Evening star., 1895-11-02

Prices Practically Unchanged. Though
the Products Are Plentiful.

the Products Are Plentiful.
So far prices are concerned, the local
wholesale produce market is today prac-
tically as it was a week ago. Indeed, such
products as butter, eggs and cheese are SELL
ing at precisely the same figures at which
they sold last Saturday. Yet the quality Of
those three products shows a decided i'm
provement over that of late. The large
quantity of cold storage eggs tends to keep
the price of strictly fresh from advancing,
and liberal receipts of butter and cheese
similarly affect their price. Poultry and
game are fairly plentiful but there is no par
ticularly heavy demand Beef and other
meats remain unchanged. and the same can
be said of fruits and vegetables. Still, the
market is a firm, active one
Butter is in a much better condition and
receipts are on a liberal scale. But buyers
are critical, and in consequence of that con-
d11on or affairS only marks which can be
used for higher class trade bring top prices.
Other grades require shading June cream
cry is quite firm, and is in great demand for
exporting, so much SO that there is no little
difficulty In filling orders. limitations sell
well. and there is a fair trade in factory
stock. The markets present tendency is
rather upward than downward, and quite
firm. Prices are just they were week
ago: For fancy Elgin and other western ex-
tras "A cents pound are asked. Choice %:
| firsts, 20; seconds, is. Choice bakers stock,
q
print. 16 to IS; western, 10 to Il: Maryland
| and Virginia creamery, 15 to 10; dairy
| packed, 13 to 16
Trade is reported rather light in cheese. al
| though the prices of last week prevail.
Dealers, however, are showing less dispose
ton to follow the recently advanced rates.
Yet, there is generally prevailing firm feel
ing. Today's prices: New York state full
cream. large, IL cents a pound; flats 121k,
and 13 for ponys
In eggs, receivers are disposed to hold
prices unchanged. believing that fresh col
lectionS will decrease still further. There
are indications of an advance, although it
may not be an immediate or very material
one. Refrigerator goods are quiet, while
lined stock is steady. Today from IS to 10
cents dozen are asked for nearby fresh;
1G to 1S for western and southern fresh; IA to
Is for iced and lined goods, and to s for
guinea or keat stock.
Poultry is still rather plentiful and low the
Gather being in no small degree responsible
for the prevailing prices. The following are
today's quotations: Drawn turkeys from 10
| to Ia cents a pound; live, 8 to 10; live spring
chickens, s to 10; dressed, 10 to Il; old stock.
to s; ducks. 8 to IL, and geese, 6 toS.
Game is fairly plentiful. and somewhat
lower today: Venson. saddle. per pound, 10
to IS; whole deer, bucks 8 to 10; bear, sad
ole. 10; pheasants, 40 to so; rabbits, per
dozen, 81 to 81; quail. $1.75 to So; wild tur-
keys, per pound, 10 to II; woodcock, each,
25 to 40.
Vegetables and fruits continue in good
condition and at last weeks prices: Cab
bage, 81 to s. per hundred: new potatoes 81
to 1O barrel: sweet potatoes. red, 81 to
$1.5O a barrel: eastern shore sweet potatoes,
$50 to s. a barrel; yams and haymons, 81 to
$1.50 a barrel; beets, 81 to $3.50 a hundred
punches; yellow onions, $1.5O to 81 barrel;
| turnips. 60 to 65 cents a barrel; Virginia
white beans, $1.25 to s1.J0: black-eyed peas,
| 81 to 81. 10 bushel; lima beans. 4 to cents a
quart; tomatoes, 75 cents to $I.5O crate;
fancy table apples, 81 to s. barrel; fancy
| California oranges. $50 to s. box; Mes
sina, 81 to s2t0; Valencia, s. to $3.50; lem
| ons. s. to 81 a box; grapes, 10 to Is cents
| ten-pound basket; chestnuts to 6 cents q
| pound.
Little or no real change Is noted today in
| beef and other meats: Live cattle, 2 to 4 "a
| cents pound; lambs, to 1-2 and sheep
to 1-2; cows with calves so to $40; calves
to 8 1-2 cents a pound; dressed hogs. g Ia
to {.