St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-11-23

Quotations on the Leading
Producers In Demand

| tendency is upward on choice cream
cry in assorted sizes. Some choice
| lots in small sized pkgs have sold as
high as 26c, but that is an extreme,
251kc being about the top. Northern
creamery, 25@25hc; western, 24A@
Csc; dairy, 21@23c.
Cheese continues to advance, with
really choice lots rather scarce. Hold
ers are strong, and the market is quiet.
Round lots, York state, 111s@12Ac;
Vermont twins, 11@11 3-4e.
Eggs are very firm for fresh gath
cred, with fancy prices being paid for
choice hennery. Western eggs are firm
er for the best. Choice nearby, 400
42c; eastern, 3O@35c; western, 25@32c.
Beans are rather quiet, with yellow
eyes and red kidneys lower, and other
kinds steady. The quotations are:
Carload lots, pea, $1.80@1.85; medium,
$1.a5@2; yellow eyes, $2.6O02.65; red
kidneys, $29O@3; California small
white, $2.50@2.55; foreign pea, $1.95
@1.9O; foreign medium. $4,000. 95;
| jobbing prices, 1O@15c higher.
Thanksgiving week finds numerous
changes in prices of fruits and vege-
tables. The lower grade Of apples are
selling at slightly lower prices, while
superior stock is frmer. Fruit quota
tons follow:
Apples Macintosh reds, $3.5O@4
Dbl; No. Baldwins, $1.5O@1.75 green
ings, York state, 81 25@1 so; fancy YER
mont, $2@2.25; northern spies, common,
$3.50; fancy colored, $2.50@3; kings,
common, $1.5O@1.75; choice, $3@3.25;
SHOWS, common small, $1.25@1.75;
choice large, $3@3.5O; hubbardstons,
| $1.5O@1.75; Tolman sweets, $1.75@2;
pound sweets, $1.75@2. %; baldwins
and greetings in bulk, open head bbls,
| 9Oc@$1.15; common varieties, $1.25@
LEO.
Cranberries-Cape Cod choice early
varieties, $4.5O@5 a bbl; choice late va
rieties, $5.5O@6 bbl crts, $1.65@2 %.
Pears-Native anjous, S2.5O@3 a bu;
| $50; seckels, $3.5O@5; Jersey keifers,
| $225@3 a double-head Dbl.
Grapes-Western New York varie-
| ties, pony baskets, 1O@1Sc each; west
ern New York concords, 16@19c S-lb
bskt; almerias, $3.5O@S key.
| Potatoes have advanced few cents
bu, and SO have onions and spinach.
Southern string beans are quoted at
| lower prices. There has been a de-
cided slump in squash, and the price
has gone from $50 ton for hubLards
| to $12@14. Vegetable quotations fol
low:
| Potatoes-Aroostook green noun
tains, 60c a bu; hebrons, 57@5Sc; Da-
kota reds, 5O@53c; sweets, Norfolk
cloth-heads, $2.50@2.75 a Dbl; eastern
shore c1oth-heads, $2.75@2. S71ac a Dbl:
Jersey double-heads, $3@3.25 Dbl.
Onions-Native, 81 a bu; Spanish,
$3.50 a crit; leeks, 40c a doz bchs.
| Turnips-Yellow, 5O@75c a Dbl;
white, 5O@75c a blu; French white, 81 so
| a bag.
Spinach, etc-Spinach, SOC bu; ca
bages, s5c Dbl; savoy cabbages, Toe a
| Dbl; red cabbages, SOC box.
Lettuce, etc-Hothouse lettuce, $1@
1.75 a box of three doz; chicory, SOC a
box; mint, SOC a doz bchs; watercress,
SOC doz bchs; parsley, SOC bu.
Beans-String beans, southern green,
| So a bskt; wax, $203 bskt.
Miscellaneous-Be SOC a bu; car
rots, SOC a bu; parsnips, 75@S5c bu
cucumbers, $2@6 a box; egg plants
| $3.50 a doZ; marrow squash, 6OM75c a
| Dbl; turban squash, 75c bbl; western
hubbard squash, $12@14 ton; celery
| 5Oc@$1 a doz bchs; Boston market
celery, S1.25@1.5O doz bchs; radishes
$1.5O box; caulifiower, $1.25@1.5O a
box of 8 to 10 heads; pumpkins, soc a
box; brussels sprouts, 10@12c a qt;
III 4s1I~ 1rO
| S1.50 a box; Okra, $3.50 a crt.
Pork products of all kinds are steady
with fair demand. Short cut and
heavy backs, $16.75; long cuts, $1S; me-
| dunn, SIG; lean ends, $1S.75@19.75;
bean pork, $13.25@13.75; fresh ribs, 1C
0101kc; fresh shoulders, s 3-4c; smoked
shoulders, S1ac; corned shoulders, S7-Sc;
hams, 10 1-4@13c; skinned hams, 10 80
Gil lac.
Fresh beef has been steady, only the
best cattle bringing top prices, and
that only in a small way. There is still
considerable light beef offering. Choice
heavy cattle, S@81sc; light, 51a@71zc;
heavy kinds, 11@12c; light, 6k@9c;
heavy fores, 51z@7c; light, 405c.
Lambs are steady, no change having
|
tons and yearlings quiet Western fall
lambs, 7k@S1zc; spring lambs, S1a@
91kc; yeariings, 6@7c; muttons, 6@6kc
veaIs, 9@11c.
Poultry is in rather better supply
but the receipts are still much smaller
than year ago. Choice young tur
keys are especially scarce, previous re
ports of a shortage being confirmed
Prices rule high at retail, though re
ceivers' prices are not materially
changed. Western turkeys, 23@27c
northern turkeys, 25@2Sc; fancy, 200
30c; chickens, northern, 14@1Sc; west
ern chickens, 13@15c; northern fowls
14@15c; western fowls, 12013c.
Hay is in moderate demand, will
prices not materially changed; straw il
firm; millfeed is dull and unchanged
No. /, $17@1S; low grades, $11@16; rye
straw, S22@22. 80; oat straw, $40. 5O@11
| Wheat has docIiuad sharplu &c ~,