St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-21
IN BOSTO.4 MARKETS
Quotations on Leading Pro-
ducts In Demand

smaller receipts and the excellent de-
mand for consumption the egg market
mas made an upward turn and prices
are abou &c above last week. Choice
hennery and nearby, 24@25c; eastern
extras, 22h @23kc; western, 200
| 23c.
Butter is steady, with a moderate
demand. Jobbing quotations are.
Choice northern creamery, 29@3Oc;
western creamery, 2S@29c.
Cheese is steady and unchanged.
York state, 15h@16c; Vermont, 14Q
14hc.
Potatoes are rising again in the To-
cal market. They have gone up 100
15c a bag during the past week, and
all the indications are that they will
De even higher. Receipts have been
light and the advices from the country
are that stocks have been pretty we'll
reduced. The southern crop is re-
ported to be doing poorly, and it is
said that in many places the potatoes
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Apples are steady, although three
OF four cars of inferior stock were sold
below ruling quotations. Cranberries
are pretty nearly gone for this season,
and but few grapes remain in the mar
ket. Asparagus is plenty and easy,
and string beans are in good enough
supply to sell at fairly reasonable
prices. Very few northern cabbage
are in the market and the few that are
here are so poor that the southern
ones are preferred. Spinach and let
tuce are firm. Old onions hold up
well; receipts of Texas Bermudas are
increasing. Squashes, turnips and
other root vegetables do not change
much.
Apples-Baldwins fancy, $6@6. 50
barrel; No. l, $5Q5. so; No. 2, $40
4.5O; Ben Davis, $4@4 so; russets,
fancy, Sc; choice, $5@5. so; common,
So. 50@4.
Cranberries-Cape Cod, $12@1S Dbl
and $4. SO crate.
Strawberries-Florida 2O@3Oc at;
North Carolina, 18Q25c.
Potatoes-Aroostook green noun
tains, $2.10 two bushel bag; central
Maine green mountains, 50. 05@2. 10;
Bermuda potatoes, $6@7 barrel sweet
potatoes, vinelands, $2Q2.25 bas-
ket; Jersey, $2@2.25 North Caro-
lima, 1898 so crate.
Beans-String beans, southern
green, 81. 50Q3.5O basket; wax, 81 SO
QS. SO.
Cabbage-New southern, 1903 so
crate.
Observation-Disclosures extras, $50
6 box; No. L, $4@4. so; medium,
So. 1904; No. 2, 81. 5Q@3.
Greens-Spinach, $2@2 so barrel;
kale, $1@1.25 barrel; dandelions, 75c
@$1 bushel; beet greens, 75c@$1
bushel.
Lettuce, etc. Lettuce, 75c@$1
box; romaine, 75c@$1 box; escarol,
5OcQ$1 dozen heads chickory, 5000
81; mint, 100000 dozen lunches; wa
60Q75c; parsley, S125@
l. so bushel
Onions-Native, $1.25@1.5O bush
ell; Connecticut valley, New York and
western, $2.25@2 so 1OO-tb bag; !
Texas, $1.75Q2 crate; Cuban, $2.75 ,,
as; Spanish, large crates, $4@4.5O;
small crates, So 5000; leeks, 75c@
81 dozen punches; scallions, $1@1.25
basket.
r Squashes-Marrow and turban, 75c
Q$1 barrel; hubbard, $12@17 ton.
Tomatoes-Hothouse, 100000 ID; !
southern, $2@3 crate.
Turnips-Yellow, $1.25@1. SO bag; .
white capes, $1.5O@2 bag; white
Eggs and flats, 5O@75c bushel. \
Miscellaneous-Art $2@2. so
'ox; radishes, $1,2501.75 box; beets, I
'0Q65c bushel; bunch beets, hot
louse, $1.25@2 dozen punches; t
SOL so; carrots, 75c@$1 c.
'ushel; bunch carrots, 75c@$1 dozen
parsnips, 75c@$1 bushel; n
ggplants, $500 crate; oyster plants,
1Q1.25 dozen lunches; okra, 50. so t
% crate; mushrooms, ST. 50@3 bas- Is
ct; rhubarb, 9@1Oc pound; peppers, y
2. 50@3 crate.
There is very firm market for all
DIRK provisions, though the advances
lade in prices have cut off the do tt
lestic trade to some extent. o.
Trade in fresh is dull. Extra &c,
des, 9@9Ac; good, $4,000; light, s.
QSkc; heavy binds, 1917 Ollie;
bod, 1O@1ORc; light, 9A @1Oc;
eavy fores, ~; good, 7@7kc;
ght, 6%@7c.
There is steady market for lambs
I'D veals, with yearlings and NUT
ms quiet. Choice lambs, 11@13c;
S@91ac; veals, 11@13c. be
There has been little easier tone
the market for frozen western fowl VI
1t all fresh killed stock is still firm.
'estern turkeys, 23@25c; native
asting chickens, 25@3Oc; native Dc
oilers, 35@45c; northern fowl, ITO
C for large and 16@17c for medium;
estern chickens, 20@22c for large
ID 15@16c for medium; western Oc
wi, Ice for large and 15c for medi-
n; native pigeons, So dozen.
Hay and straw are steady and I'M ST.
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