Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-31
HIGH MARK FOR
HOGS IS REACHED
The Price Offered Is Elk
pected to Result in Heavy
Offerings.

Hogs reached the high water mark
this year on the market when the price
Jumped to So per hundred for finished
porkers. The price is the highest at
this season of the year for several
seasons and is expected to cause farm
ers to halt their work and bring their
hogs to market. The sheep market is
active and several big punches have
been contracted for delivery next week.
Berry receipts are falling off slowly
and raspberries and blackberries Will
soon be gone. Peaches were more
plentiful today than yesterday and in
dications are that the receipts con-
tinue stronger from now on. Home
crown watermelons from Emmett are
on the market and are selling at
cents per pound. Following are the
prevailing market prices:
Retail Markets.
Corrected daily by ". j. Campbell Sc
SOM
New potatoes, 10 pounds for 25c;
green peppers, Acc per dozen; parsley,
sc per bunch; onions, for sc; dry on
ions, sc pound: radishes, for sc; car
rots. sc per bunch; cucumbers, two for
SC; green peas, pounds for csc;
new beets, sc per bunch; new tur-
ni2s, sc per bunch; new carrots, sc
per bunch: caulflower, 1oc per head;
wax beans 10c per pound; green
beans, 3 pounds Csc; sweet corn, two
dozen. 35c; tomatoes, Toe pound, eel
cry, &c per bunch; eggplant, 1o@15c
each: summer squash sc each.
Local fruits-Apples, s TBS. for 25c;
pie cherries, soc per basket: currants'
25c per basket; raspberries, boxes for
25c. per crate 81; Logan berries, l212c
nor box; deWberries, 3 boxes for 25c,
SIPS per crate; local peaches, IS q 25c
per basket: per crate, 75cO$1; apri =
cots, s1@1.S5 per crate; plums, soc per
basket; water melons, 4c per pound.
Tropical fruits-Bana-a pounds
for Use; cut off bananas, lac arc 20
yer dozen: Florida pineapplos, 121ec
Lound; oranges. 20c to soc per dozen;
lemons, 80 a40c per dozen; cantoloupe
10@1272c each.
Egss. buttei and honey-Ranch eggs
per dozen, 25c; creamery butter Soc
per pound; ranch butter, zoe PEI
pound: honey. l5c per pound
Sugar and lard-Beet sugar, per cwt.
s5.25; cane sugar, per cwa $3.50; lard
per 10-pound pail. $50; maple sugar
25c ger pound.
Fish--Halibut. zoe per pound; salmon
2Oc per pound; perch, zoe per pounCi
salmon trout, soc per pound; salt cod
loo per pound.
Poultry and meat-Hens. 20c; d ks
csc; spring frys, soc to 65c; roasting
chickens, 22c; spring ducks, 23c PEI
pound; Jones dairy RIM bacon, Soc
cod lie per pound.
Wholesale Markets
(rhe following are the prices paid t.
the producers ard not what the whole
saler charges tho retailer, except Il
vegetablesD
Negeta bles-( Corrected daily by III
Capital Brokerage * Commission com
pany1-New potatoes, $1.6oQ1.75 pc
cwt.; new cabbage. S1.25 per cwt.; tur
nips 81 per cwt
Local fruit Corrected daily by "
j Campbell & SOM Cherries, zoe pc
gallon: currants. zoe per gallon; rIsp
berries, 90c@$1 per crate. dewberries
s5c@$1 per crate; blacloerries, S5cG
81 per crate; peaches, 5oqSOc pc
crate.
Dairy produce Corrected daily b
the Jensen Creamery company -
Creamery butter, solid pack, 27e; print
extra. cream. per gallon. 81; milk, pc
gallon. zoe; per hundred pounds, $179
butter fat, &c per pound.
Livestock Corrected daily By T..
Boise Butcher company S47
Cp5 per cwt.; steers, $500 SO; f.
hogs, $715S per cwt.; medium S6.l
@725: heavy s6.75; shearling weth
ers, $4,000 per cwt.; ewes, 303lac pc
pound; spring lambs, sc per pound
spring chickens. S3M4 per dozen; hen
1tc per pound; cockerels, Sc per pounc
turkeys, 121ac per pound, live weigh
1Gc Per pcunf dressed; breakfast be
cen. 1Sc Per pound; ham 1Sc p,
pound: lard, tierce base. 12Ac pr
pCund
Eggs honey and ranch butter
Corrected daily w. J. Campbell