Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Prices Practically Unchanged An
Abundance Of Products.


Abundance of Products.
So far as prices are concerned the local
wholesale produce market shows today lit
tie, If really any. change from the market
of week ago. Usually, the market with
| in less than a week of a great holiday like
Thanksgiving day is observable because of
a general advance in prices, but that fea
ture is not noticeable today. OF course,
some slight advance may be expected be-
tween now and Thanksgiving day, but it
will not be very material one, so no I'M
usual rise in prices need be feared. In
deed. If the present moderate weather con-
tinCes, prices are apt to be slightly lower
than usual at this season, especially for
poultry. Hence. the average retail price
for the Thanksgiving turkey should not
exceed 10 or 10 cents pound. Butter re-
mains precisely as last quoted, and is
rather quiet. The same can be said of
cheese, while nearby fresh eggs still sell
for % cents. and are exceedingly scarce.
During the coming week they are likely to
have kept prices down, and the indications
are that the market during the coming
week will be an unusually well supplied
ore. Game, too. Is and will be abundant,
and seasonable fruits. Beef and kindred
meats show little change, either in prices
or supply. The market is not only SPLEEN
didly supplied one. but its tone is firm and
encouraging.
Butter is selling today at last weeks
prices. and the demand for 1t does rot show
much Improvement Colder weather, how
ever. together with lighter receipts. gives
the market a little stronger tone, especially
on top grades Of fresh goods. Fancy cream
cry is going out readily, and closer clear
ance is now observed than for some time
past. However, no immediate advance in
prices Is looked for, as a very conservative
feeling pervades the market. Not much
interest Is shown in June creamery or in
New York state dairy, and imitation cream
cry is steady, with fair call for choice
marks. Fresh factory stock is slowly in
creasing. The following are the prices to-
day: Fancy Elgin and other western extras,
"a cents pound. Choice %; firsts, y; sec
onds. 49, Choice bakers stock, 121a to Is;
New York tubs. IS to 81; dairy print, 16 to
49,; western, 10 to 10; Maryland and Vir-
ginia creamery, 10 to 20; dairy packed. 10 10
10.
Cheese today is very quiet, with stationary
prices, and with no positive evidences of a
change one way or the other shortly. Hold
ers of fancy September full cream, large,
last week, today New York state full cream,
large, bring 111a cents a pound; flats, 121a
to ID, and ponys. IA.
Eggs, fine, fresh ones, at least. still re-
main scarce and still command fancy prices.
The colder weather has had little effect
upon trade, nevertheless. 1t gives steadier
feeling among holders of fine goods. Lined
goods are in fair demand and firm and large
sales of refrigerator stock are observable.
Prices remain unchanged, as may be seen
from the following: Nearby fresh, % cents
dozen; storage stock. 10 to 20; western
and southern fresh, 10 to q, and keat or
guinea stock, to 10.
During the week the receipts of 1--we poul-
try have been quite large, and the receipts of
both live and dressed stock will be unusually
heavy between now and Thanksgiving day.
Much complaint is occasioned because Of the
III satisfactory condition of dressed poultry
sent here. and the following suggestions
should be adopted by shippers: The fowls
should be kept from food twenty-four hours
before killing, to allow the craw to become
empty. Hang by the leg, and kill by putting
the knife through the neck near the head,
then scald and pick, but be careful not TO
break the skin. The breast should never be
cut. Cut off the head and feet, draw. the
skin over the neck and tie, plunge into cold
water and hang up to thoroughly cool and
close in clean boxes or barrels without either
paper or straw, and mark plainly on each
package what 1t contains.
Today's prices are as follows: Drawn tur
keys from 10 to II cents pound; live, to
H. live chickens. to 10; dressed, to II; old
stock, dressed, s to 10; live, to Z; ducks, .
to IL, and geese, 6 to 8.
The market continues to be abundantly
supplied with game, and prices remain I'M
changed Venison, saddle, per pound, u to
10; whole deer, bucks. to 10; bear. saddle,
10; pheasants. 40 to 30; rabbits, per dozen. 81
to 81; quail $1.15 to s.; wild turkeys, per
pound. 10 to -; woodcock. each, % to 10.
Sweet potatoes are somewhat higher to-
day, but other vegetables remain about as
last quoted. And such is true with fruits,
apples being unusually plentiful Cabbage.
$3.50 to s. per hundred; new potatoes, ID
cents to $15O a barrel: sweet potatoes, red,
81 to s. IS barrel; eastern shore sweet po-
tatoes, $2.25 to s. a barrel; yams and hay
mons, $1.5O to SIS a barrel beets 81 to 81 so a
hundred punches; yellow onions, 81 to 81
barrel; turnips GO to g. cents barrel; Vir-
ginia white beans 81 to $50; black-eyed
peas, so cents to 81 bushel; lima beans, to
cents quart; tomatoes 81 to $1.50 a crate;
fancy table apples 81 to s. a barrel; fancy
California oranges, 81 80 to 81 box; Messna,
81 to $3.50; Valencia. s. to $3.50: lemons, IS to
- box; grapes, 10 to Is cents ten-pound
basket; chestnuts, to cents a pound
Beef and other meats show really no ma
tertal change in prices. Live cattle, to AZ
cents a pound; lambs, 3 to 4A and Sheep
to 21a; cows with calves, $50 to SIS; calves3 to
cents pound; dressed hogs, Az tot
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