Evening star., 1897-01-16
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Butter Firmer and Adyancinx-Epx.
Lower.

Inc condition of the local wholesale pro-
duce market today is in most resna,ts
what 1t was a week ago today Rutter IN
the top grades has advanced about a cent
a pound, but the lower grades remain az
last quoted. Eggs, however, have declined
a cent dozen because of the continued
mild weather, and it is not at all unlikely
that sun further decline viii; take rlsce
unless, of course, the weather becomes
much more wintry than it is al present and
mas been for some time. Cheese is very
firm, and prices have advanced a frac-
tlon throughout, with indications of still
higher prices. Poultry continues firm and
prices are about as last reported The
same can be said of game. In vegetables
and fruits the market remains about as ii
has been for the past two or three weeks
and beef and other meats show only the
changes noted from week to week The
market throughout continues firm and well
supplied.
Butter is much firmer today in the finest
grades, there being very little frst-class
creamery obtainable. There is a more con-
servative feeling IN all grades, and indi-
cations OF an advance are not lacking. To-
days prices: Elgin extras, % cents q
pound; choice, 20; firsts, ID; seconds, 49,;
bakers choice stock, IA to ID; New York
tubs, 1s; dairy print. 16; western, IA; Mary
land and Virginia creamery, IS; dairy
packed, Ii.
Eggs are dull and about a cent a dozen
lower today, prices being held down Ly ihe
southern arrivals. Nearby fresh, II cents
Is cents
d.. Cheese is very much firmer and has ed-
vanced slightly, with Indications of 4 still
further advance. Full cream, large, II to
11h cents a pound; flats, l2lz to 13, and
ponys, Ii to 13k cents.
Poultry Is rather firm and prices are not
unlikely to advance slightly. Turkeys
choice, drawn S-lb. average, IL to l.; choice,
large, 10 to IL; choice, undrawn, h., 10 to
IL; undrawn, large, per h.. 10; live, toms,
per lb.. .; live, hens, per lb.. to 10; live.
small, per h., 8 to 10. Chickens-Drawn,
live. per h., 8; spring. live, per h., 8 Old
fowls-Drawn, per h., to 8; undrawn,
per lb., to 8; live, per h., . to Z; rooste.s,
live, per lb., to 8. Ducks-Dressed, per
h.. to y; live. large, per db.' Old. to y;
per lb 6 to 61a; dressed, to 8.
Game is fairly plentiful, with prices about
as last reported: Pheasants, 10 to 80 cents:
rabbits, 81 to s. per dozen: quail. $1.75 to
s. 25; wild turkeys, to ~ cents per pound;
Woodcock 40 to so cents each.
The following prices are quoted for vege-
tables and fruits: Cueumbers. per box,
81 80 to 81; caulifower, per barrel. $3.50 to
$3; kale, per doz., 80 to IS cents; celery,
fancy, per dozen, 80 to 10 cents; medium,
Is to 40 cents; common, 10 to 20 cents;
beans, per tox, 81. % to s.; lettuce, per bar
rel, s1.50 to 81; per basket, IS cents to $1.25;
potatoes, fancy, new, per barrel, 81 to $125;
choice. per barrel, 81; new, per bushel, 30
to 35 cents; culls. per barrel, 40 cents: New
York, per bushel, So to 3S cents; Mary
land and Virginia, per bushel, 80 to 30 cents;
culls, per bushel, 20 to 25 cents: sweet po-
tatoes, fancy. per barrel, 81 to $1.25; No. l.
70 to S5 cents; culls, 35 to 10 cents; yams
and haymons, barrel 81 to 20 cents; toma-
toes, Florida, per crate, $l.SO to 2-5O; ma
tive. per crate, % to 30 cents; egg plant
per one-half-barrel box, 81. 80 to $3.50; beets,
per 100 punches, 80 to 81. 80; cabbage, per
100, 50 to $3.50; new, per barrel. 40 cents;
onions. Bermuda, per crate, 81. 40 to 81 so;
yellow, per barrel. $1.25 to $40: yellow
new. per bushel, 10 to IS cents; turnips per
barrel. SO to Is cents; beans. white, New
York mediums, S1.1O to $1.15: New York
pea. 81. 10 to $1.15: marrow, $3.50 to 81 35;
Virginia white, IS cents; white, mixed, SO
cents: colored 50 to 90 cents; black-eyed
meas. per busheI, 80 cents; apples, fancy
table. barrel, $1.25 to Sc: choice, barrel, 81
to S125; walnuts. per 100 pounds, 40 to 50
cents; oranges. Florida. fancy bright, per
box, "a to $3.50; Messina, per box, 1850 to
IS; Valencia. cases, $ to $50; tangerines,
tox, 81 to SO; lemons. Cicily. per box. 8 to
IS; cranberries. per box S1.bO to $2; Jersey,
per barrel. s. to $50; Cape Cod, per bar
rel, s to So. (.
The prices for beef and other meats are:
Live cattle, from 2 to "a cents a pound:
lambs, to Z cents; sheep. 2 to 81 cents:
COWS with calves. SO to s35; calves, to
Z cents a pound: dressed hogs. 3 to cents
pound =