Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-16

Butter Scarce and High-Generally
Stf6ening Prices.

Sttnening Prices.
Prices today in the local wholesale pro-
duce market show the market to be in
about the same condition noted last week
there being a general stiffness in quota
tons. The question of butter is becoming
serious. due to the continued drought in
the west and the unusual heat Fine. fresh
goods are particularly scarce, supplies be-
ing exceptionally small, and were it not
Tor the supply of storage goods there would
be much want and astonishingly high
prices. All indications point to still higher
quotations, one of the features of the state
of the market being that fine June cream
cries are bringing about as much as the
finer grades. Cheese remains practically
unchanged, although the same conditions
winch are Affecting butter now are more
than likely to affect it before long, Eggs,
although still scarce, remain about as last
quoted, strictly fine, fresh goods bringing
fancy fancy prices. Inc receipts of poultry are
lighter. with demand which has quicken
ed and stiffened values on young chickens
today'S sales being made at from 10 to 1O1S
For good, fat turkeys there is.a steady de-
mand. Potatoes are plentiful, prices being
firmly held. while sweets are steadily de-
manded. The weather is too warm for
game, and arrivals are few and not of the
best quality. The season for peaches is
about over. while choice apples are in good
demand. the supply being light. There is
a good sale for dried fruit of all kinds, the
increasing supply of chestnuts lowering
prices. Beef and other meats remain prac-
tically unchanged.
Butter-Extra Elgin creamery, "a cents a
pound; choice. %; firsts, q; seconds, 20;
bakers choice stock, IA to Is; New York
tubs. IL to 10; dairy print IS to p; Vir-
ginia and Maryland stock, IA to %.
Cheese-New York state full cream, large
II cents a pound; flats, 111s; ponys, r.
Eggs-Nearby fresh, Is cents a dozen;
western, 10; southern, IA.
Poultry-IiVe furkayS & f0
pound; chickens, 10 to 101a; old fowls ) to
~; ducks, to .; geese. to 9.
Game-Venison, saddle, Is to 20 cents
pound; pheasants, 23 to 40 a piece; rabbits,
$50 to 81 a dozen; wild turkeys, to 10
cents a pounds; woodcock, 25 to 35 cents
a piece.
vegetables-celery. medium. per doz.. %
to 30 cents; common, per doz., 10 to Is
cents; beans. per box, 80 to % cents; let
tuce, per Dbl, 30 cents to 81; potatoes,
fancy. new. per Dbl, 81 to s2.25; choice, per
Dbl, $40 to 81; new. per bush. 20 to Is
cents; culls. per bbl.. 80 to IL cents; pota-
toes, New York, per bush, 20 to IS cents;
Maryland and Virginia, bush, 60 to 20
cents: culls. per bush, % to 80 cents; sweet
potatoes. fancy, per bbl.. s1.25 to $3.50; No.
]. 81 to S1.25; culls 10 to 30 cents; yams and
haymons. per Dbl, 80 cents to 81; tomatoes
per crate. native, 25 to 35 cents; beets, per
100 punches. 81 to s1.5O; cabbage, per 100,
v to a. new,pe Dbl, 70 cents to 81; onions.
yellow, per Dbl, $1.50 to 81; yellow, per
bush, Cd to 90 cents; turnips. per bbl, IS
cents to 81: beans. white. New York, medi-
ums. $40 to s1.35; New York. pea, $1.2O to
$40; marrow. SLID to $50; Virginia,
white, 30 cents to 81; white, mixed, 80 cents;
coiored, 60 cents; black-eyed peas per
bush, 80 to 10 cents.
Dried fruits-Evaporated apples choice.
to cents; apples sliced. fancy. cents;
sliced, bright, to 2Ea cents; quarters
bright, cents; peaches. choice, 6 to :
cents; fair to good, to q cents; halves I'M
peeled, to cents; quarters, unpeeled 9
10 . cents; evaporated to 10 cents; evap
GRATED. unpeeled, to cents; cherries,
pitted, dry. crop SO. to 10 cents; sugared
and wet, 6 to cents; blackberries, per h.,
. :, TO ga cents; whortleberries, per h., to
cents; raspberries dry, 10 to II cents
Green fruits and nuts-Apples fancy ia
bic, Dbl. - to $3.50; choice. per bbl., 81 so;
wlndfalls, per Dbl. % cents to 81; pears, La
Conie' 81 50 to 50; Duchess, per Dbl. 1.75
Bartlett. per box, 81 to 81. so; native per
Dbl. s22o to 81; peaches, fancy, free stone,
sl-2o to s1.oO; medium, 40 to 90 cents:
peaches, six-basket carriers. $3.50 to 81; u
bush baskets. NJ to 60 cents; ounces. per
bbl-.*2.25 to 50; walnuts, per 100 lbs ~
cents to 81; chestnuts per pound 5 to 7
cents: oranges. California, $3.50 to s.
Lemons, Cieiiy. per box, 50 to 81. Grapes
Concord. U-lb. basket, II to 10 cents; 5-lb.
basket, to cents; Delaware 5-lb basket.
~ to IL cents. Marthas, 5-lb. basket, 5
cents: Niagaras, 5-lb basket 10 to II cents
sdIefns, I'D. basket to cents; walnut
kernels, L. to 10 cents: pineapples 8 to 10
cents; crab apples, per Dbl, 81 to $50
Beef and other meats-Cattle, extra, per
cwt., $50 to s.; butcher per cwt, 81 80 to
$50: common. per cwt., S1.JO to 81; rough.
per cwt, 81; hogs. fair, per cwt., gross 81;
ordinary, per cwt. net, $3.75: sheep, per
cwt-, 81 80 to s.; lambs, spring, choice cwt,
"a to $40; medium. s4.25; common, 81 to
$50; calves. prime. per cwt., Sc to $3.50;
common. per cwt., s. to So; grass. per cwt.,
81 to $50; COWS. prime, each $25 to $35;
common. each, $40 to SIS; old and dry, 50
to S..