Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-27
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on Leading Products
In Demand


eased off under liberal receipts and a
dull trade. The jobbing prices are:
Choice northern creamery, 29@3Oc;
western creamery, 2SG29c.
After months of qrlietness, change
has at. last been made in the cheese
market. and the prices are now unset
tied, with light demand. York state.
15@16c; Vermont, 14@15c.
Eggs hold fairly steady as to price,
Notwithstanding the heavy receipts, as
the surplus stock is going into cold
storage. There is a good demand for
consumption at full quotations. Choice
hennery and nearby, 1902Oc; eastern
extras, 1S919c; western 1701Sc.
There is fairly good business in the
local fruit and vegeta BILE market. Moth
ing is scarce except native onions, and
that shortage is not serious, as Egyp-
tian onions are now coming in, and
Texas and Bermuda onions are fairly
plenty and good. Local greenhouses
are supplying the market we'll, and
southern truck il coming in. There are
few cranberries, but as the season is
almost ended, light supplies are nat
ural
The movement of apples is not brisk,
but receipts are not large, and there
is enough business to hold prices up.
Strawberries have been plenty, but
most Of them are poor: the North Caro-
lima berries have been fairly good.
There is a good. steady demand for
potatoes, but the receipts have been
too large for a further rise in prices.
String beans are lower. Cucumbers
are weak. The Easter demand was not
up to expectations, land as the receipts
We're heavy, dealers are overstOcked.
All kinds of green truck is in good
supply and reasonable. and rhubarb
and tomatoes are getting cheaper every
| day. Hubbard squaShes have gone for
| the year and winter root stock is slow
ly cleaning up.
Apples-kings, $2M3 barrel; rus
sets, 81. 25M1.7 70: Baldwins, fancy Mas
sachusetts, $2.5O{d2.75; No. 1 Maine,
$1.7502; mixed Maine $1.5O01.15: No.
| 2, $1M1.25; greetings, No. l, $150M
1.75; No. ,, $10I1.25; black oxfords,
$1.25M1.50: northern spies, $1.5O02.50;
Talman sweets, $1M1.25; Ben Davis,
12501 80; box fruit. 4OM75c.
Cranberries-Cape Cod, $1OM13 a
barrel and $3.75(14.5O crate.
| WberrieS-FlOrida, 1O020c quart:
North Carolina, 130 loo.
POtatOes-ArOOstOOk Green noun
| tains. 92M95c bushel; sweet potatoes.
| Vineands. $2.25@2.50 basket North
| Carolina, S3.50M4 barrel crate.
| Asparagus-SOuth Carolina, $3M5 a
! dozen punches; California. $406.
BeanS-String beans. southern green,
| $350Nd4 basket; wax, $3.5O@4.
Cabbages-New southern, $1.75M
2.25 crate: native drumhead. 81 .2JM1 80
barrel; savoy, $50 barrel; red. 81 box
| Celery-Florida washed, $12J@1 80
| dozen lunches
! Observation-Disclosures extras. $5N
$50 box; No. 1, 81; medium, $2.5O@3;
No. 2, $1.5O
Greens-Spinach, southern, 75cGI
$50 barrel; kale, southern. 6JMS5c
barrel: dandeliOns. dollhouse, 9OcM$1
bushel; beet green's, dollhouse, 65M73c
bushel.
Lettuce, etc-Lettuce. 5OdS5c dozen
heads; rOmaine, 81; eScarOle. 75c; chic
DRY. 81: watercress, 5OG75c dozen
punches: mint, 75cM$1; parsley, $1.5OM
10 bushel
Onions-Native, $1M125 bushel
Texas, SD crate; Bermuda. $2.25
Egyptian. $30325 bag; Spanish, large
crates, $25OM2. 70; small crates. 81 80
leeks, 40N0JOc dozen punches.
Observation-Disclosures, &c pound: Hi
. nois. 50 box.
Squashes-Southern summer, sea
! $50 crate.
Turnips-Yellow. $17JM2 barrel
. French white. $2M2.50 bag: white eggs
and flats, S1.5Gd1.75 bushel.
o Observation-Disclosures roc bushe
elephants, $2G3 crate; oyster plants
$1M1.25 dozen punches: parsnips 500l
90c bushel peas, southern, 81. 5O'02. 81
basket; peppers, $1.5O02.25 carrier
. radishes, ST .25M1 80 box; okra, 81. sc
: crate; mushrooms, $2M25O basket; arti
chokes, $1Q1.50 bushel; caulifowers
: $5M6 crate.
q Barrel pork was marked down SOC OF
all long and short cuts and medium
e backs, but other pork provisions are un
: changed.
The market for fresh beef sagged of
a little in spite of the most determine,
effort of the shippers and agents o
the leading packers to maintain prices
: Notwithstanding this, and the mani
fest weakness in prices resulting iron
, an exceedingly dull trade, the purpos
=, is announced to put prices still higher
It Extra sides, 3-4@1Oc; good, 91-40
;; 93-4c; light, 3-4@9 1-4c; heavy binds
a. II 1-4611 3-4c; good, 10 3-4111 1-4(
E. light, 10 1-4M10 Sac: heavy fores, J.
Or as 3-4c; good, 73-4MS lac; light, Z l.
see az 3-4c.
X There is quiet market for lamI
tx and yearlings, but prices are steady
id veals are easy, with a full suppl,