Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-12-02
In HUB MARKETS
Quotations on Leading Products
In Demand

quiet market for butter. and prices are
more In buyers favor. though no ma
terial change has been made. Receipts
are not large. but stock is accumulate
ing. Jo5bing prices are: Choice
northern creamery. 29030c; western, u
@&lc; Vermont dairy. 24M26c.
Cheese Is dull and easy. with prices
being shaded a little 10 effect sales on
all but the choicest lots. York state,
15@l6c; Vermont 14iz015ikc.
Receipts of choice fresh gathered and
nearby eggs continue moderate, and
full prices are being obtained. Re
frigera;ors are being freely offered, AMI
are selling well ON account of the low
prices prevailing Choice hennery and
nearby. 43d 4ic: eastern extras. 39ar40c;
western, 2j@29c; choice cold storage,
2O022c.
Fruits are somewhat more active in
the local market. but the movement of
garden truck is still light. Apples are
as dull as they have been ut any time
during the past two or three weeks and
there is not much of market for cram
berries. Receivers have found it prac-
tically impossible to keep these two
fruits cleaned up and. in their efforts to
prevent too great an accumulation,
they have accepted any reasonable bid
Sweet potatoes are the only garden
truck for which there is a really active
demand; as the arrivals have been
light. they have advanced more than 50
barrel since d week ago. Inferior
stock which has been left in the hands
Of receivers for some time and which
they were wiling to sell few weeks
ago ut 81 Il barrel, now bring double
that price. The indications are that
sweet potatoes will he high this winter.
There is little change in white pota-
toes. The arrivals are large, but they
run rather poor as rule: for the small
amount of good stock the market is
firm, but ordinary lots are sold for what
they Will bring Squashes and cucum-
| bers are firm. Southern string beans
are somewhat sitter than they have
been. Cabbages are steady. Boston
market celery ranges bit higher than
1t did week ago. Lettuce is slightly
lower and brussels sprouts are easy.
Spinach. turnips. onions and tomatoes
do not change much.
Apples-Kings, S30l4 barrel; Wolf
river, 1903. 80; SHOWS. $203: nodheads,
S2025O; Harveys, $2.5OM3; Baldwins,
| fancy. $2.50(03; No. j, $202. 30; mixed,
! 81 soap: No. ., $1.25d1 80: greetings,
I No. l, $2Gl2.50; No 2, $1.25@1.75; pip
| pins. $1.5Od2: blue pearmains, $2@2.50;
Talman sweets, $1.J002; pound sweets.
! $2.5Od3; common sweets, $1.25@1 80;
| Macintosh reds, $2.50G3.50
Cranberries-Cape Cod, $5d8 barrel
and $202.50 crate.
! Grapes-Almerias. S3@6 barrel: Cali
! fornia 4-basket crates, Muscats, $2M3;
! red emperors. $1.1502 %: Malagas.
| $1.50d2; York state. pony baskets. Ma
garas. 20n22c; Salems, Ice: Catawbas,
1jc; Concords, 16c.
Potatoes-Aroostook Green noun
tains and cobblers. 6JM7Oc bushel:
sweets, Norfolk and eastern shore,
$4.25@4T5 barrel; vinelands, So.
Beans-String beans. southern
green. $2d2.5O basket; wax, $2G2.5O.
Cabbages- 81 barrel: Sa-
voy. 75c0$1 barrel; red, 6Ot075c box.
Celery-White. 81 box; paschal, 81. q
also Boston market, S1.56@175.
COMMUNICATIONS. extras, SIC
box; No. l. $7@S; No. ,. $20G.
Lettuce. etc-I.ettuce, 30G6Oc box:
romaine 81 dozen heads; escarole. 75cGI
81; chicory, 75cG$1; watercress, 5O@6GC
dozen punches; mint 400G0c; parsley
3J@7Jc bushel.
! Onions-Nat.ve. 75090c bushel
, Spanish. large crates, $3.50: SINAI
) crates, $1@1.25; leeks, zoe doze1
; punches.
i Squashes-Marrow $202.JO barrel
turban and bay state, $2@2.J0: hub
j bard, $4O@5O ton; pumpkins, 50c@S1
(, box
e Spinach-Native. 100000 bushel
southern. $1.5OG2 barrel.
e TomatOes-Hothouse 1jG25c pound
: Turnips-Yellow, S1.25 barrel
d French white. $2@250 bag; white egg
and flats. 75c bushel.
Mscellaneous-Br Brussels sprouts, 1
: rots. 60d75c bushel; eggplants. so
J. go box: oysterplants. 81 dozen buncl
= es; parsnips. S5cd$1 bushel; pepper,
n S1.50Gt2 box: radishes, 75cds1 box
'r okra, 81 crate: mushrooms. S1d2 ba.
n ket: caul.flowers, 75e@$1.50 dozen.
81 There is rather mcSe doing in .por
It provisions. hut prices are general
!: steady, though bacon was marke
n down &c.
Is Fresh beef is dull and easier low,
r. prices being quoted than week NO
y Still further declines are predicted c
o account Of the holiday season. Ext
o. sides. 10d105ac; good. 9G9 SIC: Ugh
= Sd9c; heavy kinds, 12Q1215c: goo
:. 1OlkM11lac; light 9d10c: heavy fore
as SaSlsc: good. 75dSc: light. 7G715c.
81 There is u steady market for all FIRE.
III meats except beef, and prices are vi
ey sustained Lambs and vearlngS are