Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-06-06
IN HUB MARKETS
Quota lions on the Leading
Products In Demand

Boston, June 2.--Butter receipts are
lighter and the market shows a steady
tone. A fair demand is noted for ex-
ira fresh creamery, but other grades
are quiet with prices unchanged.
The arrivals Of new cheese are mod
crate and the best lots have a fair sale
around Sc. Medium and low grades
are quiet and easy. Old stock is slow in
demand at low and uneven prices.
With liberal receipts and warm wea-
Their the egg market except for the best
stock, is dull and easy. The movement
IN westerns is slow and storage packed
western firsts are quiet.
Butter-Vermont and New Hamp-
shire extra creamery, 1S1zc; northern
New York, 1870; western, 1870; north
ern firsts, 17H@1Sc; western firsts, 17h
01Sc: eastern best marks, 17hQ1Sc;
eastern fair to good, 15Q16c; cream
cry seconds, 15d16c; Vermont dairy ex-
ira, lie; New York and Vermont dairy
firsts. 16c; seconds, 12Q14c; western
imita ton creamery, extra, 16c; frstS.
lac: ladle firsts, 1870; seconds, 121z9
13c; packing stock, 11@12c; renovated
1Od15hc; boxes extra northern cream
cry. 19c; firsts, 1Sc; extra dairy, lie;
firsts, 16c; common to good, 13Q14c;
prints, 13Q1S1zc.
Cheese-Nsw York and Vermont
twin, new extra, Sc; irsts, &c; seconds,
SAGE; New York and Vermont twins,
old best, SAGE; common to good, 6Q7c.
Eggs-Fancy hennery, 20c; Maine,
Vermont and New Hampshire extras,
19c; firsts, 17hc; Y ork state firsts, 171ac;
western firsts, 16k@17hc; fair to good,
16c; dirties, 13Q14c; checks, 10G12c;
storage packed western tirsts, 1712
@1sc.
The above quotations are what ship
pers sending butter, cheese and eggs
to Boston may expect to receive; job
bling prices are somewhat higher.
Beans-Choice hand-picked pea, 81. 90
| o.; screened, $1.SO@1.9O; seconds, $1.7O
| also; choice hand-picked medium,
| $195; screened, $1.S001 so; small white
| California, 1925; foreign pea, $1.75@
! 1856; medium, S1.75@1.S5; choice hand
picked yellow eyes, $2.70@2.75; COM
mon to good, $2.25@2.65; red kidneys,
| $3d3.25.
| Maple sugar and syrup-New sugar
small cakes choice, 709c ID; large, Ga
&c; tubs and pals, J061ac; new, syrup
full weight, 40045c gal; light weight
8Oc
Apples-NOrthern spy, S304 Dbl; rus
sets, spas; Baldwin choice No. 1, Maine
$2@2.50; Ben Davis, No. 1, $1.5O@2.50
ordinary cooking stock 1.25@1.15.
wberries- Maryland, choice large
1O012c quart; Maryland, other kinds,
309c; Norfolk, Helm, 10d12c; Norfolk,
other kinds, 6@11c quart.
Sweet potatoes-NOrth Carolina
stock is costing about $3.5Od4 per Dbl,
with Delaware at $3d3.50. Offerings
continue small, with the demand light
Potatoes&ThG demand continues
quiet. with prices quoted steady. Fol
ArOostooll HebrOns the market is about
$1M1.1O with Green mountains at S1.15
@125 and Dakota reds at 750S5c pei
bu. New Bermuda potatoes are quoted
at $505.5O per Dbl, with best southern
at $4.50Q5.
Vegetables-The market continues
quiet, prices fairly steady. Spinach i:
selling at 25035c per bu for native
cabbages, new southern, per Dbl, $50;
$3.50; onions, Egyptian, per bag, $40
225; dollhouse tomatoes are selling a
1502Oc per 10; lettuce, per dOz, 75cQ$1
Bermuda onions, per crate, S1.6001.1 "a
Southern string beans are selling a
$1.7562 per basket for green, and S
0225 for wax, with tomatoes at So
! ! 0275 and native rhubarb at 75c per III
i pounds. Hothouse cucumbers, per 10
= count, $4d4.50; asparagus, per 3-do
box, $4,000, with giant higher; an
southern peas at 75cd$1.50 per baske1
There are cherries and peaches in tn
market this week, but they are S
i scarce that dealers don't want to quot
II them. In fact they are so few tina
only half a dozen dealers have an!
There wasn't any desire manifested O
the part of stall owners to buy til
first invoices, because of the fact thu
!. no one dealer could get enough of then
n and besides eXorbitant prices woul
~ have to be asked for them.
The freight handlers strike hi
caused serious interference with bus
ness interests in all eastern points. I
route to the Boston market was lar:
amount of fruit, vegeta bles, poultr
\ game, etc, which was either held l
y or delayed.
Some of the fruits. poultry, game al
Ia eggs show declining quality because
mr. abnormaly slow transportation fro
" the west.
D. Lard is higher. but other port pl
ed ducts are generally unchanged.
Fresh beef is quiet but firm as Ia
IN quoted
Lambs ard veals are quiet with 81
an oversupply Offering; muttons a
,o+ yearlings are steady. Western f
II lambs, 11612c; eastern springers, so
ats eacl< tearlings. 9Q10c; muttons,
Ids | 10c: veals, Sd9c.