News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-06-07
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand


Northern creamery, 221a@23c; western.
I2@--1sc; dairy, 20421c.
New cheese is improving in quality,
but prices are easier and tending down.
as receipts are large and the demand
moderate. Old cheese is quiet and nom
inal. York state, 140144ac; Vermont
twins, 130t13Rc; new cheese, 101aM11c.
Eggs are slow, with the tendency
downward late in the week. Choice
nearby, 21M22c; eastern, $4,000; west
ern, 1Sd1S1Ac.
Beans are firm and unchanged,
though trade is quiet. Carload lots,
pea, $1.S0M1.S5; medium, $21O02.15;
yellow eyes, S2.10M2.15; red kidneys,
$2.S5M2.90; California small White,
$2.25@2.G0; jobbing prices, 10M15c
higher.
Business has been active in the !)cal
fruit and vegetable market during the
past week. Asparagus alone has been
scarce; dealers complain that other
things have been altogether too plenty,
Prices generally are reasonable.
The arrivals of strawberries have
been particularly heavy and the fruit
was very cheap, especially on Thurs
day when the very best offerings
brought only Sc a quart. The first
watermelons of the season cNme last
eek; they are not very active yet,
There is a good supply of canteloupCs.
but they move rather slowly and only
fancy varieties bring the top quota.
tons. Cherries are coming more free
ly and are cheaper. a few lots Of bIue-
berries and blackberries have reached
the market, but they are hardly worth
quoting. Apples are firm and mod
erately active.
Asparagus has continued in light sup
ply and high. A well-pOsted member
or the trade says that asparagus will
not be plenty this season, basing his
assertion on the fact that the weather
early in the season was cold and that
there has not been enough rain; the
plant, he says, needs both warm
V Gather and rain. Old potatoes are
dull very plenty and much lower than
they were week ago. New potatoes
hold fairly steady under a moderately
active demand. String beans are
rather high, as supplies are not very
large. Cabbages and onions are free
lI offered, and there are plenty of toma-
toes, though few that are strictly
fancy. Turnips are scarce and higher
Choice peas are wanted. Cucumbers
are lower and spinach and other greens
are cheap.
POtatoes-Aroostook green mCan
tains, 30Q33c a bu; hebrons, 2502Se,
Dakota reds, 25c; rose, 25030c; new
Floridas, $2.50d3 Dbl; sweets, North
Carolinas, $4 crt.
Beans-String beans, Norfolk green.
S1.75@2 bskt; wax, So. 25G2.75 a bskt.
bages-New southern, 81 crt,
and 75ca$1 a Dbl.
Celery-White, $101 % bch.
ragus-Native, $405 a boy Of
three doz bchs; native giant, sea- a
box of three doz bchs; Jersey, $40 80
doz bchs.
Lettuce, etc-Hothouse lettuce, 75c0
$1.25 box of three doz heads; ro-
maine, 75c0$1 a doz heads: mint, .fOc
q doz bchs; watercress, southern. 400
a doz bchs; parsley, $2.5O03.5o =. bu.
Onions-TeXas, $1.25d1.5O crt:
Bermudas, $1.1061.25 a crt; Egyptians,
S2.50Q2.75 bag; bunch onions, GOO
Soc a box; leeks, 81 doz bchs.
Spinach, etc-Native spinach, 106
121ac bu; beet greens, 40c bu; dam
delions, 3OM40c blu; native kale, zoe
blu.
quashes-Souther marrow. 81. 5Od
10 Il Dbl; summer squashes. 75clIS1
crt.
Tomatoes-Native dollhouse, 12lsM
15c a pound; Florida, S1.J0M2.5O crt.
Turnips-Yellow, $3.50 a Dbl: French
white, $3.50 a bag; bunch turnips, 75c
@$1 a doz bchs.
Miscellaneous-Peas, Baltimore. ST
@1.25 a bskt; Maryland, S1.25d1.5O a
bskt; cucumbers, $1@3.50 box: car
rots, Soc doz bchs; parsnips, S101.5O
a bu; radishes, 4O0GOc a box: beets 81
01.25 blu; bunch beets, S5c0S1 a doz
bchs; peppers, 81 a CRIT; egg plants So
a doz; rhubarb, 15@20c a bu box.
Apples-Baldwins S15Od3 a Dbl:
russets, extra fancy, S35O@4; russets.
No. l, $2.75@3; other ruSsets, S1.25Gl2.
Observation-Disclosures and New
Jersey fancy Gandys, 7@9c a at; Mary
land fancy, 5@7c; Jerseys, 4d6c.
Cherries-California fancy, S2.250
$50 10-pound box; fair to good, S1.75
a.; common, 81 2501.50.
Cantaloupes-Florida choice. S2.5Os
2.75 crt; common to good, S202. 25.
Watermelons-Flor large, 4OG5Oc
apiece.
Apricots-California, S2d2.5O a crt.
Pork provisions are steady and I'M
changed
Fresh beef has been quiet but steady
at; Extra heavy sides, 8 3-4d9c; good,
8 1-4GS1Ac; light, 7150Sc; heavy binds,
10 3-4@11c; good, 10 1-4td1O15c; light, 0
@10c; heavy fores, 61ad7c; good, Go
61kc; light, 5d51Ac.
Lambs are firm; muttons and year
lings are easier; veals are firm. Lalabs
11Q12c; yearlings, S09c; muttons, S6
DC; veals, 10d11c, with fancy higher.
Poultry is in fair demand at full
prices for choice fed stock. Frozen
stock is pretty well cleaned up. West
ern Iced turkeys, 1920; northern
2Od22c and upw2r I'd northern
fowls, 15d16c; western fowls, 14ts6
15c; frozen western turkeys, 22d23c;