Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-08
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
General Lower Tendency in Prices-
Fine Butter Scarce.

General Lower Tendency In Pr1ce1-
Fine Butter Scarce.
Prices prevailing in the local wholesale
produce market today indicate a general
lower tendency, such condition being at
tributable to the mild, soft weather. But
ter is somewhat scarce in fine goods. and
the quality of fresh creamery is rather
poor. Storage goods are dull, and other
grades are sympathetically affected. Cheese
shows no change in prices, but there is an
improvement in undergrades. Eggs are not
excessively plentiful and there is consider
able movement in storage goods. Poultry
is rather plentiful, and game is far from
scarce In vegetables and fruits the mar
ket is well supplied, with little change in
prices.
Butter-Creamery, Elgin extras, % cents
a pound; choice, % cents; firsts, q cents;
seconds, 20 cents; bakers choice stock, Is
cents; other grades. from 10 to 1s cents.
Cheese-New York state, full cream,
large, II cents; flats, II cents; ponies liz
cents.
Eggs-Nearby fresh, 40 cents dozen;
western, 10 cents, and southern, IL cents.
Poultry-Turkeys-Ch drawn. IL to II
cents; undrawn. large. 10 cents; live, toms.
8 cents; live, hens. cents; live, small, Z
cents. Chickens-Drawn. to cents; live,
s to 8 cents; winter chicks, live, to o
cents; spring, large, live, to cents; ca
pons, large, 20 to 25 cents. Old fowls
Drawn, to cents; undrawn, to cents;
live. 6 to Z cents; ROSTERS, live, 4 cents.
Ducks-Dressed, 8 to 10 cents; live, large,
old, to cents. Geese-lIive, cents;
dressed, to cents.
Game-Venison, saddle, 10 to 20 cents;
whole deer, bucks, to 10 cents; bear, sad
die, 10 to IL cents; pheasants, % to 40
quail, 81 to $50; wild turkeys, to IL
cents; woodcock, each, 20 to 25 cents.
Observation-Disclosures per box $1.25 to
1928; cau]iiower, per crate, % to 81; celery.
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per doz., 10 to Is cents; beans. per box,
$1.25 to $175; lettuce, per Dbl, S3 to 81; per
basket, $1.5O to 81; potatoes, N. Y, per
bus, rs to 50 cents; Md. and Va, bus, IS
to 20 cents: culls, per bus, 70 to 80 cents;
sweet potatoes, fancy, per b.. So: No. 1,
$50 to 81; culls, 10 to 80 cents; yams ana
haymons, bbl., $1.5O to 81: tomatoes, per
crate, Fla, S1.3o to $3.50; egg plant, per
1zbbl. box, $3.50 to $3.50; beets, per 100
punches, 81 to $50; cabbage, per 10y, 81 to
low, per bus, IS cents to, 81; ulrnips, per
Dbl, IS cents to 81; beans, waite, N. Y.
mediums, $1.20 to $1.3o; N, Y, pea, 81. Is to
$1.2O; marrow, $1.2O to $3.50; Virginia,
cents; colored, 60 cents; black-eyed peas,
per bus, 65 to IS cents; lima beans, per h.,
} to cents.
Dried fruits-Evaporated apples. choice.
to cents; apples, sliced, fancy, 81 to 4
cents; sliced. bright, 3 to. 81 cents; quar-
tiers, bright, cents; peaches, choice, to
: cents; fair to good, 8. to cents; halves,
unpeeled, 2 to 3 cents: quarters. unpeeled,
to cents; evaporated. to 10 cents;
evaporated, unpeeled, 6 to cents; cherries,
pitted, dry, crop '96. to 10 ceuIs; sugared
and wet, to cents: blackberries, per h.,
:i1a cents; whortleberries, per h., 6 cents;
raspberries, dry, 10 to 11acents.
Green fruits and nuts-Apples, fancy ia
BILE, Dbl, $3a3.5O; choice pcr@-bbl., $2a3
windfalls, per Dbl. $1a1.25: pears, La Conte,
s150a3; walnuts. per 100 lbs, 75as5c.
Oranges-Florida. brights, per box, $3a4;
russets, per box. $3a3.75; navels, per box,
81 50a3.50; Seeding. per box. s2a2.50.
Live stock-Catt1e. extra. per cwt, $3a3. 80 4:
butcher. per cwt.. s2.50a3: common. per
cwt, $1.5Oa2; rough, per cwt.. 81; hogs, fair,
per cwt., gross. sS.50a$3.75; ordinary, per
cwt, net s3.25a3.35; sheep. per cwt.,
s3a3.5O; lambs, spring, choice, per cwt.,
$5as55O; medium, $4a5; common, $3a3.50;
calves. prime per cwt.. $8.5Oa7; common,
per cwt., s5.50a6.50; grass, perscwt., $3a35O;
cows, prime, each, $25a35; common, each,
$10a15; old and dry, seas.
Dressed stock and cured rneats-Calves,
full dressed. las: hams. country. sugar
cured, 9a1O; lard, country, bright and
clean, 5.
Dressed hogs-Hogs, dressed, large and
neat. 4Ac.; small and neat, SC; rough,
3a3hc.