St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-12-14
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

Boston, Dec. 12.-Butter is very firm,
and higher prices have been realized on
choice fresh and stora ge stock. Strictly
fine fres-. creamery is scarce. Northern
creamery, 26k@27c.; western, 26Q26A
c.; dairy, 21@25c.
Cheese is selling at higher prices for
choice fall twins. Holders are firm
and the demand for consumption is fair.
Round lots, York state, II 3-4@1214c.;
Vermont twins, 11@13 3-4c.
The egg market is very firmly held
for all choice stock, which is scarce.
The demand, however, is light. Choice
nearby, 42@44c.; eastern, 34@36c.; west
ern, 30@32c.
Beans are quiet, but steady, at I'M
changed prices. Carload lots, pea, ST.
75@1.SO; medium, $1.9O@1.95; yellow
eyes, $4,000. 40; red kidneys, $4,000
295; California small and white, $3.50
@2.55; foreign pea, $1.S5@1.9O; foreign
medium, $1.90@1.95; jobbing prices, 10
@15c. higher
Business in the local wholesale mar
ket for fruits and vegetables is still at a
very low ebb. Stocks are plenty and
the demand is slack. Changes in
prices have numerous in each direction,
but, generally speaking, the tone of the
market is slightly easier.
Potatoes are lower as result Of in
creased receipts, and rather light de-
mand. Cabbages of all kinds are high
er. Southern string and butter beans
are lower and lettuce has declined. On
ions and turnips hold around the prices
"a 70.
spinach is nearing an end; there is
little coming in; hereafter, supplies will
come chiefly from the south. Squashes
are easier. Celery is steady but rad
ishes and caulifoWers have eased off
somewhat. Sweet potatoes are steady.
Vegetable quotations follow:
Potatoes-Aroostook green noun
tains, 56@5Sc bushel, hebrons, 55@56c.
Dakota reds, 4S@5Oc.; New York rurals,
53@55c.; sweets, Jerseys, So a barrel,
Vinelands, $3.50.
Onions-Native, $1@1. zoe. a bushel,
Spanish, $3.50 crate, leeks, 4Oc. doz-
en- punches.
Turnips 81 a barrel, white.
a bag.
Spinach, etc-Spinach, native, 35@4Oc
a bushel, Baltimore, ST barrel, Nor
folk, $15O@1.75 a barrel, cabbages, 81
a barrel, savoy cabbages, 81 barrel,
red cabbages, 75c. a box.
Beans-Southern string beans $500
4 a basket, butter beans 81 a basket.
Miscellaneous-Beet 5O06Oc a bas-
ket, carrots, SOC bushel, parsnips, 750
Soc. bushel, cucumbers, $1.5O{17 box,
egg plants, So dozen, marrow squash,
Coo. barrel. turban squash, 75c. bar
rel, hubbard squash, $15 a ton, pascal
celery 75c1$1 a dozen punches, Boston
market celery, 81 a dozen punches, rad
ishes 75c a box, caulifower, So. 5O03. so
a barrel, pumpkins, soc box, brussels
sprouts, 7@Sc a quart, oyster plants,
75c. a dozen, artichokes, $1.25 a box,
okra, So crate.
A slightly better feeling is noted in
the apple market. Dealers have been
able to reduce their stocks, and though
actual advances are few, the feeling
is firmer. Cranberries are quiet.
Fruit quota tons follow:
Apples-Kings. $2@2.5O a barrel;
SHOWS, $1,000; nodheads, $1.5O@2;
northern spies, $1.50@2.25; baldwins,
choice large, $1.75@2; small, $1@1. so;
Ben Davis, $1.25@1.50; hubbardstons.
$125@1.75; middlings, $1.5O@1.75;
Maine Harvey, $1.5O; greetings, $1.25
@1.5O; pippins, $1.25@1.5O common
sour, $1@1.25; pound sweets, $1.25@2;
tolman sweets, $1.2502; baldwins and
greetings in bulk, 65@90c a barrel.
Cranberries-Cape Cod, choice late
varieties, $5.50@6.5O a barrel; choice
early black, $5@5.25; fair to good, So
@4.50; crates, $1.25@1.75.
Pears-Native ANXIOUS, $3.50 a bush
ell; beurre bose, $3.50@4; seckels, $3.50
@2.50.
December wheat has shown consider
able weakness during the week, making
a net decline of &c. Other options de-
clined in a lesser degree May showing
a net loss of 5-Sc, and July 14c. Opera
tons by Armour interests at Chicago
have occupied chief attention in grain
circles, being presumably on both sides
of the market, but believed by the
trade to forecast a bull campaign some
where in the near future. Fearful that
wheat may be on the eve of a bull
campaign, the bear contingent has re-
notable commitments on the short side.
Going contrary to the Armour pro-
gram has generally been a costly propo-
sition for the average small operator.
and his policy now is to make pretty
sure of his ground before taking de-
termined action on either SIDE The
government report was expected to be
bullish in its tenor.
There is no change in pork proviss
ions, the market being steady at: Short
cut and heavy backs, $16.25; long cut,
$3.50; medium, $3.50; lean ends, $50
10; bean pork, $13 .25013. rs; fresh ribs,
900 1-4c: fresh shoulders, SIC; smoked
shoulders, s 1-Sc; corned shoulders, SIC;
hams, 1O@121sc; skinned hams, 10 5-S@
IL 3-4c.
Fresh beef is steady for choice heaur