News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-08-02
I'M HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

Boston. July 31.-Receipts of butter
are falling off, and choice fresh made
is in moderate supply. Prices, there
fore, are firmer, some advance having
already been made. Northern cream
cry, 211a@22hc; western, 21@22c;
dairy, 1S@20c.
y decidedly stronger tone is felt in
the market for cheese, prices having
advanced about 1ac for the week.
York state, 101aQ11c; Vermont twins,
100l10lac.
Choice fresh gathered eggs are get
ting scarce, and prices show more
strength. Western arrivals are show
ing the effect of hot weather, and the
market is well supplied for all except
the very best. The quotations arc:
Choice nearby, 26d27c; eastern, 229
24c; western, 17M19c.
The movement of fruits and vegeta.
bes in the local wholesale market has
continued lively and dealers, with ono
or two exceptions, report a continual
ton of the large and general demand.
Pears are still high and only a little
strictly fancy California stock is to be
had. Peaches are firmer, and some Of
the best Georgia offerings have sold as
high as $3.50 a carrier at wholesale.
The market has been abundant!y
stocked with cantaloupes, many of
them having been Of poor quality; good
stock has sold readily at satisfactory
prices, but most lots have gone very
cheap. Watermelons have sold well
and prices have not changed much.
There is a good call for choice apples,
but not many are to be had.
Potatoes have advanced under
smaller receipts. Cabbages are not
very plenty and firm. String beans
and cucumbers are firmer, but green
corn has declined. Peas are coming
forward freely, but good demand
keeps prices up. Onions are in large
supply and lower for native and
Texas stock. Spanish onions are now
in the market, and native tomatoes
and she'll beans have begun to arrive.
Apples-Native astrachans, $3M3.50
barrel and $1I1. 80 bushel box; Jer-
sey sweet Dough, $4,000 barrel;
Jersey astrachans, $2.1JM3.25 barrel;
Jersey fancy green sour, $3Q3,50 Il
barrel.
Berries-Strawberries. Nova Scotia,
14M1Sc a quart blueberries, 11@14c Il
quart; blackberries, 14c quart; rasp-
berries, 7@9c pint; gooseberries, Sc
quart.
PIums-Caifornia tragedy prunes,
$1T502 a crate; German. $1.3501,5G;
gross and Hungarian, $1.5O01.75; egg.
$125; purple Duanes, Columbus and
Satsumas, $125; Kelsey Wicksons and
Eurekas, $1,25d1.5O a three-tier crate
and $1M1.25 a twO-tier crate.
peaches-California Fosters and
Crawfords choice, 81 a box; fair to
good, S50S9c; Elberts, 81; white
Deckers, $1@125; Georgia fancy, $3.50
@2.75 carrier; choice, $2@2.25; fair
to good, $1.25@1.75.
Pears-California Bartletts, fancy,
$32503,50 box; choice, 50 50@3; fair to
good, $1.75@225; Florida lie Conte,
$350d4,50 a barrel.
Cantaloupes-B Baltimore, SO to A.
count, $1M125 crate; South Caro-
lima, SO to 45 count, $1.5O02; California,
$6.5007 a standard crate; Arizona
and Texas, 1904 a crate.
Watermelons-As to size and quality,
$20G35 a hundred.
POtatOes-BristOl Ferry, r. l., 1925
barrel; Jersey, $2,62. % a barrel, and
65d70c bushel; Norfolk and Eastern
Shore. $1.75@2 a barrel; sweets, south
ern $3M3.50 a barrel.
Beans-Native string beans, 60@75c
bushel; butter beans, G5c@$1 a BUSH
ell; shell beans, $1@1.75 a bushel.
abbages-Native, scar a hundred.
Lettuce. etc-Hothouse lettuce, 250l
SOC a dozen heads; romaine, 25035c a
dozen heads; escarole, soc a dozen
heads; mint, 2Jc dozen punches;
watercress, 40c a dozen punches;
parsley, 25@5Oc a bushel.
Onions-Native, T5@S5c a bushel;
Texas, 50c@$1 a crate; Egyptian, $1.75
az bag; Spanish, $2.75@3 crate;
bunch onions, soc a box; leeks, Coo q
dozen punches.
Squashes-Native summer, white
and yellow, 25c a dozen; southern
marrow, 75c@$1 a barrel.
Tomatoes-Native, $2.50@3.5O
bushel; dollhouse, 1O@121ac a pound;
Jersey, 75c0$1 a crate.
Turnips-New yellow, $1.75 barrel:
white, 75c a bushel
Miscellaneous-Peas $1@1.25 BUSH
ell; cucumbers $1@3 box; carrots, 60
arse a bushel; bunch carrots, 25c a
dozen punches; radishes, 4065Oc box:
spinach, 100000 bushel; beets, 4OM
soc a bushel; bunch beets, 1502Oc a
dozen punches; peppers, So a crate:
elephants, $1@125 a dozen: rhubarb,
25c bushel box; caulifowers, S1.75M
2.25 a dozen heads; green corn, 75c6Sl
a box of five dozen; celery, native, S1.75
a dozen punches.
Pork provisions are firmer, with
some cuts actually advanced.
Fresh beef is easy, but not ouotab,v
lower. Extra heavy sides, 7k@7 3-4c:
good, Z 1-4d7Ac; light, 7@7hc: heavy
kinds, 10@10hc; good, 91k@9 3-4c: light
1900; heavy fores, 505 1-4c; good
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