Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-30
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Butter and Eggs Higher-PouItry and
Meats Lower,

Meats Lower.
The features of the local wholesale pro-
duce market during the past week, the one
closing today, were the advances in butter
and eggs, both being higher today than at
any other time this season. A scarcity of
both is the primary cause for the rise in
prices, and neither will probably decline
for some time In other products the mar
ket shows little If any, material change,
either in prices or in the supply and quail
ty. While the Thanksgiving market was a
large and splenddly supplied one prices for
poultry did not reach those expected be-
cause of the unfavorable weather. Hence,
now that the holiday is past, prices
slightly lower. Beef and other meats also
snow slightly the effects of a great holiday
market. Vegetables and fruits are prac-
tically unchanged. The markets tone,
however, is healthy and strong throughout
with firmness most encouraging.
Butter today Shows an advance of about
cent pound throughout all grades, and a
still further slight advance is not by any
means unlikely. The market is firm and ex-
hfbits much more strength and activity.
Fancy creamery stock is very scarce, and
the lower grades are in full sympathy with
the advance in it. The following prices. OBJ
tanning today, clearly show the state of the
market: Fancy Elgin and other western ex-
tras, % cents pound; choice, "a; firsts, %;
seconds, IS. Choice bakers stock, 121k to Is;
New York tubs, is to %; dairy print IL to 10;
creamery, Is to 20; dairy packed 13 to 10.
Cheese, while not SO firm today shows no
change in prices, as may be observed from
those below, and none is expected shortly.
New York state full cream, large liz cents
pound; flats, 12la to 10; and ponys, IA.
The advance Of cold weather is, perhaps,
directly responsible for the advance in eggs,
and fine, fresh goods are unusually scarce
and extremely difficult to obtain, very few
arrivals being reported. There is, however,
very large quantity of storage stock and
nod tol,
as fresh goods.
The following prices prevail today, al
though they are more than likely to soon
advance: Nearby fresh, % cents a dozen;
storage stock 20 to 81; western and south
ern fresh, 20 to p, and keat or guinea
stock, 10 to IL.
The rather warm weather preceding
Thanksgiving day was responsible for
slightly lower prices for Poultry than usu-
al, and the prices today, particularly those
for live stock, are slightly lower than last
week. Prices observed today: Drawn tur-
keys from to 10 cents pound; live, 10
s; live chickens, Z to 8; DIRE ssed, to .; old
stock, dressed, to s; live, to Z; ducks, .
to 10, and geese, to 8.
Vegetables continue plentiful and I'M
changed in price, and the same can he said
of fruits. Cabbage, $1.50 to 50 per hundred;
new potatoes. IS cents to $50 a barrel;
sweet potatoes, red, 81 to 81. % a barrel;
eastern shore sweet potatoes. 2.25 to 81
barrel; yams and haymons, $l.J0 to $50 a
barrel; beets, 81 to 81. 80 a hundred punches;
yellow onions, 81 to 81 q. barrel; turnips, 90
to 65 cents barrel; Virginia white beans.
81 to s1.50; black-eyed peas, 80 cents to 81 a
bushel; lima beans, to cents a quart;
tomatoes, 81 to s1.!0 a crate; fancy table
apples 81 to s. barrel; fancy California
oranges $50 to s. box; Messina, 81 to
$3.50; Valencia, s. to $50; lemons, $ to 81
a box; grapes, 10 to Is cents ten-pound
basket: chestnuts, 4 to cents pound.
Game is in abundance. but with no
change in prices. Venison, saddle, per
pound, Is to IS; whole deer bucks, q to 10;
bear, saddle 10; pheasants. 40 to 80; rab-
bits. per dozen, 81 to 81; quail, 81. 20 to 50;
wild turkeys, per pound, 10 to u; woodcock,
each, 25 to 40.
Beef and other meats are slightly lower
today. Live cattle, to cents a pound;
lambs, to 4, and sheep, to 2l4: cows
with calves, $40 to s45; calves, to cents
a pound; dressed hogs, 4 to g.