Evening star., 1896-02-08
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Butter and Eggs LONer-Little Change
In Other PcOluctA.

Not only are eggs lower today. but the
same is true Of butter although the fall in
price of either product is but small. Today
eggs are selling at from IA to Is cents a
dozen for nearby fresh goods. and fancy Ell
gin and other western extra butter has drop
ped from % cents pound last week to 30
cents today. Despite the fall in the price of
eggs, there is some complaint from retail
purchasers that retail prices are not and
have not been for some time consistent with
wholesale prices, many retail dealers selling,
it is claimed, at % cents a dozen. Cheese
shows practically no change, either in price
or condition, and none is expected for some
time. Poultry is somewhat advanced, but
slightly, due mo"e, perhaps, to the bad roads
resulting from the continued rains. The
game market Is as last reported, and the
same can be said of fruits and vegetables,
and of beef and other meats as well. The
market throughout is firm one, splendidly
supplied and reasonably active.
Early in the week butter was somewhat t
demoralized, but only for short time, how
ever and it is now not only recovering
rapidly, but the Indications are that prices
will shortly advance. The weak feeling here
was due more to sympathy than to anything
else the market in the west being rather
firm. Indeed, the market here is already
quite firm, and sitter prices may be ex-
pected. June creamery Is holding its own,
anu lower BFaueS are IN sympathy Win top
ones. The prices prevailing today are:
Fancy Elgin and other western extras, %
cents a pound; choice, 90 firsts, Is; seconds,
16 Choice bakers stock, 13 to 10; New
York tubs, l6 to IS; dairy print, 10; western.
10 to 10; Maryland and Virginia creamery,
Is to 20; dairy packed Is to IS.
There is little 10 be said of cheese, the
condition of the market and prices remain
ing as last reported. as may be seen from
today's prices: New York state cream, large
ll1a cents pound; fats 12lA. and ponys, ii.
As was stated last week, the open weather
is responsible for d further decline in the
price of eggs, they being from one to two
cents dozen lower today than a week ago.
The market is, however, well sustained
and while the weather IS exceedingly favor
able for production, the demand is quito
large. From IA to 10 cents dozen are asked
today for nearby fresh goods, 13 to II for
western, II to Is for southern, and to Z
for keat or guinea goods.
In poultry the market Is firm and active
while prices are shade higher, as may be
seen from the following quotations Drawn
turkeys, from 13 to IA cents a pound; live
3 to IL; live chickens. 8 to 10: dressed. 10 to
II; old stock, dressed. to 10; live, > to I;
capons, 16 to IS: ducks 10 to IL, and geese
6 to 8.
No change in the condition of the game
market is observed, the following prices
prevailing: Bear, saddle. 10; pheasants, so;
rabbits. per dozen, $1.25 to 81; quail. 81 % to
$3.50: wild turkeys, per pound, 10 to -:
woodcock, each, % to 40.
The supply of fruits and vegetables is
large, and of an excellent quality, and the
market is firm and active, with little, if
any, change in prices: Cabbages. s. to $40
per hundred; potatoes, 15 to So cents a
bushel; sweet potatoes, red, 81 to 81 a bar
rel; eastern shore sweet potatoes, 50 80 to So
a barrel; yams and hayn1ons. 50 to $3.50 a
barrel; beets 81 to $50 hundred punches:
yellow onions. 81 to 81 a barrel; kale, Z,
cents barrel; spinach. So to So $50 barrel;
lettuce. s. to $4 a barrel; carrots, $35O to 81
a barrel; caulifower, 81 to s. a barrel; tur-
nips, GO to 65 cents a barrel; Virginia white
beans. 81 to s1.5O; black-eyed peas, 70 cents
to 81 bushel; celery, 25 to 75 cents dozen
Florida tomatoes $3 to 81 a crate fancy
table apples, 81 to $3.50 barrel; fancy Cali
fornia oranges, 81 to $3.50 a box Messina:
81 to 50; Valencia, 50 to $3.50; lemons, IS to
81 box.
There is no real change In the price of beef
and other meats, as may be seen from the
following: Live cattle selling at from to
3-S cents pound; lambs, to 5A sheep. 3
to 3k; cows with calves. s25 to $50; calves,
5 to cents a pound, and dressed hogs, 4
to Z.