Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Eggs LOwer-Buttcr and Other Pro-
ducts Stationery.

uuc1a stationery.
With slight exceptions, the local whole
sale produce market remains about as re-
ported last week. Butter Is a fraction
lower in the top grades, and more butter is
on the market, although there is much
complaint about the quality'of the stock.
Cheese remains at the sarne prices, but is
somewhat firmer. Eggs are weaker and
from two to three cents lower. Poultry
ard game are plentiful, as are other pro-
ducts, and generally firm market prevails.
Butter-EXtra Elgin creamery, "a cents a
pound; choice, %; firsts, 20; bakers choice
stock, 10; New York tubs, II. to 10; dairy
print, 10 to %; Virginia and Maryland
stock, IA to 20.
Cheese-New York state full cream large,
II cents a pound; flats, IL; ponys, 111a.
Eggs-Nearby fresh. 10 to 20 cents a
dozen: western, Is to 10; southern, II to is.
Poultry-Live turkeys, Z to cents a
pound; dressed, to 10; chickens, to 8;
old fowls to Z: ducks, 8 to $; dressed, III
to IL; geese, q to Z; dressed, & to 8.
Game-Venison, saddle, Is to 90 cents a
pound; whole deer. bucks, to 10: bear,
saddle. 10 to II; pheasants. Is to 40 cents
apiece; rabbits, IS cents to $3.50 a dozen
wild turkeys, to 10 cents a pound quail,
s1.5O to 81 dozen; woQdcocks, % to IS
cents apiece.
getables-Cucumbers: per box, 81 to
cry. medium, per doz., % to 33 cents: COM
mon, per doz., 10 to Is cents; beans, Fer
box, s1.25 to $1.50: lettuce, per bbl.. s. to
81; per basket. $3.50 to 81; potatoes. N. Y,
per bush, 10 to 80 cents; Md. and Va,
bush, 65 to 70 cents; culls, per bush, rs
to 30 cents: sweet potatoes, fancy, per Dbl.
$15O to 81; No. !, $3.50; culls, 70 to 10 cents;
yams and haymons, bbI:, 81 to S1.25; egg
per 100 punches. 81 to 100 cabbage, per
100, 81 to 81; onions. yellow, per Dbl, $1.5O
to 81; yellow, per BUSH. 80 to IS cents: tur-
nips. per Dbl. 75c. to 81; beans. white, N. Y.
mediums. H.20 to s1.35; N. 7. pea, Sill to
81. 20; marrow. $40 to $1.3O; Virginia. white
80 cents to 81; white. mixed. so cents; col
oIed, go cents; black-eyed peas, per BUSH,
65 to rs cents; Lima beans, per h., to
cents.
Dried fruits-Evaporated apples, choice,
TO 6 cents; apes sliced, fancy, az to
cents; sliced, bright, ~ to q. cents; quar-
i tiers, bright. 21a to cents; peaches. choice,
6 to Z CENTS fair to good, 8 to cents;
halves, unpeeled, to cents; quarters.
| unpeeled to 3 cents; evaporated. to 10
cents: evaporated. unpeeled. to cents;
cherries, pitted, dry crop '96, to 10 cents;
| sugared and wet, to cents: blackberries.
per h., 3 to 81 cents: whorteberries, per
| h., to cents; raspberries, dry, 10 to IL
cents.
Green fruits and nuts-Apples. fancy ta-
$3.50; windfalls, per Dbl. 81 to s1.25: pears,
La Conte s1.50 to SO: Duchess, per bbl.,
$l.75 to 81: Sickle. per Dbl, g to "a; Cali
fornia Bartlett. per box, 81 to $50; native,
per bbl.. s.. % to 50; waInuts. per 100 lbs.
IS to S5 cents; chestnuts, per pound. to 8
cents; oranges, California, $3.50 to $50;
lemons, Sicily, per box, s. to 81: grapes,
Cate VIDA 5-lb. basket. 8 to 10 cents; Con-
cord, lib. basket. 12 to. IS cents; 5-lb.
| basket. to 8 cents; Niagara, 5ab. basket,
8 to IL cents; Salems, 5-lb. basket, to 8
cents; walnut kernels 8 to 10 cents; pine
apples. to 1s cents; crab apples per bbl..
50 to $3.50
Beef and other meat4datt1e. extra. per
cwt. $50 to "a: butcher, per c~t:, $3.50 to
$3.50; common, per cwt., $3.50 to 81; rough,
per cwt.. 81: hogs, fair. per cwt., gross,
$3.50 to 1915: ordinary. peg cwt,. net. ss.25
to $3.50; sheep, per cwt.. $3.50 to g; lambs,
spring, choice. cwt., IS to $50: medium.
81 to So: common, s. to 80: calves, prime.
per cwt., So to 81; common, per cwt., s. to
Sc; grass. per cwt., s. to $3.50; cows, prime,
old and dry, SO to s.; dressed hogs, 8 to Az
| cents.