Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-21
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Prices and Conditions Of Product.
Practically Unchanged.


Little that is new is to be observed in the
local wholesale produce market today,
prices and products remaining in about the
same condition as last noted. While the
demand for butter is good and it remains
well cleaned up there has been no advance
In prices, and no change one way or the
other is expected, certainly not imme-
diately. Eggs, too, have advanced none,
the recent cold weather not having been Of
sufficient duration to affect either their
supply or price Good cheese is scarce and
commands good price, the arrival of new
stock being slow. Poultry IL firm, and the
demand is such that a slight rise in prices
rs not unlikely. Vegetables and fruits and
also meats remain about as last quoted
Spring goods are coming in good condition
and in increasing quantities, and the mar
ket is firm throughout.
A strong, steady market prevails in but
ter, with unchanged prices. Throughout
the market there is a determined DISPOSE
ton to keep 1t well cleaned up. especially
In line goods. The latter particularly hold
their own, and all grades are held in SYM
pathy. Fine goods find a ready sale at all
times. Prices prevailing today: Fancy Ell
gin and other western extras, q cents a
pound; choice, 21; firsts. 10: seconds, 16
Choice bakers stock, IL to IL; New York
tubs. 10; dairy print, 10; western, 10 to ID:
Maryland and Virginia creamery, is; dairy
packed, 16.
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great amount Of it on the market but fine
goods are not plentiful, and they find a
ready sale. Prices, however, remain as
last quoted. New York state cream, large.
liz cents pound; fats, 12l2, and ponys L.
The recent cold weather has had little IL
any real effect on either the price or sup
ply OF eggs, and they remain as quoted, as
may be seen from the following prices:
Nearby fresh, II cents dozen; western,
IL: southern, 10 to IL, and keat or guinea
stock, 4 to >.
The condition of the market in poultry is
quite firm, and the demand being large, q
slight rise in prices is not unlikely. al
though 1t will he i'm any event but tempo
rary. The season for turkeys is rapidly
closing, and the supply is fast declining.
Todays prices: Drawn turkeys. 16 to IL
cents pound; live, 10 to 13; live chickens,
10 to IA; dressed. II to 18; old stock,
dressed, to 2: live. to 6; capons. 16 to
Is. ducks. II to IL, and geese, to o.
Vegetables and fruits show but little
change, either IN condition or price, the
prices prevailing being: Cabbages, s. to SO
per hundred; new, Sd to 3. 50 barrel: po-
tatoes. 10 to 35 cents a bushel; sweet pota-
toes, red 8 to $3.50 q barrel: eastern shore
sweet potatoes. $3.50 to 81 a barrel: yams
and haymons. 81 to 81 a barrel; beets, 81 to
$l5O hundred punches; yellow onions, 81
to s. a barrel; new, 40 to 90 cents a bushei;
kale, ID cents a barrel; spinach, s. to 81 a
barrel: lettuce, "a to s. barrel: carrots,
81 to $3.50 barrel; strawberries, 40 TO IS
cents quart; caulifiower, "a to s. a barrel;
turnips, 81 to $50 barrel: Virginia white
beans, 81 to sl.JO; black-eyed peas, 80 cents
to 81 bushel; celery, 25 to % cents q
dozen; Florida tomatoes, $3.50 to $3.50 a
crate; fancy table apples, 81 to $50 a bar
REL fancy California oranges. 81 to $3.50
box; Messina, 81 to IS; Valencia, s. to s. 80;
lemons s. to 81 a box.
Beef and other meats remain practically
as last reported, as may be seen from the
following quotations: Live cattle, from 3
to 4 Ia cents a pound; lambs to -;
sheep, 3 to 4: COWS with calves, so to $&5:
calves, to cents a pound, and dressed
hogs, 4 to Z.