Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-27
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Butter and Cheese LOwer-Esgs Some
what Higher.

After the Thanksgiving demand there is
today in the local wholesale produce mar
ket a slightly weaker feeling, but prices
remain about last reported with the
exception of butter and eggs. Butter is
slightly lower, although in good demand
and is well cleaned up. 1t is not likely to
go higher. Eggs have taken quite rise,
ard only storage goods keep prices down
to where they are. Cheese is a fraction
lower, but the market as to about all pro-
ducts remains unchanged.
Butter-EXtra Elgin creamery "a cents
a pound; choice, %: firsts, II; seconds 20:
bakers choice stock, Is: New York tubs,
II to 10: dairy print, 1S to %; Virginia and
Maryland stock. ii to 90.
Cheese-New York state full cream, large
II cents a pound flats, II; ponys. 11l2.
Eggs-Nearby fresh. II to % cents a
dozen; western, 20 to 21 southern, 10 to 20
Poultry-Live turkeys, to 10 cents
pound: dressed, to II; chickens, s to g.
old fowls. to Z: ducks, to 8; dressed
10 to IL: geese, 6 to {: dressed 8 to o.
Game-Venison, saddle IL to 20 cents a
pound; bear. saddle 10 to II: pheasants. %
to 40 cents apiece: rabbits, 10 cents to $1.J0
dozen: wild turkeys, to 10 cents pound ,
quail. $1.5O to 81 a dozen; woodcocks, % to
80 cents apiece.
Vegetables-Celery, medium, per doz, %
to S3 cents; common, per doZ., 10 to 10
cents; beans, per box, 80 to 60 cents; let
fancy, new, per Dbl, 81 to $3.50: choice, per
Dbl, S.15 to 81: new, per bush, 81. to 20
cents; culis. per Dbl. so to 10 cents; pota-
toes. New York, per BUSH, 20 to 10 cents;
Maryland and Virginia, per bush, 65 to 20
cents; culls. per BUSH. 25 to 30 cents: sweet
potatoes. fancy, per Dbl. So; No. l, $1.25 to
$50; cuils, 10 to 80 cents; yams and hay
mons. per bbl., 81; beets, per 100 punches,
per bbl.. Is cents to 81; onions, yellow, per
bbl., $3.50 to 81; yellow, per bush, 60 to 65
cents; turnips, per bbl., 10 cents to 81;
beans. white. New York. mediums, s1.2O to
s1.35; New York pea, S1.15 to $40; marrow
S1.20 to $1.3O: Virginia, white, 80 cents to
81: white. mixed, so cents; colored, 60
cents; black-eyed peas, per bush, Go to 10
cents.
Dried fruits-Evaporated apples, choice.
to q cents; apples sliced, fancy "a to 3
cents; sliced, bright, "a to 2k cents; quar-
ters. bright, 213 to cents; peaches, choice
q to cents; fair TO good, to cents;
falves, unpeeled, to 3 cents; quarters
unpeeled, TO cents; evaporated, to 10
cents: evapOrated unreeled, 6 to Z cents:
cherries. pitted, dry, crop '9G, 0 to 10 cents
sugared and wet, TO cents; blackberries,
FER h.. to 81 cents; whorteberries, per
H.. to cents: raspberries, dry, 10 to II
cents.
Green fruits and nuts-Apples, fancy ia
bic. Dbl. 81 to $3.50; choice, per Dbl, 81 to
La Conte, $3.50 to 50; Duchess per bbl..
$1.75 to 81; Sickle, per bbl.. s. to 81; Cali.
fornia Bartlett. per box. 81 to $50; native,
per Dbl. 225 to s.: walnuts, per 100 lbs,
Is to IS cents: chestnuts. per pound. to s
cents: oranges. California. $3.50 to $3.50:
lemons Cicily, per box. s. to 81; grapes.
Catawba. 5-lb. baskets. to 10 cents; Con.
cord. 1O-lb. basket. II to Is cents; Glib.
basket. to cents: Niagara. 5-lb. basket,
8 to II cents; Salems, 5-lb. basket, to Q
cents; walnut kernels. 0 to 10 cents; pine
apples, 8 to is cents; crab apples. per Dbl,
- to s.. so.
Beef and other meats-Cattle, extra, per
cwt:. $50 to s.; butcher. per cwt., $3.50 to
per cwt.. 81 hogs. fair, per cwt.. gross, "a;
ordinary. per cwt., net. 1915; sheep, per
cwt.. $3.50 to s.: lambs. spring. choice cwt..
$3.50; calves. prime per cwt., So to 81: com
mon, per cwt.. s. to S.; grass. per cwt., s.
to $50; COWS, prime. each $25 to $35: com
mon, each SO to SIS; old and dry, Sc to S.:
dressed hogs 3 to Az cents.