Evening star., 1896-09-19
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.

Butter Still LOwer-Little Change In
Other Products.
The feature Of the local wholesale pro-
duce market today is the further decline In
butter. fall of cent a pound In about
all grades having occurred since this day a
week ago. Eggs remain as last quoted.
being scarce, and for the most part In a far
from satisfactory condition. Cheese is
about as last reported, although exhibiting
an upward tendency. In about all other
products the state Of the market is practi-
cally that of week ago. the supply being
large and the movement firm and healthy.
Butter, in falling cent a pound, has. 1t
is thought by dealers. reached bottom
prices. and no further decline Is, therefore.
expected. The supply is large, and as the
grass In the west is in good condition. the
quality Of the present supply is much i'm
proved. The prices prevailing today are:
Elgin extras, II cents a pound; choice. 10;
firsts. Is; seconds, II: bakers choice stock.
12,h to 13; New York tubs. 15 to 10; dairy
print. IA: western, II; Maryland and Vir-
gtnia creamery, 10; dairy packed, II.
Eggs are quoted today as they were a
week ago, as may be seen from the follow
ing prices: Nearby fresh, 16 cents a dozen;
western, Is cents. and southern, IA cents.
In one grade Of cheese there is slight
advance. but prices remain practically as
they were last week. Full cream. large.
1Ola cents pound flats, 11h, and ponys, IL.
The supply Of poultry continues large,
with unchanged prices. Live chickens. 10
to II cents pound; old fowls, to 8 cents
pound; ducks, to 10 cents pound, and
geese. to cents pound.
The following prices are quoted today for
vegetables and fruits: Caulif1ower, per bbl,
$2D to 81; celery, per doz.. % to 15 cents; Il;
squash. per doz., IS cents; lettuce, per bbl,
$50 to 81; potatoes. fancy. new. per bbi.
bushel. 80 to 35 cents: Maryland and Vir-
ginia, bushel, 80 to 35 cents: culls, per
bushel. 20 to % cents; sweet potatoes, red.
| per bbl.. 81; Eastern Shore Dbl. 81 to SD
| bbl., rs cents to 81: tomatoes, per crate,
| native, 25 to 80 cents: beets per 100 bunch
| es. $50 to $50; cabbage. per 100. $50:
new. per bbl., 40 cents; onions, Bermuda.
per crate, $l.40 to $50: yellow, per bbl..
s1.o5 to $l.10; yellow. new. per bushel. ~
| to II cents; beans, white New York me-
diums. $l.lO; New York pea, $l.05; mar
row. $40; Virginia, white. 70 cents; white.
| black-eyed peas. per bushel. - to 90 cents;
| apples. fancy table. bbl., sl.75 to s.; per
box, 40 cents; choice, per bbl., 81 % to $50;
Maryland and Virginia, per barrel. 7T
cents to $l.25; pears. La Conte. per
| bbl., 81 to 81; per box, 20 to 50 cents; Sickle,
per bbl. 81 to $40: Bartlett per box. s. to
$3.50; per barrel. $3.50 to Sc; peck basket,
| 20 to S5 cents; half-peck basket b to 81
cents; other varieties. 81 to 81; peaches
| fancy. free-stohe. per bushel box, s15O te
| y; medium, u 10 $l23; peaches, per box
| CD cents to ST. five-eghths bushel baskets
40 to Is cents. damsons. per pound, to ~.
cents; per basket, IA pounds, As to 20 cents
| ounces, per bbl, s. to 81; plums. blue, pei
pound, 9 to Z cents; plums. gage. pei
| pound. to cents; oranges, fancy. bright
| 81 to $3.50 per box; Messina, $3.50 to s. pei
| box; Valencia, s. to $3.50 per case; lemons
! Sicily. s. to s per box; grapes Is to q
| cents per 1O-pound basket; 10 to II cents
per 5-pound basket; pineapples. to II
| cents; cantaloupes, $15O to s. per bbl
| watermeIons, 81 to 81 per hundred.
But little change is noted in the price Of
beef and other meats: Live cattle, from
, to Az cents a pound; lambs. to SO
cents; sheep, 111 to 31a cents; cows witt
calves, So to $35; calves, 2A to cents {
pound.