Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-04-27

Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

small and prices have advanced &c.
Buyers are holding off and are slow TO
respond 10 the advance. Northern cream
cry, 32u33c: western, 5i0321ac; dairy,
2GM2sc.
Cheese is steady and unchanged.
York state, 14Q14lac; Vermont twins.
13@l4c.
Eggs are ca sier, with heavier receipts
but quotations are still noninally uI-
changed. Choice nearby 2Wu2lc; east
ern, 1!N,l9Ac; western, 1871
Beans are firm with higher prices pre-
| dicted, but the demand is still modcr-
ate. Carload lots, pea, 81 s0M 50; me-
dunn, $22Mp2 %: yellow eyes, $2.1UM
2.15. red Kidneys S2slM2 30; California
small white, 81 55m2 60; jobbng prices,
| 1O0I1Jc higher
Business has been livelier in the local
market for fruits and vegetables, but
| the volume of trading. according to deal
ers. is still much less than that of last
year at this time. The demand is how
ever. more nearly equal to the supply
and prices Is Il general rule are iirmer
than they were q week ago. Receipts Of
green garden truck have been smaller
and prices are higher
Potatoes are weak and lower. The
movement to this market is still large
and as there has been no Improvement
in the demand receivers have been
| forced 10 take what they can get for
their goods. Asparagus is in very Light
supply and selling as high as $40 doz
| punches. New cabbagcs from the
south have begun to come in and sell
fairly we'll: old stock is moderately ac-
tive ard firmer. Kalc and spinach re-
turn much better prices 10 shippers
String beans are little more plenty.
| but fancy tomatoes continue rather
scarce. Domestic onions are higher
but foreign stock has declined. There
il not much doing in peas. and cuculG-
bers move slowly. Rhubarb is lower.
Turnips are steady.
Apples are selling better and ar"
firiner. There is practically no call 70:
cranbcrrics. Receipts of strawberries
have not been large. and they have
ruled high.
Potato green noun
tnins. 33u35c bu; hehrons soc: Dako-
ia rods. SOC: rose :;M4Oc: sweets. Vine
lands. 50 bskt.
Beans Southern string beans. $3.50
al Il crt: butter beans, S3.25ti:.50 a crt
| CabhageS Native drumhead. Sl.2l
Dbl: new southern. So a CRIT
| Cnlorv- White x1n1 - n hrI
Lettuce. etc-Hothousc lettuce. s %
az box Of three doz heads: mint 81
a doz hchs; watercress. native. Soc n
doz bchs: southern. zoe a doz bchs;
parsley, S250 bu.
Onions Native. S1Ml.5o 4 hu; bch
onions. 2Jc Il doz bchS; bermuda onions,
S1.15 a crt; lecks. Soc doZ hchs.
Spinach. etc-Norfolk spinach. 81 81
al. 30 Dbl; dollhouse dandelions. 500
75c a bu; beet green's 3;Nn5Oc a bu
Norfolk kale. 75M9Oc a Dbl.
Squa $35 ton: sum
mer squashes, S1.'Nd2 a crt.
Tomatoes-Native dollhouse. SOC a
pound: southern. $3ll3.5o a crt
Turnips SOC bb; white 80
G15c bu; new bch turnpS. Sl.l0 Il
doz bchs French white. Sl.10 bag.
Southern peas. Sl..O
02.50 a bskt; cncumbers. $36iG a box;
carrots, 50a75c bu; parsnips, SlM1 %
a hui: radishes. 3Otd3jc a doz bchs bcets.
4VdtOc bu: new bch beets, 81 2Nd1 80
doz bchs; southern peppers. 50. 80 Il
crt: elephants, $50 a doZ: oyster
plants. 81 80 a doZ bchs: rhubarb. hot
house. 4c a pound; California. S5u9oc
a case: Charleston. S. c.. aspara gus. SO
a 10 doz hchs.
Apples-Aiaine Baldwin. No. |, 81 75
az %: No. >. S12JNi 70. greenings
Sl.25N1.7o; Ben Davis. c1.1OM1 10:
northern spies. $2M3.jO: russets. S1.5O
az: Baldwins and greetings. bu bX, 80
G75c
Pork provisions are irregular. with
barrel pork lower and cut meats gen.
orally higher,
Dealers have found it hard work 10
maintain the recent advance in fresh
beef, and only now and then an extra
choice steer will bring full prices. 4
| decline is expected, there being nothing
in the present situation to justify pres
ent high prices. Extra heavy sides, 9ie
@1oc; good. sleM0c; light, 7iaMSc:
heavy kinds, 11laM12 1-4c; good lO].
ale; light. 0'am10r: heavy fores. 7,90r
73-4c: good. 7M7isc; light, 6,aM7c.
There is firm market for lambs and
veals. with muttons and yearlings
| steady and unchanged. Lambs. ll67
12c: yearings. Sc: muttous, SM9i5c:
Neals. lWQ11c
Poultry is steady for anything choice.
but receipts are moderate, and the de-
mand light Fresh killed western iced
turkeys. 20c; northern chickens. 2O6T
22c and upward; northern fowls. 1914
| Ice: western fowls, l+hM15c: frozen
western turkeys, 21M22c; western
! chickens. 15M17c: western fowls. 14GI
14iac; ducks, l4016c; geese. 1o014c.
Hay is in moderate demand for tho
best grades. but low and medium grades
are dull and slow of sale. straw Is
dull and weak. Millfeed is dull and
easy. Hay. No. l. Sl6Gil7: low grades.
| $l1@l6; rye straw, Sl9.5VI 20 80: oat
straw. $l04l1.
A daring effort during the past wee
by John W. Gates and associates 10
control all Of the wheat available in
America for delivery during the month
OF May was apparently ended with 4
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