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

Hay and w-The hay market
is steady for choice grades but the
supply of common hay on hand is large
and such is yet weak in price. EFor
choice hay. sales are making at about
80 to $19. 80, with No. hay at
i $l7 90 to $500, while the range. for
lower grades is at $12. 90 to $l6. 90 as
to quality. The expected scarcity,of
receipts on the market has not materi-
allied as yet. Rye straw is in quiet
demand, but the market holds steady
in price Sales of choice are making
at about 1924 to $25. Dat straw is dull.
Corn. The market has shown more
, strength during the week but at the
close an easier feeling is noticeable.
The demand has ruled dull, and buy
ers are only operating in hand to
mouth way. At the close steamer yell
low on track is quotable at CSC, with
No. yellow at 64c, and lower grades
down as to quality and color. The
cost to ship is about 81 &c for No. 8
yellow with better grades ranging
higher.
Oats.-The market has ruled very
| dull of late with values low compared
with the cost to ship. At the close
the tone is tirmer, but there is no i'm.
provement in the demand. No Q
clipped white on track close at about
Soc, with lower grades down as to
quality. The cost to ship is 1870 to
| SOC for 80 to 40 ID. oats.
Eggs.-There was further slight
advance on Friday following our last
weeks report, western frsts selling
at 100. But since then receipts have
been heavy and on Monday prices had
to be shaded little, no quotable sales
| rpnnrtp6 at 123[n a.,,a
sales were at 1880, and Wednesday
there was further decline to 1885,
Today there is steadier feeling again
and best marks are moving fairly at
49, There has been but little demand
| for storage, and sales have been hard
to make above the price of regular
packings.
Butter. Receipts of fine fresh but
ter have been light for the past week,
| and with stocks of extra storage cream
cry pretty well reduced, there has
been an improved demand for fresh,
and quite a sharp advance in prices.
Some sales of extra creamery were
made on Monday at 2115c, but best
marks received Tuesday were general
ly held at 22c, and since then there
has been another cent advance, the
market closing firm at 23c Buyers
are showing a decided preference for
large tubs, 90 and 80 Id tubs, boxes
and prints being neglected. Firsts
have advanced in sN mpathy with ex.
tras but medium and low grades show
little change. Boxes have only mod
crate sale. Prints dull and easy.
Cheese. There has been little, if
any change, during the past week.
Old stock is cleaning up at low and
irregular prices, with sales confined to
small lots, and quotations for all
grades are mostly nominal.
Dressed Poultry Receipts of fresh
poultry have been moderate for the
past week but demand has been light
and prices on western fowls have eased
off a little, best marks selling general
ly since Monday at 1870, with some
ordinary southwestern at 1870 to &c.
Old cocks have ruled steady at l0%c.
Very few fresh turkeys coming.
Frozen turkeys and chickens have been
selling as wanted at about former
prices. Frozen fowls pretty well
cleaned up.
Live Poultry. Receipts have been
moderate but demand light and prices
ruling little lower.
Meats. There has been a steady,
fair demand for beef for the past week
with prices we'll sustained. Extra
mutton has been i'll limited supply and
selling fairly at steady prices. Year
lings quiet and unchanged. Fall lambs
have been more plenty and ruling a
little easier, best lots in moderate de-
mand at 10 to 1910. Receipts of
spring lambs have increased some hat,
and while strictly choice have been
in steady demand at IS. % to $40. 90,
fhnrn hnnn moi
to good selling at irregular prices
from 50. 90 to So. 90. Receipts of veals
have been heavy, and the market dull
and weak. Most sales at to Sc, with
few strictly choice at &c.
Provisions. There has been a slight
advance in pork and lard. Hams
steady and unchanged.
Maple Sugar and Syrup. The mar
ket has been well supplied with sugar
and there has been moderate de-
mand at unchanged quotations. Re-
ceipts of syrup have been liberal and
demand has been slow with large
proportion of sales at 500 and under.
Potatoes. Receipts have been mod
crate for the past week and some adj
vance has been made in prices, choice
Aroostook Green Mountains selling
generally $l.25 Other kinds steady
at quotations.
Beans The market has been we'll
supplied and demand has been only
moderate, but there has been a stead
Ter feeling since Monday with occa-
sional sales of choice domestic pea at
$40 Foreign peas have been quiet. at
$l.75 to 81. SO, Yellow eyes and red
kidneys selling IN small lots at quota
tions.
Hides and Pelts. There is a slow
demand for hides but conditions hold
steady at western shipping points.
Buff hides hold at about Ss4to SC with
seconds and BIS 1c less. New Eng
land hides hold steady at &c fiat for
cows. and So to &c for heavy steers.
Calfskins are quoted steady with pelts
quiet.
Fruits. Receipts of apples have
been moderate and choice lots in fair
demand with some fancy exceeding
quotations. Straw berries were IN
moderate supply early in the week
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