Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16

Eggs Higher and Shareholder Pro-
ducts IIuchnuRed.


The condition of the local wholesale pro-
duce market today is for the most part what
1t was week ago. Eggs, however, have ad
vanced even beyond the point anticipated,
and are today selling at % cents a dozen,
fine fresh stock being exceedingly scarce.
Butter is quite firm, and in that fine goods
are difficult to obtain. Poultry shows but
little change, and because of the continued
warm weather dressed goods are unsatisfac-
tory in the majority of instances. No
changes are to be observed in game and in
vegetables the same may be said Beef and
other meats too. remain as about last
quoted. Nevertheless. the market is firm
throughout being a well-supplied one, and
tie tone being rather healthy one.
Butter is very firm today, and prices re-
main as last stated. There is a great amount
of inferior goods to be found, the warm,
murky weather being responsible therefor to
great degree. Hence, the difficulty expert
enced in obtaining fine goods last week con-
tiEues, and June creamery commands great
respect The lower grades are also steady
the prices are as follows: Fancy Elgin and
other western extras, "a cents pound.
Choice %; firsts. %; seconds, IS. Choice
bakers stock, 12ls to IS; New York tubs IL
to 81 dairy print 10 to IS; western, 10 to Is;
Maryland and Virginia creamery, 10 to 70;
dairy packed Is to 10.
Really little, If any, change Is to be noted
in cheese, the conditions and prices being as
New York state full cream, large, bring 111s
cents pound; iiats, 1919 to ID, and ponys, IA.
Fine, fresh eggs today are practically i'm
possible to obtain, and they command really
fancy prices. There are, however, large
quantities oficed goods on sale, which are in
many instances being sold for nearby fresh.
For fine fresh goods % cents dozen are be-
ing asked today, and 10 to 20 for storage
stock. From 1S to 20 are asked for western
and southern fresh, and to 10 for keat and
guinea stock.
Live poultry is quite plentiful. and dressed
IS really more so than the weather war
rants. Prices are practically unchanged
Drawn turkeys from 10 to IL cents pound;
live, to IL; live spring chickens. to 10;
dressed, to II; old stock, to 6; ducks,
to H. and geese, to 8. Game continues
plentiful, with prices as they were week
ago. Venison. saddle, per pound, Is to IS;
whole deer, bucks, to 10; bear, saddle 10;
pheasants, 40 to so: rabbits, per dozen. 81
to 81: quail, s1.75 to 81; wild turkeys, per
pound, 10 to Il; woodcock. each, % to 80.
Vegetables are to be had in large quantities
Cabbage, sl.5O to So per hundred; new pota;
toes Is cents to $3.50 barrel: sweet pota-
toes, red, 81 to $1.50 a barrel; eastern shore
sweet potatoes. Sl.50 to 81 a barrel: vans
and haymons. 81 to s1.50 barrel; beets. 81
to $50 a hundred punches; yellow onions,
1.5O to 81 Darrell turnips, 60 to 65 cents
barrel; Virginia white beans, 81 to $1.5o;
black-eyed peas, 50 cents to 81 a bushel;
lima beans, to cents a quart: tomatoes.
10 cents to 81 so a crate; fancy table apples,
81 to 81 a barrel: fancy California oranges,
s.. 80 to 81 a box: Messna. 50 to $3.50; Vafen-
cha, s. to $50; lemons, s. to 81 a box; grapes.
10 to Is cents ten-pound basket; chestnuts.
4 to cents a pound.
quoted. Live cattle, 2 to cents pound:
lambs, 3 to 4. and sheep, 2 to 2k; cows with
calves $40 to s45: calves, 3 to 6h cents
Pound; dressed hogs, to-