Evening star., 1896-02-29
WHOLESALE PRODCCE MAHNET.
Butter and Poultry Higher Eggs
Still Lower.


The features Of the local wholesale pro-
duce market today are the advance in but
ter and poultry and the fall in eggs. In
butter the prices have advanced about a
cent pound throughout. and it is not un-
likely that they may advance still further,
but only slightly, 1t is thought. Eggs are a
glut on the market although prices are
about as low as they will be. Poultry has
advanced not a little turkeys being partic-
ularly scarce. Cheese shows practically no
change and the same can be said of game
Vegetables are about as last quoted, as is
the case with beef and other meats The
market continues to be splendidly sup
piled one, and its tone is firm and healthy
throughout.
Butter is unusually firm today, the de-
mand being good, and special grades bring
ing slight premiums. There is a general
cleaning up of the market by consumers ON
ing given to grades below fancy. Storage
goods are doing somewhat better than of
late, and the higher prices of today are not
unlikely to slightly advance and hold. The
prices prevailing today are: Fancy Elgin
and other western extras, D cents pound
choice, 21; firsts, 20; seconds, 16. Choice
bakers stock, IA to Is; New York tubs, 16;
dairy print, 10; western, 10 to 10; Maryland
and Virginia creamery, IS; dairy packed, 1G.
Cheese remains in price and condition of
the market as last reported, as may be seen
from the following prices: New York state
cream, large, IL 1-2 cents a pound; flats,
IL 1-2, and poEys, IA.
Eggs are still lower today, because of
quite glut Of them on the market, al
though they are about as low today as they
are likely to be for some time. The market
is, therefore, rather weak. Today's prices
Near by fresh II to IL 1-2 cents q dozen
western, II to ~; southern, 10 to IL, and
keat or guinea stock, to 5.
Poultry shows quite an advance, turkeys
being scarce, and there being a large de-
mand for all live poultry. The following
prices are observed: Drawn turkeys, 16 to
II cents pound; live, 10 to 13: live chick
ems, 10 to IA; dressed, II to 16; old stock,
dressed. 10; live, Z; capons. 16 to 1S; ducks,
II to Ii, and geese, 6 to 8. -.
The market for game is about closed out
because of the warm weather and advanced
season, the prices today being bear, saddle
10; pheasants, so; rabbits, per dozen, 81. .25
to 81; quail, $1.25 to $3.50; wild turkeys, per
pound, 10 to II; woodcock, each 25 to 40.
Prices for vegetables and fruits remain
about as last quoted, with little change in
the condition of the market. Cabbages, s.
to $40 per hundred: potatoes, Is to 35 cents
a bushel; sweet potatoes, red, g to $3.50 a
barrel; eastern shore sweet potatoes, $3.50
to s. barrel; yams and haymons, 81 to s.
a barrel; beets, 81 to $3.50 hundred bunch
es; yellow onions, 81 to 81 barrel; kale,
IS cents a barrel; spinach, 50 to $3.50 a
barrel; lettuce, $4 to S. barrel; carrots,
$3.50 to 81 a barrel; strawberries, 40 to 20
cents a quart; caulif1ower, 81 to s. barrel:
turnips, 81 to $1.50 a barrel; Virginia white
beans, 81 to s1.5O; black-eyed peas, IS cents
to 81 a bushel; celery, 25 to 20 cents a
dozen; Florida tomatoes, s. to "a a crate;
fancy table apples, 81 to $3.50 a barrel;
fancy California oranges, 81 to $3.50 box;
Messina, s. to IS; Valencia, s. to s.. 80;
lemons, s. to 81 box.
Prices in beef and other meats exhibit
practically no change in price, the follow
Ing quotations prevailing: Live cattle from
2 to 7-8 cents pound; lambs, to 51s;;
sheep, to 4; cows, with calves, $25 to $50;
calves. to cents pound, and dressed
hogs, to Z.