Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-10-30
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

prints will easily bring 25c, but 24c
is about the top for creamery tubs.
Firmness in other markets has had a
stiffening effect here, but the demand
is still moderate. Northern creamery.
23d24s; western, 22hQ23c; dairy, is
ale.
Cheese is very steady, with little
change in prices, though late in thu
week some fancy lots were held at
121zc The demand is moderate. York
state. IL 3-4d12 lie; Vermont twins.
111a@12c.
Choice fresh laid eggs are firm and
higher, with the market only fairly well
supplied. There is also firmer feel.
ing in the best western marks. Choice
nearby, 35G36c; eastern, 2SQ30c; west
ern. 2J035c.
The local fruit and vegetable market
has. upon the whole, been satisfactory
during the past week. Vegetables are
quite sufficient for the demand, and
are, in most cases, cheap.
Fancy red eating apples continue To
move freely and the best grades OF
intosh reds take a wide range as to
price, as a good many of the offerings
are poor and scabby. a barrel of
strictly fancy mackintoshes would
readily fetch So. but most of the ar
rivals go for considerably less. Alex
anders are quoted at $3@3.50 a barrel,
but once in a while 81 is secured. A
few lots of Vermont greetings have
been received and brought somewhat
higher prices than those from other
states.
Cranberries are having a better call
and as supplies are not large they have
moved up little. The season on plums
is nearly over and they are scarce and
high, though not of very good quality.
Peaches are no longer quoted. Pears
are plenty and not cleaning up very
| rapidly. Grapes continue to move free
| ly and there is firmer feeling in most
kinds in response to smaller receipts.
Potatoes are in large supply, but they
hold steady under good demand.
Some choice lots Of Green mountains
sell slightly above the market quota
tons. Sweet potatoes continue plenty
and easy owing to slack inquiry.
Cabbages are in steady demand. Cauli-
flowers are abundant and very cheap.
Cucumbers continue scarce and high
and elephants are firmer. Onions, pep
pers and squaShes are easy, but tur-
nips are steady and tomatoes have had
sharp rise.
Cranberries-Cape Cod, choice dark,
$7QS barrel; common to good, $6.5O0
Z; crates, 50. 25@2.75.
Pears-Seckels, $2.5O@3.5O a bushel;
bosses, $2.75@3.25 a bushel; anjous, So
@2.5O a bushel; sheldons, So. 1908. 25
bushel; bartletts, $3@3.5O a bushel;
cooking stock, $101.5O a bushel
Grapes-Almerias, $4,000 a keg;
California tokays, $1.75@2 a 4-basket
crate; cornishons, $1.75@2; muscats, So
OPS; York state pony baskets, Della
wares, 13015c; Niagaras, 12014c; Sa-
lems 10012c; catawbas, 11@12c; Con-
cords, 13c; Pennsylvania Concords, pc
an S-pound basket.
Potatoes-AroOstook Green noun
. tains, 62063c a bushel; hebrons, $50
Coo; York state rurals, 5505Sc; sweets,
Jersey double heads, $1.5002 barrel;
Virginia cloth heads, 81. 25Q1.5O a bar
rel.
I Beans-String beans, 50075c bas-
! ket; butter beans, 75c a basket; shell
beans, S250d3 a bushel; lima beans, So
$3.50 a buShel
Cabbages-Drumhead, 81 barrel
:, savoy, 75c a barrel; red, 6Oc box.
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9 No. 2, S2.5OQ5.
Lettuce, etc-Lettuce, 25c box; 70
maine, Toe dozen heads; escarole, 75t
a dozen heads; parsley, 1212c bushel
mint, 25c dozen punches: watercress
BIC dozen punches.
Onions-Native, 75c a bushel; west
! ern Massachusetts, roc bushel; Span
ish, $3Q3.50 a crate; leeks, 4OQ5Oc 6
dozen punches.
Squashes-Native marrow. 75c bar
rel; turban, soc barrel; western hub
bard, $15Q16 a ton; pumpkins, 40c s
"A box.
Tomatoes-Native red, $2.5O@4 /;
bushel; green, 75c0$1 bushel.
Turnlps-Yellow, 90c barrel; white
soc bushel.
Miseellaneous-Green corn, 81 box
carrots, 5Oc bushel; parsnips, 75c
bushel; radishes. 35c a box; spinach
g zoe a bushel; beets, 75c bushel; pep
90 pers, 2oQ5Oc box; eggplants, 81
dozen; southern. 81. 5O02.5O basket
native celery, white, 75@S5c a dozel
lunches; pascal, 81; Boston market
,. SIPS: caulifowers, -25c small box, an
4O@75c a large box; okra, S2.75 crate
!, Pork provisions are firmer, and hams
4 smoked shoulders and raw leaf lar
are higher.
There is steady market for fires
beef, without further change in price.
y though few choice cattle have sold a
high as SIC. Extra heavy sides, g.
y as Lac; good. 7G7hc; light, 51a@61sC
heavy binds, 10@101kc; good, 91k@1Ot
light Id9e: heavy fores, 51k@6c; goot
20 43-4d5e; light, 4d412c.
The market continues to be only mos
erately supplied with choice lambs an