Evening star., 1898-11-05
""ohISALE fhoDtt tE MARKET.
Sharp Advance in Eggs Healthy
Condition..

Inc STRIKING feature of the local whole
SAFE produce market today is the sharp ad-
vance in eggs, they being about 3 cents a
dozen higher today than they were last
week Strictly fresh eggs are unusually
scarce, commanding top prices Butter re-
mains unchanged, fancy creamery running
light, but the demand being met by stor-
age goods. The demand is quiet seconds
and thirds being slow Cheese is as re-
ported last week. The market is weaker in
live poultry, but with cooler weather is
more favorable for dressed stock There is
also good demand for game. Other prod
Gcts remain about as reported last week
with well supplied market and healthy
conditions.
Butter-Creamery, Elgin, extras, "a cents
a pound; choice, %; tirsts, %; seconds 10;
bakers stock, 16, and other grades, 13 to
1S.
Cheese-New York state, full cream, large,
II cents a pound; flats II; ponies, r.
Eggs-Nearby, fresh, y cents a dozen;
western. %; southern, 10.
! Poultry-TUrkeys-C undrawn b..
10c. to lie; gobblers undrawn. 10c. to lie.
undrawn, large per h., 10c. to lie. live,
toms, per lb., 8 to 10; live, hens per h., &c.
to 1oc.; live, small per lb., Sc. Chickens
712c to Sc; spring, large, live, per h. TIC.
to Sc; spring, medium. live, per h., 7lac. to
Sc; spring, small, Sc: old fowls live, per h.,
&c, to 112c.; roosters, live, per h., &c. Ducks
(,
per h., old, Sc. live, spring, young, Sc.
Geese-Live per h., &c. to &c; dressed, &c.
to Sc.
Game-Venison, saddle, per h., 16c to
zoe; whole deer bucks, per h., &c. to 1Oc. i;
bear, saddle, 12c. to lie; pheasants, each,
SOC. to 60c; rabbits. per dozen, 81 to $50;
quail, l.5o to 81; wild turkeys, per lb., 1Oc.; /;
woodcock, each, 25c to 3Jc.
Vegetables-Caulitlower per crate, So
peas, per bbi, 50; celery, fancy, per doz.,
40 to so cents; medium, per doz.. 10 to %;
common, per doz., 10 to 10; beans. per box,
50 to 75; lettuce, per bbl., 40 to 81; po-
per bus. % to so; western, per bus, 80 to
SO; Maryland and Virginia, bus, 40 to 45;
sweet potatoes, fancy, per bl., %; No. l.,
80 cents; culls, so; yams and haymons, bbl,
30 to 10: tomatoes, per crate, native, 20 to
40; beets, per 100 lunches, 81 to So; cab
bage, per 100, 81 to 81; onions, yellow, per
bbi., 81; yellow, per bush, 40 to 50 cents;
turnips. per bbl., 80; beans, white, New
York, mediums, $1.40 to $3.50; New York
pea, LAO; marrow s1.7o to $1.75; Virginia,
white, 80 cents to 81; white, mixed, 80
cents; colored, 60; black-eyed peas, per
bush, 10 to so; Lima beans, per lb., 4.
Dried fruits-Evaporated apples, choice,
to 10 cents; apples. sliced, fancy, to Az;
sliced, bright, 3l2; quarters, bright, 3 to 3l2;
peaches choice, 6 to I: lair to good. 5 to g;
halves, unpeeled, = to 3; quarters, unpeeIed
= TO 5; evaporated s to 10; evaporated, un-
peeled, 6 to 7; cherries, pitted, dry, crop
81 to s; sugared and wet. to 61a; black
h., I to ~; raspberries, dry, to TO-
Green fruits and nuts-Apples, fancy ta
BILE, bbl., 50 to S4; new, per box, IS cents;
fair per bbl, $1.5O to $3.50; common, per
box 80 cents; wndfalls, per bbl, 81 to
$3.50; pears. Flemish beauty, per bbl. So to
$3.50; Duchess, per bbl., 81 to So; sickle
per bbl., $3 to S4.50; California Bartlett per
box, 81. 80 to S1.75: native, per bbi., 81 to So;
walnuts, per 100 lbs. 90 cents to 81; chest
nuts, per pound, to 2h cents; grapes, Ca
tawbas, 5-lb. baskets, 8 to 10; Concord, To-
lb. basket, 13 to 10: 5-lb. basket, to 8;
Marthas, 5-lb. basket, 10; pineappes, to
L.; crab apples, per bbl., 50 to 81.
Live stock-Cattle, extra, per cwt., 81 to
So; butcher, per cwt., So to $3.50; common
per cwt., 81 to 25o; rough, per cwt.. $1.5o
to 81: hogs. fair, per cwt., gross, $50 to
S375; ordinary, per cwt., net, $3.25 to
So 50; sheep, per cwt., $3.50 to So; lambs
spring, choice, cwt., $3.50; medium, So;
common, 81 to $3.50; calves, prime, per
cwt. $3.50 to 81; common, per cwt $5 to
$3.50; grass, per cwt., So to $3.50; cows
prime each, S25 to S35; common, each $40
to S15 old and dry, 81 to $S.
Dressed stock and cured meats-Calyes
full dressed. 8 cents: hog dressed calves. 8;
sheep, full dressed, & to I; hams, country
sugar cured, 8 to 10; lard, country, bright
and clean, 61a to Z; hogs, dressed, large and
neat rs to So; small and neat, So to So
rough, SO. so.