Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-01-08
I'M HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

Boston, Jan. 4.-There is a very firr
market for butter, with prices advanced
1c. The demand is light, but the sup
ulv Of choice makes is moderate.
Northern creamery, 2414@25Kc; west
ern creamery, 24G25c; dairy, 2Od22c.
The cheese market is lie higher but
the demand is still quiet, the trading
being limited to current needs York
state. - 3-4G14 lie; Vermont twins,
l3IzG13 3-4c.
There was 4 further decline in the
egg market. owing to the better receipts
and the light demand. Choice hennery
and nearby, 35@37c; eastern. 2SQ30c;
western. 26a29c;J refrigerator, 2Ou22c
1t has been pretty quiet in the local
fruit anu vegetable market Dealers
never look for and seldom have a big
business directly after the Christmas
rush. and the buying has shown no
variation from the rule.
No special change has occurred in
apples. The demand has been a trifie
slow, but prices hold pretty steady.
Cranberries still command high prices.
though the demand is slack. Grapes
are firmer. Fresh arrivals from across
the water are very light and the de-
mand has to be met with those in stock.
The demand for potatoes has been
very light, but receipts have not been
large and prices have held up WELL
String beans are irregular both as to
quality and price, but choice stock
readily brings full quotations. Cab
bages are in full supply and, though
not very active, are steady. Celery is
unchanged, but lettuce, parsley and
watercress are firmer. Cucumbers are
| as high as they usually are at this sea-
son. Squashes have moved up. Kale
and spinach have advanced under light
er receipts. Turnips are steady.
Apples-Kings, $304.5O a barrel;
Baldwins, fancy No. /, SO. 2503. 80; good
No. 1, $2.75@3; No. 2, S2.25@2.5O; green
| ingS, $3d3.50: TOlman sweets, $203;
Ben Davis, $2.j0Q3; Hubbardstons,
$2.7503.25; nodheads, $3Q3.50; north
ern spies, $304; common sour varie
ties, $1.75Q225.
! Cranberries-Cape Cod, choice large
dark, $14015 a barrel; crates, $404.5O.
Pears-Boscs. $3.2503.jO a busheI;
anjous, $2.2J@2.75.
Grapes-Almerias, extra fancy, $3.50
as a barrel; fancy, $5.5OQ6.50; choice,
$4.5O@5.
Figs-Turkish, 10d15c a pound.
Dates-Arabian hallOwees, 41ac a
pound; khadrawees, 4d41zc pound.
Nuts-Peanuts, No /, 3-4c pound;
jumbos, &c a pound new crop, No. l.,
4 3-4c a pound; jumbos. 61ac pound;
shellbark walnuts, $303.25 a bushel;
English Wainuts, 14015c pound;
almonds, 12015c a pound; castanas, go
! lie pound; flberts, 10012c pound;
| pecans, 11013c Il pound; California
waInuts, 16c a pound; hickory nuts, So
Il buSheI.
Potatoes-ArOostook Green noun
! tains, .7U1l72c bushel; hebr0ns, 6J0l
G7c; rose, 6O062c; Dakota reds, 6O062c;
Prince Edward island chenangoes, 81
| G5Sc; sweets, Jersey double heads, $50
30 a barrel; Yinelands, So d barrel;
baskets, S5c0$1.
Beans-Southern string beans, SO a
basket: butter. beans, So Il basket.
Cabbage $12501.40 d
barrel; savoy, $1.25 a barrel; red, Soc
Q$1 a box
} Celery-pascal, S1@15O a dozen
lunches Boston market, ,$1.5oQ1.75 a
dozen punches.
E Cucumbers-No. 1, $9Q1O box; No
. ?, $206 Il box.
d Lettuce, etc-Lettuce. 5OQ90c doz
en- heads; romaine, Toe a dozen heads
escarole, 7Jc dozen heads; parsley
S1.50@2 a bushel; mint, SOC a doZer
1 punches; Watercress, 75c d dozel
f., lunches
Onions-Native, 75c a bushel; Span
t, ish, $3.50 crate: Cuban, 500 a crate
T. Squashes-Native marrow, 81 a bar
2 rel; turban, $1M1. % a barrel; western
p hubbard, $50 a ton; pumpkins, 81 box
"A Spinach, etc-Southern, 81 a barrel
q kale, 81 barrel; beet greens, 75c
Is bushel.
ID Turnips-YelIow, soc barrel
&c French white, $1.7502 a bag; whit
=, egg and purple tops, SOC bushel.
Is MiscellaneOus-Car 5O065c
= bushel; parSnips, 75c a bushel; rae
ms ishes. $50 box; beetS, 75cdS1 busl
at ell; peppers, S2q2.5O a box; eggplant
i'd southern, S2Q2.5O a crate: okra, 49,
ey a9gcrate; brussels sprouts, S0121ac
&c quart; mushrooms, Sl@2 basket; art
chokes, $3.50 bushel; tomatoes, natiy
dollhouse, S5Q4Oc a pound; oystt
plants, 15c dozen punches.
Prices on pork provisions are revise
III on some articles, but the market as
J whole is steady, with fair demand.
v Fresh beef is easy, and dealers fir
it very difficult to get full asking price
The market is we'll supplied and the d
mand is light. Extra heavy side
T14@1 3-4c; good. 63-4d7 1-4c: ligb
6Q6hc: heavy binds, 9hd1Oc: goo
S14d9c; light, 7qsc; heavy flores. IA
btkc; good, 5d5 1-4c; light, 4kd5c.
Lambs are dull and easy: mutfo,
and yearlings are quiet; veals q
steady. Spring lambs. 11a@12c: fl
L.