St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-04-08
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on Leading Products
In Demand


Of fresh made creamery Jobbing prices
are: Choice northern creamery, 3lQ
S2c; western creamery, 30a31e.
Cheese is in moderate demand but
the supply is light and prices are stead.
lily held York state, l5h@l61ac; Yer
mont, l4A@1512c.
Prices hold firm on eggs, the demand
for consumption being very good.
Choice hennery and nearby, 20@2lc;
eastern extras, l9020c; western, ia
lSc.
The fruit and vegetable market is
well supplied. prices are moderate and
the buying is better than it has been
at any other time this year. Garden
truck from the south is plenty and
there is steadily increasing quantity
of local greenhouse products.
Strawberries are easier and. unless
there is some unfavOrable weather in
the south, will probably be cheap from
now on. The market for apples has
improved a little. The receipts are
much lighter than they have been, and
dealers have been able to reduce the
accumulations of ordinary fruit. But
the market is not yet in shape to receive
much of the fruit that is said to remain
In the interior; large receipts would
probably undo the little improvement
that has been made.
Potatoes are firm and tending high.
err. The receipts have been very ighl
and receivers have been able TO wipe
out the recent oyersupply. Distribu-
tiers are said to be very lightly stocked
with potatoes, and as receipts will
probably continue small, any increase
in the demand is likely to send prices
higher. Asparagus is coming along
freely and sells at reasonable prices
Cabbages are none too plenty, and there
is tirmer and more active market for
cucumbers. Onions are plenty ana
weak. Good tomatoes are rathei
scarce, although the receipts are large
Root stock does not change much, eX-
cept that new bunch beets are plenty
and cheap.
Apples-Kings. $2a3 barrel; russets
$1.25@L75; Baldwins, fancy MasSachu
sets, $2.50G2.75; No. Maine. $l.7J@2;
mixed Maine, $1.250 1.50; No. >. 81;
greetings. No. l, $l15@l so; No. .. 81;
blue pearmains, $l25@1.50; black OK
fords, 81 25al 80; northern spies, $3.50
also; Talman sweets, I5cuSl; Ben
Davis, $l@125.
Cranberries-Cape Cod, $l0@ l. a bar
rel. and $3.75Q4 crate.
Stra wberries-Florida, 200 25c quart.
Potatoes-AroOstook Green noun
tains, S30S5c bushel; sweet potatoes,
vinelands, $3.50 barrel and S2.25 bas
ket.
Beans-String beans. southern green.
$350d4 basket; wax, $49450.
Asparagus-South Carolina, $30G
dozen punches {, California, $407
Cabbages-Drumhead. $1.25Q 100
barrel; savoy, $l,50 barrel; red, 81 box.
new southern stock, S2@2.5O barrel
crate.
Celery-FloridA, Sl.50a2 dozen
punches; Boston market, $3Q4.
Cucum bers-HOthouse extras, 81
box; No /, Sc; medium, 50; No. ,. $3@4
Greens-Spinach. southern, $l.JO@2
barrel: kale. southern, 500 I0c barrel,
beet greens, dollhouse, 40a65c bushel,
dandelions, dollhouse, $lQ125 bNshe,
Lettuce, etc-Lettuce, 50d75c box
romaine, 81 dozen heads; escarole, Toe:
chicory, 81; watercress 500T5c dozen
Lunches mint, 75cd$1; parsley, $l@
l.25 bushel.
Onions-Native, 650S5c bushel; Gu
ban, $175d2 crate; Spanish, large
crates, S2.75 small crates, $l.50; leeks,
40050c dozen punches.
Squashes- Hubbard, $S0Q90 ton;
southern summer squashes, $2d2.50
crate.
Tomatoes-HothOuse, 4Oc pound;
Florida, $2d3 carrier.
Turnips-Y Yellow, % barrel; French
white, $2@250 bag; white eggs and
flats. 81 .0Wu l.I0 DuSnel
Miscellaneous-Bee Toe bushel;
bunch beets, $1@1.50 dozen punches;
carrots, 40M60c bushel; egg plants, 81
as crate; oyster plants, $lG1.25 dozen
bunches parsnlps, 50a75e bushel; pep
pers, S2M250 carrier; radishes, $1.500
LIS box; okra. $3.50 crate; mush-
rooms, $20250 basket; artichokes, $1@
100 bushel; caulifowers, $303.50
crate; rhubarb, dollhouse, Sd9c pound
Pork prices are very firm, though no
further change is noted. The situation
west is unchanged, and even higher
prices are possible.
Fresh beef quotations were marked
off lac on Thursday and on Friday the
top was about Toe, but higher prices
are expected Extra sides, 93-4@
10 1-4c good, LAO 3-4c; light, 8 $40
1-4c; heavy kinds, 111a@12c; good, Il
@11hc; light, 10h@11e; heavy fores,
S6S1ac; good, 7120Sc; light, 7@719c.
Lambs are still very firm; yearlings
and veals are steady and unchanged
Choice lambs, 14@15c; yearlings, 12@
13c; muttons, 12@13c; veals, 11h@
1219c.
Poultry is firm, but trade is still quiet
Western turkeys, 10000; native broier
chickens, 30d35c; western broilers, fSd
zoe; native roasting chickens, 22025c;
northern fowl 150l6c; western chick
ems. 14M16c; western fowl, 14015c;