Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-17
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.

ADVANCE IN butteF-EKK0 and
Cheese Also Higher.
While Indications in the local wholesale
produce market week ago pointed to a
general advance in butter, eggs and cheese,
no one locked for any such advance as
has taken place since then in butter. Since
then butter las advanced LIP cents n
pound, the price being today for the finest
grade Of Elgin creamery y cents. Then,
too, the lower grades have advanced in
sympathy. Cheese has advanced about a
cent pound. and eggs have advanced the
same amount a dozen. Vegetables and
fruits remain as about last reported, al
though peaches have about disappeared.
Apples are rather plentiful, as are grapes.
Poultry and game are in good demand and
fairly plentiful. with practically unchanged
prices. Beef and other meats show little
If any material change, small and neatly
dressed hogs being in steady demand. A
well supplied market with general firm
ness prevails.
Butter today shows one of the sharpest
advances noticed here for some time, hav-
ing jumped about 3 1-2 cents pound dur
ing the past week. Indeed. the market is
nearly bare Of fine. fresh goods, the shrink
age being unusually large, and prices are
apt to still further advance unless there
is an increase of supplies. The lower
grades are in full sympathy with the high
est, and the market is unusually firm.
The prices prevailing today are: Elgin
extras, y cents pound; choice, 70; 1irsts.
Is; seconds. II; bakers choice stock, IL to
10; New York tubs, II to Is; dairy print.
Il; western, II; Maryland and Virginia
creamery. IS; dairy packed. IA.
Cheese has not only materially advanced
over last weeks marks, but a still further
cd tc Tod In, fh.Ar VT favx dow
Today's prices: Full cream, large, II cents
a pound; flats. II, and ponys, y 1-2.
Eggs are quite firm today and a cent
a dozen higher than last reported, with an
is not good, fresh goods being held by
producers for higher prices. Today's prices:
Nearby fresh, II cents dozen; western,
1G cents, and southern, 10 cents.
A good demand for poultry Is met by q
fair supply, prices being practically I'M
canged: Live chickens 10 to IL cents a
pound; old fowls to 8 cents pound;
ducks, to cents a pound, and geese. u
to cents a pound; live turkeys, 10 to II.
Game is more plentiful, but prices re-
main about as last quoted: Venison. sad
Gle, per pound, 10 to 20 cents: whole deer,
bucks, per pound to 10 cents; pheasants,
20 to 60 cents; rabbits. per dozen, 81 to
$50; wild turkeys, per pound, to 10
cents; woodcock, each, 40 to 80 cents.
The following prices are quoted for vege-
tables and fruits: Caulihower, per bbl.,
$3.50 to s.; celery, fancy, per doz., 80 to
75c.; medium, per doz., % to 4Oc.: common.
per doz., Is to 2Oc.: squash, per box, 75c. !;
lettuce, per bbl., 81. 80 to 81; potatoes, fancy.
new, per bbl., 81 to s1.25; choice, per bbl.,
81; new, per BUSH, 30 to 35c.; culls, per
bbl.. 40c.; potatoes, New York. per bush.
30 to 3Sc.; Maryland and Virginia, bush.
30 to 35c.: culls, per BUSH, 20 to 25c.; sweet
potatoes, red, per Dbl, 75c.; eastern shore
bbl., 81: common, 15c.; yams and haymons
bbl., 80 to 60c.; tomatoes, per crate, native
o. to hDc. hpetS 100 lunches q IN
$3.50; cabbage. per 100, $3.50; new, per Dbl.
40c.; onions, Bermuda. per crate. $1.4O to
$50; yellow, per Dbl. s1o5 to $40: yellow.
New York mediums, 1925: New York pea
$1.25: marrow. s1.45; Virginia, white, 75c
white. mixed, 5oc.; colcred 80 to 6Oc
hIa ae peas per bush. ooc. to 81; APP
per bbl., $125 to s1.75; pears, Beume
d'Anjou, per bbl., s. to 81; Flemish Beauty.
per bbl. $3.50 to IS; Dutchess, per bbl, 81 80
to $3.50; Sickle, per Dbl, $3.50 to s.: Bart
other varieties, s. to 81; damsons. per Id.
to &c.; per basket, IA lbs, 10 to 6Oc !.
ounces, per bbl., 80 to $3.50; plums, blue
per h., to &C.; plums, gage, per h., 6 to
nuts, per pound. to &C.; oranges, Cali
fornia: Fancy, bright, per box, 81 to $3.50
Mesina. per box, $3.50 to So; Valencia, cases
8 to $50: lemons. Sicily. per box, 50 to
per bbl.. $ to $3.50; Cape Cod, Der bSi.'
$3.50 to Sc; Grapes: Catawbas, 5-lb. baskets.
to 1Oc.; Concord, 1O-lb. basket, Is to 1Gc.
basket, II to 14c.; Marthas, 5-Ib. basket.
10 to 12c.; Niagaras, 5-lb. basket, IL to 14c. :
Salems. 5-lb basket. to 1Oc: walnut ker.
nels. 12c.; pineapples. to lie; crab ap-
pies. per bbl, s. to 81.
The following prices prevail in beef and
other meats: Live cattle from 2 to 4bc. a
h.; lambs, to size; sheep, ~ to 31kc.: cows
with calves, s25 to $s5; calves. 2k to SC. a
h.: dressed hogs, 4 to sc. pound.