The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-05-26
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Current Comment.

Hay. The market for hay is steady
the stock of common grades on hand
having come quite we'll cleaned up.
Choice hay is firm with fancy cars
selling at $40 to 20, while for lower
grades the range is down as to quality.
Rye straw is meeting with quiet.sde-
mand but the market is steady. Sales
of choice are ranging up TO $24 to 25
with lower grades ranging down as to
quality. Dat straw is dull.
h Corn. The local demand has been
very slow, and although arrivals are
small, supplies appear to be sufficient
to meet the wants of the trade. For
steamer yellow on track about SO to
$3.50 Lower grades range down in
price as to quality and color.
Oats.-The local call for oats is very
dull, and the market is merely nomi-
nal on prices owing to the absence of
, business. For No. 2 clipped white
on track about 5015c would be fair
quotation, with lower grades down as
to quality.
! Mill Feed. market continues
dull with offerings small for prompt
shipment, and premium paid for spot
lots.
Butter. Receipts are steadily in.
creasing but still include but a small
proportion of strictly extra creamery,
| and such goods have been selling fair
ly since our last weekly report at
steady prices. Firsts aud seconds con-
tinue in full supply and have only a
! moderate sale at quotations. Storage
creamery is unchanged selling slowly
at quotations. Northern dairy in fair
| supply and extra lots steady at lSc but
most sales at 16 to TIC. Imitation
| and ladies remain quiet. Boxes and
| prints steady with some of the finest
fresh arrivals exceeding quotations.
Cheese. - Receipts of new cheese
continue light but there is very little
demand for them and sales have to be
made in a small way at 6 to 719c, as
to quality. Old stock is still in full
supply and working out slowly at low
and irregular prices.
| Eggs. The arrivals have been very
heavy for the past week, and the mar
ket has been showing increasing
weakness under the excessive offer
ings. Western firsts were quoted at
| IS to 1890, but only a few exception
ally choice marks of Mich, northern
Ohio, and Indiana sold at the out
side. At the close firsts are offering
freely at 17$4 to 1Sc, with plenty of
| fair to good urged for sale at 1613 to
! Tic. Dirties have had a slow sale at
| IA to 15c, and checks have been dull
at IL and 13c. There is little specula-
! tive demand and storage frsts close
dull at IS to 1870.
q Fresh Meats. We have had firm
market for most all kinds of fresh
meats since our last weekly report.
Beef has been in steady demand best
steers at ~ to 7%c. Mutton and
yearlings have been in limited supply
higher and firm. Receipts of fall
lambs have been light and there has
been a sharp advance in prices the
market closing firm at 13c for choice.
Spring lambs have also been doing
better, choice lots in steady demand
at $500 to 700 each. Receipts OF
veals have been moderate, and since
Monday choice calves have been SELL
ing we'll at to 1Oc. Country dressed
nogs have been dull and hard to place.
Provisions. There has been a steady
moderate demand with only slight
changes in price.
Live Poultry. There has been
steady moderate demand for small lots
of choice eastern fowls at about l3c.
Dressed Poultry. = The market
cleaned up fairly we'll on Friday and
Saturday at 1919 to 13c for choice
western fowls and opened on Monday
with a better feeling, the moderate
arrivals selling at IS to 1890. Since
then receipts have been light and
choice marks have been ruling firm at
10 % to lac. Old cocks have been in
steady fair demand at 10c. Frozen
poultry steady, with moderate sales at
| quotations.
Potatoes. Receipts from Aroostook
county have been light for the past
week, but there has been large in
crease in tine supply of Chenangoes.
Trade at the roads was very quiet
following our last weekly report, and
prices steadily declined Best Aroo-
stock Green Mts. sold at 100 Since
the weather has been cool, and there
has been fair demand with irmer
tendency in prices, best Aroostook
STOCK selling at $l.05 to Ito. Chenean-
goes have been plenty and steadily de-
Ginning, late sales at 10 to 7Sc.
Fresh Fruit Prices show little
change, but are generally in buyers
favor. Strawberries have been COM
ing freely from North Carolina and
Norfolk, and since Monday small lots
have been coming from Maryland.
There has been steady demand for
! good berries at about 10 to 12c with
some fancy higher. A good many
small and ordinary have been sold at
6 to Sc.
Hides and Pelts. Eastern tanners
are buying hides very cautiously, and
it is only moderate available supplies
that hold prices steady. Bluffs are
quoted at SO to $40 at western points
of shipment, with seconds and BIS at
1c less For New England hides the
market is quiet at &c fiat for cows,
butchers weight. Calfskins are firm
with pelts dull.
| Furs Choice furs are steady in
price but trade is seasonably. dull.