Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-18
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.

Butter and Eggs Are Both Remark
ably Low for This Season.
The most striking features of the local
wholesale produce market today are the
remarkably low prices Of butter and eggs.
The price for butter today is lower than
ever before known during the month Of
April. More than that, 1t IS as low as it
was at any time last season. The unusual
ly open winter is. perhaps, the principal
reason for such a condition OF things. Eggs
have reached what Is believed to lie bot
tom prices. being about a cent or two
lower today than they were last week,
when they were selling at 1872 cents a doz-
en- cheese is also lower, having declined
about cent pound throughout all
grades. Poultry Is slightly lower, and the
same can also be said Of most Of the vege-
tables. Beef ard other meats, however, re-
main at about their usual prices, the Only
changes being the slight ones noted from
week to week. With the exception of hut
ter and eggs, the market is firm and strong,
and as 1t Is unusually we'll supplied a
healthy tone prevails.
Butter is weak and unsettled, with prices
never before SO low at this season of the
year. There cannot. however, be said to be
any glut in the market, for while there
may be somewhat of interpretation
the market Is, nevertheless, kept well clean
ed up. The outlook is, of course, very I'M
certain, although it is hardly possible for
prices to decline to any further material
extent. The prices prevailing today: Fancy
Elgtn and other western extras. 10 cents
pound choice. II; firsts, 1G: seconds, 10.
Choice bakers stock 12Ia to II; New York
tubs. II; dairy print, 10; western, 10 to -;
Maryland and Virginia creamery. Is: Gairy
packed, ii.
ing prices. IS cent or Two lower today
than last reported: New York state cream,
large ilh cents pound; flats, II, and
ponys, 13. 80:
Eggs are remarkably, low today. and it is
rot expected that they will decline any
fUrthe:. Certainly not to any material ex
tent The market IS weak, and at bottom
prices, apparently1. Today's quota tons:
Nearby fresh, 10h to- II cents dozen;
Western, 10; southern. 9,and keat or guinea
stock, to 5.
Poultry is plentiful and in good demand,
with prices but little changed. Turkeys
have practically disappeared from the mar
ket. Spring chickens are in particularly
good demand. Prices today: Live chickens,
~ to il; dressed. T. to 10; old stock, dress
ed, to 9; live, to 8; capons, 16 to IS;
ducks, II to II, and geese to 8; spring
chickens, - to %. -.s,.t
Vegetables and fruits are plentiful, with
barrel; cauliflower.iA per barrel; kale, 30 to
- cents per barrel: celery, 20 to IS cents
per dozen; squash, $1.25 to Sl.J0 per box;
spinach, 81 to 81 % per barrel; new peas,
81 per half-barrel box; BEANS 81 80 to s. per
box; asparagus, % to 40 cents per bunch;
lettuce $50 to 81 per barrel, 81 to $50 per
basket; potatoes, fancy, new, s. to So per
barrel choice, $3.50 to s. per barrel; culls,
$50 to 81 per barrel; potatoes, New York.
- to IS cents per bushel; Maryland and
Virginia, 20 cents per bushel; culs. l. to Is
cents per bushel; sweet potatoes, red, so
to 81 per barrel; eastern shore. $50 to 81
per barrel; yams and haymons, $50 to 81. 10
PER barrel; tomatoes, Florida, 81 to 81 per
crate; egg plant, 81 to S1.50 per half-barrel
box; beets, 81 to s6 per 100 punches; cab
bage, 81 to $40 per 100: new $3.50 to 81 per
barrel; onions, Bermuda, new 40 to 80 cents
per bushel; turnips, $50 per barrel; squash,
white, $l.25 to 80 per crate; beans, white,
New York mediums $1.10: New York pea,
I.O5; marrow, $l2o; Virginia, white. IS
cents; white. mixed, 30 cents; colored, so to
20 cents; black-eyed peas, 90 cents to 81 per
bushel; Lima beans. to cents per pound !;
apples, 81 to 81 a barrel; oranges, 81. 30 to s.
a box; lemons 81 to 81 a box; strawberries,
IL to 20 cents a box.
Beef and other meats remain about as
last quoted: Live cattle. from to Az cents
a pound; lambs, to 51a; sheep, 2ls to 4
COWS, with calves, $40 to SIS; calves, 3 to
cents pound, and dressed hogs, 4 to Z.