Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-05-29
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

clIned. owing to increased receipts and
n decline in other markets. Prices are
lower than week ago, at: Northern
creamery, 24d241zc; western, 231sq
Q4c: dairy. 22d23c.
Cheese holds very steady here for old
stock. but Liverpool continues to de-
cline. New cheese is more plenty and
the tendency is downward. York
state. 14d14kc; Vermont twins, 800
13hc; new cheese, 12d13c.
Eggs are in liberal receipt, but prices
are steady on choice lots. Some of the
stock from the west is in Indifferent
condition, and quotations take wide
range. Choice nearby, 21d22c; east
ern. 19d20c; western, 1Sd1S14c.
Business has not been very lively III
the local wholesale fruit and vegetable
market. chiefly because of unfavorable
weather Some dealers report very
fair demand, but these are exceptions
rather than the rule The unreasonable
weather lTls visited the growing sec
tons also, with the result that stocks
in the local market generally are of
poor quality. Choice products, in con-
sequence, are sitter in price.
New garden truck is coming in freely,
but on account of the cold weather the
receipts of asparagus have been very
light. The arrivals of cucumbers also
have been small, and they are higher.
Rhubarb is very plenty and cheap, and
| tomatoes have declined under larger
| offerings. The market is pretty short
of choice cabbages, but there is plenty
of poor stuff. Fancy string beans COM
mand high prices. Peas are in large
supply and move slowly, except when
| strictly choice and fresh. Lettuce is
firmer. Onions and turnips are steady.
Old potatoes have ruled very quiet dur
ing the week. and though the receipts
have continued large, prices are no
lower than they were. There is fai,
call for choice newNpotatoes.
Strawberries have been in good sup
ply and as the quality has been moth
ing extra, the prices have been low.
Potatoes-AroOstook Green noun
tains, 35c bu: hebrons. 30a32c; pa
kota reds, 3Oc; rose, 25a30c: new Flor
idas. S3.2503.JO Dbl; new Bermudas
S5@5.5O a Dbl; sweets, North Carolina
81 a crt.
Southern string beans, S1.5J
also a bskt butter beans, $1.50Q2.5t
a bskt.
Cabbages-New southern, $1J0G2.5
crt.
CeIery-White, S101.25 a beh.
Lettuce. etc-Hothouse lettuce, SL2:
also box of three doz heads; 70
maine, 75cdS1 a doz heads; mint 500
coo doz bchs; watercress. southern
4Oc doz bchs; parsley, $202,50 bu.
Onions-Bermudas $1.50 crt; Egyp-
tians, S2.50Q2.75 bag; bunch onions;
5OQ60c box; leeks, soc a doz bchs.
Spinach, etc-Native spinach, 25@50c
a bu; beet green's, 75cd$1 bu; dande.
lions, 3OQ40c a bu; native kale, soc q
bu.
Squasbes-Summer squashes, S1.5O 4
crt.
TomatOes-Native dollhouse, 15Q20c 2
pound; Florida S1.5002 a crt.
Turnips-Yellow, $3.50 a Dbl; white
81. 25G1.50 a bu; bunch turnips, 75c0
J 81 doz bchs; French white, $3.50 1
bag
Miscellaneous-Sout peas, $16
}. 1.75 bskt cucumbers, $205 a box
d carrots, $101.25 a bu; bunch carrots
600S5c q doz bchs; parsnips, $1@1.50 {
e bu; radishes 25c bu box; beets, 75c0
: 81 bu; bunch beets, S101.25 a do
@ bchs; peppers, S250G2.75 a crt; egg
plants. s. doz; oysterplants, 81 80
n doz bchs; rhubarb, 25035c a bu box.
y Apples-Baldwins. $1.50d2.50 Dbl
: russets. extra fancy, $3.5O04; No.
e S2.Iod3; other grades, 81. 25M2
Il Strawberries-Maryland, S012c a al
Norfolk, SQ12c; North Carolina, SOLO
Cherries-California fancy. S3@3.50
t. 1O-pound box; choice, $2025 poor t
- good, S15Od1.75.
IN All barrel pork, except lean ends an
v bean pork, is 25c lower, but other por
prices are steady and unchanged.
Fresh beef is easier, with only yer
few choice cattle bringing full prices
Exera heavy sides, 3-4Q9c: good, l.
h qS1sc; light 71aQSc; heavy binds, 1G g.
IN @11c; good 10 1-4Ca1O1kc; light, 9td1Ot
heavy fores 61zQ7c; good. 6 1-4@61at
light. 51zQ6c.
Lambs have stiffened up little, an
~ veals are also frmer; muttons and yea,
lings are steady and unchanged
Lambs. 11Ad12c; yearlings, 9d10,
muttons, Sa914c; veals, 1o011c, wit
fancy higher.
Poultry is quiet, but steady, wit
= western fowls irmer. Western ice
turkeys, 1920; northern chickens. :
age and upward: northern fowls. 10
lee; western fowls. 141kG15e: froze
!. western turkeys, 22@23c; westel
ID chickens. 15Ql61zc: western fowls, 10
ct 0141zc; ducks, 14d16c.
az Hay is quiet and rather easie
though not Yet quotably lower. Stra
is dull and easier. Hay, No. L. s17
1850; low grades, S11@1o.50: II
straw, S16ql75O; ost straw, S1Oa11.
The wheat market has shown We
little change in the actual situation du
ing the past week, the wide fiuctuatiol
in Orice eSDAcisIIv in J,,lr ha;por Il,