Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-07-19
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

mont dairy, lTM20c.
Cheese Is quiet. but prices are firmly
held. YolN state, 11Q1lkc; Vermont.
10 3-IM11c.
The market holds very firm for choice
fresh laid and nearby stock, and prices
have advanced, but western eggs are
easy and in full supply. Choice hen
merry and nearby, 25M27c: eastern, 23M
2oc; western. 17M10c.
The week has been a good one in the
local fruit and vegetable market. APP
pies are In fairly good supply and there
is good market for choice. large fruit;
poor wndfalls have to go for what they
will bring. Strawberries have been
rather scarce and the best lots com
mand high prices. Other kLNds Of bcr-
ries are fairly plenty and cheap. Canta.
loupes have been coming forward free
~ and, although they have had good
and are much cheaper. Cherries are
firmer under light offerings: those from
California Ire few and small. and there
have been no receipts of any account
from nearby points. lie Conte pears
from Georgia are now here and sell far
ly well at $4GI5 n barrel. Offerings of
peaches are fairly large; prices have a
wide range. varying with the quality
and condition of the fruit. Plums are
in good supply and lower. The general
range is Sl.50di2 a crate, but sales arc
reported below the low price and above
the high quotation.
An active demand developed for po-
tatoes. Sweet potatoes are not plenty,
but the demand is correspondngly
small. String beans are plenty at 75c
bushel for green and 81 for wax. Cab
bages are abundant and very cheap.
Cucumbers are in steady request and
firm. Native onions have begun TO
come in and have a ready sale at 81 %
bushel Texas onions are pretty well
cleaned up. ana but few houses have
any Egyptians. Choice peas are in good
demand at S1.21M1.J0 Il bushel Pep
pers arc more plenty and cheaper.
Marrow squashes are here in large
quantity and very cheap. Offerings of
tomatoes are larger, and they have
dropped Good sized turnips go we'll.
bur the small ones are hard to sell.
Apples-Jersey early varieties. fancy,
Sl.50 a basket; average lots. 1JcdS1 20;
Norfolk. 50cNSl a basket
Berries-Strawb erries. 1OG2Oc a ut:
raSpberries. pnts. case; cups. 3M4c:
gooseberries, 10n12c a quart: blueber.
ries, 14M1Sc quart; blackberres. S0t
15c quart; currants. 0M1lc quart.
Cantnloupes-Georgia. $115M2 Il
standard crate. South Carolina. 81 .5ON
1.75 standard crate: California, 81 d
standard crate: So a pony crate
Cherries-California black, So o5lI
30 an S-pound box; white. S2M2 30;
York state black, SG1Oc pound; white,
G0i1c.
Grnpefruit-Caiforna. DC count.
$3.50 box; so count. S5nG GA count. So
06.5O: As to ~ counts. S3.5OM6.
PearS-Georgia lie Conte, S405 bar
rel.
Oranges-CalifOrnia navels, 90 to 1926
counts, S3,5O64.5O a box: 80 to $50
counts. 81 5Om5.5o: St. Michaels. 200 to
216 counts. S;6J.5O: $50 to 500 counts,
$3Gl4; Mediterranean sweets, S3.7IM
400.
Peaches-California S1.7JM225 a
box; Georgia, S1.15d3 a six basket car
rer
ineapples-Cuban red Spanish 50 %
M2.15 case: Florida Indian river So. 30
03: smooth cayenne. $3.50.
Plums-California S1,5o@2 a four
basket crate.
Potatoes-New southern, rose and
cobblerS. S3M3.jO barrel; Bliss. 50 10
as; sweet potatoes. North Carolina,
$25Otd3.50 barrel crate.
B"ans-Native string beans, 75c
bushel; butter beans. 81 bushel.
Cabbages-Native S567 a 100 heads
and 81 Il barrel.
Cucumbers--Hoth No. I, SPAS a
box; No. 3, SlM 80; Norfolk, S1@1 % a
barrel.
Lettuce, etc--Lettuce. 25c bnshel
box; Romano. zoe n dozen heads;
escarole, zoe dozen heads: chlcory,
25c dozen heads: parsley. 25c bush
ell; mint, pc dozen lunches; water.
cress. SOC dozen lunches.
Onlons-Eative. Sl.25 Il bushel; Tex.
as. 75cMS1.50 a crate; Egyptian, $3.50
"a two-bushel bag: bunch onions. 4Oc
a box leeks, 5Oc a dozen punches.
Squashes-Native summer. SAGE
apiece: southern marrow, S10125 IA
barrel.
There is no change noted in the prices
of pork provisions. but revision is cy-
pected.
Fresh beef is higher in the asking
ers find it difficult to get the advance.
except on very few choice cattle. Elk
ira sides, 8 1-4Mshc: good, 7RMSc light
7@7 lac; heavy kinds. l0hM11 c: good
0 3-401O IA; light. 9M9lac; heavy foros.
5,a0Gc; good, > 1-4M5lac; light 3-46i
3 l-4c.
Lambs are steady. with very little
change In prices and moderate de.
mand; veals are quiet but firm, Spring
lambs. 14M l6c: fall lambs. 11dl3c;
yearllngs. 10M11c; muttons, 0Ml0c;
veals, 7@10c.
The poultry market Is steady, with
choice fresh stock Arm and In fair de-
mand. Native broler chickens. ESQ
25c; fowls. loo; ducks. 14c; western
broilers, 20td22c; fowls. 14c.
Hay Is firm for choice, but low grades
are dull and easy; straw is dull; mill
feed Is quiet and easy. especially for
bran. Hay, No, 1. S17.5O6Il9. INV