Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-31
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
1t is Well Supplied and Active-Sta-
tfonary Prices.


tionary Prices.
The last day of the summer months finds
the local wholesale produce market in that
active condition which has generally char
acterized It this season. During the past
week there have been few material changes
ih prices. Butter is perhaps a fraction
lower today in one or two grades. and
watermelons are selling at from s. to IS
per 100 at the wharves, extremely low fig
ures, but, on the other hand, eggs have
risen, and poultry also shows an upward
tendency. Both are expected to now
gradually advance as the weather grows
cooler. All other products remain about
as quoted last week.
Butter Is today a little more active than
is usual at this time of the year. and there
is a good market for fine goods. There Is
also demand for medium creameries, as
well as for fancy dairies. Although one
or two grades are today slightly lower
than last week, an advance Is rather to be
expected than a further decline. Today
for fancy Elgin and other western extras
% cents a pound is the quotation; choice
20; firsts, IS; seconds, II. Choice bakers
stock, 12a to II; New York tubs 10 to 10;
dairy print, 16 to IS; western, 10 to "A;
Maryland and Virginia creamery, IL to 49,;
dairy packed, II to IA.
Cheese is also more active than last week,
but prices remain unchanged. New York
state full cream, large, 10 cents a pound;
flats, 101a, and ponyS, IL.
Eggs are very firm today, although good
stock is very scarce. The market is over
flooded with southern goods. their quality
being not good, and first-class goods are
desired at almost any reasonable figure
From IA to 10 cents a dozen are asked for
nearby and western fresh, 2 cents less for
southern stock. Keat or guinea, 9 to Z.
The supply of poultry is large, but there
is q. good demand and prices show an up
ward movement. For live spring chickens
10 to IA cents a pound are asked; old fowls,
5 to 10; ducks. 8 to 10, and geese, 5 to T.
Vegetables and fruits are plentiful and
generally of excellent condition, and prices
Cucumbers. 30 cents to $1.25 box; new
potatoes 70 cents to $1.25 a barrel; old
stock, 40 to 90 cents bushel; sweet po-
tatoes, red, SIPS to $1.75 barrel; eastern
yams and haymons, 81 to $3.50 barrel;
beats, 81 to $3.50 a hundred punches; yell
low onions 81 to SIPS a barrel; turnips
60 to 65 cents barrel; Virginia white
beans, s1.5O to s175; black-eyed peas,
81 to 81. 10 bushel; lima beans 4 to cents
a pound.
Fancy table apples, IS cents to s150 a
barrel; Maryland and Virginia apples 20
to IS cents barrel; La Conte pears, $1.5O
TO $3.50 barrel; Bartlett pears, so to rs
cents a box; choice free-stone peaches, 10
cents to 81 bushel box; medium peaches,
so cents; damsons. 81 to s1.50 a bushel of
fifty-six pounds; blue plums, Is to 80 cents
a basket; gage plums Is to 20 cents
basket: fancy California oranges, $3.50 to
So a box; Messina. 81 to $3.50; Valencia, 50
to So 80; grapes, Is to 20.cents a ten-pound
basket; canteloupes 50 cents to $1.15 a
barrel; watermelons, 81 to SO a hundred.
The prices for beef and other meats show
no material changes. Live cattle, az to
AZ cents pound. Lambs, to As, and
sheep, 2A to 3. Cows with calves $50 to
$50 Calves, to So cents a pound.