Evening star., 1897-01-09
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Butter and EggNs Down P0ultr!
Slightly Higher.

Butter and Eggs Down - Poultry
Slightly Higher.
The depression in the local wholesale
produce market noticed last week still
continues. and butterl and eggs particu-
larly have dropped intprice to a very ma
terial degree. The open weather and the
usual stagnatioh following the holiday
trade are responsible more than anything
else, perhaps. Butter evidences a disposi-
ton to remain where 1t Is at present, and
eggs are dull and very low for this season
OF the year. Cheese is higher and more
than that shows an upward tendency.
Poultry has advanced slightly, but game
remains about as last quoted And this
Is true OF vegetables and fruits and meats.
strawoerr1es have made their appearance,
selling for from 75c. to 81 a box. The mar
ket Is firm, however, and a healthy feeling
prevails.
lE butter the following prices are pre-
valnng today: Elgin extras, p cents a
pound; choice, 20; firsts, 10; seconds, IS;
bakera choice stock, IA to Is; New York
tubs, IL; dairy print. 16: western, IA; Mary
land ana Virginia creamery, Is; dairy
For eggs the following quotations are no
ticed; Nearby fresh. IS cents dozen; west
ern II cents, and southern, 18 cents.
Cneese remains as last quoted: Full
cream, large, II cents pound; flats, 1211ss,
and ponys, 13 cents
Today's prices for poultry: Choice tur-
keys, drawn, 10 to 12 cents per pound; un-
orawn: large, cents per pound; live.
toms. cents per pound; live, small. 6 to
cents per pound; chickens, drawn, to 8
cents per pound: undrawn, cents per
pound; live, to cents per pound; spring,
i've. III to IL cents per pound; old fowls.
draW n, y ceits per pound: undrawn, s cents
per pound; live, cents per pound; ducks,
dressed. 8 to 10 cents per pound; live, large,
OLD to 10 cents per pound; live, spring,
young, y to 10 cents per pound; geese, live,
to cents Fer pound; dressed, to 10
cents per pound.
Game: Venison. saddle 1s cents per
pourd; whole deer, bucks, 8 to cents per
pound; pheasants, 40 to so cents; rabbits,
81 70 " per dozen; quail. .75 to 1925; wild
turkeys, to 10 cents per pound; wood
cock, 40 to 80 cents each.
The following prices are quoted for vege
tables and fruits: Cucumbers, per box
$l.5O to 81; caulifower, per barrel, $3.50 tC
-; kale, per ,,doz., so to 75. cents; celery
70 to 40 cents; common, Is to % cents
beans, per box, 81 .25 to 81; lettuce, per bar.
rel, $l.oO to 81; per basket, IS cents to $1.25
potatoes, fancy, new, per barrel, 81 to s1.25
to 80 cents; culls, per barrel, 40 cents
New York, per bushel, 35 to 3S cents; Mary.
land and Virginia, per bushel, 80 to 80 cents
culls, per bushel. 20 to 25 cents; sweet po-
tatees, fancy per barrel, 81 to $1.25; No. 1
20 to % cents; culls, 35 to 40 cents; yams
and haymons, barrel, 60 to 70 cents; toma.
tees, Florida, per crate. s1.5O to $3.50; ma.
tive, per crate. 25 to 80 cents; egg plant
per cne-half-barrel box, 1.5O 10 $3.50; beets
per 100 punches, s1.50 to $3.50; cabbage, pei
1OO, 81 to $i.50; new, per barrel, 40 cents
onions, Bermuda, per crate, 40 to $1.50
yellow. per barrel, s1.25 to $40; yellow
new, per bushel. 40 to Is cents; turnips, pc,
barrel, so to rs cents; beans, white, New
York mediums, s1.10 to s1.15; New York
pea, s1.10 to s1.15; marrow, sl.3O to s1.35
Virginia. white, 70 cents; white, mixed, Sc
cents; 'colored, SO to 60 cents: black-eyed
peas, per bushei, so, cents; apples, fancy
table, barrel, $125 to g; choice, BARREL 81
to $1.25; walnuts, pernOO pounds, 40 to 5C
cents; oranges, Florida, fancy bright, pei
box, 81 to $3.50: Messisa, per box, $3.50 to
s.; Valencia. cases, $s to $3.50; tangerines
box, 81 to $40; lemons, Cicily, per box, So te
$; cranberries, per box, $1.5O to 81: Jersey
per barrel, s. toe $780,, Cape Cod per bar.
rel, $3.50 to S6. IL
The following are the quotations for beef
and other meatss Live cattle from to II:
cents pound; lambs 5 to cents; sheep
to 3a4 cents: cows with calves, $25 to $35
calves, to cents a pound; dressed hogs
) to cents pound. i