Evening star., 1897-04-03
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
A Sharp Advance I'm Butter - OtheI
Products Stationary.


The feature of the local wholesale pro-
duce market today is the remarkably high
price of butter, 1t being from three to four
cents a pound higher today than it was
a week ago. This sharp advance is a
forced one operators in Chicago taking
advantage Of the bad roads in the west
to send prices far above reasonable
point The product is very firm and
scarce. A weakening may be looked for In
ten days two weeks. just as soon as the
roads become more passable. Cheese Is
quiet with slight advance in prices. EGGS
are as plentiful ever. although there
is little firmer feeling in the market, but
prices are practically thise of last week
Poultry shows a better feeling, with prices.
however, remaining unchanged. turkeys
have become so scarce that quotations are
hardly warranted. Vegetables and fruits
remain unchanged. and the same Is true
of beef and other meats.
Butter-Elgin extras. "a cents pound !:
choice, %; firsts, 20: seconds, 10; bakers
choice stock, Is: New York tubs, &c; dairy
print, IS: western, IA; Maryland and Nir-
ginia creamery. 16; dairy packed. III.
Cheese-Full cream, large, - cents
Eggs-Nearby fresh, 10 cents dozen:
western, 8 cents. and southern, cents.
Poultry-Chickens-D per H.. 10;
undrawn. per h., Z; spring, Is to Is; live.
per lb.. to 8; winter chicks, live. IL TO -;
capons, large. IL to II; slips. 9. Old fowls
Drawn, per ib., to 8; undrawn. per lb..
Z: live, per h.. 1-2 to Z: ROSTERS, live. per
lb, to 5. Ducks-Dressed, per h., 10 to
IL; live, large. per h., old. 10: live, spring.
young, 8 to 10. Geese-Live, per h., 10
1-2: dressed, to 8.
Vegetables and fruits-Caulifower. per
bbl, S. 80 to 81. kale. per box. SOC. to I5c. :;
celery, fancy. per doz.. Soc to 75c-; celery,
medium, per doz., &c. to 4Oc.; celery,
| common, per doz., 15c. TO DC; squash, per
box. 75c. to $1.25; beans. per box $1-25 to
| 81: lettuce. per bbl., s150 to 81; per basket,
| 7bc to $l.25; potatoes, New York, per
bush., 32c. to 35c.: Maryland and Virginia,
| BUSH. 3Oc. to 32c.: culls, per BUSH, Doc to
DC; sweet potatoes. fancy. per bbl., 81
| to $1.25: No. l, tic. to Sc; culls. 35c. to
| 4Oc.: yams and haymons, bbl., 60c. to 15c. !:
| tomatoes per crate, Florida. s1.50 to $3.50;
beets, per 100 punches. $1.50 to $3.50; cab
bage, per 100. s. to $3.50: new. per bbl,
| 4Oc.; onions. Bermuda. per crate. II 40 to
| $1EO; yellow, per bbl., $1.25 to $40; vel
| low, new. per BUSH. 40c. to &C.; turnips.
per bbl., Soc. to 75c.; beans. white. New
| York mediums. 81 to 81. 10: New York peas,
| 81 to 81. 10; morrow, $120 to $1.25; Virginia,
| white 75c.; white, mixed, 50c.; colored,
| 6Oc. to 6Oc.: black-eyed peas. per bush.
| 7Oc. to sOc.; apples. $1.5O to "a barrel:
oranges, Florida, fancy, bright, per box,
| 81 to $3.50: Messina, per box, $3.50 to s5;
| Valencia, cases. s. to $3.50; tangerines.
box. 81 to SO; lemons. Sicily. per box. 81 to
| s.; cranberries. per box, $50 to s.; Jersey,
| per bbl., So to $3.50; Cape Cod, per bbl.,
| $3.50 to SO.
Beef and other meats-Live cattle, from
| 2 to ~ cents a pound: lambs, to cents:
| sheep, to 6; cows with calves. s25 to $35:
| calves, 3 to 61k cents a pound; dressed
| hogs, to cents a pound.