Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-05-27
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on the Leading
Products In Demand

Boston, May 23.-Butter prices have
dropped to seasonable basis. under the
Influence Of full receipts and light
demand. further decline is antici-
ra:ed. The jobbing prices are: Choice
northern creamery. 24025c; western
creamery. 23d24c: Vermont dairy, -
G23c.
Old cheese is pretty well cleaned up
but the remaining lots are bringing
full prices. New cheese is tirner.
York state. Old IA 3-4G15c; Vermont,
ole. 14d14 3-4c; new cheese 13d14c.
Eggs are lower at: Choice hennery
and nearby, 21a22c: eastern extras, 10
M20c; western. 171zd1Sc.
The week has been the Quietest one in
4 long time in the local fruit and vege-
table market. Bananas, onions and
asparagus have sold well, but almost
everything else has been very dull.
Trading in apples has been very
slow and though prices are not ma
terially lower the market is not nearly
as strong as ii has been. Prices have
Lot dropped much because fresh ar
rivals have been light and the cold stOr-
age holdings are small.
There is Il quick market for fancy
Strawberries The North Carolina ber-
-ies recently have been the best of
the season. and these shipped hy ex-
press from Norfolk have been very
good, la. those which came by boat
from Norfolk nave been rather poor.
Potatoes have turned downward I'M
tnc heavy arrivals and Il slow demand.
supplies are GccumUl3t.Lg ut the roads
IrJ u!le.s ihe demand improves, the
markJi is very HEely 0 20 lower. There
Is q good hrm market for fancy sweet
potatoes. Asparagus has been in good
mquest. Song beans are plenty but
If poor quality and they 90 slowly;
there a"e ALWAYS customers for the few
| fancy lots. Old cabbages are out of
| the market and new southern stock is
scarce and high. Cucumbers are easier.
| Native kale and spinach are fairly
plenty and reasonable Lettuce is firm
er. Onions sell briskly and both Texas
J and BermudaS are higher than trey
| have been. Hubbard SquaSheS are
| steady, but summers are considerably
| over. Tomatoes are easier. but tur-
nips, celery, beetS, carrots and parsnips
are firmer. Rhubarb is cheap. South
ern varies in quality and prices.
Apples-Ben Davis. eastern. $685.
| 4. n.
| spies, $3d4.50; No. 1 Baldwins, fresh
arrivals. $3.5004.25; cold storage lots.
| Sld5; No. 2 Baldwins, $225@2.75; No.
! russets. So. 5Od4.5 80; No. = russets, So
also; box fruit, $1@1.50.
wberries-Norfolk, 20Q25c a
quart; North Carolina, 15@2Oc.
| Potatoes-Aroostook Green noun
tains, S00S5c a bushel; hebrons, 500
Soc; rose, S0dS5c; cobblers, 9Oc; new
Floridas, So a barrel; sweet potatoes,
North Carolina, $303.50 a crate; Vine
lands, $202.25 a basket.
paragus-Native, $3.50 dozen
lunches; Jersey, $4@6; Charleston, s.
05.
Beans-String beans, southern green
60 a basket; wax, So.
Cabbages-New southern. SIS. 5OGI3. {.
a crate.
Cucumbers-Native, $3@45O a box
Florida, $2@25O a crate
Greens-Spinach, native, S5G90c &
brshel; Providence, So barrel; native
kale. Coo a bushel; dandel;ons, 5O06O
a bushel; beet green's, 81 % a bushel.
e Lettuce, etc-Lettuce, 5Oc0$1 a doz
en- heads; romaine, $101.25; escarole
75c@$1; chicory, 81; mint. 81 a dczel
lunches: watercress, 5O075c; parsley
$1.I5@2 a bushel.
Onions-TeXas, $3.50 a crate: Der
muda, $3.50 a crate; Egyptian, $4,000
3.75 a 2-bushel bag; leeks, $1.5OM2
dozen punches.
q SquaSheS-Native hubbard, $50 a ton
!. southern summer, $3.50 a crate.
. Tomatoes-Native dollhouse. zoe
pound; southern. $1.7502.5O a crate.
j Turnips-Yellow. 50 a barrel; Frenc
: white, 50 a bag; white eggs ard fat,
= 5C0T5c a buShel; bunch turnips. 81. .
2 dozen punches.
d MiScellaneouS-Whi celery 50 =
:. a dozen punches: rhubarb, 75c busht
r Lox; beets, 75cQ$1 a bushel: bunc
J beets, $1.50d2 a dozen punches: ca
rots, $1@1.25 bushel; bunch carrots
\ $1@125 dozen punches; eggplant
$3.50 crate; oysterplnts, $1@15O
( dozen punches; parsnips, $101.25
N lshel; southern peas, $1.2502 a ba
. ket; peppers, So crate; radishes. 81 ::
@$2 box; okra, So a crate; mus
7 rooms, $1.50d2.50 a basket.
Long clear and bean pork wei
marked down DC but other pork pr
II visions are steady and unchanged.
Fresh beef is in quiet demand an
prices have declined l-4c, the currel
t, quotations being as follows: Ext
in sides. heavy, s 1-4dS1kc; good. Z 81