The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-06-30
NARKETS.
Current Comment.

Hay. The market has shown very
heavy receipts during the past week,
Trade is dull and the market rather
favors the buyer, particularly for the
lower grades For No. | hay on track
about SIT. 30 to 18 will cover any sales
making. Lower grades range down
in price as to quality. Rye straw is
quiet. oat straw dull.
Oats.-No life in the market, sale
being made in hand to-mouth way.
For No. clipped white on track 500
is about nominal price with No. at
Acc and lower grades ranging down.
Corn. The demand is slow and it is
only in a hand to-mouth way that
sales are being made. For No. yell
low on track a bout Gle is the price
with steamer yell ow at COO and lower
grades ranging down as to quality and
color.
mill Feed.-The market continues
dull with offerings only fair.
Z Fresh Meats. The weather has been
quite hot most Of the time for the
past week and demand for fresh meats
lighter than usual. Beef has been firm
ly held. Choice cattle at full quota
TONS Extra mutton and choice year.
lings have been in limited demand at
about G. Choice fall lambs steady
at 100. Spring lambs in good supply
and light demand with prices about
as last quoted. Choice light and medi-
um weight veals have been in moder-
ate supply and steady at &c, but there
has been an over supply of heavy
calves which have been hard to sell
at 6 to Sc.
Provisions. = There has been a
steady fair demand for pork, lard,
and hams, and a further slight ad-
vance in prices.
Live Poultry. Receipts of eastern
fowls have been larger of late and
have had only moderate sale at 10
to 1219c. Spring chickens also more
plenty for the past few days have been
hard to sell at over zoe.
Dressed Poultry. - Most sales of
choice western fowls for the week
have been at 1890 and under. Some
of the best marks worked out at 1870
until Tuesday, but since then l21S has
been the outside, and at the close it is
hard to do much business at over 12c.
Western broilers have also been COM
ing in freely hardly any sales at over
zoe. Old cocks slow at &C. Fresh
turkeys dull and weak. Best eastern
fowls are lower strictly choice SELL
ing in small lots at lac. Green ducks
in full supply at 15c. Broilers lower
and have to be extra to bring 25c.
SQUADS more plenty and lower.
Butter There has been a steady
demand from regular trade, and spec
ulative buyers have been showing in
creasing interest. The sales of extra
fresh creamery have been mainly at
1870, but long lines of high-scoring
stock have been held higher, and at
the close are hard to find under 1876,
and in some cases cannot be bought
under 19c. Firsts continue in full
supply at III to 18c. Under grades
quiet at quotations.
Potatoes. Receipts of new potatoes
were heavy, and there was a decided
drop in prices following our last
weekly report. Norfolk and N. @.
Rose sold at So. 70 to 800, with White
Bliss at SO. 30 to ais and Chilli Reds
at 2.25 to 2.h0. Old potatoes have been
in full supply selling at irregular
prices some lots of white stock down
to so to Soc and Dakota Reds at so to
soc.
Eggs. have had a very dull
and unsatisfactory market for the past
week. Receipts have been liberal,
the weather hot, and an increasing
proportion of western arrivals have to
be graded as fair to good. The quot
ations for western trsts has been held
at II to 1870, but there have been
very few sales at the outside, selected
stock from northern sections rarely
exceeding 1714c. Good dirties steady
at IA to 141ac.
Cheese. Supplies have been larger
this week but there has been a steady,
fair demand and the market has been
ruling fraction higher in sympathy
with the advance in the country.
Best York State twins have been SELL
ing generally at SIC, and extra vt.
at Sc.
Hides and Pelts There is very
slow demand for hides from eastern
tanners but available supplies are
moderate and prices hold steady.
About 8 to 914c west is quoted for
Bluffs with seconds and BIS at 1c less.
New England hides are quiet at &c at
for cows and SIC for heavy steers.
Calfskins are in good demand with
lambskins dull.
Wool. The market continues slow.
Manufacturers have bought but little
of anything, and but very few of them
have been seen in the market. The
improved inquiry for fine medium re-
Gently noted has apparently disap-
peared, and consumers are showing
scarcely any interest in anything, ex-
cept medium and low woods, and of
these they are taking only what they
actually need as rule. although one
or two instances are cited where con-
sumers have been willing to contract
for desirable quarter blood and three
eighths wool to arrive. paving 81 to
25c, it is reported, for light shrink
age territories of quarter blood grade,
the woods costing about 4Sc, clean.