Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-07-24

Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand


cold storage. Prices hold steady, with
some choice lots selling above top quo
tatious given below. Northern cream
cry. 21a22c; western, 2Od21c; dairy,
1Sd20c.
There is a quiet market for cheese.
the demand being mostly IN small lors
for current consumption. Prices are
fairly steady. York state, 8 3-4q1Gc:
fancy, higher; Vermont twins, 914D
. 3-4c.
Receipts of choice fresh gathered
eggs are running smaller and prices are
advancing. Western eggs are firm for
choice. which are scarce. Choice near
by. 23d25c; eastern, 21Q23c; western,
l70lSc.
business has continued active in tue
local fruit and vegetable market. The
movement to and from the market has
beer large, and dealers have had all
they could attend 10.
Supplies of apples have increased, but
the offerings show little improve
ment in quality and sell eheapiy.
Berries of ali kinds have moved free
~, with blueberries and raspberries N
good supply and cheap. Receipts of
both cantaloupes and watermelons
have been smaller and they are higher.
especially since the demand has been
lively. Fancy peaches sell wei.
Piums nre firmer. Pears have begun
to arrive from California, but are
rather high. Adyices from the coast
state that the Gamers are taking large
quantities of pears at satisfactory
prices to the grower, and it is quite
likely that shipments 10 the east this
year will be smaller than usual.
New potatoes have been coming free
| ly and selling fairly well. String beans.
| cucumbers and lettuce are lower and to-
| matoeS are considerably cheaper than
| they were. Onions are still plenty and
| cheap, and new native stock is included
! in the offerings. Squashes are easy
| and lower, but turnips are steady
Apples-New Jersey sweet bough, So
"a a barrel; Jersey astrachans, $3.50
$3.50 barrel; Maryland and Deia-
ware green, 75c@S1 a bushel basket;
| North Carolina and Virginia green, 81
4 also a half-barrel basket.
Berries-Nova Scotia fancy large, Il
d15c a quart small, 9@11c; New
Brunswick, 1O012c; Maine, Bar Har'
Dor, 1OdI5c; Oswego, n. Y, Atlantics
1O012c; other Oswego varieties, 5@7c
native, 5(d1Oc; blackbcrries, fancy, 11U
13c quart; fair to good, 50Sc; blue
berries, locally grown offerings, 10012t
a quart; Maine and New Hampshire
11@14c; Pennsylvania, 7@11c; goose
berries, regular, &c quart; raspberries,
native pints, sc; cups, 2Q3c.
Currants-La red, 70Sc q quart;
small red, &c.
Cherries-Native fancy black, 121zc
a pound; ordinary black, SQI9c; white,
case.
Plums-Californi tragedy prunes,
$1.2501.50 a four-basket crate, and 81
al % a basket crate; Burbanks
fancy, S5c0S1 a crate; small and or.
binary, 50075c.
Peaches-Californi Crawfords and
st. Johns, .S1.25@1.50 a box; early
Hales, 75cQ$1; Georgia fancy 81
go carrier; choice, $1.5OQ1.75; poor
to fair, 75cG$1.25.
PearS-Calfornia Bartletts, green
$3.50Q3.75 q box; hard ripe, $30320
Florida lie Conte, $4,000 a barrel.
CaDtaloupes-Ca CALIFORNIA;, So stand
ard crate; South Carolina and Georges
selected, $3d325 a crate; Georgia com
5 mon to good, $1@2.
: Watermelons-As to size and quality
4 | $20G35 a hundred.
e PotatOeS-New Norfolks and eastern
!, shores, $1.2501.5O a barrel; sweets, s
J 09.50 a barrel.
!. Reans-Native string beans, 50M60'
b a bushel; butter beans, 50Q60c /
: bushel.
{ Cabbages-Native, coarse barrel
: Lettuce. etc -Hothouse lettuce, Zoe
3 dozen heads; romaine, 25G35c a dozel
i heads; escarole, soc a dozen heads
: mint, 25c a dozen lunches; water
! cress, 40c a dozen punches; parsley
d SOC q buShel.,
Celery-Native, $175 a dozen bunch
es; white, S1.2501.50 a bunch
4 Onions-Native, Soc a bushel; Texas
It 81 a crate Egyptians. S1.7502 bag
bNAA~-A SAi4o4-SS OOC q OOAs lSEhS, OVO
is dozen punches.
= Squashes-Natfve summer white an
st yellow, 25c dozen; southern marrow
1 81 a BARRE
Is Tomatoes-Native dollhouse, 100
d 1254c a pound; Jersey, S5c@$1 crate
1t Baltimore, 9OcGS1 crate.
re Turnips-New yellow, $1.75 a barre
% white, Toe a bushel
le Miscellaneous-Peas, S101 % a bust
ell; cucunberS, S1d1.75 a box; carrot.
d 81 bushel; bunch carrots. 25c doze
a punches; Iadishes, 4O050c a box; SPIT
i ach. 15c q bushel; beets, soc bushe
= bunch beets, 1JQ2Oc a dozen punches
peppers, 81 a crate: elephants, 81. ~
70 1.50 dozen rhubarb, 25c bushel boz
! cauliftoWerS 1925 a dozen heads.
y Fresh beef is quiet and easy, wit
only very few choice cattle bringiu
ID top prices. Extra heavy sides. 3-4t
= Sc; good. 7l-4G71kc; light, 7a7 II,
n heavy binds. 100000; good, ga
"a 93-4c: light qGolLc. heavy fores < /