St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-12-21
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the LEADING
Products In Demand


rather quiet, though prices hold firm
at the recent advance. Choice fresh
lots are scarce. Storage stock is offer
ing freely at steady prices. The quo
tations are: Northern creamery, 261A@
&c; dairy, 21Q25c; storage creamery,
25M26
While prices are fully maintained
especially on choice fall York state
twins, the cheese market is quiet, and
purchases are confined to immediate
wants: Round lots, York state, 800
12kc; Vermont twins, 11@11 3-4c.
Beans are quiet and unchanged in
this market, but country advices are
firmer. Carload lots, pea, $1.75@1.S0;
medium, $1.9001. 95; yellow eyes, $3.50
02.40; red kidneys, $2.9002.95; Cali
fornia small and white, $2.5O@255;
foreign pea, 81 .S5@l. 80; foreign me-
dunn, $4,000. 90; jobbing prices, 100
15c higher.
The local wholesale fruit and produce
market continues very quiet 1t is
we'll supplied, the demand is slow, and
quotations in many instances are NOM
inal. AS one dealer puts it, '"There is
too much stuff in the market, the buy
ing is in lighter volume now than for
many years at this time, and we have
been forced to meet the views of buy
ers'
Potatoes are very plenty, and as the
demand is light prices are materially
lower than they were week ago. Cab
bages are in good supply and steady,
though very active. Onions are firm.
String and butter beans are dull and
lower. Turnips are in better supply
but steady. Lettuce is lower. Spin
ach is easier, and celery has declined
SQuashes, particularly hubbards, which
are not as plenty as they were, are
frmer Receipts of sweet potatoes
have been rather light and prices hold
up well. Vegetables are quoted as
follows:
Potatoes-Aroostook green noun
tains, 53@55c a bu; hebrons, 4S@51c;
Dakota reds, 4S@5Oc; New York rurals,
4S@5Oc; sweets, Jerseys, $2.75@3 Dbl;
Vinelands, $3.50.
Onions-Native, $1@1.2O a bu; Span
ish onions, $3.50 a crit; leeks, SOC doz
bchs.
Turnips-Yellow, 81 a Dbl; white, so
@75c bu; French white, $1.5U a bag.
a bu; Norfolk, $1@1.25 a Dbl; Norfolk
kale, Soc a bbl
Cabbages-White, ST a Dbl; savoy, ST
| Dbl; red, 75c0$1 a box.
| Lettuce, etc-Hothouse lettuce, $50
| 75c a box of three doz; chicory, 81 a
| box; mint, ST a doz bchs; watercress,
| SOC a doz bchs; parsley, 81 a blu.
,Celery-White, 5O@90c a doz bchs:
| pascal, $1@1.25 Boston market, $1.75.
Beans-Southern string beans, 1908
bskt; butter beans, So bskt.
Squash-Turban, 75c Dbl; hubbard,
| $15@1S ton; pumpkins, SOC a box.
Miscellaneous-Beet 5O06Oc bu:
| carrots, SOC bu;parsnips, 75@S5c bu;
| cucumbers, $125@9 a box; egg plants,
| $15O@1.75 a doz; radfshes, $1@1.25c
box; caulifower, $2@3 Dbl; brussels
| sprouts, 70Sc a qt; oyster plants, 75c
a doZ; artichokes, $1.25 a box; okra, 81
| a CRIT
| The weather has interfered with the
shipments Of apples lately and they
| have brought better prices. Cranber-
| ries have a moderate sale, but do not
change much. The few pears left in
the market are selling in a desultory
way. Fruit quotations follow:
Apples-Kings, fancy table stock.
$3.5O@4 a Dbl; common, 81 .5O@2; SHOWS,
fancy, 81 a Dbl; common, $1.25@1.75:
northern spies, fancy, So. 5O04; ordin-
airy, $1.5O@2; baldwias, fancy, $2.25@
ESQ; common, $1.25@1.75; No Is, $40
1.25; greetings, $2@2.5O; common sour,
| $1@1.75; talman, sweets, $2.25@2. so;
baldwins and greetings in bulk, 9Oc@
| $1.25 Dbl.
| Cranberries-Choice late varieties,
$6@6.5O a Dbl; choice early varieties,
$5@5. 80; common to good, $465; crates,
$1.5O@2.25 each.
Pears-Native ANXIOUS, $2@3.5O a blu;
beurre bose, $3G4 a bu.
| Grapes-Western New York bskts, 8
| @13c each; malagas, $3@7 so a key.
Lambs are firmer, the market clean
ing up well: veals hold firm and I'M
| changed, though some fancy calves
have sold as high as 12c: Spring
lambs, 1Ok@11Ac; yearlings, 7@Sc;
muttons, 7@Sc; veals, 9@11c.
Poultry is in full supply for every
thing except choice turkeys, which are
attracting more attention. Only few
| northern turkeys are offering and are
| quotable at about 25c. for the best.
Western turkeys are in better supply,
but are firm; Western turkeys, 19@2Oc;
| northern, 23@25c northern chickens,
large, 16@18c; medium, 13@15c; west
| ern chickens, large, 14@15c; medium.
| 12@13c; geese, 12@14c; ducks, 15@16c.
Fresh beef is generally quiet and IN
| changed as far as the ordinary run of
| stock is concerned. AS usual at this
season a little Christmas beef is offer
ing and selling as high as 10c. Medi-
| UNI and low grades are still plenty and
cheap: Choice heavy cattle, S@9kc;
light, 51z@7Ac; heavy kinds, 1O@12c;
light, 61A@9c; heavy fores, 51a@7c; light,
4@5c.
| Prices on pork provisions are some
i 4 hut