The Advocate and news., 1899-02-15
Kansas City Produce.


Kansas City, Feb 13.-Prces given below
are for carload lots; smaller lots secure
somewhat higher prices, enough to cover
caring for and filling.
BUTTER-StOcks running light and ar
rivals small and market, in consequence,
firm. Receipts, 12S, packages. Creamery,
extra fancy separator zoe per pound; firsts
TIC; seconds, &c., dairy fancy, 15c; coun-
try roll, l55q14c; store packed 1Oc; pack
EGGs-very few coming in and market
higher under scarcity. Receipts few COM
Ing IN and market higher under scarcity.
Receipts, l0I cases. Fresh candled Mis-
souri, and Kansas, 21c per dozen
POULTRY-Deman only fair. but mar
ket steady. Some carried over from Satur-
day unsold. Receipts, Al coops. The range
OF quotations is as follows: Hens, live, &c
per pound; broilers, 10c; springs, SIC per
pound; capons, over pounds, 10011c slips,
6q8c; ROSTERS, old, each 15c, young zoe;
ducks, TIC per pound; geese, 56D6c: turkeys,
hens SIC, young toms &c, old &c; pigeons,
SOC per dozen; SQUADS, $l2O per dozen
BUTTERINE-Dairy grades. 11Ibc; me-
dlum grades, l2Rc; high grades, 1415c; l.
pound rolls, bricks and prints, 1c over
above prices; and 3-pOund rolls, 10 and 20
pCH9q RssGKaggegi I%c oyer aRSye prices
follow; New York and Ohio full cream,
llRMl2c; Wisconsin fancy and full cream
llgllRc; Young America, full cream 111kD
i2c; Missouri, Kansas and Iowa, full cream,
POTATOES light stocks here were
still further reduced here by the burning
Saturday night Of the Dreyfus commission
house. which did a large potato business,
burg & Gulf by the overturning of a stove.
The feeling is very firm, but movement
light. Quoted: Home grown, Csc per bushel;
Minnesota large Burbanks, 5O055c in car
lots' 6o@6Oc IN 1obbing way; Rurals 50c;
mixed varieties, 5OQ55c; Iowa, large white,
45d55c; choice mixed 5O655c; Colorado
Greeley, Rurals. Csc in car lots, 75c in small
lots; Dakota, Ohio and Rose, 43c; Early
ohio, bic; Red River Rose, Sic.
SWEET POTATOES-Firm Home grown
3Od35c per bushel.
APPLES-Firm, but slow sale. The quo
tations: New York and New England va
rieties, good to choice, $Sd3.75; Michigan
choice, $3q3.75; California Reds, $1.GO6I175
pc per box; Oregon and Washington stock,
81 .50G1.75 per box.
VEGETABLES-Firm and selling fairly.
quoted: Home grown spinach, $L25G1.50 per
bushel Arkansas, SOC per bushel box; Flor
ida, 4Oc per dozen lunches New beets Ar
kansas, 45c per dozen. Egg plant SO per
dozen; Radlshes, Florida, 81 per half bushel
Der dozen punches, $40 per ton in car lots.
Beans green Florida, 80 per hamper Toma-
toes: Florida, $4d5 per 6-basket crate Gu
eumbers, Illinois hothouse, $3.50 per dozen.
California caulifiower, $3.50 per crate, 81 per
dozen: Lettuce. home grown, $12561.5O per
bushel. Beets, home grown, 3Oc per bushel.
Carrots, SOG40c per bushel. Turnips, home
grown 15G25c per bushel, 500 per ton in
land, $50 per tom New York Danish, $50 per
ton. $.25@1.5O per 100 pounds. Onions, Red
Globe, 6OG65c per bushel; Red Wethersfeld.
lOm6Oc; White Globe, 81. Horseradish, $.25
G1; 40 per bushel Hand picked navy beans.
slS5 per bushel. California celery, 45c per
dozen. Squash, Hubbard, 75cG$1 per dozen;
Northern, 800 per ton In car lots. Celery
root, 81 per bushel. Canadian rutabagas,
Sl1 per ton; Water cress SOD4Oc per dozen
lunches Pieplant, 6Oc per dozen punches
IN q small Way