Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-03
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
General Upward Tendency In Prices
Prevailing Fifmness.

The tendency of prices in the local whole
sale produce market today is upward in
about every instance. and in butter, eggs.
cheese, poultry and fruits prices have al
ready more or less advanced. It is report
ed that many creamery men are about to
engage in the production Of cheese to the
exclusion of butter. and II the report
should be true the effect would be to ma
terially advance the price of butter. With
the coming Of cold weather eggs will
strongly advance. Of course and that ad-
vance has apparently already commenced.
In fact, prices will materially advance from
now on in about every product. Game is
now IN season, and what arrivals there
are show up well. On the whole the mar
ket is a well supplied one and its tone
is healthy and firm.
In the higher grades butter has advanced
about half q cent a pound, the other grades
being as last quoted. The scarcity in the
finer grades continues. and indications
point to advancing prices in about all
grades. The prices prevailing today are:
Elgin extras. II IL cents a pound: choice.
10; firsts, Is: seconds, IA; bakers choice
stock, 1912 to IA: New York tubs. Is to
16; dairy print. IA; western. II; Maryland
and Virginia creamery. Is; dairy packed. II.
Eggs are very much f1rmer and their
price has advanced cent a dozen. Their
price today is expected to be the lowest
seen for several months. Prevailing prices:
Nearby fresh, 16 cents a dozen: western,
Is cents, and southern, II cents.
Cheese shows a strong upward tendency.
although prices are about as they were
last week: Full cream. large. O12 cents
pound. flats, II. and ponys, IL IL.
Poultry Is about as last reported: Live
chickens, 10 to IL cents a pound: old fowls.
to cents pound; ducks, to 10 cents a
pound. and geese, 6 to cents a pound.
Game is arriving in good quantities and
also in very fair condition, the following
nricaS hpfnD noted. VopfSnn saddle In
IS to 2Oc.; whole dear. bucks, per lb., to
10c. pheasants. 80 to 6Oc.; rabbits, per doz.,
81 to $50: wild turkeys. per h., 0 to 1Oc.
woodcock. each, 40 to SOC.
The following prices are quoted today for
vegetables and fruits: Caulitiower. per bbl.,
$50 to 81; celery, per doz., % to 75c.
squash. per doz, 75c.: lettuce, per hbl.,
81. 80 to 81; potatoes, fancy, new per bbl. 81
to $1.25: choice per bbl.. 81: new, per bu..
80 to BIC: Maryland and Virginia, bu., &c
to S5c.; culls, per bu, 20 to DC: sweet po-
tatoes. red, per bbl.. 81: eastern shore. bbl.,
81 to $1.25; common, 73c.; yams and hay
5Oc. to 81: beets. per 100 punches, $3.50 to
80: cabbage. per 100, $3.50 to 50; new. per
bbl. 4Oc.; onions, Bermuda, per crate, 81 40
to $1.50; yellow. per Dbl, s105 to 81 10: vel
low, new, per bu., 40 to 45c.: beans, white
New York mediums, $1.10: New York pea
$1Oh; marrow, $780, Virginia, white, 75c.
white. mixed. 50c.: colored. so to Coo.
black-eyed peas, per bu.. 70 to 9Oc.: apples
4Oc.: choice. per Dbl, 1925 to $3.50: COM
mon, per box, Is to 40c. Maryland and Vir-
ginia. per bbl., 75c to s1.25: pears, Beume
dAnjou. per bbl 81 to 81; Flemish Beauty
per bbl.. $3.50 to 81; Duchess. per Dbl.
$3.50 TO $3.50: Sickle. per Dbl, 81 to $3.50
Bartlett. per box. s. to go: per bbl., $5.5t
to So; PIX. bas., 20 to Sc: k-pk. bas 81 te
5Oc.: other varieties, s. to 81: peaches
fancy. free-stone per bu box, $50 to 81
medium, 81 to $1.25: peaches. per box Coo
to 81; 9s-bu. baskets, 40 to &c; damsons
per h.. to &C.; per basket, IA lbs, AZ tt
50c.; ounces, per Dbl, 1915 to $3.50: plums
blue. per h., 6 to &c: plums. gage, per H..
to &C.: oranges. fancy. bright, 81 to 81
per box; Messina, $3.50 to s. per box
Valencia. s. to $3.50 per case lemons
Sicily. 81 to s. per box; grapes. IL to 2oc
per 10-pound basket: 10 to 12c. per 5-pount
basket; pineapples, to IL cents.
Beef and other meats remain about a.
last quoted Live cattle from to 4ac
ID; lambs. to 5l2c.; sheep, 1Ia to 3iac.
| cows with calves, s25 to $50; calves, 2ls t,
| &c, a Id,