St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on rhe Leading
Products In Demand

Boston, Jan. 4-There is quiet de-
mand for butter, with prices steady
and unchanged. Northern creamery,
round lots, 24k@25c; western, 24Q.:43hc;
Vermont dairy, 21W22c; renovated but
ter, 17@19c.
Cheese holds steady in price, though
the demand is only moderate. Round
lots, Vermont twins, 117k@12c; New
York twins, 12@12Ac.
Fresh eggs are scarce and very high;
refrigerator stock is selling well. West
ern fresh, 37@3sc; eastern, 3S@40c;
nearby, 42@43c; refrigerator, 31@32c.
Beans are quiet at the recent de-
cline. Carload lots, pea, $2.15@22O
medium, S2.15@2. 20; yellow eyes, $2.95
as; red kidneys, $3@3.10; California
small white, So. 1902. so; foreign pea and
medium, 81; jobbing prices higher.
There is still a good demand for
choice apples at full quotations. Har-
vies, $2.2502.5O; snows, $2.50GG3; Kings,
$2.50@3 50; Baldwins, So 2503; green
ings, $2.25@s; Hubbardstons and Hurl-
burts, $1.5O@2.2 %; pound and Tolman
sweets, $1.5O@225; northern spies,
S1.75@2.7 rs.
Cranberries are firm at $2.5O12.75
pee bx and SOS per Dbl.
Table nuts are steady and are selling
at: Walnuts, 12kM15c per lb; castanas,
1O@11c; pecans, Toe; filberts, 1Oc; al
monds, 13@15c:, hickory, 81 .5O@2 per bu
The average amount of business for
this season of the year is being done in
the vegetable markets. Cabbages are
firm and in steady demand. String
beans are in moderate supply, but more
or less stock is frozen and does not
bring full quotations. Elephants are
scarce and strong. Cucumbers are a
little easier. Hothouse tomatoes are in
light supply and bring high prices.
Celery is steady and in good demand.
Receipts of squashes are light and
the market has advanced $40 a ton on
hubbards. Turbans are unchanged.
The supply OF choice, hard, sound onions
is short and prices are we'll sustained
under a good demand Sprouts are
firner. Reets, carrots turnips and arti-
chokes arc steady and unchanged.
There is firm market for potatoes.
Aroostook hebrons. 70c; Green noun
talns, 73M15c; York state Green noun
tafns, 65c; sweets. Norfolk, cloth heads,
$1@1.50; Jersey double heads, So. 5O0i3.
Celery is selling at: Pascal, 1904 per
long bx; Boston market, $406 per
long bx.
Onions are quoted at: Spanish, large
crts. $3.50; natives, 81 per bu; bbls,
$2.5OGl3.
'Cucun1bers sell at 81 .5O@7 per bx.
Yellow turnips are selling at 81 per
Dbl: white French, $3.50 per bbi; white,
50c per bu; beets, $1.25 per bu; carrots,
75c per blu; parsnips, $1@1. % per bu.
Marrow sQuashes are quoted at So. SO
per Dbl; Bay state, S2.5O per Dbl; turban,
$3.50 per Dbl; per ton, $50.
Cabbages sell at 1925 per Dbl for ma.
tive; Savoy, S1.5O per Dbl; red, $3.50 per
bbl
Lettuce is quoted at $1@250 per bx:
radishes, Doc per doZ; mint, 75c per doz
cress, SOC per doz; Ieeks, doc per doz;
oyster plants, S1.25 per doz
String beans sell at $3@5 per bx fol
green.
Spinach is quoted at ST. 25@1.5O pei
bu; beet greens, ST per bu; parsley, So sc
@c.75 per bu; peppers, $4,000 so pei
bu.
Brussels sprouts sell at 15c per at
Caulif1ower sells at 81 per crt fol
California.
Hay is quiet; rye straw is firm. TIay
No. 1, $17@1S.50: low grades, S12@16
rye straw, $23M24; oat straw, S9@1O.
Pork provisions are firm and higher
| The holiday conditions as usual have
| occasioned curtailment in the market
ing of hogs, but the number has beer
| practically equal to corresponding
| period last year. The quality of curren
offerings is good, although a consider
able proportion represents lightweight
| young stock. Prices at prominent mar
kets at the close average about 81. 5!
per 100 pounds.
Fresh beef is still rather quiet, but til,
market is firmer and prices will be ad
vanced. The arrivals Of fresh bee
| have been very large.
| There is a steady market for lamb
and muttons; veals are firm. Western
fall lambs, 9A11OAc; spring lambs
91s@10iac; yearlings, 6@7c; muttons, GO
&c; veals, 9011c.
Poultry is steady, with a quiet de
mand. Turkeys, western, 17@1Sc
chickens, northern, 16@1Sc; western
13@14c; fowls, northern, 13@14c: west
ern, 12@13c; ducks, 12@14c. geese
1O112c.
The past week, coming between
two holiday periods, when speculativ
trade is generally supposed to be do1
mant, on the contrary developed a trad
ing squirt of surprising volume and
bullish tendency most encoura ging t
friends of wheat At times Their
have been evidences of an increasing
outside trade, based in some cases O.
the theory that wheat, being about th
only speculative commodity that has nc
been doomed" and occupying a reall
strong position, needs but the effort t
go considerably higher. To this lin
of argument has been added the Unfit
ence of abundant war talk, more or les
| complaint from Argentina as to the ba