Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-02-29
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

recent advance. Northern creamery,
251sc; Vermont dairy, 20d23c; reno
round lots. 251a@26c; western, 90
waited butter. 1T@1Sc.
Cheese is steady and unchanged, with
only a maderate demand. Round lots,
Vermont twins, 1114Q12c; New YORK
twins, 12d12I2c.
Eggs are quiet, but prices are steady
with fresh eastern quoted at 3odooc'
and western at 34035c. Some fancy
lots sell higher.
Beans are firm and higher on strong
country advices. Carload lots, pea
~. 1OM2. 10; medium, $210@215; yellow
eyes. S2.SO02. 50; red kidneys, $3.2o9
3.35; California small white, S2-450
go; foreign pea and medium, 81; JoD-
bling prices higher.
Apples have been quiet owing to the
cold weather which has made shipments
difficult. Prices, however, are firmly
held at: Kings, $304; Baldwins, S2.25
1925; greetings, $2.25M3; Hubbard
stons and Hurlburts, $1.5Od2 %; pound
and Tolman sweets, $1.5O02.25. north
ern spies. s2d3; Virginia York inn
perials. So 2J03.J0; No. 2, all grades,
$1.5Od2.
Cranberries are in fair receipt and
hold firm at So per bx and $500 per
Dbl.
Strawberries sell at 25d40c per at.
Table nuts are steady and unchanged.
with a 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 are firm and higher. String
beans are in moderate supply, but ir-
regular in condition, stock being more or
less frosted. and prices take a wide
range. Tomatoes are in fair supply and
light demand. Celery is firmer Spin
ach continues scarce and good stock is
in steady demand.
Squashes are firm and in good de-
mand. Onions are in good supply, but
most lots are ordinary and more or less
frosted. Such stock has a slow sale,
while strictly choice, sound stock is
firm and in good demand at S3@3.50 a
barrel There is a good demand for tur-
nips at steady prices. Beets, carrots
and parsnips are firm.
The potato market has firm tone
| Receipts are not large and a moderate
| demand keeps the market closely solo
up. Sweet potatoes are quiet and il
| light receipt.
Potatoes: Aroostook hebrons, 9Sc0
| 81: Green mountains, 81; Dakota reds
| soc: sweets, Jersey, double heads, s.
$3.50.
Celery: Pascal, $2@3.5O per long bx,
Boston market, $3@4 per long bx.
Cucumbers sell at $409 per bx.
Yellow turnips are selling at $3.50 pei
Dbl; white French, 81 per Dbl; white
75c6$1 per bu; beets, $50 per bu
carrots, 81 per bu; parsnips, So per blu.
Marrow squashes are quoted at S:
per Dbl; turban, $3.50 per Dbl; Hub
bard. per ton, $40.
Cabbages sell at $3.50 per Dbl for ma
tive; Savoy, 81 per Dbl; red, $3.50 pc
Dbl.
Lettuce is quoted at 50c@$2 per bx
radishes, zoe per doz; mint, 81 per doz
cress, SOC per doz; leeks, 75c0$1,50 pc
doz; oyster plant, 81 per doz.
String beans sell at So. 50@4.5O per b:
for green.
Spinach is quoted at $1.5O@1.75 pc
bu; beet green's, 81 Per bu; parsle!
$3.50 per bu; peppers, $405 per blu.
Brussels sprouts sell at 22c per Qt.
Caulifower sells at So per crt fC
California.
Some grades of barrel pork al
higher, but generally pork products al
steady. The marketing of hogs til
past week has been more liberal tina
for some weeks previously, and has col
} siderably exceeded the correspondent
time last year The quality of curreI
offerings is good. Prices range a Ii
tie higher than a week ago, prominel
markets indicating an average of abol
1 S515 per 100 pounds.
Fresh beef is generally in quiet d
NJ mand at slightly easier prices, thoue
, quotations are nominally unchange
= The arrivals of fresh beef were larg
than for the previous week, especial
for local consumption.
i Muttons and lambs are steady; yea
are firm. Lambs, 9Q10c; yearlings, E
r &c; muttons, 6G7c; veals, 9Q11c.
There is a quiet market for poult
with choice chickens and fowls slight
easier. Turkeys are quiet. Turkey
western. 1Sd20c; chickens, northern,
@15c; fancy, 1S@20c; western, 13G15
fowls. northern, 14Q15c; western, Il
lac; ducks, 14015c; geese, 11@12c.
The freight blockade is Affect
the hay market, prices being stro
with scarcity of good hay. This s
uatfon is likely to be changed in
weather conditions, which will allC
1 ger receipts. Straw is steady will
| moderate demand. Millfeed is We
~ firm. but not quotably higher. Hay,
!, S2Od21; low grades, $14d19; !
straw. S24G25; oat straw, S1Od11.
The causes of the present wheat
uation are found in the increa
nroSnerify of farmers and in the