Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-07
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Butter Higher Today-Little Change
In Other Products.

Butter Higher TOday-Little Change
in Other Products.
Wit / perhaps the single exception of but
ter, the local wholesale produce market
shows little change from that observed
last week. Butter. however, is today
cent higher a pound throughout all grades
and it may rise still higher. there being an
unusual scarcity Of really fine goods. Poul-
try, because of the colder weather, Is
shade higher today. with slight upward
tendency, based on the belief that the
weather will grow colder. Eggs are no
higher, but really fresh goods are exceed
ingly difficult to obtain, and large quanti-
ties of stors ge goods are being palmed on
by some as fresh stock. Vegetables are
about as last quoted. and the same can be
said of beef and kindred meats. The mar
ket is remarkably firm and quite active,
being bountifully supplied.
Butter is unusually firm, and the scarcity
Of fancy creamery Is more marked than
last week. The consequence is that prices
have advanced about a cent a pound in all
grades, and further slight advance is not
by any means improbable. In fact. buyers
show little objection to giving almost airy
reasonable price for fancy goods, and the
result is that there is good demand for all
grades of st, ok. The prices today are:
Fancy Elgn and other western extras, %
cents pound; choice. %; firsts. 3; sec
onds 90 Choice bakers stock, II 1-2 to Is;
New York tubs, IS to %; dairy print, II to
10; western. 10 to Is; Maryland and Vir-
ginia creamery, 18 to 20; dairy packed. IL
to IS.
There is a fair demand for cheese, prices
being those observed last week. Holders
are encouraged by future prospects. ut no
general activity is expected until after the
holidays. Today's prices are:
New York state full cream. large. II 1-2
cents a pound; flats, u 1-2 to 49, and po-
nys a.
The market is very firm in eggs, with
chon off
pected to shortly advance. Advices from
the west show collections of fresh stock to
be very small there. because of the cold
weather, and the same conditions are OBJ
served in this section. Great quantities CT
storage goods are being sold, and country
dealers are sending in as fresh goods stor-
age stock which they have purchased in
the city. The following are today's prices
Nearby fresh, q cents a dozen: storage
stock. 20 to 81; western and southern fresh,
20 to %, and keat or guinea stock, 10 to IL.
There is a splendid supply of poultry,
and while the cold weather has caused a
much firmer feeling, with a tendency to
slightly higher prices, quotations are about
as last noted, as may be seen from the fol-
lowing: Drawn turkeys from to II cents
a pound: live. to s; live chickens, to s.;
dressed, to 9; old stock. dressed @ to s;
live. to I; ducks, to 10. and geese. to.S.
Game is also plentiful but prices are I'M
changed. Venison. saddle, per pound, u to
IS: whole deer. bucks, to 10; bear, sad
die, 10; pheasants 40 to 20; rabbits. per
dozen, 81 to 81: quail. S1.75 to g; wild tur-
keys, per pound. 10 to II; woodcock, each,
% to 40
Vegetables and fruits continue plentiful
and of good quality, with prices practically
as last quoted. Cabbage. $1.50 to s. per
hundred; new potatoes, IS cents to $50 a
barrel: sweet potatoes, red. s. to s.. 10 bar
rel; eastern shore sweet potatoes. S2.25 to s.
a barrel; yams and haymons 81 80 to S250 a
barrel; beets. 81 to $50 hundred punches;
yellow onions, 81 to 81 a barrel; turnips, Go
to IS cents q barrel; Virginia white beans,
81 to 81 so; black-eyed peas. so cents to 81 a
| bushel; lima beans, to cents Quart
tomatoes. 81 to $1.5O a crate; fancy table
apples, 81 to So a barrel: fancy California
oranges, $3.50 to So a box; Messina, 81 to
$50; Valencia, s. to $3.50; lemons IS to 81
a box; grapes, 10 to Is cents a ten-pound
basket; chestnuts. to cents pound.
No real change Is observed in beef and
other meats. Live cattle, 2 to AZ cents a
pound: lambs, to 4, and sheep, to 3; cows
with calves, $40 to s45; calves, to cents
a pound; dressed hogs, 4 to 6.