Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-25
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Butter Still LOwer-EEEs and Other
Products About Stationary.

Butter Stin LOwer-Esgs and Other
Products About Stationary.
When last week butter reached a price
lower than ever before known at this sea-
son Of the year, it was thought that 1t
could hardly decline any further. Yet the
price today is from one to two cents a
pound low than 1t was week ago, and
the market is in such an unsettled condi-
ton that even lower price would not
surprise dealers. Eggs are still very low,
there being practically no change in price,
and none is expected in the immediate flu
ture. Cheese also shows no change in
price. Spring chickens are somewhat
scarce, ard there is a good demand for all
kinds Of poultry, with firm, unchanged
prices Vegetables and fruits are about as
last reported, and the market is quite ac-
tive. Beef and other meats remain sta
tionary. AS a general thing, the market
is well supplied and healthy tone is no
ticed except in butter and eggs.
The recent hot spell is, perhaps, largely
responsible for the continued decline in
butter, although Increased receipts have
mad their influence on the market. The
prices today are even lower than last week,
when it confidently believed that bot
tom prices had been reached. There is
quite a demand for the finer grades but
the market is somewhat unsettled, Of
So'i He CildlSs III lIie weather., IL
nothing else. is expected to cause rise in
the prices prevailing today, which are:
Fancy Elgin and other western extras, II
cents pound; choice, Ii; firsts, 10; seconds,
IA. Choice bakers stock, ID; New York
tubs, II: dairy print. IA: western. 10; Mary
land and Virginia creamery, 10; dairy pack
ed, H.
The supply of eggs continues very large,
and as buyers are somewhat critical, prices
remain practically unchanged. Present
prices are not likely to be disturbed to any
material extent for some time Today'S
prices: Nearby fresh, 1ola cents a dozen
western, 10; southern, g. and keat or guinea
stock, to ).
There Is no change in the cheese market
Its condition and prices being as noted last
week: New York state cream. large liz
cents pound; flats, II, ard ponys b.
Poultry Is not quite so plentiful as last
week. but prices remain practically un-
changed. Prices today: Live chickens, 10
10 IA; dressed. II to 16; old stock, dressed,
> 10 y; I'VE, to g; capons, 16 to IS; ducks
~ to ~
Vegetables are rather plentiful and in
good condition. Cucumbers, per box. $3.50
to 81: carrots, per Dbl. $50; caulifower,
per Dbl, 81; kale. per Dbl. &c to 10 cents;
celery, per doz.. % to 10 cents; squash per
box. $1.25 to $3.50; spinach. per Dbl. 81 TO
sl2', new peas, per half Dbl. box. 81; beans,
per box, 500 to 81; asparagus, per bunch
ID to ~ cents; lettuce, per biol. $3.50 to 50;
lettuce, per basket, 81 to $50; potatoes
fancy. new, per Dbl, s. to So; choice, per
Dbl. $3.50 to 81; culls, per Dbl, $50 to 81
potatoes. New York. per bushe. % to %
cents; Maryland and Virginia. bushel, Ii
to 20 cents; culls, per bushel. 10 cents
sweet potatoes. red. per Dbl. s15O to 81
eastern shore, bbl., $50 to 81: vans and
haymons. Dbl, $50 to s1.75; tomatoes. Der
crate. Florida, So to $50; egg plant, per
half Dbl. box. $3.50 to $50; beets. per 100
t punches, "a to Sc; cabbage per 100. s. to
$40; new, per Dbl, 81 to $3.50; onions Ber-
muda, per crate. s1.4O to $50; yellow, new,
per bushel, 40 to 30 cents; turnips, per Dbl
$50; squash. white. per crate. 81 % to 81 80;
beans white, New York mediums, 81 10:
New York pea. s1.05: marrow, s1.20; Vir-
ginia. white. 10 cents: white, mixed, 80
cents; colored, 80 to 60 cents; black-eyed
peas, per bushel, 90 cents to 81: lima beans,
per h., to cents; apples, 81 to 81 a bar
rel oranges. $3.50 to s. a box: lemons s.
to 81 box; Strawberries, 10 to Is cents a
quart.
Beef and other meats show little, If any,
real change in price: Live cattle, from 2
to IL cents pound; lambs, 5 to 51-4;
spring lamb. Z to o; sheep. 2% to 31a: cows,
with calves. $40 to si5; calves. to I cents
pound and dressed hogs, tot