Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-08-02
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

with some grades advanced. Cholce
northern creamery, 2i@221ac; western,
2l022c; Vermont dairy, 10d2lc.
Cheese is very firm for choice lots.
but the demand is only fair, as buyers
are not willing to pay the extreme
prices asked. York state, 11kM12c;
Vermont, 11Q1llac; Liverpool quotes
66s sd for white and Dos I'd for colored.
Eggs are in full receipt, but choice
nearby eggs are much more plenty than
a week ago. Prices are steadily held.
Choice hennery and nearby, 2Gd2Sc;
eastern extras, 22M25c; western, La
Zoe.
The local fruit and vegeta bic mar.
ket has not shown much life, still for
the time of the year dealings are OF
quite satisfactory volume. With most
OF their customers away on vacations,
the takings by the local distributing
trade have naturally been much
smaller than they were The fact ac-
counts largely for the falling off in &C.
tivty. From the beaches and sum
mer resorts the buying has continued
good.
Receipts Of apples are increasing, but
good prices are still obtained for choice
large fruit. Blackberries have been in
good supply. and it took the best lots
to, fetch full quotations. Blueberres
are abundant, lower and easy. Straw
berries are practically out Of the mar.
ket for this season, and raspberries will
soon follow. Choice sound peaches
have gone well ami at good prices. but
there have been II good many arrivals
that were SO poor that receivers had
to let them go for what they could get
for them. Offerings Of pears are larger
and they are lower. Like peaches, a
good many lots arrived in poor order
and had TO be forced Oft a the expense
Of values. A few grapes have arrived
here from North Carolina but they
are too dear to move with any freedom.
The market is well supplied with po'
tatoes. but there is a fairly good call for
them and they are steady. Sweet pc.
tatoes are quiet and easy, except when
choice. clean and of good size. Cab.
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Green corn Is somewhat cheaper and
going well There Is a good market
for fancy string and butter beans. but
present offerings include many in.
ferior lots. Onions are in rather light
supply, in steady demand and firm.
Elephants, squashes. peppers and peas
all are plenty and cheap. Tomatoes
have dropped and there is an easier
market on turnips. Cucumbers are
higher.
Apples-Native astrach ans, So. o0G3
barrel; native sweet boughs, 50 5Otd
$50; Jersey roadstone pippins, S3.15M
4; basket stock. 1JcIS1.50
Berrie>--Blac kberrles, 12616c a at;
bluebprres. 10u14c a quart: respber-
res. sNq0c pint; currants, 911Oc a
quart.
eaches--Calfornia, S101.50 box;
Georgia fancy, 1926 n six-basket car
rier: poor to good, 75cMS125
Pears--Californa Bartletts. 81 5OM
3 box: Georgia Leconte, choice sound
s3M4 a barrel,
Plums-Callfornla varieties, $1.75@l
so four basket crate.
Grapes-North Carolina Delawares
$3.50 an S-basket crate.
Potatoes-Bristol ferry stock, 81 &
barrel; Jersey cobblers, S20225 a bar
rel and 75c bushel; Virginia and east
ern shore stock. S1.50td2 barrel; sweet
potatoes. North Carolina yellow, SAD
$50 barrel; golden yellow, S3a3 80
red SO.
Beans-Native string beans, 5OcQ
S1.25 bushel; butfer beans, 81 bushel
Cabbag es-Native. seas per ion
heads and SOC a barrel.
Celery-Native, $15O0l175 a dozeI
punches.
Lettuce. etc--Lettuce, zoe a bushe
box; romaine, 50c dozen heads; chic
DRY. 25c dozen heads: escarole, soc
dozen heads; parsley. 25c a bushel
mint. 25c a dozen punches: watercress
Soc dozen punches,
Onions-Native sets, SOG9Oc a bush
ell: bunch onions. 40c a bushcl box
leekS. soc a dozen punches.
quashes-Native summer, 1c each
southern marrow, 81 barrel.
Tomatoes-Native. 81 25d3 a bushel
hothouse "a Zoe a pound; Jersey, 75c0
Sl.25 crate.
Turuips elbow. 81 a barrel.
| observation-disclosures. S1M1.25 bush
| ell; cucumbers. S16i3 box; carrots, Sll
l.25 bushel; radishes. 35c a bushe
| box; spinach. 2Jc a bushel: beets, soc
bushel; peppers, Sl.50 basket; egg
plants, $3.50 dozen; okra 50 crate
native rhubarb. SOC a bushel box; na
tive caulhowers. SLAP a bushe box
green corn, 75cdSl bushe; buncl
parsnips, SOC a dozen punches.
There Wee several changes in th
prices of pork provisions. the marke
being somewhat irregular.
Fresh beef is dull and easy. at a DE-
cline OF about | dc for the week Ex
ira sides, s1-4@S'ac: light, 7l4@Sc
heavy binds, llQ111ac; good, 10 $40
lie: light, 100 10 3-4c; heavy fores, 81
acc: good. , La lac; light. 545 lac.
Lambs have been very steady; veal
are quiet Spring lambs, 14G16c ia
lambs, 12@l3c; yearlings, 10d11c; mu
tons, 9Q1Oc: venls. 7M10c.
There is steady demand for free
killed native fowls and chickens, an
western iced stock is selling fairl
well, hut frozen poultry is dull an
easy. Native broiler chickens. 23@25(
fowls. 15c; ducks. lac; western broiler,
2OM22c; fowls, l4c.