Evening star., 1897-01-30
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
The Cold Snap Advances Prfces-Gen'
eral Firmueaa.

eral Firmuess,
The extreme cold weather of the past sew.
eral days has had the effect of advancing
prices In the local wholesale produce mar
ket, and In about all products today there
are either higher prices an upward ten
dency. Butter has advanced from a cent
to cent and half a pound and eggs
are from two to three cents a dozen higher
today than they were last week. although
during the first part of the week they got
down as low as II cents. Cheese. like those
two products. is firm. although prices are
ABOUT as last reported. The receipts in
poultry are not as large, and prices are
not unlikely to slightly advance during the
week, and the same may be said of game.
Vegetables and fruits are likewise affected
by the cold snap, but beef and other meats
exhibit but little change. The market is
well supplied, and the general tone is one
of firmness.
Butter is not only firmer. but also scarcer,
with indications that it will show frosty
effects because of the cold weather. Lower
grades, however, are more active. Today s
prices: Elgin extras, - to 22ts cents a
pound; choice, 20 to 21 firsts. 10 to 20; sec
onds, 1S; bakers choice stock, IA to 10:
New York tubs, Is; dairy print, 16; western,
IA; Maryland and Virginia creamery, Is;
dairy packed. IA.
While eggs are higher today. it is simply
because of the cold weather, and they are
rot as firm as might be expected. Nearby
fresh, IL cents a dozen; western, 16 cents
and southern. 10 cents.
Cheese is very much firmer and exhibits
an upward tendency. today's quotations be-
ing: Full cream, large, 12lls cents pound;
flats, l3, and ponys. 1871 cents.
Poultry is scarcer and prices are slightly
higher: Turkeys, choice, drawn, S-lb. aver
age, Il TO Il ceEts; choice, drawn. large, ii
to IL cents: choice, undrawn, per H., IL to
II cents: gobblers. undrawn. 10 cents; un-
drawn. large, per H.. 10 cents: live, toms,
Fer h., cents; live, hens, per H., 3 to 10
chickens, drawn. per lb, 8 to cents;
undrawn, per lb.. to o cents; live per h.,
cents; spring. large, live. Per h., cents;
| medium, live per h., s cents; small, )
| cents; undrawr, per H., to cents; live,
per h., Z cents; roosters. live, per H., to
cents; ducks. dressed, per lb., to 10 cents;
live, large. old, per lb., to cents; live,
spring. young, to cents; geese, live, per
| h., q to 6i2 cents; dressed, to cents.
Game is also slightly higher: Pheasants.
45 to 80 cents; rabbits, 81 to 81 per dozen;
quail, $3.50 to $3.50; wild turkeys,,9 to Il
cents per pound; woodcock, 40 to 80 cents
each.
Vegetables and fruits are selling as fol-
| lows: Cucumbers. per box, $50 to ~
| caulifiower, per barrel. $50 to s.: kale. per
| doz, 80 to 10 cents; celery, fancy, per doz-
en-. 80 to 10 cents; medium. 25 to 40 cents;
common, Is to 20 cents: beans, per box,
S1.25 to 81; lettuce, per barrel, $.50 to 81:
per basket, 20 cents to $125; potatoes,
| fancy, new, per barrel. 81 to $l.25; choice.
per barrel, 81; new, per bushef 30 to 30
| cents; culls. per barrel, 40 cents; New
York, per bushel, 35 to 80 cents; Maryland
and Virginia, per bushel, 30 to 35 cents;
| culls. per bushel. 20 to 25 cents; sweet po-
| tatoes, fancy, per barrel, 81 to S1-25; No. /.
| Is to IS cents: culls, 81 to 40 cents; yams
| and haymons, barrel, 60 10 40 cents; toma-
toes, Florida, per crate, $1.JO to $3.50. ma
| tive, per crate, % to 80 cents; egg plant,
| per one-nalf-barrel box 81. 50 to $50: beets,
per 100 punches, s1.50 to $50; cabbage. per
| 100, s. to $50; new, per barrel, 40 cents:
| onions, Bermuda, per crate, 81. 40 to 81 80;
| yellow, per BARREL $1.25 to s1.40: yellow,
| new, per bushel. 40 to 65 cents; turnips. per
| barrel. 30 to 75 cents; beans. white, New
| York mediums, $1.10 to $1.15; New York
| pea, $1.1O to $1.15; marrow, s1.30 to sl.35
| Virginia, white, % cents; white, mixed, 81
| cents; colored, 90 to 60 cents; black-eyed
peas, per bushel. 80 cents; apples, fancy
table, barrel. sl25 to 81; choice, barrel. 81
| to $125; walnuts, per 100 pounds. 40 to 80
| cents; oranges. Florida, fancy bright, per
| box, 81 to $3.50; Messina, per box, $3.50 to
| $5; Valencia, cases. s. to $3.50; tangernes
| box, 81 to $40; lemons Sicily. per box s. to
| 50: cranberries, per box, 1.J0 TO 81; Jersey,
| per barrel, s. to $3.50; Cape Cod, per bar
| rel, 50 to s6.
| Beef and other meats have only beer
| slightly affected by the cold wea ther: Live
| cattle, from to 1-S cents a pound; lambs
| with calves, 81 to $}3; calves, j to 4 cent.
| pound; dressed hogs, to cents a pound
Money to lend at and per cent On rea
estate. Frank T. Rawlings. 1905 Pa. ave-
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