Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-14
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET
Butter Still Advancing - Generally
Higher Prfcea Exnecfed

Butter Still Advancing - Generally
Higher Prices Expected.
The most prominent feature, perhaps of
the local wholesale produce market today
| Is the advance in the price of butter, par
| ticularly in the firest grades although all
grades are alphabetically affected. Irish
| potatoes also. show an advance in price,
| because CT the cold weather, and the same
| Is true of apples. The colder weather had
| slightly advanced poultry, and II the
weather holds cold the Christmas turkey
will command better price than did the
Thanksgiving bird. Eggs show no adj
vance, although the holiday demand will
probably advance them some especially IL
tnere De more snow. Great quantities or
storage goods continue to be sold, despite
their 1nferiority. Game is slightly higher,
but beef and other meats remain about as
last quoted. The market is firm through
| out, being splel,didly supplied, and subject
to an increasing demand.
Butter today is firmer and higher, with
| indications pointing to still higher prices
rather than to lower ones 1t is scarce, par
| ticularly in the finest grades, and buyers are
somewhat critical. The demand is large.
however, and full prices are commanded.
goods selling more on their own merits than
heretofore. June creamery is in full SYM
pathy with the advance, as are most of the
other grades. but otherwise the market re-
mains the same. Prices prevailing today:
Fancy Elgin and other western extras, %
cents a pound; choice %; firsts, %; sec
onds, 20. Choice bakers stock Is; New
York tubs. 20 to %: dairy print, 10: western,
10 to 10; Maryland and Virginia cream
cry; Is to y: dairy packed, 16 to Is
Cheese is firm, but shows no change what
ever in prices. and no immediate or mater
ial change one way OR the other is probable.
New York state full cream, large, liz cents
pound; fats, 12ls to 13. and ponys, IA.
Despite the colder weather and the COM
ing Of snow, eggs remain unchanged in
price. Reports and receipts indicated a
good yield until the weather proved a set
back to production. However, the supply
is reasonably good one. oil things consid-
cred. and If the weather continues merely
moderate. only the usual holiday advance
may be expected. Today's prices. those
quoted last week, are: Nearby fresh, q
cents dozen; storage stock. 20 to 81: west
ern and southern fresh, 20 to p, and keat
or guinea stock, 10 to II.
Poultry is plentiful and the drop In the
weather has slightly advanced prices ever
those given last week. This advance es-
pee: ally If the weather remains cold, will
continue, with the result that holiday prices
will be somewhat higher than those OBJ
served at Thanksgiving. Prices today:
Drawn turkeys, from 10 to IL cents q
pound; live. to 0: live chickens. to 8:
dressed, 8 to 10; old stock, dressed, Q to 8;
live. to z; ducks. to 10. and geese. to Q.
Game is rather plentiful but the cold
weather has slightly advanced some prices,
sen: saddle. per pound. 16 to 10; whole deer,
bucks, to 10; bear, saddle 10; pheasants
80; rabbits. per dozen, 81 to 81; quail sl75
TO -; wild turkeys per pound, 10 to II;
woodcock, each, % to 10.
irish potatoes and apples are slightly
higher today. their advance also being due
to the cold weather, but other vegetables
ard fruits remain unchanged: Cabbage
sl1O to IS per hundred; new potatoes, az
cents to SLIGO barrel; sweet potatoes, red.
y to y. 10 barrel, eastern shore sweet Do
tatoes. s225 to s. barrel; yams and hay
mons, $l5O to $3.50 barrel; beets, 81 to
$50 hundred punches; yellow onions 81
to 81 barrel, turnips 90 to IS cents a bar
rel; Virginia white beans. 81 to ST. 20; black
eyed peas, 80 cents to 81 a bushel: lima
beans, to 6 cents quart: tomatoes, 81 to
$l.5o crate: fancy table apples 81 to 81 80
a barrel; fancy California oranges. 81 to
s4.5O box; Messina, g to IS; Valencia, s.
to $50; lemons S to 81 a box
Beef and other meats show little change
as may be seen from the following prices:
Live cattle. to AZ cents a pound; lambs,
S1s to "a. and sheep. 2 to 3: cows with
calves, $25 to $50: calves to 6 cents a
pound; dressed hogs to &