Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-13
LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET.
Tone a Little Better, but Prices Lit
tie Changed.


Quotations below are for Job lots. On
small lots higher prices are asked and OBJ
tanned, enough being asked to cover extra
cost of caring for and filling them.
BUTTER-Demand only moderate, but
prices held steady. Quoted: Creamery
butter, extra fancy separator. 1I12u1Sc;
firsts. lie; dairy, fancy, 1Sc; fair. loc; store
try roll. neatly packed and sweet. Nc;
choice. Sc: mussy. unwrapped stock, &C.
EGGS-Tone of market better, but prices
no higher. Missouri and Kansas fresh, 115kc
per dozen; cold storage, SIC.
PoULTRYIThe market continues slow
and poor stock is 1ond wsdkeT we
each, springs, SIC; coarse young roost-
ers, 171kc each: broilers, from IL to 2
Sc; under pounds, not wanted; old COB
blers, &c; young gobblers, &c: ducks.
&c; geese, &c. Pigeons, dull. practically no
demand; dealers doing best they can with
BUTTERINE-we quote: Dairy grades,
lie; medium grades, 12c; high grade. 141sc;
1-pound rolls bricks and prints, 1c over
above prices; and S-Dound rolls. 10 and 20
pound packages, &c over above prices
full! cream. I3e; Wisconsin fancy, fun
full cream, Sq9c; light skim, 5q7c per
pound: Herkimer. full cream, 13c; Young
America. full cream, lie.
APPLES-Still very dull and the lowest
ever known at this season of the year.
Choice eating stock sells from 40c to 60c
a bpshel; inferior stock, 2Oa25c; cooking
4Gq65c per bushel, according to quality;
Huntsman's Favorite, COARSE per bush
el for fancy stock; Baldwins, $1,000
LIS barrel in small way. Shippers are
paying for Northern Spya per barrel in car
lots: for fancy fall and winter varieties 81
qlZ per barrel; Jonathans, $l.25Gl.50 per
barrel for fancy and 75c for No. stock.
New York. and Michigan stock. 81 per bar
PoTAToEs-Demand better and market
hrm for good stock. Wisconsin and Min
a small way; Pearls, &c less; Iowa stock,
G5qzSc in car lots: 3Oq35c in a small way.
Colorado Greeley stock, 55q6oc.
Quoted at 20d30c per bushel as to quality.
FRuITS--Lemcns. new crop. Sicily, fan
ey, SS.2o; choice, 500 in small way; Cali
oranges, ,SS;OO9325 per box; Sonora oranges.
standard boxes. S3.25; California, $500; ma
yels. fancy; $S.75; choice, $50 in small way.
9Oq$l.2O. Cranberries. Cape Cod fancy Sc. IS
GL25 per barrel; $l.75 per bushel box; Jer-
ssey; &;5Oa6.0O per barrel; Malaga grapes,
fruit S5.OOqSOO per box. California and
Texas aS,tS tomatoes, nat $50 per crate.
worried on, but prices are no better.
Wild geese, 500 per dozen; curlew,
$I5e " dozen Salt water turtles, on order.
III.
DUCKS, canvasbacks, $780, Mallards, $500;
red heads $3.25; teal, green wing Sl25;
blue wing $50. and mixed, $50 Per Tz, doz.
en- Jackrabbits, 40c: cottontails drawn
25HSOc for fresh stock, 15G2Oc for holdover
ana damaged stock. Shippers of game
should not forget that official inspection
OF game in Kansas City is very rigid and
that anything like "off stock is condemn
ed by the local food inspector.
VEGETABLES-Recei light and tone
of the market better Onions, demand good,
supply limited. Cabbage, Holland stock
In best demand; fancy home grown. .35c; me-
dium. SOC; culls, ,20G35c doz 1LGI2fc per mound.
Wisconsin and Iowa stock. fancy iobbing
I9c per 100 pounds, in a small way SjcGS1. 90;
nat Dutch, Sod9Oc in bulk, $l.00G1.10 in a
small way; Holland. a.l5 in bulk, $l.25 in a
small way :culls, ,756S5c. Onions, home grown.
Globe, 75aSl.OO fiat; red Wethersfield Si.0O:
Wisconsin stock. choice to fancy, $1dl.25;
inferior, 75c per bushel: Western Spanish
onions. 81 per crate. Beets, fancy, "552ac
per bushel. Turnips, 15c per bushel Pump
klns: i5caSl per dozen. Hubbard squash.
Parsnips. 25d3oc per bushel. Lettuce. fresh.
75cGsl.50 per bushel. Horseradish, S5cfiS .O0
per bushel. California cauliiower, dozen
NUTS-Slow sale Cocoanuts, $3.50 per 100;
small lots, soc per dozen. Hazelnuts
PIC per pound. Pecans, Missouri. 5q6c per
Tennessee, raw, 4G5l2c; roasted. 7srSc: Kan
saS $; s. PIC. Hickory nuts Qarge shellbark),
Sl.oO per bushel; small Missouri stock. 355S
45c Native walnuts. SOC per bushel. Pinon
nuts, Ice per pound. Butternuts, soc per
bushel Chestndts. 15c.
BEESWAX-ouoted at 20G24c per pound.
FURS-.Raccoon, large 4Oc; medium,
SOC: small, 25c. Skunk. black 6Od7Oc: short
striped. 4Oa50c; narrow striped, 25a3Oc;
broad striped, l0di5c. Mink. large, 6OdT0c;
medium. 4OG5Oc; small. 25c. Opossum. large,
Sc: medium, &C., small. &c: early caught
worthless. MuslSrat. fall. sc; winter, &c:
spring, 10c. Civets, prime. 1Oc. Fox gray
40siEQc: red, 60d75c. Wolf mountain. 81 oOS5
200 prairie, 25d5Oc. Wildcat, 15d25c. Beaver.
large. 800: medium, $3.50: small, s1.O0d2 90,
Badger. 10d50c. Otter. prime, large, Sc. .O0TD
zoo; prime medium, S40Od4. .5O prime small
s2.ooG25o. Bear. $500 and down, as to size
and quality.