Evening star., 1897-02-20
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Prices Prevailing Today for Butter,
EGGS, Vegetables, Fruit and Meat.

Prices Prevailing Today for Butter,
Eggs, Vegetables, Fruit and Meat.
In the wholesale produce market today
eggs may be classed as firm, and the same
is true of butter, SO far as the finer grades
are concerned, but not so much so in the
intermediate grades. Poultry, vegetables,
meat and fruits are generally steady. Prices
quoted today are as follows:
Butter-Elgin extras, % cents i pound;
choice, -: firsts, II: seconds, 49, bakers
choice stock. IA to 10; New York tubs, 1s;
dairy print 20: western. II: Maryland and
Virginia creamery, IS; dairy packed. Is.
Cheese-Full cream, large, 121s cents a
pound; flats. 1872. and ponys. IA cents.
Eggs-Nearby fresh. II cents dozen;
western, 16 cents. and southern, ID cents.
Poultry-Turkeys. choice. drawn, S-pound
average, IA to Is cents per pound chotce
drawn, large, 121A to 13; choice, drawn, all
large. L.; choice, undrawn. II to Ii: COB
blers undrawn. II to u; undrawn, large
10 to II: live. toms, TO- live hens, lo TO II;
live, small. 10 TO II. Chickens-Drawn. y
to 10 cents per pound: undrawn, TO ~
live 9 to 10: winter chicks. live, IL 10 u
Old fowls-Drawn. 8 to . cents per pound
undrawn 8 to .; live, 4; roosters, nVe, = 70
s. Ducks-Dressed, II to II cents per pound ,
live large. .; live spring, young, g. Geese
Live, u to 61s cents per pouna' oresseu'
to 8. ro- ,,a.e-
tables and fruits: Cucumbers, per poA,
80 to 81; caulifiower, per barrel, SOU TO
ST. kale per box, 80 to 80 cents; ceiery'
fancy, per dozen, 50 to Is. centsi mea1uhi,
per dozen, Is to 40 centsii common, per
Dozen Is to 70 cents; squash, per oox, 20
cents to 81. 1.25; beans per box, s3l.2o 10 "
lettuce. per barrel, $50 to 81; per basket.
IL cents to 81. Is; potatoes, New YORK. per
bushel, 30 to 80 cents; Maryland ana VIZ
einia, bushel. 80 to }5 cents ~ rcuiis, per
bushel, ~ to % cents; rsVeet potatoes,
fancy, per barrel, 81 to $l.2bs No. l. 75 to
IS cents; culls, IS to 40 centsneyams ana
haymons, barrel, 90 to 75 cents: tomatoes,
per crate. Florida, $3.50 to $50, egg plant,
per half-barrel box, 81. so to y 5Oss beets, per
100 punches, $3.50 to $3.50; cabbage per lOo,
s. to 81 new. per barrel. ~ cents; onions,
Bermuda, per crate, $1.4O t9f 81, 80; yellow,
per barrel, $l.25 to $1.4O; yellow, new, per
bcshel, 10 to 60 cents; turilps, per barrel.
so to 70 cents; beans, white, New York
mediums 81 to 81 TO; New York pea, u to
s1.10; marrow. $l.2O to 49, Virginia.
colored 80 to 20 cents; bfackseyed peas,
per bushel, 70 to 50 cents: apples. fancy
table. barrel. $50 to 81; choice, barrel. A25
to $10O: walnuts, per 100 pounds. 40 to 80
cents; oranges, Florida. fancy bright, per
box. - to 81 so: Messina per box. $3.50 to
$5; Valencia. cases. s. to $3.50; tangertnesa
box. 81 to $40. lemons, Sicily, per box, e to
s.: cranberries, per box, E.5O to $2: Jersey,
per barrel. s. to $3.50; Cape Cod, per bar
rel. $3.50 to 81.
Beef and other meats are quoted as fol-
lows: Live cattle, from az to 4 cents o
pc und: lambs. 5 to 81 cents; sheep, 3 to
3h cents; COWS with calves. IS to $S5:
calves. to ps cents a pound; dressed
hcgs, 3 to 4k cents a pound. -,
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