News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-03-08
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

| cheese ana eggs, ana tnOuSn sharp
| breaks in egg prices are reported from
outside markets they are not appre
ciably changed here.
Butter has been quiet, the high
prices having restricted sales to cor
| siderable extent. Choice fresh cream
cry is in moderate supply, but the de
| mand is confined to immediate wants.
as lower prices are expected. North
erp creamery, 33M33kc; western, 81 .
| 33e; dairy, 30@31c; storage creamery,
31033c.
Cheese is firmer but holders are not
| prSssing sales and the trade is taking
hoN fairly we'll at full prices. York
state, 131a@14c.
Eggs are weak and lower in all west
ern markets, Chicago being 4KM5"
lower and New York &c lower. ST
! Louis also declined 4c. Here the market
| is easy. Choice nearby, 34M35c; east
| ern, 32Cd33c; western, $40 32c; storage,
erase. ....... .....
Beans are easier for car lots of choice
pea, but other grades are unchanged
Carload lots, pea, $1,000 .95; medium.
! S22On2 %: yellow eyes, $40; red KID.
neys. S3@3.50; California small white.
| s2.5Nd2 so; Jobbing prices, 1O@15c
| higher.
The open weather has permitted of Il
| fairly free movement of fruits and
vegetables in the local market. Prices
generally are firm. though here and
&c 1f nd ;y,
many insta ices quotations are deter
mined by the condition of the offerings.
The latter is particularly true of
southern garden truck. The potato
market has weak tone; supplies are
tiagec, the demand quiet and prices
| sten lower than they were week ago.
Cabbages, turnips, squashes and
o'lions all bring higher prices than
they did week ago. Kale and string
beans continue scarce and high. Spin
ach is firm. Lettuce is steady and eel.
cry holds very firm. Rhubarb has again
steady.
Apples have sold well, but receipts
! have been large and prices are little
changed. Cranberries are dull, but
steady.
Potatoes-Aroostook Green noun
Dakota reds, 95c; sweets, Jerseys, So
@3.50 Dbl; vinelands, $404.50.
Turnips-Yellow, $1@1.25 a Dbl;
white, 75c@$1 bu; French white, So
bag.
Spinach, etc-Hothouse spinach, $1.5O
a bu; Norfolk, SO a Dbl; dollhouse dande-
! lions, $1.6213c bu; beet greens, Soc a
bu.
" Capba ges-Drumheads, $3.50 hbi :;
Savoy, $135@1.5O a Dbl; red, $1.25 q
box.
Lettuce, etc-Hothouse lettuce, 50c0
50 box of three doz heads; chicory,
$3.50 doz heads; romaine, 81 doz
heads mint, soc doz bchs; water
cress, 75c a doz bchs; parsley, 75c bu,
Celery-White $1@1.25 a doz bchs;
pascal, $2@2.50; Boston market, 500
$50
Beans-Southern string beans, SIS a
bskt; butter beans, SIS bskt.
Squashes-Turban, $125 a Dbl; mar
row, $1.25 a Dbl; hubbard $40 ton.
Miscellaneous-Beet 75c bu; car
rots, 50td60c bu; parsnips, 75c0$1 n
bu: cucumbers, $4@10 box; elephants,
| $1M150 a doz; radishes, 3Od35c a doz
bchs; brussels sprouts, 16M1Sc OF;
| oyster plants, S125 a doz bchs; artl-
| chokes, $50 a box: tomatoes, Florida,
| f3 a crt of six bskts; dollhouse, soc a
| pound; southern peppers, S2.75d3 crit;
nothou>o rhubarb 7M9c d pound; Cali
dOz heads.
AppeS-Baldwin 81, 50d2. 30; green
ings, $1J0(d22 %; Hubbardstons, $50
az; Tolman sweets, SI25@ $50; Kings
$2d3.50; northern spies, $2M3.50; bulk
Baldwins and greetings, 75c@$1.25 per
Dbl; bu box, 250I5c.
CranberI'ies-Fancy late varieties. 81
0150 Dbl; other late varieties, 500
at; early varieties, $506; soft stock,
$2Q3; crates, fancy, $2,5002.75; com.
mon to good, S15O@2.
Lard has advanced, but other pork
" al Z slSduS, lt1OuL
4iFSN beef is decidedly weaker, and
dealers ind it difficult to get full prices
for the sst cattle, even though prices
are on basis of about 1sc lower than
4 week ago The market is quiet. with
a heavy supply. Choice heavy cattle,
71hQSc; light 51k@7c; heavy kinds, 81
@10c; light. 61a@9c; heavy fores, SIG:
&c; light, 40bc.
lambs arr in ovArsupply. and much
lower prices are quoted on choice lots;
muttons and yearlings are steady
veals are irn. Spring lambs, 91k@1Oc;
yearlings, 7@Sc; muttons, 7@Shc;
veals, 10@11c, fancy, 12c.
Poultry is IA fair demand for fresh
killed, but a large part of the western
receipts come frozen and sci! slowly.
Prices are steady. Western turkeys
small, 21@23c; mixed sizes, 20@21c;
western capons small, 16@1Sc; large,
1920; northern chickens, large IL
@21c; medium. i5@16c; western chick.
ems, large, 15616c; medium, 13@1+c;
northern fowls. 14616c; western, 1870
15c; geese, 11@15c: ducks, 13d16c.
Hay, is in liberal supply, but the de-
mandfSS fair. especially for the low
grades, and prices hold steady; straw
Is dull: millfeed is steady. Hay, No. ].