Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-05
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Perfect Butter Practically Impossible
to Obtain.

Perfect Butter Practically Impossible
to Obtain.
Throughout the local wholesale produce
market there is firmness and steadiness
which may in very great measure be at
tributed to the cool weather of the past
week. The products most beneficially af
fected by the change from summer to au-
tumn temperature are butter and eggs.
But, while butter is no. lower and eggs are
higher today. the quality of each product
shows an improvement. 1t is but a slight
Improvement in each instance, however.
Yet both will continue to rapidly improve.
ard in short time it will undoubtedly be
no longer impossible to obtain perfect
goods, as has heen practically the case FOR
so many weeks. Peaches are being re-
ceived in such irregular quantities that no
definite quotations are obtainable, and that
is practically true of pears. The season
for each is about closed. But as those Gel
ioacies depart another arrives in the shape
OF the turkey. The past summer, it is said.
was very favorable for turkey raisers, and
the fall and winter supply of the national
bird is expected to be more than ordinarily
large. The market continues to be
grandly supplied one. There is an in
creased demand throughout, and the tone
is, therefore, unusually healthy and en-
courag:ng.
There may be said to be boom in butter
There is great and increasing demand for
fine goods, but that grade is still extremely
difficult to obtain, even the best, as well as
the lower grades showing up very poor
Absolutely perfect goods, in fact. command
almost any price. Below the first grades
however the market is slow. June cream
cry is being preferred to anything under
fancy, and June makes are held with in
creas.ng confidence. Im.ta tons are show
ing up poor and weak. Prices show no
change, except in the very highest grades,
which are higher. The market shows an
upward tendency, however. For fancy Ell
gin and other western extras "a cents a
pound are asked. Choice, %; f1rsts. 10; sec
onds, L. Choice bakers stock, 12h to IL;
New York tubs, II to 10; dairy print, rs to
IS: western. 10 to II; Maryland and Vir-
ginia creamery. - to 10; dairy packed, -
to IL.
The quality of cheese is almost as I'M
satisfactory as butter and eggs, although
the cool weather will soon remedy that
fault 1t shows an upward tendency and
it is today cent higher, being quoted at
II cents a pound New York state full
cream, large 10. and flats, 10 IL.
While the cool weather has slightly i'm,
proved the quality of eggs, they are still
in very poor condition. They have adj
vanced i'll price. and strictly fine goods are
selling today at from II to IS cents
dozen, other grades being from one to two
cents lower. keat or guinea stock Z to >.
Live turkeys have made their appearance
in sufficient quantity to be quoted. and
are selling at from to II cents a pound.
F>T1CSS LOT Olner poultry remain ABOUT IS
last quoted. For live spring chickens, 10 to
ii cents pound are asked: old fowls, ) to
10; ducks, 9 to II, and geese, to 10.
Game is fairly plentiful and of average
quality, prices being about as those men-
toned week ago. Nenison, saddle, per
pound, IS to 10; whole deer, bucks per
pound. s to 10: bear, saddle, 10; pheasants,
80 to CD; rabbits. per dozen, SIPS to $l5G;
quail 81 15 to 600; wild turkeys, per pound,
10; woodcook, each. 35 TO 20.
No material changes are noted in veg
etables, as may he seen from the following
prices: Cucumbers so cents to S1.25 box
new potatoes, 81 to sl.75 a barrel; sweet
potatoes, red, 81 to si.75 a barrel; eastern
shore sweet potatoes, $50 to s. a barrel;
vans and haymons, 81 to $3.50 barrel;
beets, 81 to 80 hundred lunches: yellow
onions, $50 to 81 a barrel; turnps, 60 to
IS cents a barrel; Virginia white beans, 81 p
to S1.:O; black-eyed peas, 81 to 81 10 bushel;
lima bears, to cents a quart; tomatoes
IS cents to $3.50 crate.
Fruits are becoming scarce and uncer-
tain. although. apples are expected to be
rather plentiful and lower. For fancy table
apples. $3.50 to s. barrel; Sickle pears, 81
to s. barrel: Bartlett pears, 81 to s. a
barrel; peaches, 81 to s. bushel;
fancy California oranges, 1850 to s. a box;
Mcssina, 81 to $3.50; Valencia, s. to $3.50;
lemons. s. to 81 box; grapes, 10 to Is cents
a ten-pou:Id basket.
Beef and other meats show slight in
crease in prices. Live cattle, to Az cents
pound; lambs, 10 3-4, and sheep. to
3; cows. with calves s25 to $40; calves, 3 to
6;a cents a pound.