News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1904-02-24
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the LEADING
Produces In Demand


round lots, 2oAu2 Oc; western, @oW
waited butter, 17Q18c.
Cheese is steady and unchanged, with
only a maderate demand. Round lots
Vermont twins, 111aQ12c; New York
twins, 12M121ac.
Eggs are quiet, but prices are steady
with fresh eastern quoted at oJ03Gc,
and western at 34@35c. Some fancy
lots sell higher.
Beans are firm and higher on strong
country adyices. Carload lois, pea
$2.lU02. 10; medium, $2.1002 10; yellow
eyes, %2.S3u2.S5; red kidneys, $3.50
80; California small white, S2.450
200; foreign pea and medium, 50; job
Ling prices higher.
Apples have been quiet owing to the
cold weather which has made Iipments
difficult. Prices, however, are firmly
held at: Kings, $3@4; Baldwins, 81 %
03.25; greetings, 50. 25@3: Hubbard.
stons and Hurlburts, $1,50@2 %; pound
and To!man sweets, $15OM2. %; north
ern spies, $203; Virginia York i'm
perials $3.25M35O; No. 3, all grades,
$1.10@2.
Cranherrics are in fair receipt and
hold firm at SO per bx and $500 per
bbl
Strawberries sell at 2564Oc 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 IL
regular in condition, stock being more or
less frosted, and prices take 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 slow sale,
while strictly choice, sound stock is
firm and in good demand at $303.5O 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 Il moderate
demand keeps the market closely sold
up. Sweet potatoes are quiet and in
light receipt.
Potatoes: AroOstook hebrons. 0Sc@
81; Green mountains, 81: Dakota reds.
soc; sweets, Jersey, double heads, 81
$3.50.
Celery: Pascal, $203.5O per long bx;
Boston market, $3@4 per long bx.
Cucumbers sell at $4d9 per bX.
Yellow turniDs are selling at $50 per
Dbl; white French, 50 per bhi: white
T5cd%1 Per bu; beets, $3.50 per bu;
carrots, 81 per bu; parsnips, 50 Per bu.
Marrow s1uashes are quoted at So
per Dbl; turbar, $3.50 per Dbl; Hub.
bard, per ton. so.
Cabbages sell at $3.50 per Dbl for M.
tive; Savoy, 50 per Dbl; red, $3.50 per
Dbl.
Lettuce is quoted at 5Oc0S2 per bx;
radiShes, 20c per doz; mint, 81 per doz;
cress, SOC per doz: leeks, 75c0S1 so per
doz; oyster plant, 50 per doz.
String beans sell at $3.5064 80 per bx
for green.
Spinach is quoted at S15OT1.75 per
bu; beet greens, 81 per bu; parsley,
$3.50 per bu; peppers, $405 per bu.
Brussels sprouts sell at pc per OF.
Cauliflower sells at So per crt for
California.
Some grades of barrel pork are
higher, but generally pork products are
steady. The marketing of hogs the
past week has been more liberal than
for some weeks previously, ard has con.
siderably exceeded the corresponding
time last year. The quality of current
offerings is good. Prices range a lit
tie higher than a week ago, prominent
markets indicating an average of about
$5.15 per 100 pounds.
Fresh beef is generally in quiet de-
mand at slightly easier prices, THOUGH
quotations are nominally unchanged
L hc uLlI ans VI IICSh DcSI were ldTRGI
than for the previous week, especially
for local consumption.
Muttons and lambs are steady; veals
are firm. Lambs, 9@1Oc; yearlings, Ga
&c; muttons, GG7c; veals, 9011c.
There is 8 quiet market for poultry
with choice chickens and fowls slightly
easier. Turkeys are quiet. Turkeys.
western, 1S@20c; chickens northern, II
@15c; fancy, 1S@20c; western, 13@15c
fowls, northern, 14@15c; western, 13@
14c; ducks, 14Q15c; geese, 11Q12c.
The freight blockade is affecting
the hay market, prices being strong
with a scarcity of good hay. This sit,
uation is likely, to be changed In the
weather conditions, which will allow
larger receipts. Straw Is steady with a
moderate demand. Millfeed is very
firm, but not quotably higher. Hay, No |
1, $20d21; low grades, $14@19; rye
straw, $24d25; oat straw, $10011.
The causes of the present wheat sit. |
uation are found In the increased |
prosperity of farmers and in the in
creased STOCKS In country elevators |
Ten years % wheat was rushed to tn,
large markets to be distributed and the
elevators and mills looked to the market
centres for practically all supplies, ex
cept wagon deliveries. A rapid con