Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-22
SHARP ADVANCE
ON HOG MARKET
Weaker Tone Is Shown in
Hay-All Kinds of Fruits
Are Plentiful.

An advance ranging from 25 to 80
cents per hundred is shown In the hog
market today, the raise in price being
occasioned by heavy demands at diff
ferent points which caused shipments
out Of the country end local buyers
have boosted the price to hold the
porkers here. The hay market shows
a weaker tone Offerings on new hay
are being made but as yet only few
scattering loads have been sold, but 1t
is expected there will be plenty on the
market next week and new wheat will
also make its appearance.
A slight advance in the wholesale
price of ranch eggs was made today.
Peaches, apricots and berries are quite
plentiful and are being purchased and
sold strictly on quality. Dealers are
at present worrying over the honey
supply, the first of the season being
wet but little honey was made by the
bees and as yet none has been offered.
Indication are the supply will be the
lightest in years.
Retail Markets.
Corrected daily by w. ]. Campbell &
SOM
New potatoes, 10 pounds for Csc;
green peppers, soc per pound parsley,
DC per bunch; onions, for sc; dry on
ions, sc pound radishes, for &c; car
rots, sc per bunch; head lettuce, loo per
pound dollhouse cucumbers, 10c each;
rhubarb, &c per bunch; water cress, DC
per bunch; green pepas, pounds for
25c; new beets. DC per bunch; new tur-
nips, &c per bunch; new carrots, DC
per bunch; cauliflower. loo per head;
wax beans, loo per pound; green
beans. two pounds for Csc; sweet corn,
sweet corn, 15c per dozen; tomatoes,
121sc per pound.
Local fruits-Apples. 6 lbs for 25ci
pie cherries, 25c per basket; currants.
25c per bask ct; raspberries, boxes for
Csc per crate 81; blackcaps, loo box;
dewberries, 8 boxes fo~ 25c, S1.25 per
crate; local peaches, 15@25c per
basket; apricots, 5O@9Oc per crate.
Tropical fruits-Banaoas, J pounds
for csc; cut off bananas, 15c anc zoe
per dozen; Florida pineapples, 12hc
pound: grapefruit, 15c each; California
tomatoes. 121sc per pound oranges, zoe
10 soc per dozen; canteloupe, 10912 nc
each.
Eggs, butter and honey-Ranch eggs,
per dozen. Csc; creamery butter, 3Oc
per pound: ranch butter, Csc per
pound: honey, 15c per pound.
Sugar and lard-Beet sugar, per cwt..
$3.50, cane sugar, per cwto $500; lard,
per 10-pound pail. $3.50; maple sugar,
45c per pound
Fish-HaHbut. zoe per pound; salmon,
zoe per pound; perch, zoe per pounC;
aalmon trout, zoe per pound; salt cod,
15e per pound.
Poultry and meat-Hens, zoe; d clzs
aSc; spring frys, SOC to 65c; roasting
chickens. 22c; turkeys, Csc; geese, 1se
per pound: spring ducks, 2Sc per
pound; Jones dairy rm bacon, Csc;
cod, 15c per pound.
Wholesale Mtrkets
(The following are the prices paid to
the producers and not what the whole
aaler charges tho retailer except in
Vegetables)
Vegetables-(Cc daily by the
Capital Brokerage 6, Commission com
uany)-New potatoes, s2.2e per cwt.;
y ew cabbage, $1.25 per. cwt.; turnips, 81
rer cwt,
Local fruit-(Corrected daily by w.
j. Campbell & Son)-Cherries, zoe per
gallon; currants. zoe per gallon; rasp-
berries, 75c to soc per crate; blackcaps.
sl@115 per crate; dewberries. 81 per
Z rate; peaches 509S0c per crate.
Dairy produce Corrected daily by
the Jensen Creamery company)-
creamery butler. solid pack. 22c; rim ,
extra, cream, per gallon. 81; milk. per
gallon, zoe; per hundred pounds, $1.70;
utter fat. 22c per pound.
Livestock Corrected daily by the
Eoise Butcher company Cows. s4.75
dis per cwt.; steers. S5.5065.70; fat
hpgs, S7@750 per cwt.; medium. $3.50
d7. heavy. $3.50 shearling wethers
S350@4 per cWt.. ewes. 3@312c per
ppund; spring lambs, sc per pound;
spring chickens, 15e per pound, live
weight; hens, Toe per pound; eockerels
81 per pound turkeys, 12iac per
pbund, live weight, 16c per pound