Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-23
WHOLESALE pRopucE MARKET.
Butter Advancing, Eggs Plentiful and
AWAY DOwn.

butter Advancing, Eggs Plentiful and
Away Down.
With few exceptions, he local wholesale
produce market, during the past week, wit
messed, practically, no change in prices.
On the whole, the market has been firm,
active one, healthy demand throughout.
and responsive supply Prospects for
good spring trade grow brighter, and sea-
son of splendid results for producers and
buyers is believed to be certainty-a sea-
son, In both respects far in advance of
that Of year ago.
In butter the market has gradually grown
stronger and firmer. Fancy stock has, per-
haps, more strongly advanced than other
grades, but the lower grades exhibit SYM
pathy with this advance in the fancy and
fine stock, and prices in the lower grades
are moving upward. There Is a scarcity of
fine goods, and 1t will. in all probability,
continue for some time at least; hence.
good price for fine grades will be asked
and had, and greater demand for the
lower grades will follow For Elgn cream
cry and other western extras, from u to y
cents pound are asked today; frsts, 10 to
70; seconds, 16 to II, and mutations IL to
16. Fancy creamery print, %; dairy print,
Is to ~, and Maryland and Virginia print,
16 to Is. Western dairy, best, II TO ID, and
choice Maryland and Virginia dairy. pack
ed. IA to IL, and good to prime II to IA.
There is a firm market in chaese-New
York state full cream, large 1212 cents
pound, and flats and ponys, ID.
Eggs today are lower than a week ago,
the market being one Of about II cents
dozen for nearby and western fresh. While
the open weather and the prolific produc-
ton of the hens will not unlikely send
prices still lever. possibly to IL cents, it is
the opinion of good judges that 12i2 mar
ket will shortly be seen, at which mark
prices will likely remain for some time.
Yesterday prices ran from liz to II.
Receipts in poultry during the past week
have not been large. Hence, there has been
no decline in prices, good demand readily
realizing present quotations In fact, prices
have remained about stationary. Drawn
turkeys run from 13 to Is cents pound,
and like prices for choice undrawn: live. IL
to IA. Dressed chickens II to Is; live win
ter chicks. Ii to Is; capons, II to IS; dress
ed old fowls, 10 to IA. and live, to II.
Dressed ducks, II to -, and live. 10 to IL.
Dressed geese, to g. and live. to 8.
While old Irish potatoes show a slight
advance other vegetables show little, if
airy, real change. New Irish potatoes run
from "a to $50 barrel, and old stock,
81 to $3.50 barrel Florida tomatoes, $3.50
to $3.50 crate. Cabbages. S. to $1S per
hundred. Bermuda onions, 81 to $3.50
crate; yellows. 81. so to s. a barrel. Turnips,
high and scarce, from 81 to So a barrel.
California oranges, s. to 81 box; Messina.
s. to 81, and Valencia, 81 to $3.50 case.
Lemons. $50 to 81 box.
mere mas peeii pfactlcaily 10 cnanse OF
prices in live stock or in dressed stock.
Live cattle. w to IA cents n pound;
sheep. to 3: hogs, to 81; spring lambs,
6 to g. and others, 3k to AZ; calves, 2ls to
5la Cows, So to $40 apiece. Dressed stock
Calves, . to 8; sheep, to j, and hogs = to
:. Country sugar-cured hams. Q to TO-
Flour. grain, hay and straw show no real
change in prices. Flour. $3.50 to $4.25 a
barrel: rye. $3.50 to 81; New York buck
wheat, 81 per hundred weight; corn meal,
90 to g.; wheat, 81 to 80 cents bushel;
rye, ~ to 46; corn, Al to 40; oats 70 to 80:
bran. $3.50 to SIS ton: middlin gs-white,
SIG to SIT. and brown, l4 to $15. Timothy
hay. $40 to $13 ton; other grades, IS to
$1,000 Cut, s13 to $l4. Rye straw, bundled
$3.50 to 50; machine threshed, $3.50 to SC,
and wheat s. to $50