Evening star., 1896-11-07
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Eggs Unusually Scarce and Higher
Butter Lower.

The feature Of the local wholesale pro-
duce market today Is the sharp advance in
eggs, their price having advanced two or
three cents a dozen since last week. They
are unusually scarce. and Indications Of q
still further rise are not lacking. Butter,
on the other hand, has fallen somewhat in
the top grades, the lower grades being dull.
Cheese remains as last quoted. and poultry
shows little change. The same can be said
of game. while vegetables and fruits show
up practically as they did last week. Beef
and other meats show only the slight
changes noted from week to week. The
market continues to be well-supplied one,
nrm, healthy tone prevailing.
Butter is quite firm In the top grades. al
though prices have declined slightly. The
supply of strictly fresh goods is rather
limited. more SO than for some time past,
SO that there is no difficulty in obtaining
cent and a half pound. Lower grades are
dull. while imitation creamery is quite
steady. Todays prices: Elgin extras 2Ok
cents q pound; choice. 20; frsts. 1S; Sec
New York tubs II: dairy print, 49, west
ern, IA: Maryland and Virginia creamery,
IL: dairy packed, IA.
Eggs have not been so scarce for many
months and If 1t were not for the large
amount OF storage goods on the market
prices would not be far from 30 cents.
strictly fresh goods are practically impos-
slbie to obtain, and when they are obtain
aoie they sell at fancy prices. They have
not only advanced, but the tendency is
sun upward. as may be seen from the fol-
lowing quotations.: Nearby fresh, 70 to u
cents dozen; western, 20 cents, and south
ern, 10 cents.
Cheese remains unchanged prices being
as last reported: Full cream, large. ii
cents a pound: flats, Il, and ponys. j2
w ME there Is good demand for ooul-
try the supply is rot heavy, prices peing
practically those of last week: Live tur-
keys. 10 to II cents per pound: live. small
10 cents per pound; chickens, undra wn
D 10 ~ cents per POUND; live, cents per
pound: spring. large. live. cents per
pouno; oid fowls. undrawn. to s1z cents
per pound: live. to cents per pound; !;
ROSTERS. live, cents per pound; ducks
dressed. y to 10 cents per pound; live, large
DID, . cents per pound: live, spring, young,
per pound
Game Is abundant and prices are un-
changed Fenison. saddle, IS to 20 cents
per pound; whole deer, bucks, 8 to 10 cents
per pound; pheasants, 40 to so cents; rab-
pits. 81 to $3.50 per dozen; quail $3.50 to
S2225 wild turkeys. o to 10 cents per pound :;
woodcock. 40 to 80 cents each.
The supply of vegetables and fruits con-
ttnues large. although prices are practical
ly those last quoted: Caulifower per bar
rel. $2.O to 81; celery, fancy, per dozen, 80
to % cents; medium. per dozen. % to 40
cents; common. per dozen, Il to 20 cents;
lettuce, per barrel, $50 to 81; potatoes
fancy. new, per barrel, 81 to $125; choice,
per Darrel. 81: new. per bushel, 30 to 30
cents: culls, per barrel, 40 cents; potatoes
New York, per buShel, 30 to 3S cents; Mary
land and Virginia, bushel. 30 to 35 cents;
culls, per bushel, 20 to % cents; sweet po-
tatoes. red, per barrel. 75 cents; eastern
shore. barrel. 10 cents; common, 40 to ca
cents; yamS and haymons barrel, 80 to 60
cents; beetS, per 100 punches, 81. 80 to S., 30:
cabbage, per 100, s. to $50; new per bar
rel, 10 cents; onions, Bermuda, per crate
u 40 to $50; yellow, per barrel, $1.O5 to
$llc; yellow. new. per bushel, 10 to 45
cents; beans. white. New York mediums,
N2o; New York pea. $1.25; marrow, 81. 10;
Virginia, white, IS cents; white, mixed 50
cents; colored 80 to GO cents: black-eyed
peas. per bushel. 80 cents to 81; apples,
81. to 81. 40 per barrel; oranges, California
fancy, bright, 81 to $3.50 per box: Messina,
$3.50 to s. per box: Valencia. 81 to 81. ~ per
case; lemons. Sicily, s. to s. per box; cram
berries. $1.D to 81 per box: Jersey, s. to
$3.50 per barrel; Cape Cod. $3.50 to Sc per
barrel: grapes. Catawba, to 8 cents BIB.
basket; Concord. 13 to IA cents 1O-lb. bask-
ct; Concord. to I 1-2 cents 5-lb. basket;
Delaware. II to IA cents 5-lb. basket; Mar
tha's. II to IA cents 5-lb. basket Nj
agaras. IA to 16 cents 5-lb. basket; Salems,
to 10 cents 5-lb. basket; walnut kernels.
IL to II cents; pineapples. to IL cents;
crab apples s. to 81 per barrel.
The following are the prices in beef and
other meats: Live cattle, from to "a
cents q pound; lambs 1 to 6 cents; sheen,
l IL to 3 IL cents; cows with calves, .$25
to $35; calves. q IL to cents a pound;
dressed hogs. to cents a pound.