Evening star., 1896-12-19
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Big Slump I'm Butter-GeneraI Upward
Tendency,

The tendency of the local wholesale pro-
duce market today is upward and a gem
eral advance In most products may, there
fore, he expected during the coming week
Much to the surprise Of the trade how
ever. quite fall in butter was Witnessed
during the present week, and today prices
are about cents a pound lower than they
were this time last week The slump is
unaccountable, and a reaction may be
looked for which will advance prices to
about what they were a week ago. Eggs
have not yet taken the jump that was
expected last week, being quoted today as
they were last week 1t is almost certain,
however, that they will materially ad-
vance during the coming week. Cheese
remains unchanged both as to condition
and price. The cold weather and the ad-
vance of the holiday season have material
ly advanced the price of poultry, and
Christmas quotations are more than likely
to be much higher than they were at
Thanksgiving day. Game is also affected
by the holiday demand, but vegetables
and fruits, while giving evidence of an
upward movement. have not yet materially
advanced. Beef and other meats remain
about as last reported. The market is
firm and well supplied, and the Christ
mas market promises to be one of the
finest in every respect ever seen here.
In butter the following prices are pre-
vailing today: Elgin extras, ~ cents
pound choice, 20; firsts, 10; seconds. Is;
bakers cfoice stock. 10; New York tubs.
IS; dairy print. 16; western, IA; Maryland
and Virginia creamery, IS; dairy packed,
IA.
For eggs the following quotations are
noticed: Nearby fresh, % cents a dozen;
western, 21 cents, and southern, 20 cents.
Cheese is firm. Prices remain as last
quoted: Full cream. large, IL cents pound;
flats, IL, and ponys. II 1-2c.
Poultry is arriving in better shape and
ment in prices. Today's prices; Choice tur-
keys, drawn, h., IL to Ii cents; undrawn,
large pei h., 10 and IL; live, toms, per h.,
8; live, small, per lb., to S; chickens,
drawn, per h., to 8; undrawn, per h., =;
live. per lb., 6 to s; spring. live, per lb., 10
to IL; old fowls, drawn, per H., 3; undrawn,
per lb, s; live, per h. 8; ducks, dressed,
per h., to 10; live. large, per lb., old, to
10; live. spring. young. to 10: geese, live.
per h., to s; dressed. to 10.
Game is also in better condition, and,
like poultry, shows an Upward tendency:
Venison, saddle, is cents per pound: whole
deer, bucks, to cents per pound; pheas-
ants, 40 to 80 cents; rabbits 81 to s. per
dozen; quail, s175 to 1926; wild turkeys,
8 to 10 cents per pound; woodcock, 40 to
80 cents each.
The following prices are quoted today for
vegetables ard fruits. Cucumbers, per box,
$50 to 81: cauliflower, per barrel, $3.50 to
So kale, per box, 80 to 15 cents; celery,
fancy, per dozen, 80 to Is cents: medium,
beans. per box, s1.25 to 81; lettuce, per bar
rel, s1.50 to 81: per basket a5 cents to sl-25;
potatoes, fancy. new, per barrel. 81 to s1.25:
choice, per barrel, 81: new, per bushel, 30
to 80 cents; culls, per barrel 40 cents:
New York, per bushel, 35 to 3S cents: Mary
land and Virginia, per bushel, 30 to 35 cents:
culls per bushel, 20 to % cents: sweet po-
tatoes, fancy, pei barrel, 81 TO sl-25; No. I.
I5 to So cents: culls 35 to 40 cents; yaHs
ard hayrlons, barrel, &C to 40 cents: toma-
toes, Florida, per crate, $50 10 $3.50: ma
tive. per crate, % to 80 cents; egg plant
per one-half barrel box, 81 80 to $50: beets
per 100 punches, s1.50 to $3.50: cabbage, per
100, 50 to $4.5O: new. per barrel, 40 cents:
onions, Bermuda, per crate, s1.40 to $50;
yellow, per barrel. s1.25 to $40; yellow.
new, per bushel, ~ to 65 cents: turnips. per
barrel, 80 to 75 cents: beans. white, New
York mediums. s1.10 to s1.15: New York
pea. s1.10 to $1-15: marrow. $1-a0 to $1.35;
Virginia, white. 75 cents: white mixed. 80
cents: colcred, 30 to CD cents: black-eyed
peas. per bushei. 80 cents: apples, fancy
table. barrel. $l.e5 to 81: choice. barrel, 81
to 81 LIS: walnuts. per 100 pounds. 40 to 80
cents: ORANGES. Florida. fancy. bright, per
box. 81 to 81. 10: Messina, per box. $50 to s.:
Valencia. cases, 81 to $3.50; Tangerines,
tox. 81 to so; lemons, Cicily. per box, 8 to