Evening star., 1896-09-26
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Eggs Lower TOday-Slfght Changes In
Other Products.


With the exception Of slight rise in the
price Of vegetables and fruits, due to the
advance of the season more than to any
thing else, perhaps and a slight decline in
the price Of eggs. quotations in the local
wholesale produce market today are prac-
tically those observed week ago. Butter
remains at the same figures. while eggs
have dropped q cent a dozen. Cheese is
stationary. as is poultry, the changes being
most noticeable in vegetables and fruits
Beef and other meats show only the small
changes noticed from week to week. The
market is well supplied, Its condition being
firm and healthy.
While there are strong indie ations of
higher prices in butter, there has been no
advance over those noticed week ago.
The stock Of fancy goods is short, but, on
the whole the feeling is quite firm. and a
healthy market prevails. The prices pre-
vailng today are: Elgin extras. II cents a
pound; choice, 16; firsts, Is; seconds IA;
bakers choice stock. 1212 to 13; New York
tubs, Is to 49, dairy print, IA; western, u;
Maryland and Virginia creamery, 10; dairy
packed, r.
AS may be seen from the following prices,
eggs have dropped a cent a dozen, being
lower here than in the north or west: Near
by fresh, 15 cents a dozen; western, IA
cents. and southern, 13 cents.
The following are the prices for cheese:
Full cream, large, 1O12 cents pound; fats,
II. and ponys, 11k.
Poultry remains as last reported: Live
chickens, 10 to IL cents a pound; old fowls.
to cents a pound; ducks, to 10 cents a
pound. and geese. to cents pound.
The following prices are quoted today for
vegetables and fruits: Caulifiower. per bbl.,
$2.5O to -: celery, per doz.. % to IS cents
squash, per doz., IS cents; lettuce, per bbl..
$1.50 to 81; potatoes, fancy, new, per bbl..
81 to $1.25: choice, per bbl, 81; new, per
l,,ch bal 70 nd nd ir-
sinia, bushel. 80 to 80 cents; culls, per
bushel, 20 to % cents; sweet potatoes, red,
per bbl., 81; eastern shore, bbl. 81 to $1.25;
common, IS cents; yams and haymons bbl.,
to 81, beets, per 100 lunches, $1.JO To
$50; cabbage, per 100, $50 to So; new, per
hbl., 10 cents; onions, Bermuda, per crate
81. 40 to $50; yellow per bbl., s1O5 to 10
yellow, new, per bushel, 40 to 45 cents
beans, white. New York mediums. 10
New York pea, $1.O5; marrow, sl.20; Vir-
ginia. white. 75 cents: white mixed. q
cents; colored; 50 to go cents; black-eyed
peas. per bushel, Is to 40 cents; apples
| fancy table. bbl, $175 to $50; per box, II
cents; choice. per bbl., % to $3.50; com.
| mon. per box. % to 40 cents; Maryland and
Virginia, per barrel. 75 cents to sl.25; pears
La Cohte, per bbl., s. to 81; per box, &c tc
81 cents; Sickle per bbl., 81 to $3.50; Bart
| lett. per box s. to $50: per barrel. so to
| -: peck basket, 20 to So cents; half-pecl
basket. 81 to 80 cents; other varieties, 81 Il
| 81; peaches, fancy, free stone, per bushe
box, 81 to 81; medium, 81 to $3.50: ounces
| per bbl 81 to 81; plums, blue, per pound, {
| to Z cents; plums. gage, per pound, to
| cents; oranges, fancy, bright, 81 to s4.J0 PEI
| box; Messina, $3.50 to s. per box; Valencia
| 81 to $50 per case; lemons. Sicily, s. to 5;
| per box; grapes, Is to ~ cents per l0-pount
basket: 10 to J2 cents per 5-pound basket
| pineapples, 7 to IL cents.
| The following prices for beef and othel
| meats are noted: Live cattle, from to A.
cents pound: lambs, I to ~ cents; sheep
| 11R to tx cents; cows with calves, SO to $35
| calves, 2lh to ) cents pound.