News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-03-15
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

with New York and western markets,
butter has declined sharply, while
trade continues rather quiet, even at the
decline. Northern creamery, 27Q26c;
western. 261aM271kc; dairy, 25Q2Oc;
storage creamery, 26@27c.
Cheese is very firm, and prices nave
advanced, though closing steady. YORK
state, 131aM1412c; Vermont twins, lotl
lac.
The cold weather prevents any sharp
decline in eggs, though the tendency Is
| downward, and outside markets nave
already got nearer to the usual spring
basis. Choice nearby, 29Q30c; eastern,
27@28c: western. 27@2Sc.
Beans are quiet but steady, at quo
tations. Carload lots, pea, $1.9Od1 30;
medium, 81. o06 2 %; yellow eyes, 81. 40;
red kidneys, $3@3,50: California small
white, $25O02 So: jobbing prices. 100
15c higher
There has been a good lively bust
ness in the local fruit and produce
market during the past week, and as
supplies have cleaned up well the mar
ket has a firm tone. Receipts of pota-
toes have been running heavy for some
time: the trade has not taken hold very
freely, supplies have accumulated ard
prices have declined till good stock
brings considerably less than half
what it did at this time year ago.
Fancy apples are wanted, but they
are scarce and command high prices
| 4 n
Iy from the south: choice stock is In
steady demand and finds ready sale.
Cabbages are firmer, though rather
| plenty. String beans do not bring the
extreme prices of week ago. Lettuce
has advanced and onions are very
! firm. Offerings of turnips are larger,
but prices are not lower. Spinach is
rather scarce and commands full quo
| tations. Rhubarb has declined a cent
or two. New bunch beets are now in
| the market and asparagus grown in
local hothouses and California is Of
fered. Squashes are steady and celery
firm. Sweet potatoes are steady.
Potatoes-Aroostook Green noun
tains, 3Sd40c a bu; hebrons, 35d3Sc:
Dakota reds, SOC; sweets, Vtnelands.
S404 80 a bbl; Jerseys, cloth-headS,
$3.50; double-heads, $3@3.25; bskts,
$1.25 @1.65.
Onions-Native. $1.25 q Du; Bcrmu-
das, $3.50 d crt; leeks, SOC doZ bchs.
Turnips-Yellow, $1@1.25 Dbl;
white, 75c@$1 a bu; French white, 81
a bag.
Spinach, etc-Hothouse spinach. $3.50
| 01.75 a bu; Norfolk, $4@450 Dbl;
dollhouse dandelions, $1.621$ Il bu; beet
green's, $101.25 bu.
Cabbages $1.75 a Dbl;
savoy, $1.50@1.75 a Dbl; red, $lW1.25
a box.
Lettuce, etc-Hothouse lettuce, $1.5O
02.75 a box of three doz heads; chic
ory, $3.50 a doz heads; romaine, 81 a
doz heads; mint, SOC doz Dchs; water
cress, 75c a doz bchs; parsley. 50c bu
Celery-White, $1@1. 25 bch; pascal,
S262. 80 a doz bchs; Boston market, So
@3.5O doz bchs.
Beans-Southern string beans, $40 a
crt; butter beans, $40 art.
quashes-Turban, $1.25 Dbl; mar
row, $3.50 Dbl; hubbard, $20@25 ton
Miscellaneous-Asp gus, native
dollhouse, COARSE bch; California, 81
a bch; new bunch beets. 1925 a doz
bchs; old beets, 75c a bu; carrots, 500
Coo a bu; parsnips, 75cQ$1 a bu; GU
cumbers, S4d1O a box; elephants, $15l
az a doz; radishes, 30035c a doz bchs
artichokes. $1.50 box; tomatoes Flor
ida), $3.50G14 a crt of six bskts; hot
house, SOC Il pound; southern peppers, S;
1850 a crt; dollhouse rhubarb 5dSc {
pound; California cauliflowers, $3.750
} a crt.
Apples-Kings, fancy table stock
nominal at $506 a Dbl; common. 81 sea
go; northern spies, extra fancy, $5MG
fancy, $3.50M5; ordinary, $17502. 50
baldwins, extra fancy, $2.5002 70
fancy, $2@2.25; common, $1.5O@175
No. 2, $1.50; greetings, New York gooC
to fancy, $1.5Oa2; mixed sour, $15OM
2; Tolman sweets, fancy, $3.25@3.75
+ common, $1.25@1.75; russets, Roxbur!
, fancy, $2.5O@275; common to fair
$175Q2.
ranberries-Fancy late varieties, S
also a Dbl; other late varieties, So
d6; early varieties, $5@6: soft stock, S
, @7.50 crts; fancy, $2.5OQ2.75; common
to good, $1@1.5O.
, All barrel pork was advanced 25c
| but rendered lard and fresh shoulder
are lower, with other cuts unchanged
, Fresh beef is easier and, though oc
+ casionally a steer is sold slightly high
. err, TIC is about the top on anythin;
, offering. Choice heavy cattle, 7071Ac
{ light, 51h@61ac; heavy kinds, 969kc
D., light, 61a@Sc; heavy fores, 5Q51ac; light
! 4G41hc.
: Lambs are quiet and easy, with full
! supply of common grades. A fey
choice springers sell at $S010 and frou
that down to So each. Yearlings an,
mutton are easy. Yeals arc easiei
with better supply. Springts Us IS 90
Ice; yearlings, GAIT EaCttons, &C
. veals, 1O@1OAc; fancy, SsSSe~
: Poultry is in light demand s'ut DriA =
D are fairly well sustained rxcep. o
}, western fowls and chickens. Westcr
b turkeys, small, 21@23c; mixed sizes
n | onETO1c. ynStaru canonS small 1GI