Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-10-12
IN U MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

Products In Demand
Boston, Oct. 1.-THE butter market
holds fairly steady, with very little
change in prices from week to week.
Northern creamery, 22M@23c; western,
22023Nc; dairy, 10@21c.
Cheese IL rather quiet, and prices are
4 tribe lower for the week. York
state, II 3-4@12 1-4c; Vermont twins,
11h@12c.
There is n good demand for eggs,
and though receipts are liberal, all
choice fresh lots are quickly moved at
full prices. Choice nearby, 32a33c;
eastern, 28Q2Sc; western, 22d23c.
Business has been rather quiet in
the local fruit and vegetable market.
Prices as a whole are not much
changed.
There has been 4 good movement Of
fancy apples; the receipts, however,
have included a good many lots OF CON-
mon fruit, for which there has been
but little demand. Choice eating APP
Piles have brought good prices, but re-
ceivers have been forced to let the
COuliuOu SOEtb 20 CueupIy.
Cranberries are firm, particularly
choice dark lots. Plums are little
changed, though California stock Is
selling a little higher in consequence
Of smaller receipts incident to the end
ing Of the season. Peaches are not
coming along 80 freely as they were,
Potatoes have continued to advance.
but there have been few other import
ant changes in the prices Of vegetables.
Sweet potatoes are easy under large
supplies. Cucumbers are still scarce
and high. Onions are firm and toma-
toes have moved up rather sharply.
Cabbages and beans are steady.
Green corn Is In limited supply and
higher. Squashes are a shade easier
White turnips have dropped q little.
Apples-Native bushel boxes, Coca
$1.25; Maine gr~avensteins, S3d4 a bar
rel; macintosh reds. $3d4: alexanders,
$2.5ONI3 so; wealthics, $2.5Od3.25;
SHOWS, S2.25N3; hnrveys. ~. 75M3; col
verts and g%enetings. S2G2.5O; porters
and pippins, S1.75M2.25; pound sweets,
$243; common sweets, S1Q1.5 so; rom
mon sour varieties. S1.5O012: crabap-
pies, $1@2.5O: York state, fall pippins.
$2.25G2.75 20-Ounce. s.. 1902. 10: green
ings. $2.2502.50 cooking. $1.5Ou2.
Cranberries-Cape Cod. choice large
dark, S6.5OM7 a barrel; common to
good. Sc; crates. $2.5OM2.75.
Plums-California Italian prunes,
$1.25m1.5 = a 4-basket crate; York state
eating, 2OM3Oc an S-pound basket;
damsons, 35045c.
Pears--Seckels. $1M3 a bushel: hoses,
seas; a%njous, $2.2502.75; sheldons.
S .5O02.5O bartletts. ~. 5Od3.25: cook
ing stock. 75cM$l.25; Jersey kiefer, So
a barrel.
Peaches-Native, 75cdS1.25 basket:
Hudson river. 65G9Oc a basket: west
ern New York, 75Q9Oc a basket and
$1.5OG1.7b a 2-baaket carrier.
Grapes-Malagas, $4@5.5O a barrel:
California tokays. $1.25@1.75 a crate;
, cornichons. $1.5OG2: muscats. 81; York
state. pony bask cts, Delawares, 100
lac; Niagaras. 1O012c; Salems. 11Ql2c:
r Concords. 10d12c: Pennsylvania Con
cords. 1b@17c al S-pound baske ct.
Cantaloupes-Colorado rocky fords,
81 a standard crate and 50 a pony
crate.
POtatoes--ArOOstOok cobblers. 6OQl
t 63c a bushel; Green mountains. 6Od63c;
+. hebrOns. 6O463c: sweets. Virginia
l.. cloth-head. $1.50Ml .62h a barrel: Jer
. sey double heads. ".
Beans-String beans. $1@15O a bush.
ell; butter beans. S1M1.5 bushel: shell
1 beans. S1M1 30 a bushel; lima beans, 81
l M1.5O Il bushel.
Cabbages--Drumhead. $3G4 n hun.
dred: savoy, 75c Il barrel; red. 6Oc n box
5 Cucumbers-No. |. $GalO a box; No
p 2, S2.5Oa5 a box; picking cucumbers
5 $54S a bushel.
Lettuce, etc-Lettuce. 25d5Oc q
. dozen heads; escarole. 15c a dozer
4 heads; mint. 25c a dozen punches: wa.
= tercress, BIC n dozen lunches: par
sley. 15M25c a bushel: romaine. 75c q
dozen heads.
Onions-Natives. Zoe n bushel; west
ern Massachusetts, roc n bushel; Span
ish. $3Q3.50 a crate; picking onions
:, $685. A bushel: iseks. 400 SOC a dozer
punches.
SQuashes-Native marrow. 75c a bar
t rel: hubbard. $50 n ton: pumpkins, 400
a box.
Tomatoes-Native red. $ld1.75
- bushel; green. 50d6Oc a bushel.
IL Turnips-Yellow. 9Oc a barrel
white, 5OM75c a bushel.
Observation-Disclosures corn. 6NG75(
n a box; carrots, o n bushel: parsnips
Toe n bushel; radishes. 25c a box
# spinach. 25c a bushel; bcets, 5On6Oc
bushel; peppers, 5Od75c a box; egg
81 plants. 50a75c a dozen: native celery
75c0$1 n dozen punches: c%aulifowers
o 25450c a small box and 75c0Sl a larg,
box; citron melons. 75c a box.
All barrel pork has declined 25c
Other pork provisions are also lower
@ except lard and ribs.
The market for fresh beef has weak
g ened still further. another lac havin,
been shaved of the price during thu
week. The market Ia quiet and easy
q with 7hc about the top. except TO
now and then a choice steer.
Lambs are firm ut a slight advanc,
for the best lots; muttons and yearling'
- are steady and unchanged; veals ar,
, firm. Fall lambs. 9@lOc: spring lamb s
is 11G12c; yearlings, 74Sc; muttons. "a