St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-03-08
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

Boston, March O-luere is uOL muCIi
change in the local market for butter,
cheese and eggs, and though shar.,
breaks in egg prices are reported from
outside markets they are not appre-
ciably changed here.
Butter has been quiet, the high
orices 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
ern creamery, 33G33hc; western, 800
83c; dairy, 30@31c; storage creamery,
81Q33c.
Cheese is firmer, but holders are not
pressing sales and the trade is taking
hold fairly we'll at full prices. York
state, 131a@14c.
Eggs are weak and lower in all west
orn markets, Chicago being 4h@5c
lower and New York &c lower. st.
Louis also declined 4c. Here the market
is easy. Choice nearby, 34@35c; east
ern, 32Q33c; western, 31032c; storage,
2762Sc.
Beans are easier for car lots of choice
pea, but other grades are unchanged
Carload lots, pea, $1.90@1. 95; medium,
S2.2O@2.25; yellow eyes, $40; red kid.
neys, $3@350; California small white,
s250@255; Jobbing prices, 1OQ15c
higher.
The open weather has permitted of
fairly free movement of fruits and
vegetables in the local market. Prices
generally are firm, though here and
there are spots Of weakness, and in
many instances 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
large, the demand quiet and prices
even lower than they were a week ago.
Cabbages, turnips, squashes and
onions 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 Gel
cry holds very firm. Rhubarb has again
advanced and tomatoes remain very
steady.
Apples have sold we'll, but receipts
have been large and prices are little
changed. Cranberries are dull, but
steady.
POtatoes-Aroostook Green noun
tsins, 40@43c a bu; hebrons, 3Sd40c:
Dakota reds, 95c; sweets, Jerseys, SD
$3.50 Dbl; vinelands, $4td4.50.
Turnips-Yellow, $1@1.25 Dbl;
white, 75c@$1 a bu; French white, 50
bag.
Spinach, etc-Hothouse spinach, $1.5O
a blu; Norfolk, So Dbl; dollhouse dande-
lions, $162hc bu; beet greens, S5c
bu.
Oabbages-Drumheads, $3.50 hbi;
Savoy, $1.35@1.50 a Dbl; red, $1.25 a
box.
Lettuce, etc-Hothouse lettuce, 50eM
50 box of three doz heads: chicory,
Sl.50 a doz heads; romaine, 81 doz
heads; mint, SOC doz bchs; water
cress, 75c doz bchs; parsley, 75c bu.
Celery-White, $1@1.25 a doz bchs;
pascal, $2d2.50; Boston market, $50
$50
Beans-Southern string beans, SIS a
0sSt; butter beans, SIS bskt.
Squashes-Turban, $125 a Dbl; mar
row, $l.25 Dbl; hubbard, $50 ton.
Observation-Disclosures, 75c a bu; car
rotS 5Oq60c bu; parsnips, 75c0$1 a
gu; cucumbers, $4@10 box; elephants,
SlQ1.50 doz; radishes, 3O135c doz
ochs; brussels sprouts, 1601Sc a at;
oyster plants, SIPS a doz bchs; artl.
chokes, $1.5O box; tomatoes, Florida,
So a crt of six bskts; dollhouse, Soc q
pound; southern peppers, $2.75@3 crit;
dollhouse rhubarb 7@9c a pound; Cali
fornia caulifiowers, $3.50 a crt of two
doz heads.
Apples-Baldwins, 81 SOAP 50; green
ings, $1.5O02. %; Hubbardstons, $3.50
az; TOlman sweets, 81 .2562 so; Kings.
$2dS.50; northern spies, $2@3.5O; bulk
Baldwins and greetings, 75c@$1. 25 per
Dbl; bur box, 25t075c.
CranberrieS-Fancy late varieties. 81
Q1.50 Dbl; other late varieties. $3.50
as; early varieties, S5@6; soft stock,
$203; crates, fancy, $2.5O62.75: COM.
mon to good, S15062.
Lard has advanced, but other pork
provisions are steady, without change.
Fresh beef is decidedly weaker. and
dealers find it difficult to get full prices
Tor the best cattle, even though prices
are on basis Of about 1sc lower than
a week ago. The market is quiet. with
heayy supply. Choice heavy cattle.
I150Sc; light, 5A@7c; heavy kinds, 91l
IQiuc; light, 61a@9c; heavy fores, $40
0c; light, 4@5c.
Lambs are in oversupply, and much
lower prices are quoted on choice lots:
muttons and yearlings are steady:
Veals are firm. Spring lambs, 9h010c:
yearlingS, 70Sc; muttons, 7@Snc;
Veais, 10G11c; fancy, 12c.
Poultry is in fair demand for fresh
NiIed, but large part of the western
receipts come frozen and sci. slowly.
Frlces are steady. Western turkeys.
small. 21G23c; mixed sizes, 20621c:
western capons, small, 16t01Sc; large.
Ia,d2Ec; northern chickens, large. 10
Uzlc; medium, 15016c: western chick