Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Prices Practically Unchanged since
Last Week.

For the most part, the prices asked to-
day i'll the local wholesale produce market
are those prevailing a week ago. there be-
ing no change whatever in butter. cheese
or eggs The changes in other products are
so slight as to virtually have no effect on
the state of the market.
Butter-Creamery, Elgin, extras, % cents
a pound; choice. dig; firsts. II; seconds,
201s; bakers stock. Is to 16, and other
grades. 13 to Is.
Cheese-New York state. full cream.
large. 10 cents a pound; flats, 1O1a; ponies,
IL.
Eggs-Nearby. fresh. 1G to II cents a doz.
western. 10 TO 16; southern, ii to 10.
Poultry-Chickens. live. IL 70 IL cents a
pound; old fowls. to 10; ducks. live, to
,; geese, live, 6 to 5.
Celery farcy. per doz. 20 to 80; celery.
medium, per dOZ-, Il to %; celery, common,
per dOZ-. 10 to 10. beans. per box, 15c. to 81
lettuce per Dbl. ~ to -; potatoes. fancy,
new. per Dbl. 81 to ST.; potatoes choice,
per Dbl, $50 to S1.T5: potatoes. culls, per
bbl.. nc. to 81; potatoes. western. per bU.,
So to 40; potatoes, Maryland and Virginia,
bu-, fn to 50: sweet potatoes. fancy. per
HI, $1.21 TO $3.50. sweet potatoes. No. ],
81 -: sweet potatoes. culs. 81; vans and
haymons Dbl. 81 to $1.2J: tomatoes, per
crate. native. - to ~; beets, per 100 bunch
es, 81 10 50; cabbage, per 100, $50 to 81;
OilDIl9- Etl4uN, per pbI., Sl'-o ~ sl-J',
onions, yellow, per bu.. ~ to 30; beans,
white, New York mediums, $40 TO $50;
beans. New York pea, $1.4p; beans, mar
Tow, $40 to $l.T5; beans. Virginia, white,
pc. to 81. beans, white. mixed. SIC; beans.
cCiored. ca; black-eyed peas, per bu. SOC.
10 81; lima beans. per H., to /.
Dried Fruits-EvapOrated apples, choice.
p 70 10; apples, sliced, fancy, ; TO +: apples,
sliced. bright &c: apples. quarters. bright,
&c: peaches, choice, g to .; peaches, fair
to good. ) to 6; peaches. halves. unpeeled,
2 to 3; peaches, quarters, unpeeled. to 3
peaches, evaporated. to 10; peaches evap-
Grated. unpeeled. 6 to :; cherries, pitted
dry, crop 81, to :: cherries. sugared and
wet g to 6 ID; blackberries. per ID. 3 to 4
whortleherries, per h., to 4; raspberries,
dry. . TO Ia.
-Fruits-Apples, fancy table. Dbl. Sass. 20;
new, per box, 7jcaS1; fair per bill, $1.J1a
!2J0; common. per box jGc; windfaIls per
tbl, SfaS1.ib Pear-FIem.sh beauty, per
Dbl. S2Jna$}; Duchess. per Dbl. S2a$3;
Sickle. per box, J'icaE1; California Bartlett,
per box. 81 .5Na$1 10: native per bar. S2a$3.
PeaChes-Fancy. per carrier, 81 .25aSl -;
medium. per carrier. $1aS12J; common, !0c.
a75c.: Gamsons. per ID. as lbs. to busheD,
tc.a5c. Piums. per ID. 3c.a4c. Chestnuts,
Der ID. 15C. Ora peS-COnCOrd J-Ib. basket
&c. aSc.; Delaware. lib. basket >c.aloc.:
Marthas. 5-lb- basket, &C. PiueappIes, Sc.
H12C.; crab apples. per bbl-, $}aS4; water
melons. per 100, S1oaS15.
Live stOck-Cattle. extra. per cwt., Sass:
butcher, per cwt.. S3.JoaS4; common, per
cwt., 81. 5oaS3; rough. per cwt.. $1.50aS2;
hogs. fair, per cwt., gross, $3.JOaS3.7j: or
binary, per cwt., net. S32JaS $3.50; sheep,
per cwt. S3aS3.JO; lambs. spring. choice,
cwt.. ST. medium. $5aS-.5O; common. STA
A-J"; calves, prime per cwt-, $6.5oaS7;