Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-14
INCREASE IN PRICES
Demands Made by New York
ers on Local Market
SEND PRICES HIGHER
ROE sHAD DOUBLE FIGURE OF A
WEEK AGO.
Packers Buying Eggs and Storing
Them for Winter-Butter
Also Higher.

Demands made on the local market by
New York dealers have resulted in In
creased prices for products. In the fish
market New York buyers have been get
ting hold of all the shad they could until
the price of roe shad is double that OF
week ago. Such demand for eggs has
also made them higher 1t is because Of
the demand in New York for these prod
ucts that local buyers have to pay such
high prices. Packers are buying all the
eggs they can get and storing them for the
winter trade. Many of them are also being
stored in this city, and it is said some local
firms are also packing eggs in the west
as the storage prices there are more rea-
sonable than they are in this city. Last
year the packers reaped a harvest, some
Of the local dealers getting an advance of
10 cents a dozen clear profit on their stock
Eggs are now retailing at 20 cents dozen,
while some of the fancy stock brings as
much % cents. Butter is also higher
than it was last week Wholesale prices have
increased, but there has been no advance
by the retailers. 1t is said that butter is
exceptionally scarce in New York, and that
dealers are depending almost wholly upon
daily receipts for stock to supply the trade.
1t is now almost too late in the season
for the dealers to increase the price, and
there will be no increase in the retail prices
unless there is further advance by the
wholesale dealers.
The Fish Market.
Roe shad are selling at from GO to IS
cents each, and bucks are % cents. Shad
roe are 80 cents a set. Boiling rock are
still % cents a pound, and some fine fish
of this variety are being caught in the
Potomac. Perch are selling at 10 cents
pound. Potomac herring are plentiful, and
are to be had at $3.50 thousand. Salmon
steaks are in demand at 35 cents a pound,
brook trout 10 cents; cod, bluefsh and red
snappers are 121a cents a pound; Spanish
mackerel are 10 cents and halibut 90 cents.
Soft crabs are in better shape and more
plentiful. They are also cheaper, SO cents
a dozen being the price asked for them.
Frogs are more plentiful and in greater
demand at 80 cents a pound. Crab meat,
shrimp and scallops are also in demand.
Poultry is no more plentiful than 1t has
been during the past several weeks. Whole
salers are paying a little more for sup
plies, but have not increased the retail
price. There is very little game to be had
at this season. Squads and snipe are in
greater demand than anything else in this
line. They selling at 80 cents each
There has been a decided increase in the
price OF meats of all kinds. The increase
has been great enough to affect the retail
market. Dealers have found it necessary
to increase the price of meats from to 8
cents pound. 1t is not an unusual thing
for the price to advance at this season
dealers say tnat cattle are always scarce
at this season. and do not look for much
relief until the latter part of next month
Busy in the Country.
Farmers and stockraisers, the dealers saw
are too busy at this season to bother with
cattle and turn them out upon the grass
to fatten 1t is stated that less than one
dozen cattle from the surrounding country
reached the local market during the past
week
The vegetable market presents an attrac-
tive appearance, and almost everything in
this line is cheaper. New potatoes at from
60 cents to 81 "a peck in demand, and
new peas for the spring lamb dinner are
81 peck. The same price is asked for
string beans. Spring onions, radshes,
spinach and kale are more plentiful and
cheaper. Shipments of tomatoes from
Florida have greatly increased, and are to
be had at 10 cents a pound. Dealers say
they are much better than the dollhouse
stock, which sells at 25 cents. Norfolk and
North Carolina asparagus is more plentiful
and choice stock Is to be had at from 80
to 80 cents a bundle. Florida cabbages are
scarce, and dealers are charging from 10
to % cents a head for them. New celery
from Florida Is taking the place of the
western-grown product, and is to be had at
from to 10 cents. Egg plants are selling
at from 10 to 20 cents each, and Florida
peppers are 30 cents a dozen. There has
been an improvement In the quality and
quantity of Strawberries, and they are to
be had at from % to 80 cents a basket