Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-05-04
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

Boston, May 3.-Butter has broker
badly. and is now about &c lower thar
a week ago. Northern creamery, 20c
western, 26c; dairy, 24026c.
Cheese Is steady with moderate
demand. York state, 14014hc; Yer
mont twins, 13M14c.
Eggs hold steady. with full receipts
and good demand. Choice nearby, y
@21c; eastern, 19@2Oc; western, 1Sd,
1SMc.
Beans are very firm. Carload lots
pea. $1.6O01.S5; medium, S22On22 %
yellow eyes, $2.1o0l2 IS; red kidneys
" S512 30; California small white
$2o"d2oO; 1obbing prices, 10M15c
higher.
| Business has picked up materially In
the local Wholesale fruit and vege.
table market during the past week.
The market IL plentifully stocked and
prices are considered low for this time
OF the year Asparagus is almost the
only offering that Is bringing any
where near the prices Of last spring.
A somewhat steadier feeling has de
veloped In potatoes; receipts have not
been so heavy. the demand has been
larger and prices are firmer Old
cabbages. beets. parsnips and carrots
have advanced since a week ago and
turnips are higher. Receipts of as.
paragus have been larger and include
the first shipments of the season from
New Jersey; prices are easier. All
kinds Of green's are lower: supplies of
spinach are especially heavy. Rhu-
barb IL cheap and string beans are
easier. Peas have advanced and Gu
cumbers declined. Native onions are
almost ont of the market and the few
that remain move slowly except when
sound. Squashes and tomatoes are
firm.
Baldwins and russets are about the
only kinds Of apples now in the mar
ket; few scattering lots of table
stock bring from $3.50 to S. a barrel,
according to quality. Cranberries are
ciea ming up slowly. Strawberries come
In freely and meet with ready sale
few lote of California cherries, re-
ceived by express. sold at S313. 25 Der
1O-lb box for fancy and So 25M72.75 for
choice.
Potatoes-Aroostook green noun
tadns. a3@f35c bu: hebrons. 3Oc: Da-
kota reds SOC: rose. 36fd 4Oc; sweets.
Vinelands, 1925 a bskt.
Beans--Southern string beans. S2HO
G3 crt; butter beans. 81. 5tn3 a err.
Cabbag e-Native drumhead. $3.50 a
Dbl: new southern. S175 crt.
Celery-White. $1@l1.25 a bch.
Lettuce. etc--Hothouse lettuce.
$1".a1.75 a box Of three doz bends:
romaine. 75cMSl a doz; mint. 75cdS1
Il doz bchs: watcrcresS. native. Sic n
doz bchs: southern. 4Oc doz bchs:
parsley. S2M225 bu.
Onfons-Bunch onions. c5c doz
bchs; Bermuda onions. 81 20 a rrt; !eeks
Soc doz bchs.
Spinach. etc--Norfolk spinach. 5Oc6
81 bbl; dollhouse dandelions. 2545oc q
hu: beet green's, 25c a bu; Norfolk kaIe
CSC a Dbl.
Squashes--Hubbard. $50 a ron: sum.
iner squashes. 81 .5N12 crt.
Tomatoes-Native dollhouse. 3Oc 2
hound: southern. 500 10 n crt.
Turnips-Yelow. 1925 a Dbl; white
81. 256S1 so a bu: new bunch tlrnjps.
$50 doz bchs; French white. So. 30
a bag
Observation-Disclosures peas, 50. 80
as bskt; cucumbers. s2d5 a box.
carrots. $1@1.25 n bu: bunch carrots.
SOC a doz bchs; parsnips. s16l.5O A
bu: radfshes. 3O1I35c dDz bchs; beets.
15c61$1 bu: new bunch beets. 50 a doz
bchs; southern peppers. $2.5O a crit: egg.
planta. " q doz: oyster plants, $50 n
don bchs; rhubarb. dollhouse. 20 a
pound; California. 5Oa6Oc a case:
s. c.. asparagus. S4N7 n
doz bchs; New Jersey extra fancy. S50p
6 doz bchs: fancy. 81 5O'd5 doz: me-
dunn, 81. 5o@4 doz.
Approximations. $1.5Od2 30 a Dbl:
baldwins. No. 2. $1.25: russets. extra
fancy. $350N4: No. l. $275M3: other
grades. 81 2ed71.5O.
CranberrieS-E fancy. SS19 a
tbl; other grades. S476: crates, extra
fancy. $3@3. 25; other grades. S1.5Oa
225.
There IL no change in pork pro-
visions. the market being very steady.
Fresh beef is slow and easy. and
'calers find it difficult to get top prices,
md yet there is a constant pressure
rom tho packers to get better prices.
Extra heavy sides. 9dg,lc: good. sss@
'c: light 7h@Sc; heavy binds. 11H0
l2c: good, 1Oh@llc; light. 9h01 Toe;
,eavy fores, 7M7hc: good, 8,s67c; light.
'06hc.
Lambs are steady; muttons and year.
ings are quiet; vsals are steady.
lambs. 10Q11c: yearlings, s0I9c; NUT.
ons. SM0c: veals. lO011c.
Poultry is quiet, though generally
teady. Fresh killed western iced tur.
;eys. $4,000: northern chickens, oO0t
&c and upward: northern fowls. 15u
&c; western fowls. 140l6c: frozen
Western turkeys, 2l@2oc: western
dickens. le011c; western fowls, 1917
I14hc: ducks. 140Q16c.
The hay market is dali and weak.
hough prices are not much changed.
he demand 10 moderate for all grades.
nd receivers find IL difficult to get full
tons; straw is weak and lower:
iillfced is quiet and unchanged. HAY.
70. I, $t6617; low grades. $11Q1e:rye
trsw. &16.60h11o: oat straw, SlOnl1.
The operations connected with the
losing up Of the May wheat deal have
antlnued to furnish the principal mar.
ct interest during the past week.
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