St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-01-18
in HUB MARKETS
Quotations ON the Leading
Products In Demand

Boston, Jan. 16.-Butter is still very
firm, with prices showing material
advance for the week. Receipts are
light of choice fresh made. Storage
creamery is selling well at firm prices:
Northern creamery, 28@29c; western,
2SQ28hc; dairy, 24@26c; storage cream
cry 27@27A.
Cheese Is very firm at the advance,
but the demand is still quiet. Round
lots, York state, 12k@13c; Vermont
twins, 12012hc.
Eggs have recovered somewhat from
the low point, the colder weather hav-
ing affected receipts again. Storage
eggs are in good inquiry, and, though adj
vanced with other grades, are still at
tractive through their relative cheap.
ness: Choice nearby, 35@36c; eastern,
33@34c; western, 30@31c; storage, %
@24c.
Beans are firm, both here and in the
country, with and an advance predicted
on pea beans. Receipts are fairly
liberal: Carload lots, pea, $1.75@1.80;
medium, $1.S5@1.90; yellow eyes, $3.50
@2.25; red kidneys, $28002.85; Cali
fornia small and white, $250@255;
foreign pea, $1.S5@1 80; foreign medi-
UNI, $1.9001.95; jobbing prices, 100
15c higher.
Hay is quiet, but fairly steady OH
the best grades: straw is firm with small
offerings; millfeed is firm and I'M
changed: Hay No l, $16.jO017; low
grades, $11@15;rye straw, $2150@22.50;
cat straw, S1050011.
Fresh beef continues quiet and easy
OF the lower level Of prices recently
reached: Choice heavy cattle, TO
SIC; light, 51a@7c; heavy kinds, 100
111sc; light, $4,000; heavy fores, so
5lAc; light, 4@4kc.
Barrel pork has been marked down
25c, and other pork cuts are easier.
There is steady call for lambs at
the higher prices, with the market we'll
cleaned up; veals hold very firm, with
only a moderate supply: Spring lambs,
11h012c; winter lambs, 10011c; year
lings, Sd9c; muttons, 71z@S1ac; veals,
9@11c; fancy, 12c
Choice small western turkeys are in
good request, and prices are a little
1trmer Fancy chickens are also in
light supply and bring high prices. Or
binary chickens and fowls are coming
forward freely and are easy: Western
turkeys, small, 20d21c; mixed sizes,
19020c; northern, nominal; northern
chickens, large, $4,000; western chick
ems, large, 13@14c; medium, 1O012c;
northern fowls, 13@14c; western, 100
1212c: geese, 11@13c; ducks, 13015c.
Fruit and produce have a firm tone,
but business continues rather light.
Supplies in most instances are ample
for the demand, and changes in prices
have not been numerous; the few that
have occurred have been mostly gains.
A much firmer feeling is noted in
potatoes, particularly in fancy stock,
and prices are higher The improve
ment is due rather to falling off in
the receipts than to any increase in
the demand. Sweet potatoes are steady
with both the inquiry and the offerings
rather small. Onions have fair sale;
native stock is unchanged in price, but
the foreign arrivals are higher.
There is fairly good call for cab
bages Norfolk spinach varies with
the quality. String beans, lettuce,
squashes and celery are firm. There
is little doing in tomatoes except
choice ripe stock. Hothouse dandelions
are in the market at high prices. Tur-
nips are steady but not active. Vege-
tables are quoted as follows:
Potatoes-Aroostook green noun
tains 51053c a bu; hebrons. 47d4Sc:
Dakota reds, 45c; New York rurals, 430
45c; sweets, Jerseys, So a bbl vinelands,
$3.50.
Onions-Native, $1@12O a bu; Span
ish onions, 81 crit; leeks, soc a doz
bchs.
Turnips-Yellow, 81 a bbl: white, 30
075c bu; French white, $1.5O02
bag.
Spinach, etc-Native spinach, SOC
bu; dollhouse, 81; Norfolk, S1.7502 a
bbl Norfolk kale, 85c a bbl dollhouse
dandelions, $3.50 a bu.
Cabbages-White, 81 a Dbl: savoy. 81
a Dbl; red, 81 a box.
lettuce, etc-Hothouse lettuce. 5Oc0
S1.25 a box of three doz; chicory, 81 a
doz heads; romaine, roc a doz heads:
mint, $1Q1.25 doz bchs; watercress,
60c doz bchs; parsley, 75c bu.
Celery-White, 81 a doz bchs: pascal.
$1@1.5O; Boston market $175@2.
Beans-Southern string beans. $50
$50 bskt; butter beans, 81 a bskt
Squash-Turban, 75c a Dbl: marrow,
Toe Dbl; hubbard, S15020 ton.
observation-disclosures, 500GOc a bu:
carrots, soc a bu; parsnips 750S5c a
bu; cucumbers, $302O box; egg
plants, $1@1.50 doz; radishes, S2.5O0
3 box; caulit1ower $305 a Dbl: brus-
sells sprouts, S@9c at; oysterplants, 75c
a doz; artichokes, 81 box; okra, 81 a
crit; tomatoes, Florida, $17502 crt of
six bskts; southern peppers, So crit.
Receipts of apples include but little
fancy|stock; the better grades are high
er, but the other kinds are rather weak.
Cranberries continue dull and I'M
changed.