Evening star., 1895-10-26
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Poultry and Eggs Lower Today
Cheese Higher.

Poultry and Eggs Lower Today
Cheese Higher.
With perhaps the single exception of
cheese, prices in the local wholesale produce
market today are unchanged or lower, as
rule. than those of week ago. Eggs are
about cent a dozen lower, butter is no
higher, save in single grade, seconds, and
poultry is lower. But the difference between
the prices asked today and those of last Sat
urday is however, but slight one, poultry
exhibiting the difference most marked.
Cheese runs about a cent a pound higher
and gives some evidence of still further ad-
Vanclng. Vegetables show little, If really
any, change IN prices. Game, too, remains
unchanged. Beef and other meats are about
as last quoted, with no indication of any
material change one way or the other. The
market still continues to be grandly sup
piled one, both in quantity and quality, and
its tone is firm, healthy one.
Respecting butter the market Is very
much in the same position as that of last
week Arrivals have been moderate, and
fancy fresh creamery has been slightly
In excess of current wants But there has
though slightest defects cause drop of
from one-half to one cent IA pound. Firsts
are IN free supply, seconds are cent
higher, and the lower grades, where quail
ity is good, sell fairly well. limitations are
firm, and fancy June creamery is in good
demand. AS the weather grows cooler the
quality becomes higher, and the market is
frmer. with no promise of any material or
early change in prices one way or the 9TH
er. For fancy Elgin and other western
extras "A cents pound are asked. Choice,
-; firsts. 20; seconds, Is. Choice bakers
stock, 121a to IA; New York tubs II to 20;
dairy print, 1G to IS: western, 10 to Il:
Maryland and Virginia creamery 10 to 10;
dairy packed, Is to 16
Cheese is higher today, although the
demand is not really strong, and despite
hl har ;s,
sisted. There IS a firm feeling, however
in nearly all grades. For New York state
full cream, large, IL cents a pound are
asked today; for flats. 12k, and Is for
ponys.
The receipts of eggs have been somewhat
lighter. particularly in fancy stock, due to
the advancing cold weather. Yet they are
a traction lower. there being no very heavy
demand, and because too, of the great num-
Ter of iced stock. The tendency is not, how
ever, downward. From IS to 10 cents a
dozen are asked for nearby fresh; I6 to is
for western and southern fresh; IA to Is for
iced and lined goods, and to for guinea
or keat stock.
Poultry is abundant and generally lower
The demand is increasing, and there are evil
dences of rise in prices Today drawn
turkeys sell at from 10 to IA cents 4 pound ::
live. to 10; live spring chickens, 8 to 10;
dressed, 10 to II; old stock, + to S; ducks,
8 to II, and geese, 6 to g.
No change in prices for game is no.ed, the
AteA
ant supply. The prices are: Venison, sad
die. per pound. IS to 20; whole deer, bucks,
per pound, to 10; bear. saddle, 10; pheas-
ants, 80 to 60; rabbits, per dozen. 81 to 81;
quail, $1.I5 to s.; wild turkeys per pouni /,
10; woodcock, each, 25 to 40.
Vegetables and fruits are fairly plentiful
of good average quality, with uncnansed
prices. Cabbage, 81 to s. per hundred: new
potatoes, 81 to s1.50 barrel; sweet potatoes,
red, 81 to $1.50 barrel; eastern shore sweet
potatoes, S1.5o to 81 barrel; yams and hay
mons. 81 to 1.50 barrel; beets, 81 10 $3.50 a
hundred punches; yellow onions, S1.5O to 81
a barrel; turnips, 60 to G5 cents barrel
Virginia white beans, s1.25 to $3.50; black
eyed peas, 81 to $110 bushel; lima beans,
to cents a quart; tomatoes, 10 cents to
S1.5O a crate; fancy table apples 81 TO So
barrel; fancy California oranges, $3.50 to s.
a box; Messna, 81 to s.. 80; Valencia, s. to
$3.50; lemons. S. to 81 box; grapes, 10 10 Is
cents a ten-pound basket; chestnuts, / to 4
cents a pound.
Beef and other meats remain about as la st
quoted. Live cattle, to IL cents a pound;
lambs, 3 to ID, and sheep, to . IL; cows
with calves, $50 to $40: calves :; to & IL cents
pound; dressed hogs, 5 1-2 tot.