Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-06-07
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

age. Choice hennery and nearby, 21G
23c; eastern, 10000; western, 11I10c.
All things considered. business Is
fairly good In the local wholesale fruit
and vegetable market. Stra wberres
have not been coming forward very fast
and, under good demand, very or
binary lots have fetched comparative
ly high prices. A few peaches have
been received, but they have been gen
orally poor and too green to sell readily
Watermelons are now in the market
but they are high and the call for them
is limited. Muskmelons are in fairly
good supply, but the demand is small.
The market for apples does not
change much. Bakers are taking good
many. and there seems to be a slightly
tirmer feeling. and lots which il was
hard to dispose of $3.50 a barrel were
sold during the past week as Ugh as So
Receipts are small. and dealers have had
to take out some of their cold storage
holdings. But few northern spies are
in the open market and quotations re
for those in storage. Grapefruit are
quiet. steady and unchanged. Cherries
are slightly tlrmer.
The movement Of vegetables has been
decidedly better than that OF fruits.
Farm and garden truck, with the excep-
ton Of asparagus is fairly plenty and
reasonable. Receipts of asparagus
have been small aud with steady de-
lnand n high rs IS 4 box has been
obtained on fancy. large stock. Cab
bages have been coming forward freely
and going ont fast at low figures. Gu
cunbers are in good request, and as
they are not over plenty they bring
good prices. Onions are moving better
and they have gone up little, Green
peas and string beans are lower under
Increased arrivals.
Potatops-ArooStook Green noun
tains. 93M95c bushel; Hcbrons 03fl
n5c, Prince Edward Island stock, 75li
SOC. new southern stock, S5.iOdG.50
barrel; sweets, North Carolina, 81 a bar
rel crate.
Asparagus-Native. extra large seas
a box; common to good. 81 5Vq5 30.
Beans-Southern string beans. green,
50 5V03.50 a crate; wax, S25Vu3.
Labbages-New southern, $l.75G2
crate.
Celery-California 50 dozen bunch
COMMUNICATIVE dollhouse. No. !,
81 box: No ., S2N2 80: Flor!das $50
Ml.75 haSket.
Greens-Spiuach l0n20c a bushel;
kale. 25u35c bushel; dandelions, 500
zoe bushel.
Lettuce. etc-Lettuce 25c box; ro-
maine. 81 II dozen heads: parsley, Sl.25
al 30 a bushel: wAtercress, southern.
35c dozen punches; mint, 25c dozen
punches
Onions-Tcxas, yellow, Sl.5o crate;
white. $1.15 crate; Egyptlan2, SEA
30 IA 2-bushe bag; bunch onions, 4Od
G0c a box; leelis, ST % a dozen lunches.
administrative. 35040c box
Squashes- Florida. white, 81 5OG550
a package; marrow, So a crate.
Tomatoes-Native dollhouse, l5Q2oc
a pound; southern, S304 crate.
Turnips-Yellow, 81 bag; French
white, 81 bag bunch tupnips, S5c0$1
a dozen punches.
Mscellancous-Pea southern. SlJ0
alb basket: carrots. 81 .500l ~
bushel new bunch carrots, SOC dozen
lunches; parsnips, $1.21d2 bushel:
radishes. 35050c box; bcets. 81 %
bushel; new bunch heets. s5cmSl a
dozen lunches, peppers. S25oa3 a
crate; cgGplants, S30350 a crate; okra,
50 a crate: mushrooms S3M4 n basket,
Florida caulihowers 50 a basket.
Apples-Baldwins fancy, S4.50M5
barrel; No. .. S303.J0; russets. No.
Roxbury. S4d4.7l; No. 2, S3M3 so; Ben
Davis, $4n4 30; Northern spies, $500
05.50.
wberres-Jersey. 12Ql5c a
quart; Delaware, llMl3c; Maryland.
1OQ15c Baltimore, 1Vdl2c,
kmRlons-Fl oridas, fancy, S46
425 a crate: common to good, 1898 so.
Watermeons--F 6OM65c each.
Cherres-Calfornla 50 25G3 an 8.
ID box.
Some slight advances were made in
pork provisions, hut the general ten
utUf' VI IIl't> udS pVtu uOWHNhTu.
especially on lard,
There is little firmer feeling in the
market for fresh beef The quotations
are: Extra heavy sides, 71a@7 3-4c:
good. l-40Tiac; light, & 3.4Gf7c: heavy
kinds q 3 -46tl0c: good. o -4G10lRc: light,
s 3-400c; heavy fores : l.4d5isc; good.
5q5 l-4c light, 3.4M5c.
A very firm market is reported for
lambs and yparlngs and muttons and
veals are steady. Kentucky sprngers.
l5@16c; fall lambs, l1Ml2c; yearllngs,
Wdl1c: muttons. Gul1c; veals, l1Ql2.
Poultry is steady Western frozen
turkeys. 10000: native roasting chick.
ems. 2sG3Oc large frozen western
chickens l2614c; northern fowls. 100
l6c; western fowls. 13618lac; western
cOpons, l6G1sc; native broiers. a2@
35c.
Offerings of hay continue light.
Straw Is firmly held, with the supply
still small; millfeed Is barely steady.
Hay. No. |. $1,000; low grades. Sl5Q
II; rye straw, prime. Sl5; oat straw,