News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-10-11
In HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

PRODUCTS LII demand
Boston, Oct. 9.-The butter market
holds fairly steady, with very little
change in prices from week to week.
Northern creamery, 221a@23c; WESTERN
22@231ac; dairy, 19M21c.
Cheese Is rather quiet, and prices are
trifie lower for the week. York
state, II 3-4@12 1-4c; Vermont twins.
11h@12c.
There is a good demand for eggs,
and though receipts are liberal, all
choice fresh lots are quickly moved at
full prices. Choice nearby, 32033c,
eastern, 26@2Sc; western, 22M23c.
Business has been rather quiet in
The local fruit and vegetable market.
Prices as a whole are not much
changed.
There has been good movement Of
fancy apples; the receipts, however,
have included good many lots of COM
mon fruit, for which there has been
but little demand. Choice eating ap-
pies have brought good prices, but re-
ceivers have been forced to let the
common sorts go cheaply.
Cranberries are firm, particularly
choice dark lots. Plums are little
changed, though California stock is
selling a little higher in consequence
of smaller receipts incident to the end
ing of the season. Peaches are not
coming along SO freely as they were,
Potatoes have continued to advance,
but there have been few other import
ant changes in the prices Of vegeta bles
Sweet potatoes are easy under large
supplies. Cucumbers are still scarce
and high. Onions are firm and tOma-
toes have moved up rather sharply.
Cabbages and beans are steady.
Green corn is in limited supply and
higher. Squashes are a shade easier.
White turnips have dropped little.
Apples-Native bushel boxes, 5Oc@
$1.25; Maine gravensteins, $3@4 a bar
rel; macintosh reds, $3@4; alexanders,
$2.5O03.50; wealthies, $2.50@3.25;
SHOWS, $2.25@3; harveys, $2.75@3; COL
verts and genetings, $2@2.50; porters
and pippins, $1.75@2,25; pound sweets,
$2@3; common sweets, $1@1.50; COM
mon sour varieties, $1.5O@2; crabap-
pies, $1@250; York state, fall pippins,
$2.25@2.75; 20-ounce, 225@2.75; green
ings, $2.25@2.50; cooking, $1.5O@2.
Cranberries-Cape Cod, choice large
dark, $6.5O@7 a barrel; common to
good, Sc; crates, $2.5O02.75.
Plums-California Italian prunes,
$1.25@1.50 4-basket crate; York state
eating, 20030c an S-pound basket;
damsons, 35@45c.
Pears-Seckels, $1@3 bushel; bosses,
$2@3; anjous, $2.25@2.75; sheldons,
$1.50@2.50; bartletts, 81 5O03 %; cook
ing stock, 75c@$1.25; Jersey kiefer, So
a barrel
Peaches-Native, 75c@$1. 25 basket;
Hudson river, 65@9Oc basket; west
ern New York, $4,000 a basket and
$1.50@1.75 a 2-basket carrier.
Grapes-Malagas, $415.50 a barrel;
California tokays, $1.25@1.75 a crate;
cornichons, $1.5O@2; muscats, ST. York
state, pony baskets, Delawares, 100
lac; Niagaras, 10012c; Salems, 11@12c;
Concords, 1Ga12c; Pennsylvania Con-
cords, 15@17c an 8-pound basket.
Cantaloupes-Colorado rocky fords,
So standard crate and 81 a pony
crate.
Potatoes-Aroostook cobblers, GOO
CSC bushel; Green mountains, 6O663c;
hebrons, 60@63c; sweets, Virginia
cloth-head, $1.5O@1 621a a barrel; Jer-
sey double-heads, 81,
Beans-String beans, $1@150 BUSH
Ell; butter beans, $1@1.5O bushel; shelf
beans, $1@1.5O bushel; lima beans, 81
Q1.50 bushel.
Cabbages-Drumhead, $3@4 a hun
dred; savoy, Toe barrel; red, 6Oc box.
Cucumbers-No. 1, $6@10 a box; No.
2, $2.5O@5 a box; picking cucumbers,
$5@S bushel.
Lettuce, etc-Lettuce, 25@5Oc
dozen heads; escarole, 75c a dozen
heads; mint, 25c a dozen punches; wa
tercress, 35c dozen punches; par
sley, 15@25c bushel; romaine, 75c
dozen heads.