News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1904-11-02
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

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markets. Some choice lots of northern
creamery in small packages have sold
at 24c, though it is an extreme. North
ern creamery, 23M23lac; western, 22d
23c; dairy, 2O@21c.
Cheese is also tirmer, though buying
is moderate. Round lots, York state,
10@11c; Vermont twins, 1O@1OAc
Eggs are dull for western, but nearby
and choice eastern are tirmer and in
demand at the advance. Choice nearby,
33@35c; eastern, 2SQ30c; western, %
ACC.
Beans are slightly easier, with trade
quiet. Carload lots, pea, $1.S5M1 80;
medium, $1.95@2; yellow eyes, $2.95M
3; red kidneys, $3.I003.15; California
small white $2.5O02.55 foreign pea,
$1.85@19O; foreign medium, $1,000
195; jobbing prices, 10@15c higher.
Cooler weather brought on an i'm
prOyement in business in the wholesale
fruit and produce market. Receipts Of
onions have continued heavy, and as
the demand was only moderate, prices
were rather easy except for fancy stock
Cabbages have a steady sale. Native
squashes were plenty and cheap; re-
ceipts of hubbards were light and they
advanced. Southern string beans were
in moderate supply and strong. Tur-
nips were dull and steady. Potatoes
are plenty and firm; trade has been
good. Sweet potatoes are quiet and a
little lower. Vegetable quotations fol-
low:
Potatoes-TIebrons, 53c a bu; green
mountains. SOC bu; cloth-head sweets.
$1.G21aM1.75 a Dbl; double-heads, $2M
2.25 bbl
OniOns-Native, 65M75c a bu; Span
ish onions, $3.50 a crt; leeks, 4Oc doz
punches.
Turnips-Yellow, Soc a Dbl; white,
50M75c bu; French white, $1.25 a be.
Spinach, etc-Spinach, 25c a bu; cab
bages, $3@4 per 100; Savoy cabbages,
65c Dbl; red cabbages, SOC a box.
Lettuce, etc-Lettuce 25M50c a doz
heads; chicory, SOC a box; mint, SOC a
doz lunches; watercress, soc a doz
lunches, parsley, 25c a bu.
Beans-String beans, southern green,
$4,000 bskt; wax, $25063 a bskt
MisCellaneOus-Bee 40050c n bu:
carrots, 100000 a bu; parsnips. 56MGOc
bu; cucumbers, $2.50t06 box; egg
plants, S1.5002 doz; marrow squash.
50d60c IA Dbl; turban squash. 5Od65c
Dbl; hubbard SIS ton; celery. 5Oc0S1
a doz punches; Boston market, S1.25
doz; radishes, 25035c a box; cauli-
flower, 5Od75c box of to 10 heads;
pumpkins, soc a box; brussels sprouts,
1OG121ac quart; oyster plant, 75c
doz; artichokes, $1.5O box; okra, 81 80
a crt.
Apples are still coming in freely, but
though the demand is quiet. they are
steady. Strictly fancy apples are
rather scarce and command slight
premium. There has been no improve
ment in the call for cranberries, and as
they are plenty prices are slightly
lower. Grapes and ounces are scarce
and firm. The citrus fruits are quiet
but steady under small offerings.
Pears and bananas sell well Fruit
quotations follow:
Apples-MackintOsh reds, S2.5OM3 a
Dbl; No. l baldwins, $12501 so; north
ern spy, $2M3; kings, 81. 75@2. %: SHOWS.
$1.50a2; Maine harvies, $1.5O01.
greetings. $1.25M1.5O genetings and
colyertS, S1M1.5O; pippins, $101.5O;
$1.25@15O; common
sour. 75c@$L25; pound sweets, S1.5O6q
,: haldwins and greetings in bulk. Toe
0$1 per Dbl.
Cranberries-Cape Cod. choice dark,
80 Dbl; light to medium. $4M4.5O.
Pears-Natiye ANXIOUS, $1.5O@2.5O a
bu; beurre bose, S2.7563. so: Lawrence.
$1.50(d2 10 duchess, $1.5002: cooking
stock, $1@f25.
Grapes-WeStern New York yarie-
ties in pony baskets, 12@17c each: west
ern New York concOrds, 16M17c S-Ih
bskt; California tokays, $2@2.5O a crt:
connections. $1.15@2 "A crt; almerias. So
I1I50 a key
Quinces-Native, $3G35O a bu; Cali.
fornia, $3.50 a box.
Pork provisions are easy, with barrel
pork lower. Short cuts and heavy
backs, $16.25; long cuts, SIS; medium.
$16.20; lean ends, $1S.75619.75; bean
pork, $12.75d13.25; fresh ribs. 111b6
II 3-4c; fresh shoulders. 9 3-4c: smoked
shoulders, DC; cOrned shoulders, 8 7-Sc;
hams, II 14@13 1-4c
Fresh beef has been steady and
though firm for choice heavy cattle. is
still easy for light grass cattle. with
the market well supplied. Choice
heavy cattle, S@91Ac; light. 51k@71kc:
heavy kinds. 11@12c; light, G1a@9c;
heavy fores, 51a@7c; light, 4G5c.
Lambs and muttons are steady and
veals continue firm. West
ern all lambs, 7@Sc; spring lambs. S,a
DC; yearlings, G@7c; muttons, GdG1ac:
veals, 9011c.
Poultry continues in light receipt.
but prices are easy except for choice
northern turkeys, which are scarce.
Western turkeys, 1S02Oc: northern tur
keys, 23@25c: chickens, northern. 1GG
1Sc; western chickens, 136l4c; north
ern Nwls, 14M15c; western fowls. IS
d13kc.
HAY remains Ouipt with nricoS firm,