News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-01-29
IN HUB MARKETS
Quotations on Leading Products
In Demand

Boston, Jan. 27.-There is d very firm
mdfAtt IUr the DtttlI glaues q oultel
III this city. Fine fresh made goods are
very scarce, ana holders Of the little
that Is here have very strong ideas.
Fancy storage butter is in fairly good
supply, but in the lack of fine fresh
GOODS 1t is in good demand at well main
talheu prices. IObbing prices are:
Choice northern creamery, 30@32c;
western creamery, 29dS1c.
The best September twins are scarce
and hrmer, but generally there is no
change to note in the cheese market.
York state, 15A@16hc; Vermont,
14R@l5hc.
Inc cold snap was expected to force
up the market for the best nearly eggs,
but prices lift hard, as trade is very
dull, and there was actually small de-
cline in sympathy with New York
Choice hennery and nearby, 27M2Sc;
eastern extras, 2402vc; western, 23@
Zoe; refrigerator, 19M21c.
BUSINESS increases very slowly in the
local fruit and vegetable market APP
pies have grown quiet again, but the
arrivals have been light and prices hold
steady. Cranberries are firm, more be-
cause they are rather scarce than be
cause Of an active demand.
The demand for potatoes keeps on
and the market has been cleaned up
very we'll. Sweet potatoes are steady
String beans are very scarce and high.
Cucumbers have grown stronger under
an increased demand and smaller re-
ceipts. Cabbages are steady and mod
erately active. Celery is frmer and
turnlpS higher. Kale and spinach go
well Onions and tomatoes are dull.
Radishes and squashes are high.
Apples-Kings, $3@4 barrel; russets,
$1.5OW2; Baldwins, fancy Massachu-
sets, 50 1903; No. Maine, So. 25a2. so:
mixed Maine, $150M2; No. 2, $1.2jM
so; greetings, No. 1, sea-. %; No. 2,
81 ,25M1 80; pearmains, $1.J002; north
ern spies, $1.7JM2.50; Talman sweets.
81 250 80; black oXfordS, $1.50M2;
$1.5002; box fruit, soc
0$1
Cranberries-Cape Cod, $500 barrel
and $40 crate.
Pears-Beurre bose, $405 bushel;
beurre Ganjou, $3.50; sheldons, $4@5,
Potat0es-Aroostook Green noun
tans, S5@90c bushel; sweets, Vinelands,
$50J.50 barrel and $202 % basket
String beans-Southern green, 1913
"A basket; wax, $4M4.50
bbages-Drumhead 90c(d$1 bar
rel; savoy, $101.25 barrel; red, 81 box.
Celery-White, $10150 dozen
punches; paschal, $1.75@2; Boston mar
ket, $2@2.50.
Hothouse, fancy long
green, $3.50 box; choice, $3.50; medium,
Sc; No. 2, $4,000.
ettuce, etc-Lettuce, 40@6Oc box;
'omaine, 75c dozen heads; escarole, 40
150c; chicory, 75c0$1; watercress, soc
iozen punches; mint, 40@50c; parsley,
;1@125 bushel.
Onions-Native. 75090c bushel;
Spanish, large crates, $3.50; small
rates, $1.3714; Cuban, So crate; leeks,
IOc dozen punches.
Spinach-Southern $l25@1.50 bar
ell kale. southern, S5c@$1 barrel.
Squashes Marrow, $25O03 barrel;
urban, $3@3.5O barrel; hubbard, 5000
10 ton.
Tomatoes-Hothouse, 20025c pound;
Florida, 81 5O03 carrier
Turnips-YellOw, 81 barrel; French
white. $2.50d3 bag; white eggs and
lats, $1@l 25 bushel.
Observation-Disclosures sprouts, 1917
l15c quart; beets, 650S5c bushel; car
OTIS, 500G5c bushel; egg plants, $40
.25 crate; oyster plants, $1@1 .25 dozen
punches; parsnips, 75c bushel; peppers,
2 carrier; radishes. $2@2.50 box; okra,
80 crate: mushrooms, $1@2 basket;
rtchokes. $l.75M2 bushel; dollhouse
hubarb. 10M12hc pound.
No change is noted in the prices of
'ork provisions. the market being quiet
nut steady Short cut and heavy backs,
1925; medium. ST. .25M 1850; long cut
1925; lean ends, 500; bean pork, $14.25
T14.7l; fresh ribs, Q 1-4M9Hc: fresh
houders, 14c; corned shoulders. DC;
egular hams. 10lzM12 3-4c: skinned
ans, 10 1-4M10 3-4c; boiled hams. 1G1a
1iG3-4c: pressed cooked meat, ia
Sc: bacon. II 3-4d19c; fresh sausage,
Is0 l41ac; sausage meat lie; bo-
Ognas. S12c: fraukfurters, S3-46l
0 1-4c: raw leaf lard, Zoe; pure lard.
Oc: pals. 10 3-4M11c; rendered leaf
ard. 10l5c: pals, II 1-4M1115c; briskets,
5-Sc pork tongues. $3.50; country
ressed hogs. 51aM5 3-4c.
Fresh beef is dull and weak. with
a lesmen finding ii difficult to get SEC
Or anything but the very best cattle.
wv level. and retail prices should
e correspondingly low. Extra sides,
dSlsc; good 7@Sc; light, 7@T1kc;
eavy kinds, 1Oml015c; good, 9hM10c;
ght. 9@91hc; heavy fores, G@61ac;
God 1-4M6c: light, 8 1-4@51kc.
Trade is very quiet in lambs and
lough the supply is only fair, il is NOV
~ very slowly, and prices are easy.
eals hold firm, with a moderate sup
ly. Choice lambs, 10G11l9c: year
ncs. SGI9c; muttons, Sd9c; veals. 12d |
Be.
The poultry market is easy, with a
MET demand, and prices are lower on