Evening star., 1896-01-04
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.


AsUstCE AOWcF, ABOUT All OthGT
Products Higher.
With perhaps the single exception of but
ter, prices in the local wholesale produce
market today are higher than those noted
week ago. This condition Of affairs, how
ever, Is usual and natural result Of a great
holiday market, when there is an abund-
arce OF products sufficient to reduce prices.
The cold snap of today is also likely to
send prices still higher, especially in eggs
poultry and other products particularly af-
fected by changes Of temperature. Butter.
however, is about cents a pound lower
today than last week. particularly in the
top grades, while eggs have jumped about
cents dozen. Poultry is also climbing.
and while the cold weather will keep prices
up, 1t is not likely to very greatly advance
them above those now prevailing. Vege-
tables show little change although pota-
toes are slightly higher. Cheese shows no
change whatever, and about the same can
be said Of game and beef and other meats.
The market is firm one, and trade is un-
Usually good
The fall in butter is the result of the holi.
Gay market, but much better trade is
ST rtly expected, when prices may some
What advance. There is, however, pros
pect of shrinkage in the future in fine
soods, and even now the demand is mostly
1or top grades. June creamery holds about
the same position. but limitations continue
10 accumulate and the market in them is
rather poor. The prices prevailing TODAY
are: Fancy Elgin and other western extra s.
% cents pound; choice. %; firsts, p; sec
ohdS, Is. Choice bakers stock 15; New
ern.lo to 10; Maryland and Virginia cream
cry. Is to 20; dairy packed, 16 to Is.
Inc trade in cheese is without any new
feature whatever, and prices remain as last
a m n hn f,1,
quotations.: New York state cream large
Ii cents pound; flats, 12Is, and ponys IA.
90 Nearpy fresh eggs are selling today for
sS es cents a dozen. but that price will more
ent cold weather continues for any length
OF OF time Storage stock is selling for from
" 10 IL southern and western about the
same, and keat or guinea, to 10.
Pouitry has steadily advanced since
christmas, when warm weather and an
over production caused unusually how
prices. Prices will probably remain sta
.ionary Tor some time, or there may be
decline: The following prices prevailed to-
DAY: Drawn turkeys. from IL to Ii cents q
pound: live, 9 to 10; live chickens, to 8:
dressed, 10 to II; old stock, dressed, s to
6 to 8. N see'e'
Game is plentiful, but prices remain
ABOUT as last quoted: Venison, saddle, L.
10 lG cents pound; bucks, 8 10 10: bear,
N>, ~ PiAOoSoHtS, TdDDlIS, per OOZGn,
70 cents TO s1.5O; quail, s1.25 to s.. so; wild
turkeys, per pound. 10 to II; woodcock,
each, % TO TO-
The prices prevailing for vegetables and
fruits today are as follows: Cabbage, SIS
TO - per hundred: new potatoes. 81 to 81 a
barrel: sweet potatoes, red, 81 to $2.75 a
barrel; eastern shore sweet potatoes s. 2j
to S barrel; yams and haymons, Sl.5O to
$2oo barrel; beets, 81 to $3.50 a hundred
lunches; yellow onions 81 to 81 a barrel
turnips. GO to G5 cents barrel; Virginia
white beans. 81 to 81 80; black-eyed peas.
% cents to 81 bushel; fancy table apples.
81 to $3.50 barrel; fancy California
oranges. 81 to $3.50 a box; Messina, s. to
50; Valencia, s. to $3.50; lemons IS to 81 a
box.
Beef and other meats are about as last
quoted. Live cattle, to ~ cents pound
lambs, to 4ls. and sheep, to 3Ea; cows
with calves, SIS to $50; calves, 4 to cents
pound; dressed hogs, to 9.
Weather Strips. Cent and n Half a
foot. F. Libbey & Co., 9Th and N. Y. ave.