Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-04-30
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

creamery, 23Q24c; western. 22h@23hc;
Vermont dairy, 19d21c.
The cheese market is very strong.
and prices for all choice old stock are
firmly held at: York state, 14n141sc:
Vermont twins, 131zu14c.
Eggs are very firm. under light re-
.eeipts and firmer markets west. The
demand is very good from the consum-
ing trade. Choice hennery and nearby.
21d22c; eastern, 20Q21c; western, 10 |
d20c.
The movement Of fruits and vege- |
tables in the local wholesale market |
has broadened. Strawberries are con-
siderably cheaper and more plenty, but |
a good many of the recent arrivals have |
been soft and poor, and such stock at
tracts no one except street vendors, who
can pick them over. Domestic onions
are very dull, but the movement of
farm and garden truck otherwise has
generally been good.
Apples do not change much; the buy
ing has quieted down materially. Re-
ceipts are light, but full prices are OBJ
tanned only on fancy lots, and arrivals
have not cleaned up well.
Asparagus has been in fairly good
supply and steady demand. Cab
bages are lower under larger arrivals.
String beans also are cheaper and more
plenty. Cucumbers have dropped a
little. All kinds of green's have sold
oil hI1t
prices, especially of spinach and dande-
lions, are lower. Rhubarb is in steady
request and firm. Hothouse tomatoes
are lower, but southern lots are as high
as ever Turnips are firm. Potatoes
have shown an upward tendency under
an active demand. Sweets are mod
erately active and steady.
Apples-Baldwins fancy, $4.50@5 a
barrel: No. 2 Sc. 25d3.75; russets, No. 1,
Roxbury, S4(d5: No. 2. $3@3.50; Ben
Davis, $4@45O; northern spies, 1909
| $50.
awberries-Florida choice, 25c a
quart ordinary, 15@20c.
Potatoes-AroOstoOk Green noun
tains, SS095c a bushel; Hebrons, $50
90c: rose, 87090c; sweets, vinelands, ST
also basket.
Beans-Southern string beans, $3.50
0S a crate; butter beans, $2.5O@3 a
crate. o.
Cabba ges-New southern, 50 crate;
old drumheed. .$2@225 barrel
Celery-California, s. dozen bunch
es.
Cucumbers- No. I, $6@7
| box; No. 2, $3Q4.
Greens-Spinach, 5O675c a barrel;
kale, 75c a barrel; beet green's, 75c a
bushel; dandelons, 50075c bushel.
Lettuce, etc-Lettuce, 3a685c a doz-
en- heads; romaine, Toe a dozen heads;
parsley, 50 bushel; watercress, native
81 dozen punches; southern, SOC doz
en- punches; mint, soc dozen punches
Onions-Domestie, 4O075c a bushel
Bermudas, 50 crate; Egyptians. $50
3.25 a two-bushel bag; leeks, 81 dozer
punches.
Souashes-Western Hubbard, $50 :;
ton.
Tomatoes-Native dollhouse, 3Oc
pound: southern, $4,000 crate.
Turnips-Yellew, $2@2.25 a barrel
French white. $3.50 a bag; white eg
and purple tops, 5Oc@S1 a bushel.
Miscellaneous-Ca S5c0S1
; bushel; parsnips. 75c@S1.25 bushel
radishes. 50 box; beets. 75c bushe1
bunch beets. 81 .5Ot01.75 a dozen bunch
g es; peppers. 50 crate: elephants. 81
g crate; oyster plants. S1@1.2 "a dozel
o punches: okra. 1925 a crate: must
"a rooms. sea-. 30 basket; artichokes
h $3.50 a bushel; rhubarb. native hot
"a house, S09c a pound: California. 50
case; asparagus, California. $406
dozen lunches: South Carolina, S4@5
q peas southern. 2.5O63 a basket.
1 There is steady market for por
et provisions with few changes in prices
Fresh beef is dull and easy. wit
l. prices lower. The quotations are: Extr
r. heavy sides, 71zd7 3-4c: good. 707 IA
light. 61hd7c; heavy binds. 91a@9 3D.
= good, 9d9 Lac; light, S1z@9c; heav
- flores. 51sd5 SAC; good, 51-4@55,
- light, 5G5 1-4e.
b Lambs are steady in price; muttor
i and yearlings are quiet: veals are fir
y Spring lambs. 10611c; fall lambs. g.
w. 'N"A4IHSS, tS1oC, mullOdiS. tVuO
veals. 11d12hc.
Poultry is quiet, with the mark,
fully supplied, though considerable
the stock Offering is from cold storag
Native broilers are in moderate SUI
L. ply. The quotations are: Wester
:, frozen turkeys $4,000; native roastin
ie chickens, 22@24c; Large frozen wester
Dr. chickens, 15@16c: medium westei
h. chickens, 12d14c; northern fowls. 15t
15he; western fowls. 13@14c; wester
do eapens' 16d1Sc; native broilers. III
ld Socedsl per pair: 2-fb, 3563Se per N.
- Maple syrup and sugar are in bette
supply, but there is so much variatio
Is in the quality that it is difficult to gi,
in fair quotation. Maple syrup sells ;
M 75cdSl.lo per gal. as to quality. occ
." sionally a choice lot bringing s1.2
! The range is wider on sugar, compoup
as selling as low as 1OG11c, and p;lI
sugar as high as 15@1Sc and upwar
as to quality.
ld Choice grades Of hay are in better d