wool interest is CEN u
cred in the west where shearing is
,oing on, though the season is later r
han usual. II