Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-21

Poultry Unusually Low Butter Still
Higher.


The features of the local wholesale pro-
duce market today are the advance in but
ter and the fall in poultry. The advance in
the price of butter was fcreShadoWed N
this column last week, but the decline in the
price OF poultry was Deepen LEM almost whcl
ly upon the condition of the weather, and
as the winter has seemingly given way to
spring. POULTRY is today and has been dHr
Ing the past several days lower than at any
other time this season. If the weather of
today gives way to cold. freezing tempera-
lures between now and Christmas eve prices
will sharply advance. Otherwise, turkeys
will be had at practically purchasers own
prices. Eggs are today from one to two
cents lower dozen than last week. the
open spring-like weather being responsible
for such yield as to send them down at
season when they are generally much high
err Game. vegetables, meats and .other pro-
ducts are also somewhat affected by the
weather, but to nothing like the extent it
has affected poultry. The market is a splen-
didly supplied one, and an unusually active
one. -
Butter is today from one TO two cents a
pound higher than this day week ego
and is also firmer. There is feeling in
some quarters that prices have been forced
TO the top notch. Only the very finest goods
command top prices. although June cream
cry maintains steady position. there being
somewhat frosted and bitter to June makes
The prices prevailing today are: Fancy Ell
gin and other western extras, % cents a
pound; choice. p; tirsts, -; seconds. -.
Choice bakers stock. Is; New York tubs,
20 to ID: dairy print, 10; western, 10 to IL;
Maryland and Virginia creamery IS to -
dairy packed, Is to Is
Cheese remains unchanged both in prices
and IN other conditions. although the move
ment In it is rather better than is usual
at this season of the year. To-Day it is SELL
ing at the following prices: New York state
Inil cream large, ll12 cents pound; flats,
l2la to l3, and ponys, Il. go
Eggs. because OF the continued warm
weather. are both lower and weak with a
fair supply on hand. They are also in bet
ter condition, with no indicat tons of any
one way or the other To-Day they are SELL
ing at the following prices Nearby fresh
- cents dozen; storage stock, %: west
ern and southern fresh, p, and keat or
guinea stock, 10.
Rarely has the Price of poultry been so
low at this season of the year a. it is today
OF course. the unusual warm weather is
mainly, if not altogether, responsible for
such a condition of the market The sup
ply. too. is very large. and unless cold
weather comes to the rescue of dealers a
further slump in prices is not at all ur-
likely. The following quota tions prevailed
today: Drawn turkeys, from to $ cents a
pound; live, to I; live chickens to :;
dressed. & to s; old stock, dressed, 6 to s;
nFe, TO u; DUCKS. y to 10, and geese, 6 to g..
Game continues plentiful. with practically
unchanged prices. Venison. saddle. per
pound 16 to ~; whole deer, bucks & to 10:
bear. saddle, 10; pheasants. 80; rabbits, per
dozen, 81 to 81; quail, s1.15 to ST. wild tur-
keys. per pound, 10 to y; woodcock, each,
% to 40.
Vegetables and fruits are unusually plenti-
full, but prices show no real change. Cab
baSe, $l.5O to s. per hundred; new potatoes,
IS cents to SLIGO a barrel; sweet potatoes.
| red, 81 to $2.75 a barrel: eastern shore sweet
potatoes. SD to So barrel; vans and hay
mons, $50 to $3.50 a BARREL beets, 81 to
$50 hundred punches; yellow onions. 81
to s. barrel; turnirs, GO to 65 cents a bar
rel: Virginia white beans, 81 to Sl:J; black
eyed peas, 30 cents to 81 a bushel; lima
beans, to 6 cents a quart; tomatoes, 81 to
$3.50 crate; fancy table apples, s. to $50
barrel; fancy California oranges, 81 to
s43O box; Messina, 50 to 81; Valencia, So
to $50; lemons. s. to 81 box
Beef and kindred meats remain as about
quoted last week. being little affected by
| the open weather. today's prices being:
Live cattle, 2 to cents a pound; lambs,
to AZ and sheep, 2 to 3 81; COWS with
calves, $50 to $50; calves, to 6 cents a
pound; dressed hogs, 4 to g.