Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-10-02

Quotations on the LEADING
Products In Demand

Boston, sept Zo.-RecelptS or but
ter continue liberal, but choice lots are
not plenty. and the market is well sus-
tanned. Northern creamery, 22h0
23hc; western, 22Q23c; dairy, 20@21c.
Cheese is still firm, and though the
demand is light, prices are firmly held.
York state. 12Q12hc; Vermont twins,
1Ihd12c.
Choice lots of fresh gathered eggs
are frmer, and have sold at higher
prices Of late, but western eggs are
more plenty, and with those being
taken out of cold storage have broken
prices trife. Choice nearby, 30Q32c;
eastern, 25G27c; western, 21@23c.
The local fruit and vegetable mar
ket is still glutted with peaches and
In order TO sell them dealers have to
accept very low prices.
Apples are having a steady move
ment, particularly red fruit, which
often have fetched more than market
quotations. There is some accumula-
ton, however, of green apples. Grapes
also are selling we'll. The season on
blueberries is practically over; a few
lots are coming forward and going
slowly at 12014c quart York state
Potatoes took a drop and though re-
ceipts have been light they have not
advanced. Sweet potatoes are plenty
and prices favor the buyer in the alb
sence of d lively demand. Onions are
scarce and firmer. Choice cucumbers
are in light supply and high. Turnips
are plenty, dull and easy. Tomatoes
are arriving freely and selling at low
prices. Cabbages and green corn are
in good supply.
Apples-Dutchess 50 25@275 pip
pins, $2G2.75; Gravensteins, $3Q4;
Alexanders, $303.50; Maine Porters, 81
az. 70; wealthies, $2.2503; Maine Har-
veys, S303. %; box fruit. 75cG$1.25.
Cranberries-Cape Cod, choice large
dark. $7G7.5O a barrel; common to
good. $65OG7; crates, $250Q275.
Plums-California Italian prunes,
| S1.15015O a four basket crate; KEEL
seys, S2.1502.4O York state, eating, 20
@3Oc an eight-pound basket; damsons,
3O035c.
! Pears-Native Bartletts. S4.50d6 a
barrel and $203.J0 bushel; cooking
stock, $101.5O a bushel; seckels, $3.50
a barrel and $2Q3.50 Il bushel.
Peaches-Native, 25075c basket;
Connecticut, 5O075c a basket; Hudson
river, 5O0T5c a basket; 75c0$1 a two
basket carrier, and $3.50 a Georgia
carrier; western New York, 50065c a
basket and $1.25 a two-basket carrier;
Michigan, $15001.75 a bushel basket;
Colorado. $101.25 a box.
Grapes-California tOkays, $I750
$50 crate; malagas, S1.55@1.S5 a
| crate; muscats, $1.75@2.25 a crate;
Hudson river carriers, Delawares, 90c
| 0$115: Niagaras. S5c0$1; Concords,
75c0$1; wordens, 75c@$1; pony bas-
kets Concords, 11013c; wordens, 110
| 13c: western New York pony baskets,
Delawares, 13015c; Niagaras, 12014c;
COncords, 13Q14c; wordens, 13@14c.
Catalogues Colorado rocky fords,
$1.500175 a standard crate and $1@
l.15 a pony crate.
Potatoes-Aroostook cobblers, 4SQ
soc a bushel; Green mountains, 4S0
soc; hebrons, 45047c; sweets, Virginia
cloth-head, $1.75 a barrel; Jersey
dOuble-heads, $3.50.
Beans-String beans, $101.5O bush
ell; butter beans, $1@1.50 a bushel;
shell beans $1@1.50 a bushel; lima
beans, $1.50G2 a bushel.
Cabbages $3M4 hun
dred; savoy, 75cd$1 a barrel; red, Goa
Toe box.
Gucumbers-No. 1, $1.50@5 a box
No. ,, Sl.25d1.50 a box; picking Gu
cumbers, $1.5O04 a bushel.
, Lettuce, etc-Hothouse lettuce, 800
Coo dozen heads; escarole, SOC a doze1
heads; mint, 25c a dozen punches
watercress, 35c dozen punches; pars
ley, 15Q25c d bushel; romaine, soc {
dozen heads.
Onions-Natiye. 75c a bushel; west
ern Massachusetts, 65c a bushel; Span
ish, S2.621z a crate; picking onions, S;
as a bushel; Ieeks, 4OQ5Oc a dozel
punches.
Squashes-Native summer, whit
e and yellow, 25c a dozen; native mar
row, 75cdS1 a barrel.
Tomatoes-Native red, 75cGS1
OuShNi' cANCll' fV1lOOC DuSuGl.
Turnips-Iellow, 9Oc barrel; white
75c0$1 bushel.
MiscellaneOus-Green corn. soc
box: carrots, 75cQ$1 a bushel pal
ships, Sl.25 bushel; radishes, 25c
box; spinach, 2Od25c a bushel: beets,
Z dG0c bushel; peppers, 5OG75c box
II elephants, 5Oq75c a dozen; nativ
celery. 65d75c dozen punches; caul
flowers. 75cqS1 a small box and S1c
1.50 large box; pumpkins, 5OQ6Oc
n box.
~ The market for pork provisions
i steady. with no changes noted.
III The effort to hold up the price {
choice heavy cattle has failed, the be.
heavy beef not being quotable at owe
SIC. though occasionally 8 3-4c is o.
2 tanned in jobbing way. The receip
are heavy and the market is over-su
piled with light and grass-fed beef.
Lambs are coming more freely, al
70 prices are easier; muttOns and yea
limos n o'er Il 20 -