The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-02-15
I'm BOSTON MARKETS.
Egg Prices Take Drop Butter Also
Lower Than Usual.

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Boston, Feb. l5.-This is the season
of the year when prices of eggs usually
begin to tumble, but this year, owing
to the mild weather, the hens got back
on the job earlier than usual and prices
began to shrink much ahead of time.
! The result is that the market to-day is
on lower level than it has been at
this time in several years. As Lent,
with its attendant increase in the use
OF eggs, does not open for more than
two weeks, il will be surprising II prices
do not reach the lowest plane in recent
years. All indications point in that d.
rection, at any rate, for while the de.
mand is good now, il is not sufficient
to absorb the arrivals, and, as the sea
son for storing eggs is still several
weeks away, the market is absolutely
ruled by the law Of supply and demand.
Fancy hennery eggs, which at this
/ time in 1909 were bringing $50 40c a
dozen and very nearly as much a year
ago, can be bought to-day at 30e for
the very choicest, with goods only slight
/ ly less desirable a cent or two lower.
| The market is as much lower than a
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which, although usually good at this
season, are not always quite as fresh
as those received from the poultrymen
maintaining henneries and large broods
OF hens, who individually obtain more
eggs than would several farmes who
20 into poultry and eggs as q side IS
sue. The best eastern gathered eggs
sell to-day at 2Ba2sc dozen, which
compares with 376 3sc at this time in
1909 and 36@37c year ago while west
ern gathered stock IS offered at 23g 25e,
against 37636c two years ago at this
time and 35636c year ago.
In addition TO good supplies of fresh
eggs, dealers are carrying good many
more eggs in cold storage than usual.
On Feb. /, there We're in the coolers
of the country somewhere in the neigh
borhood Of 10000 cases, as compared
with 10000 cases on the same date
last year. But this year there are 50
many fresh eggs, and they are so rea.
| sonabIe that there is little call for the
storage article. and the marketing re-
naming holdings is possible only ut
very low prices Buyers willing TO take
| the eggs az they are can get them at
| l3Gl4c, while candled, with the de-
| fective ones thrown out, they can be
had at l7@l9e.
Butter is another commodity that Is
much cheaper now than it was a year
ago or two years ago at this time. On
first costs alone, butter now in cold
storage, and there is gooddeol thus To-
Gated. should bring as much, if not more
than il did a year ago But the people
of the country would not use butter
as freely as formerly at the high prices
that prevailed during the first part of
the winter, and, az dealers awoke to a
realization OF this fact, and found them
selves with much larger supplies on
/ hand than usual, there was a rush to
unload which forced the market down
sharply a few weeks ago The demand
has come back under the impetus Of
/ low prices and butter is being used in
normal quantities once more but there
lis still enough butter in the coolers and
being made 10 make ii almost certain
that prices will not move much above
/ the present level.
Cheese is not as high as it was eX-
pected ii would be in view of the high
Z Ptices thdb PitNaiASu ia e"N evUts't
during a greater part Of the producing
season. People, apparently have cut
down their requirements of this product
just as they did their use of butter;
the result is that there is much more
cheese in the hands of the wholesalers
! than before in three years. and only
on the very fanciest goods are prices
anywhere nearly up to the level Of last
year or the year before.
Jobbing quotations;
Butter-Fancy northern creamery
tubs 2O@30c, boxes 30@3lc, prints 3l@
&c, fancy western creamery, spruce tubs
2sG30c. ash tubs 2sG 2ac, fancy stor-
age creamery 27@2sc, fair to good
creamery 24@2'e, dairy 22626c.
Cheese-New York twins, fancy l6d