News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1904-05-04
IN hub MARKETS
Quotations on the Leadinq
orooucrs IN Demand

orOducrs IN Demand
Boston, May 2.-The jobbing price on
| butter is &c higher tnan week ago.
| Vermont and New Hampshire extra
| creamery 23c, northern New York 23c,
western pc, northern tirsts 21022c,
| eastern best marks 21@22c, eastern fair
| to good 17019c, creamery seconds II
| H19c, western frsts 21M22c, storage
| extra 19B020c, firsts 17M1Sc, seconds
15M1Gc, New York and Vermont dairy
| firsts 1SM19c, seconds 15c, western imi
tation creamery extra 1Sc, firsts 15c,
| ladle firsts 14c seconds 1870, packing
stock 12M121ac, renovated 12M17c,
boxes extra northern creamery 23c,
| tirsts 21022c, extra dairy Die, firsts IS
019c, common to good 80 16c, prints
15M23c.
Cheese-New York and Vermont twin
extra 1Q01O1ac, firsts 9M9Hc, late made
| S15a9c, sage Zoe, Ohio flats S00c.
Eggs-Fancy hennery 20c, Maine,
Vermont and New Hampshire extras
19c, firsts 1870, York state firsts 1Shc,
western extras 19c, firsts 1S1ac, fair to
good 1Sc, dirties lie, checks 1G01GHc,
Kentucky frsts 1Sc, Tennessee and
other southern 171@c. storage packed
western firsts 1S1hM1S 3-4c.
Beans are little firm. but not quot
ably higher Carload lots, pea, %195
az; medium, 81 .95M2:yelIow eyes, 50. -
02.SO; red kidneys, S3.1OM3.2O; Cali
fornia small white. %2.3On2 81: FOREIGN
pea, 81 .S501 81; foreign medium, 81 90
01.95; iobbing prices. 1GM15c higher.
Choice lots of apples are held at
somewhat higher prices, with fair de-
mand. The export movement is small,
as home markets now give better re-
turns than the English markets. Rus
sets, S263; Kings, S304: Baldwins.
S2.50M3; northern spies, S2.5Ot04; No.
2, all grades, $1.50M2,
Though the poor weather of last
week hurt business in the local whole
sale market for fruits, dealers in
vegetables report a very fair trade
Prices of many products are much
lower than a week ago. The outside
quotation on new cabbage is 80 cents to
the crate lower. The supply of string
beans is larger and prices are more in
favor of the buyer than they were last
week. The offerings of peas are light
and prices are relatively firm.
There is steady demand for tomatoes
at full prices. Cucumbers are much
lower. Carrots and parsnips are
shade higher. There is little market
for native and Spanish onions; Bermu-
das and Egyptians are firm. Turnips
rule steady. Spinach and beet green's
hold up well, but dandeions are lower
and kale is out of the market. Beets.
squash and celery are little changed in
price. but rhubarb is a cent a pound
lower. A good trade is reported in pota-
toes with prices slightly above those of
a week ago. Quotations follow:
Potatoes: Aroostook hebrons. $1.25
01.30; Green mountains. 81 3G11 80:
Dakota reds, 81 20: rose, 1.35071 40:
silver dollars, 81 90 sweets, sc 50fd4
for North Carolina and S363.5O for
Delaware.
Boston market celery is DONE but new
white from Florida is arriving, and sells
at 50 per doz bun.
Onions-Bermuda crts are quoted at
$3.50. with few Egyptians selling at
S3@3.50 per bg. Native onions are no
longer quotable, except in a retail way.
Cucumbers are quoted lower at SEA
$50 per bX.
Hubbard squashes are selling at $50
per ton; new southern white, 81 per crt.
New southern cabbage sells at 50
@2.25.
Lettuce sells at GO0SOc per doz;
radishes, DOC per dOz: mint 7Jc per dOz:
cress, Toe per doz; leeks, 81 per doz.
String beans are quoted at $150G1.75
per bX for green and $2O225 for wax.
Green peas are in fair supply and sell
at 81 per Dskt.
Spinach is selling at $125 per Dbl.
Beet green's are quoted at Coo; dande-
lions, 40c per bu; parsley, $1@1.25 per
bu; peppers, 50 per bu.
Rhubarb is Quotable at Cope lb.
Hothouse tomatoes are quOtable at
25c per Id for choice; southern crts,
$1.2501.75.
Bunch beets are selling in small
way at $3.50 per doz.
North Carolina asparagus is in good
supply and sells at $2.5OG4.5O per doz
bun.
Maple sugar is in quiet demand, and
prices are easy at 13014c for smaA
cakes, 12@13c for large cakes and 1O0
lie for pals; maple syrup, SO09Oc per
gal, with some fancy higher.
Prices on pork provisions are steady,
with a fair demand. The marketing of
hogs has become more liberal in mum.
bers. The quality is from fair to good.
the latter predominating. Prices are
lower, prominent markets averaging
about $3.50 per 100 lbs.
The market for fresh beef is easier
under full supplies and lower prices are
indicated.
There is a steady market for fall
lambs; mutton and yearlings are quiet;
veals, are in full supply and easy at