Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-03-14
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

Boston, March 11.-Choice fresh
creamery butter is il moderate supply
and prices have strengthened. Poorer
grades are quiet and easy. The quota
tions are: Northern creamery. round
lots, 26d26ac; western, 2Jh2aZoc; YER
mont dairy, 20Q22c; renovated butter'
17Q19c.
There is little firmer tone to the |
market for Choice fall made twins, but |
quotations are not changed kouhu
lots, Vermont twins, 11Q12c; New AoEk
twins, 111kM12hc: Liverpool Is quoted
lower at ass Cd for white and Gus %
for cOlored.
Eggs dropped still lower, but coIu
weather stiffened up prices little. Inc
market is firm at: Choice nearby, 20
Q2Gc; eastern, 25c; western, 24Q2oc.
Beans are firm and unchanged. Car
load lots, pea, So 20G2 %; medium, S220
Q225; yellow eyes, $2.S002.S5; red kid
neys, $3.30@3.40; California small
white, S2.45Q2.50; foreign pea and me-
dunn, 81; jobbing prices higher.
The decline in the apple markets
abroad caused several carloads of
apples designed for export to be thrown
ON this market. The result has been
an easier market, with moderate de-
mand. Choice fruit is held firm, but me-
dunn and ordinary goes slowly. The
quotations are: Kings, $3@4; Bald
wins, $2.25@3.25; greetings, $22503;
Hubbard stons and Hurlburts. $1.oOG
225; pound and Tolman sweets, S1.5O
@2.25; northern spies, $2M3; Virginia
York imperials, $3.25@3.50; No. 2, all
grades, $1.50Q2.
Cranberries are unchanged, choice
Cape fruit selling at SIS per bx and $500
per Dbl. Jersey cranberries are quoted
at SD per bx.
Strawberries sell at 25040c per ct.
Lower prices are quoted on potatoes
as spring approaches, though the mar
ket is not over-supplied. The quota
tons are: Aroostook hebrons, 93Q95c;
Green mountains, 95@9Sc; Dakota reds,
soc; sweets, Jersey, double heads, $2G4.
Celery is very firm at: Pascal, SEQ
$50 per doz; Boston market, $3@4 per
doZ.
Onions are firm at: Spanish, large
crts, $3.50; natives, $1.50 per blu; bbls,
$3@3.5O.
Cucumbers sell at $405 per bx.
Yellow turnips are unchanged at 81 so
per Dbl; white French, 81 per Dbl; white,
75c@$1 per bu; beets, $3.50 per bu; car
. rots, 81 per blu; parsnips, $3.50 per blu.
Marrow squashes are quoted at $3.50
per Dbl; Hubbard, per ton, $40.
Cabbages are higher at $3.50G4 per
Dbl for native; Savoy, So per Dbl, red,
$3.50 per Dbl.
Lettuce is in full supply at 25c@$1.5O
per long bx; radishes, 25c per doz; mint
, 81 per doz; cress, 4oc per doz; leeks, 81
per dOz.
String beans are lower at $25003.5 81
. per bx for green.
Spinach is in full supply, native hot
house being quoted lower at $15001.7 {;
per blu. Southern spinach is selling a
: SIS per Dbl and $3.50 per Blu. Bee
green's are quoted at 75c for dollhouse
n parsley, 50 per bu; peppers, S405 per bu
Brussels sprouts sell at PC per qt.
Caulifiower sells at So per crt TO
California.
Polk provisions are again lower, til,
e net decline for the week being abou
S1.5O per bbl There is continued
O fairly liberal supply of hogs finding tn,
markets. The quality is good in mos
o instances Prices have been somewha
# reduced, prominent markets averagin:
Q about $500 per 100 pounds.
v The winter packing season has nov
II reached it's close and careful surve,
= of the returns and indications point t,
d total of about 9,25O,O0O hogs for tn
Z western killing for the four month
e from Nov. 1 to March 1. This implie
d an increase of about 100, 1000 in numbers
4. compared with last year. Returns from
o four Of the five large western centre
furnishing monthly stocks of provision
is show an increase Of about 100000
e pounds of meats, and $4,000 tierces q
Is lard. for the past month, and as CON
IS pared with year ago gain of $4,000
r. 900 pounds of meats and $4,000 tierce
Of lard.
re Fresh beef is in full supply, and wit
is quiet demand prices have eased Of
about 1-4c.
Lambs have been in full supply an
OF prices have ruled easy. Muttons an
st vealS are STEADY LAMPS. S09c; yea
It. lings, 511@615c; muttons, 6@7c; veal!
s. 9@11c.
The market for poultry continue
% quiet for all kinds. Choice chickens ar
re scarce, but ordinary stock, both chicE
ems and fowls, is plenty and cheaI
he Turkeys are steady. Turkeys, western
e.. 1Sd19e: chickens, northern, 14015c
ir fancy, 1S020c: western, 14@l15c: fowls
be northern, 150151ac; western, .14@1415t
as ducks, 14015c; geese, 11@12c.
a The wheat market has been very c.
ratio during the past week. The e.
Ike IRENE range on the May option in tn
re Chicago market was 96c to $103 g.
or the lower price being made Frida.
re Later there was slight reaction, til
market closing firm. The fuctuatior
a h,-o I,oon SbarD the tendency heino