Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-05-20
THE CITY MARKETS.
BRISK MARKET FOR NEW PRoDUcTs-DowNwARp
TENDENCY IN THE PRICE OF BUTTER-yARIoUs
FEATURES OF THE WEEK.

The flour markett is duh and sluggish with rather
easier prices, the exception being in the best quail
tiles OF extras, which are offered with some re-
serve. Minnesota patent process, S.. 75as9; bakers
brands, $7a$25; family ,patent process 81 25a$7 as;
standard brands, So 25as; trade brands S. $3.50 IS;
extra, $685.; super, s.; fine, $4as45 so; middling.
s3a3 So rye, IS s5a5.50; corn meal, white, bolted,
Grain.-Wheat, choice. sl.47as15O; do. fair to
good, 81 sSa$1.42; rye. s5cas1 per bushel; corn,
Yellow, s3aS4 cts; do. white SSa9O cts do. mixed,
SASS cts; oats, southern, 62a63 cts. do. western,
6)s63 cts.
Mil Feed.-Bran, western, sssass5 per ton; mid
dllngs, white, s28as25 per ton; do, brown, same
BUTTER
The supply of butter is increasing and prices
declining with downward tendency. The result
IS that sales not brisk, with feeling OF in
security, the bottom figures not yet having been
reached New butter is taking the place OF Old
Stock and the good grass season favorS abundant
supplies OF milk. Even now large quantities are
reported as being converted into cheese which
las also effected the price OF that commodity.
Wholesale prices OF butter in this market are as
follows: Fine creamery, asa3O cts; New York
binary, good, Isaac. Good creamery print butter
sells for 33a35 cents, and the homemade prints 25
plies are more liberal the prices are firm. Western
eggs In barrels are 10 cents Cheese is OF SLOW
sale. Fine New York cream cheese is selling for
12t12H cents; western skim milk, Sal0 cents.
Cheese is getting to be OF better quality.
Old fowls selling for lie, and spring chickens
for oa35c. per pound in jobbing lots. Turkeys and
ducks, as also game, are all out OF the market.
Dressed poultry Is scarce, and when fine sells at
high figures
Live stock remains about the same as the prices
OF last week, prices being firm, which makes no
change in the dressed supply.
VEGETABLES
are becoming more plentiful and the market is
lively, the sales being brisk and the demand good.
Eirly Rose potatoes (old) are worth $l25a$ so per
buShel; Peerless, $1.25aS1.4 40. The foreign kinds
are s1.25, and but few OF them. Dealers say they
do not want them at any price. New Bermudas
are worth s6a S. so per Dbl Charleston and Savan-
NH, $4.50as5.50 Tomatoes, Florida, $2is4 per
bushe box; do, Bermudas, 25a6Oc. per box, smaller
size. String BEANS fiat, $3.50 per buShel; do. do.
round, $3.50. CucumberS, Florida, $1.50is 81 so;
Charleston and Savannah, s. 50aS4 Peas, per half
Dbl box, S2aS2.25. Squash, Sl.50as2. Eggplant.
81 80 per buShel box. NeV turnips s. per hun
dred punches. Asparagus, 30c per twO-pound
punches. Cabbages, Norfolk, 81 $3.50 per Dbl;
do. Charleston and Savannah, $3tS350 per crate.
Lettuce, 25c. per dOZ. buntheS; radiSheS, same.
Strawberries 15a30c per box in lots; apples, S5aS7
per Dbl Dried fruits are for good lots. the
supply being nearly exhausted and the prices firm.
Very little change is noted in fresh meats. Choice
hind quarter sells for Liable; common Hale.
Sl10c. Mutton and lamb is plenty, with prices
The wholesale and Jobbing market In all kinds
OF new products, and especially in fresh vege-
tables has been brisk; lots selling freely and in
cool demand