Evening star., 1896-12-26
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Plcntifully Supplied and With Tn
changed Prices.

Plcntifully Supplied and With In
changed Prices.
The local wholesale produce market today
is in about precisely the same condition as
to prices and supplies that 1t was q week
ago. Butter has advanced half a cent a
pound in the top grades, but the other
marks remain exactly as last quoted. Eggs
and cheese are in the same position they
occupied last week, and poultry and game
show little change, although prices may be
expected to fuctuate slightly from day to
day. Vegetables and fruits are plentiful
and III good shape Beef and other meats
are selling well and at practically un-
changed prices.
In butter the following prices are pre-
vailing today: Elgin extras, - cents a
pound; choice. 20; firsts, 10; seconds. IS;
bakers choice stock, 10; New York tubs,
Is; dairy print, 16; western, IA; Marylan nd
and Virginia creamery, IS; dairy packed,
IA.
For eggs the following quotations are
noticed: Nearby fresh, % cents a dozen
western, 21 cents and southern, % cents.
Cheese remains as last quoted: Full
cream large, IL cents a pound; flats, L.,
and ponys, 12hs cents.
Today's prices for poultry: Choice tur-
keys, drawn. h., II to 13 cents; undrawn
large. per h.. 10 and IL; live, toms, per Ib,
8; live, small, per lb., @ to s; chickens
drawn, per h., to .: undrawn, per lb., 8;
live, per lb, g to 8; spring, live. per h., 10
to II; old fowls, drawn. per H., 0; undraw wn,
per lb., 8; live. per h., 9; ducks dressed,
per lb., to 10; live, large, per lb., old, 8 to
10; live, spring, young, to 10; geese, live
per lb., to 8; dressed. to TO-
Game: Fenison, saddle, IS cents Der pound /:
whole deer, bucks, 8 to 8 cents per pound /:
pheasants, 40 to so cents; rabbits, 81 to 81
per dozen; quail, s1.75 to 1925; wild tur-
Keys, to 10 cents per pound woodcock
40 to 80 cents EACH
The following nrices are orotad for
vegetables and fruits: Cucumbers, per box.
$loO to 81; caulifiower, per barrel $3.50 to
$5; kale, per doz.. 80 to 75 cents: celery
fancy, per dozen, so to 75 cents; medium
% to 40 cents; common. 10 to 20 cents
beans. per box, $1.25 to 81: lettuce per bar
rel, 81 90 to 81; per basket, IS cents to 81 25;
potatoes. fancy new. per barrel, 81 to 81 %:
choice per barrel, 81; new. per bushel, 80
to 80 cents; culls. per barrel. 40 cents;
New York. per bushel, IS to 50 cents; Mary.
land and Virginia, per bushel, 30 to 35 cents:
cuils. per bushel. 20 to 25 cents; sweet po-
tatoes, fancy. per barrel, 81 to $1.25; No. 1,
IS to IS cents; culls, 35 to 40 cents; yams
and haymons, barrel, 60 to 20 cents; toma-
toes, Florida, per crate, $3.50 to $3.50; ma
tive, per crate, 25 to 80 cents: egg plant,
per'one-half barrel box 81 so to s.. so; beets
per 100 bunches $1.50 to $3.50; cabbage, per
100, $3 to $3.50: new, per barrel, 40 cents
onions, Bermuda, per crate, $1.40 to $780,
yellow. per barrel, H:25 to $40; yellow
new. per bushel. 40 to Is cents; turnips, per
barrel, SO to 15 cents; beans, white, New
York mediums, $1.1O to s1.15; New York
pea. $40 to $1.15 marrow. $l.3O to $135
cents; colored. so to 60 cents; black-eyed
peas, per bushel, 90 cents; apples, fancy
table, barrel. s1.25 to 81; choice. barrel, 81
to $1.25; walnuts, per 100 pounds, 40 to 80
cents; oranges, Florida, fancy, bright, per
box, 81 to $780, Messina, per box S. so to IS;
Valencia, cases, s. to $3.50; Tangerines
box, 81 to SO; lemons. Cicily, per box, s. to
s.; cranberries. per box, $1.50 to 81; Jersey,
moi hQ rrnl To ron n
rel, $3.50 to Sc.
The following are the quotations for beef
and other meats: Live cattle from to AZ
cents pound; lambs, to cents: sheep,
2 to 3al cents cows with calves, SIS to $35;
calves, to 81s cents a pound; dressed hogs
to cents a pound.