Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-04

Butter Declines Beef Still High -
Well-SuppIied Market,


The most prominent feature Of the local
wholesale produce market was a fall in
butter, prices falling about cents pound
in all the grades. In vegetables, too,
prices declined somewhat, but in them
quotations are almost daily influenced and
materially So by the warmer growing
weather. Beef still commands very high
prices and gives practically no indications
of any early or material reduction in
prices. Poultry is sympathetically affected
and is not over abundant, prices being a
tone higher. The market is well supplied,
and an apparently growing demand gives
it strong, healthy tone and an active
firmness. The heavy rainfall of the weak
is expected to have quite bearing on the
market, and favorably so to both producer
and consumer
At the present prices 1t is probable that
butter will hold it's own for perhaps at
least week, and about the middle of the
month still lower prices may be looked for.
The long-prevailing scarcity in fancy goods
continues, and the market in the under
grades is very slow, such stock hardly
being desired at any prices. Nearby goods
show very often a faint of garlic. The
heavy rainfall during the week is expect
ed to materially hasten good grass butter,
which may be expected in two or three
weeks time, or even earlier. In cheese
there Is really no change in prices or con-
ditionS. Today, for fancy Elgin creamery
and other western extras, 20 cents a pound
is asked; firsts, IS; seconds, 16. and imita-
tons, IA. Fancy creamery print, %; dairy
print, is to 20, and Maryland and Virginia
print. 16 to IS: western dairy, best, u to
IL. and good to 10. Maryland and Vir-
ginia dairy, choice, II to 10, and good to
prince II to IL. Bakers stock, 121a. New
York cheese, large creams, 121a cents a
pound, and flats and ponys, Ii. New, IL
to -.
While eggs went down to II 10 cents a
dozen early in the week, today they are
firm at II IL to IL. Indications, however
point TO lower prices during the next two
or three weeks, when they will probably
fall as low as at any time this season.
The high prices for beef, which affect
other meats, are responsible for an unusu-
ally active demand for poultry, and the
supply is hardly in keeping with the de-
mand. Spring chickens are scarce, and
prices for them are somewhat advanced.
Drawn turkeys, - to 16 cents a pound; I'M
drawn, u to IL; live, 10 to -; drawn chick
ter chickens, IA to IS; and spring chick
ems, % to 40; dressed old fowls, 10 to II,
and live to 10; capons, IA to 30; dressed
ducks, 10 to II, and live, to -; dressed
geese, to 10, and live, { to o.
The increase in the supply is daily noted,
but the demand Is correspondlngly active,
while prices show slight decline. Cucum-
bers. 50 to 10 cents a dozen; kale 20 to
30 cents a barrel; new peas s. to $50 per
box; Florida beans. 81 to S1.25 a box; as
paragus, 81 to $3.50 a dozen; lettuce, $3.50
to " barrel; new Irish potatoes, 50 to
$50 barrel: old stock. 30 to so cents
bushel; sweets, s1.25 to 81. 10 a barrel; Flor
ida tomatoes. 81 TO IS a crate; cabbage,
So to SIS per hundred; turnips. 60 to 20
cents barrel; apples 81 to So a BARREL
California oranges, 3d. 80 to 81; Messina, 50
to $3.50 a box, and Valencia, 81 to $3.50 a
case: Strawberries, 20 to 10 cents quart
In live cattle there is no less a scarcity
today than there was a week ago, and
prices remain about last quoted, from
to 6 81 cents a pound. Sheep, IL to
4 IL; lambs. to 4; and spring lambs. to
Q; cows, with calves, SO to $40 each: calves
to cents pound; dressed calves, : to
.: sheep, to &; hogs, L. to 9; country
sugar-cured hams, 8 TO II.