Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-03-20
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

western. 261s02T1zc; dairy, 23Q26c;
storage creamery, 2Gd2Ic.
Cheese is very firm, and prices have
advanced. though closing steady. York
state. 131kd141ac; Vermont twins, 100
14c.
The cold weather prevents any sharp
decline in eggs, though the tendency Is
downward. and outside markets have
already got nearer to the usual spring
basis. Choice nearby, 29Cd3Oc; eastern,
2I62Sc; western, 2T02Sc.
Beans are quiet but steady, at quo
tations. Carload lots, pea, $1.90d1.e5;
medium. s.. 2Od2 %; yellow eyes, $40;
red kidneys. $3d3.5O; California small
white. S2.5O02.55; jobbing prices, 1O@
1jc higher.
There has been good lively bHsi-
ness in the local fruit and produce
marketeduring the past week, and as
supplies have cleaned up well the mar
ket has firm tone. Receipts of pota-
toes have been running heavy for some
time: the trade has not taken hold very
freely. supplies have accumulated and
prices have declined till good stock
brings considerably less than half
what il did at this time year ago.
Fancy apples are wanted, but they
are scarce and command high prices
Straw berries are coming in more free
" from the south: choice stock is in
steady demand and finds a ready sale.
Cabbages are firmer, though rather
plenty. String beans do not bring the
extreme prices of a week ago. Lettuce
firm. Offerings Of turnips are larger,
but prices are not lower. Spinach is
rather scarce and commands full quo
tations. Rhubarb has declined a cent
or two. New bunch beets are now in
the market and asparagus grown in
local hOthOuses and California is Of
fered. Squashes are steady and celery
firm. Sweet potatoes are steady.
POtatOes-ArOOstOOk Green noun
tains, 3Sd4Oc a bu: hebrons. 35d3Sc;
Dakota reds, soc; sweets, Vinelands,
$4d4.5O Dbl; Jerseys, cloth-heads,
$3.50; double-heads, $3@3.25; bskts,
$1.25 61.65.
Onions-Native, S1.25 bu; Bermu-
das, $3.50 crt; ieeks, soc doz bchs.
Turnips-Yellow, $1@125 a Dbl;
white, 75c0$1 a bu; French white, 50
a bag.
Spinach, etc-Hothouse spinach, $3.50
ais a bu; Norfolk, $4@4.5O a Dbl;
dollhouse dandelions, $1.621s bu; beet
green's. $1@1.25 a bu.
Cabba ges-Drumhead $1.T5 Dbl;
savoy, $1.50d1.75 a Dbl; red, $1ll1. 25
a box.
Lettuce, etc-Hothouse lettuce, $3.50
M2.75 box of three doz heads; chic
DRY, $1.50 a dOZ heads; ronlatle, 81
doz heads; mint, SOC doz pcEs; water
cress. 75c a dOz bchs; parsley zoe blu.
Ce!ery-White, $1@1. % a bch; pascal,
$2d2.5O a dOz bchs; Boston market, So
M3.5O a doz bchs.
Beans-SOuthern string beans, SO
CRIT; butter beans, $40 a "rt
quashes-Turban, $125 a Dbl; mar
row, $3.50 a Dbl; hubbard, $2O025 ton.
Miscellaneous-Aspa gus, native
dollhouse, 6O075c a bch; California. 81
a bch; new bunch beets. 1925 a doz
| bchs; old beets, 75c blu; carrots, 5O0
| COO a bu: parsnips, 75c@$1 a bu; GU
cumbers, $Ad10 box; eggplants, $3.50
| a. dOz; radishes, 3Od35c doz bchs;
| artichokes, $3.50 box; tomatoes (Flor-
ida), $3.50d4 a crt of six bskts: hot
house, SOC pound; southern peppers, So
$3.50 crt; dollhouse rhubarb, 5d8c a
pound; California caulifiowers, $3.50
a crit
| Apples-Kings, fancy table stock,
nominal at $5@6 Dbl; common, 81. sea-
200; northern spies, extra fancy, S506;
fancy. $3.5O05; ordinary, $1.7502. 80:
baldwinS, extra fancy, S2.5062. IS:
fancy, $2d225; common, $1.5O01. rs;
No. 2, $50; greetings, New York good
to fancy, $1.5Od2; mixed sour. $1,000
2; Tolman sweets, fancy. So. 25@3. rs;
common, $1.25@1.75; russets, Roxbury
fancy, $250d2.75; common to fair,
$1.75@2.
Cranberries-Fancy late varieties. 81
Q1.5O Dbl; other late varieties. So. 80
az; early varieties, $5d6: soft stock, ST
also crts; fancy, $2.5OQ2 rs; common
to good, S1d15O.
All barrel pork was advanced 25c.
| Out ANNNNiNO ldlu anu fresh SHOULDERS
are lower. with other cuts unchanged.
Fresh beef is easier and, though oc-
casionaIly steer is sold slightly high
Ell, I1sc Is about the top on anything
offering. Choice heavy cattle, 7@7ke;
light, 5hd64c; heavy binds, 9d9hc
light, 61AQSc; heavy fores, 5051kc; light
4G4hc.
Lambs are quiet and easy, with a full
! supply Of common grades. few
choice springers sell at SS@10, and frou
that down to S. each. Yearlings and
mutton are easy. Veals are easier
with a better supply. Spring lambs, ga
Ice; yearliHgs, Ga7c; muttons, SAGE
yeals. 1o@10'sc; fancy. higher.
Poultry is in light demand, but price.
: are fairly wei sustained except OF
western fowls and chickens. Western
turkeys, small. 21d23c: mixed sizes
20q21c; western capons. small. lee
19c: large. 2od21c: northern chickens
, | largo 1lHplc. n,eJ;,,.-. 1EG1co. 1900