News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-05-10
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

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Cheese is steady, with the old stock
well cleaned up. New cheese is offer
ing in a moderate way, but is not at
tracing much attention as yet. York
state, 14d141Ac; Vermont twins, 13@
14c; new cheese, 12k013c.
Eggs are in liberal supply, but prices
are steady, as the demand is of sea
sonable nature. Choice nearby, 20Gl
21c; eastern, 1920; western, $50
HShc.
There has been fair business in the
local market for fruits and vegetables,
but warmer weather is necessary to
make the demand more urgent. Sup
plies are plenty and prices as a general
rule are easier. The abundance and
cheapness of strawberries have caused
the demand for staple fruits to fall off
1t is said that the receipts of straw.
berries would have been larger if a
shortage of cars in North Carolina had
not prevented the shipment of thou
sands Of crates.
Potatoes show further improvement;
the arrivals have been less, and prices
have gone up about &c. There is a
steady inquiry for asparagus; native
stuff has commenced to arrive, and
shipments from New Jersey and the
south are large. String beans, peas
and new cabbageS are lower Native
spinach is now in the market, as well
as stock from Rhode Island. Onions
and squashes hold firm. Tomatoes are
more plenty and decidedly cheaper.
Turnips are firmer. Cucumbers are
easier, and plenty Of rhubarb can be
had at low prices.
Apples do not change much: offer
ings are not very large, and the de-
mand seems to be only for the best lots.
Cranberries are dull. Cherries are more
plenty, but the quality of the fruit is
not very good.
Vegetables are quoted as follows:
PotatOes-ArOostook green noun
tains, 35c bu; hebrons, 3O@32c; Da-
kota reds, SOC; rose, 35c; new Floridas,
$3.50d4 Dbl; sweets, Vinelands, SEA
2.25 bskt; North Carolina, So. 5Od3.7 10
a CRIT.
Beans-SOuthern string beans, 81 .75d
2 bSkt; butter beans, $1.7502 a bskt.
Cabbages-Native drumhpad, S16
1.25 Dbl; new southern, $1.25@150
a crt.
Celery-White, $161.2 bch.
Notf,-a p1LIN how G
three doz bchs; New Jerseys, extra
fancy, $3@3.50 a doz bchs; fancy, $3.50
Q3 doz bchs; medium, 81 5O02 doz
bchs; California, $1M 80 doz.
Lettuce, etc-HothouSe lettuce, $16
$50 box of three doz heads; romaine,
15c@$1 a doz heads; mint, 75cQ$1., a
dOz bchs; watercress, natife, S5eI Eoz
bchs; southern, doc a doz bGhs; parsley,
50 bu.
Onions-Bermudas, $1.75 crt;
Egyptians, $2.75@3 a bag; bunch
onions, 75c box; leeks, soc doz bchs.
Spinach. etc-Native spinach, $4,000
bu; Rhode Island, $1.5Om1.75 a Dbl;
Norfolk. $1@1.2j Dbl; beet greens, 80
@75c bu; dandelions, 4O05Oc a bu
Baltimore ka!e, 5Od75c a Dbl.
Squashes-Hubbard, $50 a ton: sum
mer squashes, $1@1.5O crt.
Tomatoes-Native dollhouse, 2503OC
a pound; Florida, $2.5OM2.75 crit.
MANIFESTATIONS, S1.5O a Dbl; white
$1.25d150 bu; bunch turnips, 75c0
81 doz bchs; French white, $3.50 Q
bag.
Observation-Disclosures peas, $1M
1.5O a bskt; cucumbers, $2d4.5O a box.
carrots, $101.25 a bu; bunch carrots
S5cQ$1 a doz bchs; parsnips, S1Q1 sc
a bu; radishes, 20c a dOz bchs: beets
75c@$1 bu; bunch beets. $1.T5 a do2
bchs; elephants, 50 doz; oyster plants
$1@1.50 a doz bchs; rhubarb, 2,d3c .
pound.
fruit quotations follow
Apples-Baldwins, $1.5O@2.5O a Dbl
baldwins, No. ?, $125; russets, extra
fancy, $3.50@4; No. 1, S2,75@3; Other
grades, $1.2501. so.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES fancy. SSt69 q
Dbl; other grades, STAG: crates, extra
fancy, $303.25; other grades, $1.5OU
2.25.
Strawberries-Norfolk, 12015c a at
North Carolina, 11014c; extra fancy Of
ferings, 1Gd1Sc.
Cherries choice, seas. II
a 1O-lb box; poor to good, $1@15O.
Hay is in moderate demand for the
best grades, but the market is firm
with a light supply. Medium and low
grades are easy. Straw is quiet, but
steady. Millfeed is steady. Hav. No
1, $1601750; low grades, $11d16: rye
straw, $1761S; oat straw, $10d11.
Barrel pork has advanced 25c ner
Dbl, and other minor advances We're
made, though raw leaf lard is lower
Fresh beef is quiet and prices are still
easy, though showing only a trifiDp do.
cline for the week. Extra heavy sides
900 1 4c; good, S1a09c; light, 7be7sc.
heavy kinds, 11@f1hc; good, 1ObG11c
light, 9@1Oc; heavy fores, 67aQ7c; GOOD
6 1-4@6hc; light, 6Q6 1-4c.
There is firm market for lambs and
yearlings, with muttons and veols
steady. Lambs, 11@12c; yearlipgs ar
10c; muttons, Sd9Kc; veals, 0a10c
with fancy higher.
Poultry is quiet, without serlors
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