Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-04-23
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on Leading Products
In Demand


dull trade The jobbing prices are:
Choice northern creamery, 29d30c;
western creamery, 2SM20c.
After months Of quictncss. a change
has at last been made in the cheese
market and the prices are now unset
tied, with light demand. York state,
15M16c; Vermont. 14615c.
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
henncry and nearby, 10000; eastern
extras, 1SGf1 9c; western. 1TG1Sc.
There is a fairly good business In the
local fruit and vegetable ma rket. Moth
ing Is scarce except native onions, and
that shortage Is not serious, as Egyp-
tan onions are now coming in, and
Texas and Bermuda onions are fairly
plenty and good. Local greenhouses
are supplying the market well, and
southern truck ls coming in. There are
few cranhcrries. hut 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.
Stra wbcrrics 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 further rise in prices
string beans are lower. Cucumbcrs
are weak. The Easter demand was not
up to expectations. and as the receipts
were heavy. dealers are overstocked.
All kinds of green truck is in good
supply and reasona bic. and rhubarb
and tomatoes are getting cheaper every
day. Hubbard squashes have gone for
the year and winter root stock is slow
~ cleaning up.
Apples-KnQs. s2M3 barrel rus
sets. 81 25Gl1 -; Baldvins. fancy Mas
sachusetts. 50 5oQ2 -; No / Maine,
81 75M2; mixed Maine. Sl.1Md -; 40.
2, s1Mi.23 creenings. No /, 500
l.75; No. 2. S1N125; black oxfords,
81 25a1 80; northern spies s110M2 .50
Talman sweets. Sl1l.25; Ben Davis,
81 25G so; box fruit 4oQ15c.
Cranbcrries Cape Cod, s1oM13 a
barrel and S3.150l45o crate
Stra wberries-Florida 10d zoe quart
North Carolina 13115c.
Pota Green noun
to-,
vineands. 80 25d2.5O basket North
Carolina. 81 .5o04 barrel crate.
Apprenticeship Carolina. s3M5 n
dozen punches; California, s4d6
Beans-Strlng beans. southern green,
So .50d4 basket; wax. S3.JCf14.
Cahba ges-Eew southern, Sl.7IG
2.25 crate; native drumhesd. 81 25Gi 80
barrel; savoy. 81 80 barrel; RED. 81 0ox.
Celery-Florida washed, Sl256il 30
dozen lunches.
Cucum brrs-Hothouse. extras. 500
$50 box: No. /. 81; medium, S2.506,3
No. 2. st.5o
Greens Spinach, southern. 75cGI
$50 barrel; kale. southern. 6I@SJc
barrel dandellons dollhouse. 90ctaSl
| bushel: beet greens. dollhouse. 6Ja15c
| bushel.
Lettuce. ctc-Lettuce. 5O07S5c dozen
heads; romnine, 81; escarole. I5c; chic
Dry 81; waterc:css. 5O6l75c dozen
punches; mint, 75c@Sl; parsley, $l.5O0
l.15 bushel
Onions-Native. $1U125 bushel,
Texas, S225 crate: Bermuda. 81 %:
Egyptian, S3@3 - bag; spanish, large
crates, 50 50d2 -; small crates. $3.50:
leelis, 4ou50c dozen punches.
observation-disclosures. &c pound; Hi
nois, 50 box.
Squashes Southern summer. sea
$50 crate.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., S1.75G2 barrel;
French white. S2d2 % bag; white eggs
and flats, S1.50ul - bushel.
Mlscella ncous-B cets, 1Jc bushel
| elephants. S2T3 crate; oyster plants,
Sld125 dozen lunches: pn,snlps, 5od
0Oc hushel; peas. southern. Sl.5h12.50
basket; peppers. Sl5on2 % carrier:
radishes. 81 25Ml 30 box; okra, Sl.1O
crate. mushrooms S2i3.50 basket; arti-
chokes. S1Q1.50 bushel; caulifowerS,
$5Q6 crate.
Barrel pork was marked down 50c on
all long and short cuts and medium
backs but other pork provisions are I'M
changed
The market for fresh beef saCged Off
a htte in spite al the most determined
effort OF the shippers ana agents OF
the leading packers to maintain prices,
Notwithstanding this, and the mani
fest weakness in prices resulting from
an exceedingly dull trade, the purpose
is announced to put prices still higher.
Extra sides. 3-4@loc; good, "a
o Bic; light. S3-4@9 / &c; heavy binds,
II l-4d1l SIC; good, 70 3-4M1l lac:
light 10 1-lG,10 Sic; heavy fores. s | 4
as Sic; good, 3-4mS l-4c light. 7 IA
al SIC.
There is quiet market for lambs
and yearlings, but prices are steady
veals are easy, with a full supply,
Choice lambs. 13Gfl4icc; yearlings,
1lieal2lac; muttons, l2dl3c veals, 10
al lac
There Is a firm market for western
chickens, with light supply, Other
kinds Of poultry are steady Western
turkeys, 19M2Oc; native broiler chick
| ems, 30q35c; western brothers. $4,000
native roasting chickens, 22023c: north
ern fowl. l5M Ice; western chickens.
l511Sc: western fowl. l4Ml5c: ducks.
l1M19c: geese. 1OM12c: native pigeons