Evening star., 1897-01-02
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Depression Noticeable - Slight
Changes In Prices.

Changes In Prices.
The usual slight depression which follow:
the holiday trade Is noticeable in the loca
wholesale produce market today, but while
this depression has slightly reduced prices
Its effects are expected to be but temporary
Hence, the coming week or the next will
probably witness a slight advance in the
prices prevailing today. Butter is but 6
fraction lower, and while it is firm, the
market is in a somewhat unsettled condi
ticn. Eggs have dropped about a cent &
dozen, caused by the open weather mors
than by anything else perhaps and they
are not unlikely to advance in a short time
especially if the weather turns cold. Cheese
remains as last reported. Poultry also feels
tie depression following a great holiday
trade, but prices will advance shortly in al
prosabi ity. Game is pracu ally unchanged
and the same can be said of vegetables and
fruits Beef and other meats show little, il
any. material change. The market on the
whole is firm and in a healthy condition.
In butter the following prices are pre-
yailing today: Elgin extras, 22h cents q
pound; choice, 20; firsts, 10; seconds, 1S
bakers choice stock. 10; New York tubs
1S; dairy print, 16; western, IA; Maryland
and Virginia creamery, IS; dairy packed, Ii
For eggs the following quotations are no.
ticed: Nearby fresh, p cents a dozen; west
ern, 20 cents, and southern, 10 cents.
Cheese remains as last quoted Full
cream, large. II cents a pound; fats, r.
and ponys, 12h cents.
keys, Drawn, 8 to II cents per pound: un-
drawn, large, 8 to 8 cents per pound; live
toms. cents per pound; live, small, to
cents per pound; chickens drawn, to
cents per pound; undrawn, 8 cents per
pound; live, 6 to cents per pound; spring,
live, 10 to IL cents per pound; old fowls,
drawn, cents per pound; Endrawn, cents
per pound; live. cents per pound; ducks,
eo1 o To-
old, 8 to 10 cents per pound; live, spring,
young, to 10 cents per pound; geese, live.
to 8 cents per pound; dressed, to IL
cents per pound.
Game:Venison, saddle, 1s cents per pound
whole deer, bucks. to 8 cents per pound
Iheasants. 40 to so cents; abbfts, 81 to -
per dozen; quail, $1.75 to S2.25; wild tur-
keys, to 10 cents per pound; woodcock,
40 to 80 cents each
The following prices are quoted for
vegetables and fruits: Cucumbers, per box,
$3.50 to 81; cauliflower, per barrel. $50 to
81; kale, per doz, 80 to Is cents: celery,
fancy, per dozen, so to rs cents; medium,
% to 40 cents common, Is to 90 cents;
BEANS per box, $1.25 to 81; lettuce, per bar
rel, 80 to 81; per basket, 75 cents to $1.25;
potatoes, fancy, new, Per barrel, 81 to 81. 25:
choice per barrel. 81; new, per bushel, 30
to 80 cents; culls, per barrel, 40 cents;
New York, per bushel, 35 to 3S cents; Mary
land and Virginia, per bushel, so to 80 cents;
culls, per bushel, 20 to % cents: sweet po-
tatoes, 1ancy, per barrel, 81 to $1.2o: NO. 1,
20 to s5 cents: culls, 35 to 40 cents; yams
and haymons, barrel. go to 20 cents toma-
toes, Florida, per crate. $50 to $3.50: ma
tive, per crate, 25 to 50 cents: egg plant.
per one-half barrel box, $1.5O to $3.50; beets.
per 100 punches, $3.50 to $3.50; cabbage, per
100, 81 to $3.50: new, per barrel, 40 cents;
onions, Bermuda, per crate, s.. LAO to $3.50;
yellow, per barrel, s1.25 to $1.40; yellow,
new, per bushel. 40 to So cents: turnips. per
barrel, 80 to 75 cents; beans, white, New
York mediums, s1.1O to s1.15: New York
pea, s1.10 to s1.15; marrow, s1.30 to sl.35:
Virginia. white, Is cents; white mixed, 80
cents; colored, so to 60 cents; black-eyed
peas, per bushel, 80 cents; apples, fancy
table, barrel. s1.25 to 81; choice, barrel, 81
to Sis: walnuts, per 100 pounds, 40 to 80
cents: oranges. Florida, fancy, bright, per
box. 81 to $3.50; Messina, per box $3. 30 to s.
Valencia. cases, So 70 $50, tanseripes,
box. 81 to SO; lemons, Cicily, per box, So to
So: cranberries, per box, S1.50 to s.: Jersey.
per barrel, s. to $3.50; Cape COD, per bar
rel, $3.50 to s6
The following are the quotations for beef
and other meats: Live cattle, from to Az
cents a pound; lambs, ) to cents; sheep,
2 to 3a4 cents; cows with calves, s25 to $685.
calves, to cents a pound; dressed hogs,
3 to cents a pound.