The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-10-17
WEEKLY REVIEW
OF BOSTON MARKET
Trade in Dairy and Poultry
Products Dull With
Prices Upward
APPLE RECEIPTS
DEPRESS MARKET
Connecticut Valley Onions Scarce, Pota-
toes Plentiful--CattIe Market Slow
and Weak-Grass Fed Beef COmpris
Most of Receipts.

BOSTON, Oct 1T,-Trade in dairy
and poultry products during the past
month has had little Of a speculative ma
ture, prices mostly working to higher
levels and the majority of both buyers
and sellers have not considered it very
good for either later business or prices,
so have held back This has perhaps
prevented some sharp and rapid advances
but has not served TO hold down prices,
most all products bringing more each
week =
Butter trade has been mostly for ac-
tual distributing needs and there has
been little pep to buying, but prices.
seem to heiadsancing with little immed-
late prospect of slump. Some buy
ers Rave turned to storage goods and this
has sold better. 50 cooler weather with a
lessening demand for milk may help to
stcadS the market Fancy northern
made goods have moved reasonably well,
large spruce tubs going at 47fSc, prints
up to Ole, and dairy, goods have still
brought ;}Jc Medium grades of fresh
and storage western butter have sold
mostly around 40c this being the kind
sold through most of the large stores.
Canada is sending butter and cheese
here in liberal amounts. the past week
seeing three carloads of the latter dis
tributed among the retailers. THESE are
mostly large seventy pound Cheddars and
have had to go to cutter, but they have
served To help the shortage Of fancy
grades. Fancy Twins and Americans
have moved out easily at BE.
The moulting period and the large
number Of fowl marketed over the jew
ish holidays have had their effect on
prices for both fresh eggs and live poul-
try. All grades of eggs have been short
and have worked slightly higher. but the
increasing use of storage goods enable the.
average consumer to secure good eggs at
reasonable prices. Strictly fancy nearby
hcnuerys have sold readily at Prise. west
ern extras around 60c good fresh at 80
JJc. and liberal amounts Of storage eggs
have moved around sc.
Live poultry has sold fairly we'll but
supplies have been liberal and no higher
prices were obtained. The Jewish de-
mand has been spotty. some days cleaning
stock quickly and others finding no buy
erS at all. Fancy fowl and chicken have
gone uD to 32c but the average run
have brought 25-2Sc BOOSTERS sold gen
orally at 1920. Dressed fowl have been
short and have held firm at IS
40c, which seems high for the
season and which viii probably
hold after the holidays. Large roasting
chickens have still brought up to 43c but
the smaller sizes have been ircegularly
lower, some bringing as little as 25c for
good stock. BOOSTERS slower at 22-25c.
Fruits and Vegetables
Trading has not been brisk this week
! but has shown an improvement over last
week, due in part, no doubt, to the cool
weather, which tended 10 stimulate de-
onions, potatoes and tomatoes were
higher, grapefruit sweet potatoes and
turnips lower. and other lines showed
i little change from week ago.
/ Apples continue in heavy supply.
/ Heavy boat receipts of stock from Nova
I depressed the market. No. | GrevenSteins
selling 3.00-400 a barrel, and the lower
grades as low as S125 a barrel Good
sound apples. on the other had. have re-
manned steady. No. ] Maine Mcintosh
Ienlling 100000. and Wolf Rivers and
Kings 100000 q barrel.
/ Native green and wax beans sold from
/ soc to - a bushel according to
quality while fair quality Connecticut
at 30c-7Jc and carrots at 7Jc-100 q
quart hamper Native beets were steady
at J0c-75c and carrots at 1jc-100 a
bushel. Native domestic cabbage was UNI
changed at 2.00-2.25 a barrel, and New
York state Danish cabbage ut go.
Native eaulifioy9er was in good demand
and slightlyshigher at sKlc-10Q a bushtl.
I Native celery was unchanged at H.
| t.:50 a busiieI box with good Pascal eel
| cry at 300 a box. dollhouse euenmbers
| were scarce and higher at 400S.50 a
j buSlre.
| Cape Cod cranberries advanced slightly
| to 11.00-13.00 a barrel New York state
, Concord grapes were in light supply and
! higher - quart baskets bringing 10
/ Ito and quart baskets 30c-33c. Native
| lettuce was plentiful and sold slowly at
| 1-1c-4 doc a bushel for ordinary stock, or
7Je-1 90 for the best Big Boston stock
Connecticut Valley onions were scarce
and zoe higher at 4o34I 20 per 100-lb.
Jack. 4 boat shippiafIt of % cars of Cal
ifornia onions via the Panama canal ar
rived Friday. and the first few sales were
made at 800 per 100-lb. bag.
Aroestook county potatoes were plcnt