Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-20
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Prices Materially Strengthened
. Good Demnnd for POultcX.

Good Demand for Poultry.
| The cooler weather has materially
strengthened the local wholesale produce
market and prices are firmer and exhibit
ing an upward tendency. Butter. however.
| has declined a fraction in the highest
grade, file goods being scarce, and all
grades somewhat weaker. Cheese remains
as last reported, while eggs are scarcer and
higher. There is a better chance for
dressed poultry, and, while there is an
increased supply Of turkeys, they are not
showing up as well as the demand calls for,
much complaint prevailing respecting the
condition of stock. Thanksgiving prices
will be slightly higher than those of today,
and turkeys are expected to retail at from
IA to Is cents a pound. The weather being
more favorable, game is arriving in better
condition, the best since the season opened,
but prices remain unchanged. White po-
tatoes are slightly higher. and the same is
true of apples. Calves and lambs are in
good demand, but receipts are light. Sweet
weather being not quite cool enough. The
market is we'll supplied in most products.
and firmer feeling prevails.
Butter-EXtra Elgin creamery, 241. cents
a pound: choice, %; firsts, %. seconds, 20;
bakers choice stock, Is; New York tubs,
IL to 10; dairy print. - to %; Virginia and
Maryland stock, IA to 20.
Cheese-New York state full cream, large,
II cents a pound; flats, liz; ponys, II.
Eggs-Nearby fresh. ~ to p cents a
dozen; western. 80; southern, IL to IL.
Poultry-Live turkeys. to 10 cents a
pound: dressed. o to u; chickens, to 8;
old fowls. to Z: ducks. to 0; dressed.
10 to IL; geese. to Z; dressed. to 8.
Game-Venison, saddle, Is to 20 cents a
pound: bear. saddle, 10 to u; pheasants, %
to 40 cents apiece; rabbits, % cents to $50
dozen; wild turkeys, to 10 cents pound
quail. $50 to 81 a dozen; woodcocks, % 10
35 cents apiece.
Vegetables-Celery. medium, per doz.. %
to 3 cents; common, per doz, ~ to 10
cents, beans. per box, 20 to 10 cents; let
tuce, per Dbl, 80 cents to 81; potatoes,
fancy, new. per bbl 81 to $50; choice, per
cents; culls, per Dbl. 80 to IS cents; pota-
toes, New York, per bush, 20 to IS cents;
Maryland and Virginia, per BUSH, 65 to 20
cents; culls, per BUSH. % to 30 cents: sweet
s1.J0; culls. 70 to 80 cents; yams and hay
mons. per bbl., 81; beets, per 100 punches,
81 to $i.5o: cabbage. per 100. s. to 81; new,
per Dbl. IS cents to 81; onions. yellow. per
cents; turnips per Dbl. 70 cents to 81;
beans. white, New York, mediums, $40 to
$l.35; New York pea. LIS to $1.20: marrow,
81 30 to $l30: Virginia. white, 80 cents to
cents; black-eyed peas. per BUSH. IS to 75
cents.
Dried fruits-Evaporated apples, choice,
to g cents; apples sliced, fancy, % to 3
cents; sliced. bright. ~ to az cents; quar-
tiers. bright. IN to 3 cents; peaches, choice,
to cents; fair to good, to 6 cents
halves. unpeeled, to 3 cents; quarters,
Lnpecled, 2 to 5 cents; evaporated; 8 to 10
cents; evaporated. unpeeled. @ to cents;
cherries, pitted, dry, crop '96. to 10 cents
sugared and wet, 10 cents: blackberries,
Per h.. 3 to 3k cents: whortleberries, per
lb., 5 to 9 cents; raspberries, dry, 10 to IL
cents.
Green fruits and nuts-Apples, fancy ia
BILE. bbl. g to $50; choice. per bbl.. g to
81 so; windfalls, per bbl., 81 to $1.25; pears,
La Ccnte. $3.50 to s.: Duchess, per bbl,
$l.75 to 81: Sickle. per bbl., 8 to 81; Cali
fc rnia Bartlett per box, 81 to $1.50; native,
per bbl.. $2.25 to s.: walnuts. per 100 lbs,
20 to IS cents; chestnuts, Fer pound, to 8
cents: oranges. California, $3.50 to $50;
lemons, Cicily, per box, 8 to 81; grapes,
Catawba, 5-lb. baskets. to 10 cents; Con-
cord, 1O-lb basket, II to 13 cents; 5-Ib.
basket to cents; Niagara, 5-lb. basket,
to II cents; Salems 5-lb. basket, to 8
cents: walnut kernels. 0 to 10 cents: pine
apples, to IS cents; crab apples per bbl.,
81 to $3.50.
Beef and other meats-Cattle, extra. per
cwt., $3.50 to S.; butcher. per cwt., $2.5U to
$3.50: common, per cwt., $1.50. to s.; rough,
per cwt., 81: hogs. fair. per cwt, gross, 81;
ordinary, per cwt., net, 1915: sheep per
cwt., 80 to s.; lambs, spring. choice, cwt..
81 to $3.50; medium, $4.25; common. So to
$3.50; calves, prime. per cwt., Sc to 81; COM
mon, per cwt., $ to SO: grass. per cwt, g
to $50; COWS. prime. each SIS to $35: COM
mon. each SO to SIS: old and dry, Sc to S.:
dressed hogs, to AZ cents.