Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-09-04
In HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

Boston, Aug. 01.-Ine butter mar
ket was very firm at higher prices for
q few days, but later an easier feeling
developed and values receded a little.
Northern creamery, 22z@23c; western,
22d22hc; dairy, 19d21c.
Cheese advanced sharply in sympa-
till the close York state, 11@12c; Yer
mont twins, 11G11kc.
Receipts of eggs continue liberal for
the season, but only small proportion
are suitable for the best trade, and,
therefore, choice fresh gathered are
very firm at advanced prices. Choice
nearby, 2Sd30c; eastern, 25@26c; west
ern. 21dz3c.
Business has been rather slow in the
local fruit and vegetable market dur
ing the past week. The last two weeks
in August every year are accounted
dull and heavy, and this season is no
exception. Farm truck has been Of
fered in large quantities, and as the de-
mand is somewhat limited, the market
has been well loaded down.
Dealers in fruits have not been so
have been numerous and prices moder-
ate.
Opinions as to the apple crop are
widely divergent. Some say it will not
be over 60 percent, while others say 1t
will be far above that figure. If one
can believe the farmers the crop is TO
be a light one. No one, however, pre-
diets a shortage of apples in the states.
Plums are in fair supply and grapes
are arriving more freely. Pears are
plenty and of good quality. Choice
cantaloupes from Arizona and Colo
RADIO are in the market at good prices.
Sweet potatoes are of nice quality
and there are plenty of them. Green
corn is being offered more freely. The
| caulifower looks very nice and is sell
| ing we'll Other garden truck of ma
| tive production is plentiful and prices
| are moderate.
AppleS-Native Williams. S2.5063.50
a barrel; native stock in bushel boxes,
50c0$1. %; Maine astrachans, $2.5Od3;
Jersey pippins. $2.5Od3 a barrel; Jer-
sey collins, $3035O a barrel; Jersey
gravensteins. $2.5O03.50 a barrel; ma
tive porters and pippins. $2Q2.25; crab
apples, 5O075c a bushel.
Observation-Disclosures 11014c a quart:
blackberries, 14@16c a quart, and so
10c a pint.
Plums-California Kelseys. .$1.5O0
crate; Satsumas, $1.5OQ2; gross,
! $25OG325; Hungarians, $2.37k@
2S1A; Bradshaws, $3.50; German
prunes. $1.5O01.75 a crate.
| Potatoes-New Maine stock, 65@67c
| a bushel; Bristol Ferry, r. l., 50 bar
rel; Jersey, "a a barrel, and 65@67c a
| bushel; sweets, southern, 50. 2502. 371s
a barrel.
Beans-String beans. 75c@$1 BUSH
ell butter beans, 75c@$1 bushel; shell
beans, $1@1.75 a bushel; lima beans,
$2Q2.50 a bushel.
Cabbages-Native, seas hundred.
Lettuce, etc-Hothouse lettuce, 25@
40c a dozen heads; romeine, 25@35c a
dozen heads; escarole, SOC a dozen
heads; mint, 25c a dozen punches;
watercress, 40c a dozen punches; pars-
ley, 15025c bushel
Onions-Native, 65@75c a bushel;
Spanish, S2.75@3 a crate; picking
onions, $2Q3 a bushel; bunch onions,
SOC box; leeks, Coo a dozen punches.
Squashes-Native summer white
and yellow, 15c a dozen; native mar
row, S1q1.25 a barrel.
Peaches-California $150@1.75 a
box; western, SO. 50d4 a bushel basket;
Delaware, $2.250275 a 6-basket car
4 rier; native p bushel basket, $1@1.50;
y Michigan. $15O02.5O a bushel.
PearS-California bartletts, $405 a
: barrel; native clapp's favorite, $1.25@
z 1.5O a buShel; native bartletts. $2Q2.2j
bushel; Jersey bartletts, $4@5 bar
rel.
3 Grapes-Maryland and Delaware
:, Delawares, $3.50 a carrier; Moor's
:. early, 1jd16c small pony basket; Hud
Z. son river Delawares, $3.50 a carrier
"a champion, 1OG15c small basket; NAL
aga, $2jOd3; muscat. $2.5OQ3.
Tomatoes-Native, 75c@$1.25 bush
ell; dollhouse, 3G4c a pound.
Turnips-Yellow, 81 barrel; white
75cQ$1 a bushel
observation-disclosures, $1.5O@2 bush
N ell; green corn, 40d5Oc a box of dozen
| cucumberS. No. l, $1.25@1.75 a box
No. = oOdI5c; carrots, new, 75cd$1 /
bushel; bunch carrots, 25c a dozel
ID lunches; bunch parsnips, 75c a doZel
To j punches; radiShes, 4Od50c box; spit
- Gch, 45d5Oc bushel; beets, SOC bush
~ Ell; bunch beetS, 15d2Oc dozen bunch
10 es; peppers, 50d75c a box; elephants
CT 15c a dozen; native celery, 75cd$1 a doz
m en- punches; rhubarb, 25c bushel box
a ,caulifiowers, 5O6T5c box.
~; Pork products have been very firm
u with decided advances in lard. Barre
er pork advanced 25d5Oc.
ar Fresh beef is dull and easy, the effor
a. 10 advance prices having failed. Til