Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-06-01
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on Leading Products
In Demand

are: Choice northern creamery, 2411a
Q2515c; western creamery, 237A@241ac;
Vermont dairy, 22@23c.
New cheese is a little easier, but old
cheese is still very firm for choice lots.
York state, 15@151ac; Vermont, 14@15c:
new cheese, 1O@12c.
Eggs have held firm for all choice
lots of fresh gathered, though there
has been no further advance in prices.
Choice hennery and nearby, 21@22c;
eastern extras, 19@2Oc; western, 800
1870.
Business continues good in the local
fruit and vegetable market, but the re-
ceipts are large and prices still tend
downward. Tomatoes are rather scarce
and the receipts of asparagus have
dWindled, but, with these exceptions.
the market is very we'll stocked Cali
fornia promises a heavy yield of april
cots of better quality than any before
/ in five years. The reports from
peaches are favorable. and there is ev-
cry indication of heavy crop of Bart
lett pears and plums. Grapes look
fairly Well
In the Ozark region of Arkansas also
record-breaking yield of peaches is
predicted, and it looks now as though
| peaches would be cheaper and more
plenty this year than before in several
years, as Georgia and Delaware are
raising huge crops. Rains have been
general all over the west and south
during the past three or four weeks.
and the crops will be able to stand a
good deal Of dry weather later. Crop
prospects in New England are fairly
favorable
Apples are not very active, but
prices hold up pretty we'll in view of the
fact that the supplies both in the open
market and in cold storage are good
deal larger than they were at this time
last year. Strawberries are in good
supply and prices are moderate.
HOthOuse, native and southern truck
is coming along freely and selling at
moderate prices. There is particular
~ good supply of cucumbers, green's.
rhubarb, peas and cabbages. and the
arrivals Of lettuce have increased ma
|
row squashes have dropped sharply I'M
der large receipts. Hothouse tomatoes
are cheaper, but the south is sending
only few, and not a great many
fancy ones.
Maple products are cleaning up very
slowly, and prices are easy, even for
the best pure goods.
Apples-Russets, $1.5Od2.5O barrel;
Baldwins. fancy Massa chusetts cod
storage, 1904; No. 1 Maine, $1.7J02:
mixed Maine, $15O01.75: No. 9, S1M
1.25; northern spies, $1.5OM2.5O: Ben
Davis, $1@1.5O
Straw berries-NorfOlk. 1OM14c a
quart; Maryland. 12@16c quart; Ten
nessee, 12016c quart.
Potatoes-AroOstook Green noun
tains, S1M90c bushel: new FlOridas. $40
. barrel: sweet potatoes, Ninelands
$1.75@2 basket; North Carolina. sea-
crate.
agus-NatfSe, $405 box; Jer
sey, $204 dozen lunches
Beans-String beans, southern
green, $1.7j02.50 basket: wax. S202. 80
Ceiery-Florida washed, $1.5O01. (:
dozen punches.
cumbers-Hothouse extras, So. q
box: No. /, So; medium, $3.50; No. .
$1.3002; Floridas, $1.250175 basket.
Greens-Spinach, 3Od40c busheI
kale, 900J0c; dandelions, 2OC03Oc.
Lettuce. etc-Lettuce, 5QC7jc dozel
heads; romaine, 75cU$1; escarole. 75c
chicoly, s.; watercress, 4O1GOc dozel
lunches: mint I5c0$1; parsley, ST..
az bushel,
o1ions-Tezas, S1.25G1:75 crate
Eermudas, $i.250LJ0; Egyptian. s.. 3:
03.25 bag; Ieeks, 50E7Jc dozen punches
G1ubarb-Native, J0075c box.
S8Qashes-Soutbegn marrow, $2G
. $50 crate; summer, 75c0$1 crate.
TOmatOes-H0thouse 12k020c
pound; Florida. s.. 5003.50 carrier.
Turnips-Yellow, $1.75M2 a bag
\ French white, $2.5003 bag; whit,
bunch turnips, $1.2501.75 dozel
punches.
Miscellaneous-Beet 75c bushel
new bunch beets, $101.5O dozen bunch
es; carrots, 650S5c bushel; new buncl
carrots, 5O013c dozen punches: egg
plants, $2M3 crate; oyster plants, SO
- 1.25 dozen punches; parsnips. 5O075
bushel; peas, 75cM$1.5O basket; per
pers, S1.75@2.75 carrier: radishes, 500
t. Toe box; okra. $50 crate; mushrooms
~ $2M3 basket; artichokes, $1@1.5O
ct buShel.
IL There is very steady market fo
J. pork provisions, and few changes al
To- noted.
re Fresh beef has been easy an
Of though a few choice steers have sol
It, at 1Okc, the bulk of the sales hav
rs been at 1910 1-4c for the top Extr
is sides, 1O@101zc; good, 91z@10c; light,
a. 091kc: heavy binds, 111a@12c; good, l
@111lc; light, 1OA@11c; heavy fore
" 8H@9c; good. S@87ac; light, 71aMSc.
There is a firm market for lambs an
rs yearlings, and veals are also Slight
: firmer Choice spring lambs, 16M1S,
winter lambs 11M13c: yearlinps on