Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-08-21
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the LEADING
Products In Demand

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err creamery, 22d23c; western, 211z@
22lsc: dairy 1SQ20c.
Cheese is in light demand, the market
turning easier. York state, 11dI1 3-4c;
Vermont twins, 10 3-4d11 lac.
The demand for eggs holds steady.
with fresh gathered choice very firm.
Prices are about unchanged from last
week. Choice nearby. 26027c; east
ern. 23a2Jc; western, 2Gd21c.
Taken as a whole the week has not
been a very brisk one in the local
fruit and vegetable market. Houses
that serve an out-of-town trade have
done a good business, but in most
cases the demand is only fair. The
market is abundantly supplied with all
kinds Of farm products and prices are
reasonable. Fruits, on the other hand,
are not very plenty and prices are prett!
stiff
There is a good market for choice
apples. but common offerings move
rather slowly Peaches are very
scarce and the offerings of pears are
not very large. Cantaloupes are here
in abundance and have to go very
cheap in most instances. Blackberries
are in light supply but blueberries
have been coming forward freely. The
season for raspberrieS is over and for
gooseberries is nearly at an end.
Cabbages. cucumbers, elephants and
peppers are in very large supply and
native tomatoes are coming to market
in large quantities. Receipts Of onions
have been heavy and they are lower
Choice sound cabbages have a good
sale. Pears are not very plenty and
offerings of string beans are only mod
erately large. The market is well sup.
piled with potatoes Of all kinds. Fancy
sweets bring about S2.75 a barrel, but
a good deal of the stuff sells lower
White potatoes sell fairly well.
Apples-Native astrachans. $2d2 sc
q barrel; native Williams. $2.5003 q
barrel; native stock in bushel boxes
50cQ$1.25; Jersey pippins. So 1903 a
| barrel; Jersey gravensteins, S2.50@3 6
barrel; Jersey green sour, $202.5O {
| barrel; Jersey Collins. 50 5003 barrel
Berries-Blueberries 7@12c a quart
as to quality; blackberries, 10@15c {
quart and 6d9c pint; goOseberries, 10,
a quart.
Plums-CalifOrnia Kelseys. $500
four-basket crate; eggs, $3.50; sat
sumas, $2.5O03, as to size.
Peaches-California crawfords ant
fosters, $2025O a box; elbertas $2.2;
M2.5O
Pears-California bartletts, fancy, S:
| $3.50 box; choice, $2.5O03; native
clapp's favorite, $3.50 busheI Jersey
baruetts, $4@5 a barrel; clapps, $3.50
"a a barrel; Florida lie conte, So. 5O05
a barrel.
| NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., $4.5OG55O a
crate; Jersey, 85c@$1 a crate; Della
1.25 a crate.
Potatoes-Bristol Ferry, r, l., 81 Il
a barrel; Jersey, $1.S71a a barrel and
65G70c bushel; Norfolk and Eastern
Shore, $3.50 barrel; sweets, southern
S22502.75 a barrel.
Beans-Native string beans, 75c@$1 {
bushel; butter beans, 75c@$1 bushel
| cACi DCdus, S1NL4IO UuSncls
Cabbages-Native, $5@7 a hundred
Lettuce, etc-Hothouse lettuce, 1OG
15c a dozen heads: romaine, 25@35c
; dozen heads; escarole, SOC a dozel
heads; mint, 25c a dozen punches
watercress. DOC a dozen punches; pars
ley, 15Q25c a bushel.
| Onions-Native, 65@75c a bushel
Egyptian, $1.75@2 bag; Spanish, $2.7
: Q3 a crate; bunch onions. SOC box
leeks, toe dozen lunches
. SQuashes-Native summer. whit
, and yellow, 5@Sc a pound; Jersey. rs
] Q$1 crate.
Turnips-Yellow, S1.75 a barre
white, 15cG$1 a bushel.
Mlscellaneous-Peas. $1@1 25 bust
ell; green corn, 60(G75c box of fiv
dozen; cucumbers, No. 1, 75c@S1 box
n No. z 2Jq5Oc; carrots, old, 5O@6Oc
bushel; new, 81 bushel; bunch carrots
25c dozen punches; radfshes, 4O@5C
box; Spinach, 45@5Oc bushel; beet
!, soc bushel; bunch beets 15@20c
dozen punches; peppers, 5O@75c a boz
eggplants, $ld125 a dozen; natiy
celery, I5cd$1.25 a dozen bunche.
1hubarb, 2oc bushel box; caulifiower
:, $1.750225 dozen heads; bunch par
lips, Ioc dozen punches.
Pork provisions are very firm an
advancing, with large gains for tt
week in many kinds.
Fresh beef is very firm for good ca
tie, OF which there is shortage; gra;
cattle, however, are coming in freel
and bring inside prices. Extra heav
sides, SCaS lac; good, 71z@Sc; light, &,
TIC; heavy kinds. 1011@11c; good, ]
Q1Ohc: light. 7d9hc; heavy fores, 3
Q6c; good, 5d51ac; light. 4 1-404 3-4c
Muttons and lambs are slow of sal
and prices are easy; veals are in stead
demand at firm quotations. Fall lamb
fdSc; spring lambs. Sd11c; yearling
1QSc; muttOns. 70Sc; veals. e011c.
Poultry is in quiet demand al
prices are lower for the week Mort
ern broiler chickens. 1SQ20c; wester