Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-02-25
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

?51sc; Vermont dairy, 2OG23c; reno
round lots. 254M26c; western, 300
waited butter, l7MlSc.
Cheese is steady and unchanged, with
only maderate demand. Round lots,
Vermont twins. 11hM12c; New York
twins, 12@12kc.
Eggs are quiet. but prices are steady
with fresh eastern quoted at 35M3Gc,
and western at 34M35c. Some fancy
lots sell higher.
Beans are firm and higher on strong
country advices. Carload lots. pea,
S2.10M2.15: medium, 81 1OM2 Is; yellow
eyes, $2.SOM2S5: red kidneys, $3.50
$50; California small white, S2.45m
go; foreign pea and medium, 81; job
bling prices higher.
Apples have been quiet owing to the
cold weather which has made shipments
difficult. Prices. however. are firmly
held at Kings. S3@4; Baldwins, So
M3.25 greetings, $2.2503; Hubbard
stons and Hurburts. Sl.50u225: pound
and Tolman sweets. 81 .5Ou2 %. north
crn spies. S2m3: Virginia York i'm.
perials, So 25M3.5O; No. =, all grades,
$1.5oM2.
Cranbcrries are in fair receipt and
hold firm at So per bX and $500 per
Dbl.
wbcrries sell at 23M4oc per at.
Table nuts are steady and unchanged.
with Il quiet demand.
Vegetables are in moderate demand
and light receipt. Good cabbages are in
short supply and bring good prices. Let
tuce is steady and in good demand
Cucumbers arc firm and higher String
beans are in moderate supply, but ir-
regular in condition, stock being moro or
less frosted. and prices take wide
range Tomatoes are in fair supply and
light demand. Celery is firmer Spin
ach continues scarce and good stock is
IN steady demand.
SQuashcs are firm and in good de-
mand. Onions are in good supply, but
most lots are ordinary and moro or less
frosted. Such stock has a slow sale.
while strictly choice, sound stock is
firm and in good demand at S3M35O Il
barrel. There is a good demand for tur-
nips at steady prices. Bcets, carrots,
and parsnips are firm.
The potato market has firm tone.
Receipts are not large and moderate
demand keeps the market closely sold
up. Sweet potatoes are quiet and in
light receipt.
Potatoes: Aroostook hobrons. aScN1
81; Green mountains. 81: Dakota reds.
Doc: sweets. Jersey, double heads. 81
$3.50
Celery: Pascal. scM3.50 per long bx;
Boston market, S3o4 per long bX.
Cuclmbers sell at S4M9 per bx.
Yellow turnips are selling at 81 20 per
Dbl: white French, 50 per Dbl: white.
7Jc0S1 per bu: beets. 30 per blu;
carrots, 81 per bu; parsnips, 50 per bu.
Marrow squashes are quoted at S.:
per Dbl; turbar. $3.50 per Dbl; Hub
bard. per ton, $40
Cabbages sell at $3.50 por Dbl for M
tive; Savoy, So per Dbl; red, $3.50 per
Dbl.
Lettuce is quoted at 50c0S2 per bx
radishcs, 20c per doz; mint. 81 per doz
crcss, SOC per doz; leeks, 75cdS so pei
doz: oyster plant, 50 per doz.
String beans sell at $35Od4 50 per bx
for green.
Spinach is quoted at S1.5Otd1.75 pei
bu beet green's 81 per bu; parsley
$3.50 per blu; peppers, S4d3 per bu.
Brussels sprouts sell at 22c per at.
Caulifower sells at So per crit 70
California.
Some grades Of barrel pork ar
higher but generally pork products ar
steady. The marketing of hogs tn,
past week has been more liberal thai
for some weeks previously, and has con
siderably exceeded the correspondent
time last year. The quality Of curren
offerings Is good. Prices range lii
tie higher than week ago, prominen
markets indicating an average Of abou
s5.15 per 100 pounds.
Fresh beef is generally in quiet de-
mand at slightly easier prices, thouo
quotations are noninally unchanget
The arrivals of fresh beef were large
than for the previous week, especial
for local consumption.
Muttons and lambs are steady; veal
IRE firm Lambs GA Zoe; yearlings, 81
&c; muttons, 6M7c; veals. 9Tl1c.
There is a quiet market for poultr
with choice chickens and fowls slight
easier. Turkeys are quiet. Turkey
western, 1SU20c; chickens, northern,
Ml5c; fancy, 1SGl20c; western, 1891
fowls, northern, Halle; western. 13'
lie: ducks, liM l5c; geese, 11M12c.
The freight blockade is affectin
the hay market, prices being stron
with scarcity of good hay This 81
nation is likely to be changed in II
weather conditions, which will allo
larger receipts. Straw is steady with
moderate demand. Millfced is vcl
firm, but not quotably higher Hay. \
], $20n2l; low grades, $I4M19. ~
straw, $24M25; oat straw, $l0m11.
Tho causes Of the present wheat 81
nation are found in the increas,
prosperity of farmers and in the i
creased stocks in country elevator
Ten years ago wheat was rushed to II
large markets TO be distributed and II
elevators and mills looked to the mark
centres for practically all supplies. @
ropt wagon deliveries. A rapid co
.truction of country elevators by mi
throughout the west has had mark
bearing on this situation. The mile
have shown their ability TO ignore q