News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-04-21
IN BOSTON MARKETS
Quotations on Leading Pro-
ducts In Demand


smaller receipts and the excellent &c.
mand for consumption the egg marke
mas made an upward turn and prices
are abou &c above last week. Choice
hennery and nearby, 24025c; eastern
extras, 2212Q23hc; western, 22@
23c.
Butter is steady, with a moderate
demand. Jobbing quotations are.
Choice northern creamery, 10000;
western creamery, 2SQ29c.
Cheese is steady and unchanged
York state, 15h016c; Vermont, LAG
l412c.
Potatoes are rising again in the To-
cal market. They have gone up 100
l5c bag during the past week, and
all the indications are that they will
be even higher Receipts have been
light and the advices from the country
are that stocks have been pretty well
reduced. The southern crop Is re-
ported to be doing poorly, and it is
said that in many places the potatoes
n4S lOIlluS III LIlS SIOuuu.
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. so
barrel; No. l, $5@5.50 No. 2, $40
4.50; Ben Davis, $4@4.5O russets,
fancy, Sc; choice, $5@5. so; common,
So. 1904.
Cranberries-Cape Cod, $12@13 Dbl
and $4 so crate.
Observation-Disclosures, 20@30c qt;
North Carolina, 1S@25c.
Potatoes-Aroostook green noun
tains, $2.10 twobushel bag; central
Maine green mountains, 81. 0502. 10;
Bermuda potatoes, $6Q7 barrel; sweet
potatoes, vinelands, $2@2,25 bas-
ket; Jersey, $2@2,25; North Caro-
lima, 1898 so crate.
Beans-String beans, southern
green, 81. 50Q3 so basket; wax, 81. so
U3. 50.
Cabbage-New southern, 1903. SO
crate.
Observation-Disclosures, extras, $50
6 box; No. /, $4@4 so; medium,
So 5004; No. 2, 81. 50@3.
Spinach, $2@2.50 barrel;
kale, $1@1.25 barrel; dandelions, 75c
@$1 bushel; beet green's, 75c@$1
bushel.
Lettuce, etc. Lettuce, 75c@$1
box; romaine, 75c@$1 box; escarol,
50c@$1 dozen heads; chickory, 5000
ST. mint, 100000 dozen lunches; wa
tercress, 60Q75c; parsley, $1.25@
l. so bushel.
Onions-Native, $1,25@1. so bush
ell; Connecticut valley, New York and
western, $2.25@2.5O 100-tb bag;
Texas, $1.7502 crate; Cuban, $2.75
as; Spanish, large crates, $4Q4.5
small crates, So. 5O@3; leeks, 75c0
81 dozen punches; scallions, $1Q1.25
basket.
quashes-Marrow and turban, 75c
Q$1 barrel; hubbard, $12017 ton.
Tomatoes-Hothouse 100000 ID;
southern, $2@3 crate.
Turnips-Yellow, $1,25@1.5 so bag;
white capes, $1.5O02 bag; white
eggs and flats, 50075c bushel.
Miscellaneous-A $202. so
oox; radishes, 81 25@1.75 box; beets,
,0065c bushel; bunch beets, hot
louse, $1.25@2 dozen punches;
$101.50; carrots, 75c@$1
,ushel; bunch carrots, 75cQ$1 dozen |
parsnips, 75c@S1 bushel; |
ggplants, $500 crate; oyster plants, |
1@1.25 dozen lunches; okra, 50. so |
% crate mushrooms, 81. 50Q3 bas /
ct; rhubarb, 9Q10c pound; peppers,
2 5003 crate.
There is very firm market for all |
ork provisions, though the advances
made in prices have cut off the do
nestle trade to some extent.
Trade in fresh is dull. Extra
ides, 9@9Ac; good, S1aQ9c; light,
@S1ac; heavy binds, 1917 Ollie;
God, 10@1O1ac; light, 9A @1Oc;
eavy fores, 71a; good, 7@7hc;
ght, 6%@7c.
There is a steady market for lambs
nd veals, with yearlings and NUT
,ns quiet. Choice lambs, 11@13c;
S@91ac; veals, 11@13c.
There has been a little easier tone
} the market for frozen western fowl
ut all fresh killed stock is still firm.
Western turkeys, 23@25c; native
FASTING chickens, 25@30c; native
rollers, 35045c; northern fowl, TO
Sc for large and 16@17c for medium;
estern chickens, 20@22c for large
nd 15@16c for medium; western
,wl, 16c for large and 15c for medi
m; native pigeons, So dozen.