News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-06
In HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

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market for butter, with an easier feel
ing prevailing in sympathy with other
markets. Prices sagged off a little.
Northern creamery, 22k@23c; western,
21h@221ac; dairy, l902Oc.
The cheese market is very firm,
prices being quoted higher on the best
lots. York state, 12@12Ac; Vermont
twins, 111A@12c.
Eggs are quiet, with heavy receipts
of ordinary stock. The best grades,
however, are in good demand, and sell
at full prices. Choice nearby. 2S(d30c;
eastern, 25@26c; western, 2O@22c.
The Boston market has been over
stocked with all kinds of green stuff
and trade has been as dull as it usually
is when such large numbers of people
are away from the city. Reports from
the country tell of great quantities Of
vegetables ready for the market.
Under these conditions prices have
greatly eased off. Cabbages, shell
beans, green corn and tomatoes have
| greatly declined in price.
| The supply Of fruit has been large.
| The demand for choice, well grown
| hand-picked apples has been quite
equal to the supply, but this grade has
been comparatively scarce and great
quantities of poorer qualities have
| been hard to move at any price.
Pears have also been in good supply.
Receipts of peaches are increasing
| largely and the price is gradually low
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are coming along in fair quantity and
meeting with an excellent demand.
| Plums are in large supply and dull.
Apples-Native Williams, $2.50d3.5O
| a barrel; native stock in bushe boxes,
| 50c@$1. %; Maine astrachans, $2@2.7
barrel; Jersey pippins, $2fd2.5O bar
| rel; Jersey gravensteins, $25003. so a
barrel; native porters and pippins, $1.5O
| a.; crabspples. 5OC075c a bushel.
Observation-Disclosures 11014c a quart;
blackberrieS, 14a16c quart, and SQ1Oc
| a pint.
Plums-California kelseys, $15O02 a
| crate; satsumas, 81 .5NF2; gros, 2.5O@
3.25; Hungarians. 50 371z@2 S71k; brad
shaws, 50; German prunes, $1.5001.75
crate.
Pears-California bartletts, $2(d4 a
box; native, $1.75d2.5O a bushel;
clapps favorite, $1.75 box; cooking
pears, $1@1 p box.
Observation-Disclosures, $2.50M2.75 a
bushel; Connecticuts, $1@1.5O a basket;
Jerseys, $125G1. so a basket; York
state, 75c@$1.25 a basket; $15O@3 a
carrier.
Grapes-California malagas, $1,000
1.75 crate; Delawares, SIPS a crate;
dark varieties, 75cQ$1; basket grapes,
12@15c.
Potatoes-New Maine stock, 65@67c
a bushel; Bristol Ferry, R. l., $1.7502
a barrel; Jersey, $1.S7Q2 barrel and
65067c a bushel; sweets, southern,
$2.25@2.5O a. barrel.
Beans-String beans, 75c@$1 BUSH
ell; butter beans, 75c@$1 a bushel;
she'll beans, $101.25 a bushel; lima
beans, $1,50Q1.75 a bushel.
Cabbages-Native, S4@5 a hundred.
Lettuce, etc-Hothouse lettuce 259
40c a dozen heads; romaine 25d35c a
dozen heads; escarole, soc a dozen
heads, mint, 25c a dozen punches;
watercress. 40c a dozen punches; pars-
ley, 15Q25c a bushel.
Onions-Native, G5Q75c bushel;
Spanish, $3.50 a crate; picking onions,
$203 bushel bunch onions, soc a
box; leeks, 40Q50c a dozen punches.
Squashes-Native summer white and
yellow, 15c a dozen; native marrow,
$1@1.25 a barrel. (
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40 size; Baltimore gems, $1.2561.75 a
crate; Jersey Jenny LindS, S101.5O;
Jersey rockyfords, $4.5OQ5, 40 size.
Watermelons-As to size and quality
10 to % cents each.
TOmatOes-Native. 50C675c a busheE
dollhouse, Sale a pound.
MANIFESTATIONS, 81 barrel; white,
75c@S1 a bushel.
MiscellaneOuS-Peas. S1.5Od2 a BUSH
ell; green corn, 4Od5Oc box of 5 dozen;
cucumbers No. l, 75cQS1.25 a box;
No. ,, 25450c; carrots, 75cdS1 a BUSH
ell; bunch parsnipS 75c a dozen bunch
es: radishes, 4Od50c a box: spinach,
20d25c a buShel; beets, 5O66Oc BUSH
Ell; peppers, 50d75c a box; eggplants,
15c dozen; native celery. 75cdS1 a
dozen punches; rhubarb 25c a bushel
box; cauliflOwers, 50075c box.
Pork provisions are steady and un-
changed
Fresh beef is dull and easy, without
quotable change in prices. Extra
heavy sides, SdS 1-4c: good, 71kdSc;
light, 7d71hc; heavy kinds, 1ORd11c;
good, 1Oa10hc; light, 7@91sc; heavy
fores, 5@51Ac; good, 5Q51kc; light,
4 1-4G4 3-4c.
Spring lambs are still rather scarce,
and the market is somewhat firmer;
muttons and yearlings are steady;
veals are firm. Fall lambs. 9d1Qc;
spring lambs, 11@13c; yearlings, 70Sc;
muttons, 7@Sc; veals, 9@10c, with
fancy higher.
Poultry is quiet, though prices on the
best stock have stiffened up somewhat.
Northern brOiler chickens, 16d1Sc;
western, 15d16c; northern fowls, 15c;
western, 14c; ducks, 1S15619c.
The receipts of hay are steadily in
creasing, and the market is easy;
straw is firmer, but not quotably high
err Hay, No. /, S16d1750: low grades.