The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-06-23
NARKETS.



general supplies with prices ruling
about the same. Choice hay.ls steady
with about SIS to 10 covering sales,
while lower grades range down assto
quality. Rye straw Is in quiet demand
but the market is steady for choice
grades. Sales Of best straw are being
made at S24.00 to 1900. s-Oat straw is
dull. ss--. ~-- I8a
Oats. The market has ,ruledC.very
slow for supplies on the spot. and
prices are easy as whole. Arrivals
are ruling fair. At the close No.s
clipped white on track are quotable
at about SOC, with No. clipped
white at 49c, and lower grades rang
ing down as to quality. The costlto
ship is az to SOC for 30 to 40 round
oats.
Com. The demand has ruled very
dull curing the week and il is only
in mnd-to-mouth way that sales are
being made. For No. yellow on
track about 63c is the price with
steamer yellow at &c and steamer at
about Oc. For No. 2 yellow to arrive
No. yellow at 60c, while No. 2 yell
low laks and rail, is quoted at 500
with Nc 3 yellow at about 5Sc
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dull with offerings more liberal.
Live Poultry. Receipts of eastern
fowls areincreasing little but choice
lots have steady sale at about 13c.
Some small lots Of spring chickens
from nearby have been selling at 70
to 28c per ID.
Dressed Poultry. The market has
been well supplied with western fowls
since our last weekly report and 1870
has been he outside price for choice
marks. Some very good lots have
been sold 1t 1890 and some ordinary
at 12c and under. Some small lots of
western bDilers have been selling at
about 25c Old cocks steady at 8 to
916c. Nearby ducks and broilers
plenty and ruling little lower.
Fresh Meats. There has been a
past week and late sales of choice
cattle have been at to 916c. Mutton
and yearlings have been in light de.
mand and close quiet at 8 to &c for
best lots. Choice fall lambs have had
steady sale at ~ to 1870. Spring
lambs have been ruling little easier,
best eastern selling at $50 to 800.
Receipts of western have increased
and at the close l3c is the top for best
lots. Veals have held fairly steady
but good many are too large to suit
the trade and have dull sale at to
Sc. Choice medium weight calves
hold steady at SC.
Potatoes. Receipts of new potatoes
have been steadily increasing and
since Monday have been working
downward in price. At the close 81. 90
is top for Rose with the exception of
very choice Savannah which are still
ranging up to So 30. Old potatoes in
fair supply and moderate demand at
quotations.
Provisions. The market has been
more active in al lines and general
advance in prices has been established.
Butter. -Receipts have been moder.
ate for this season of the year but
trade has been quiet for the past
week. There has been steady con-
sumptive demand but only moderate
J speculative buying. The sales of ex-
TIA creamery have been at 1872 gen.
orally but since yesterday western
large ash tubs have been hard to sell
at over 1870. Some receivers are put
ting northern creamery into storage
rather than sell at present prices.
Firsts and all the under grades have
been moving slowly at quotations.
Northern dairy sells fairly when
strictly extra but most lots have 9
low sale at leo and under some clean.
in moderate supply and steady de.
mand.
Eggs. Receipts have been liberal
for the past week, demand slack, and
prices rrling generally in buyers
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to sell at over TIC as rule, and 1715C
has been an extreme price for selected
stock from northern sections. At the
close the market is over supplied, and
, receivers have TO store good many
in order to sustain present prices.
Dirties hold steady, best marks al
141ac. Storage packed very quiet.
Cheese. 1.-The market has been well
supplied, the arrivals this week being
wholly on local account. Demand has
been moderate and confined to small
lots.
Hides and Pelts. There is a slow
demand for hides, but values hold
quite firm. Bluffs at western points
OF shipment are quoted at 8 to 915c
with seconds and BIS 1c less. N. r.
hides are quoted at &c fiat for cows,
with heavy steers at exc. Calfskine
in good demand, with lambskins
quiet
Wool. The new woods generally
are turning out quite heavy. At the
prices which are in some instances
now being asked in this market for
the new woods, they would cost the
buyer close to 60c clean, for fine woods
and about 55c for fine medium Today
fine medium staple woods, will not
bring over AS to SOC, and fine over SO
J to DOC, clean. The market is still
quiet, supplies being small and the
demand small Quarter, three -eighths
and half-blood woods are very firm,
but not especially active i'll this mar.
ket. A good Ohio quarter brings 2ec
three -eighths, 251eo, and half blood,
90 to 251Sc. Missouri quarter blood
comhings bring % to 251sc, and IL.
! linois and Wisconsin, "a TO 25c, but
no large lines of any of these grades
have been taken during the past week
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