Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-14
Grain. Produce and Live Stock
LOCAL WHOLESALE MARKET.

LOCAL WHOLESALE MARKET.
The wholesale market prices this
morning ranged about as follows:
Eggs-strictly fresh. 5oa5ls average
receipts, 49; southern. 4s.
Live Poultry-Roosters. per h., %;
turkeys, per h., 38a43; chickens,
spring. per H.. 4ea4s: hens. per lb.. goa
81; keats. young. each, 7Da75.
Dressed Pouftry-Fresh killed spring
chickens. per h., 4Sa52: hens, per H..
IS; ROSTERS. per H.. 20: turkeys. Per
h.. 45a50.
Live Stock Calves. per h.. 1sa17;
lambs. IA: sheep. Sac.
Green Fruits-Apples. per Dbl: S:ooa
s ie@op, per ps, box boz GEO
6. 00aS. 90; California oranges. 6.0oa7. 90;
grapefruit. 6.o0a7.00; peaches, per crate
1.50a3. so.
45osss eac0'd d.. So e. 2so S string
beans. per basket. 1.5oa2.oo: per bba.
4, ooas.oo: eggplant. per crate. l.ooa
$50: cabbage, per Dbl. SEATS; 1eets'
nearby. per crate, 50a1.0o: lettuce. New
York. per crate, 1.ooa1.75: celery, per
doz.. 5oa1.00: romaine lettuce. l:ooa
LIS; squash. Per crate. 4oa5o: spring
onions, 1.5oa2;oo per 100 puncnes;
spinach ske per so e95: to%atoss per box.
25a75. Onions, per crate. 1ooaL5o: Gu
cumbers. 50a1.00 per basket; canta-
loupes. 1.50a3.50 per crate.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
BALTIMORE, Md. August IA (Spe-
lciaD.-Potatoes. Maryland and Vir-
ginia. No. 1, Dbl. 4.5oa5.50; Nos 2 and
IS, 1.50a2.50; do, No. / southern. 4.5Oa
$50; do. Nos. 2 and 8. 1.50a2.50; York
River No. /. 4.5oa5.50; do. Nos. and
3. 1.5oa250; native. white No: I. per
200; do. No. 3, 75a1.0o; do. sweets.
No. l. per Dbl. 7;5oas:oo; yams, No. l;
per Dbl, 6.50a700; do, sweets and
yams. Nos. 2 and 3. 3.00a4.5o.
Apples, early harvest, No. l. per Dbl,
| 3.50a4.0O; do. No. 2, 2.00a2.50; No. l
peaches, per crate. No. 1. 1.00a3.00; do,
per basket, scars; beans, per blu. bas-
ket, green, 75a1.00: stringless. 1.00a
1925: limas, per basket, 1.00a1.25; cab
bage, per 100. 1.00a3.00: cucumbers
per basket, 15a30; elephants. per bas-
ket 60a75; lettuce, native, per basket
50a1.O0; onions. Maryland. Virginia
150: squash. per basket, l5a25: Mary
land and Virginia. per doz.. 20aS5;
peppers, native. per basket, 2Qa30.
Tomatoes, native. per basket, 30a6O;
do, packing stock. per bu.. 60a7b;
beets, per 100 punches. 2.00a3.00; car
rots; per 100 b bunehes s., s;ooa4; 90 %
| qt. 15a2S.
Watermelons. Maryland and Vir
| ginia selects. per 100. 55.00as0.00 do.
primes. per 100. 25.00a35.o0; culls
15.00a20.00.
Cantaloupes eastern shore Mary
land and Virginia, per crate. 1.50a1.75
| pony, 100: native. per basket 7oai:2o
| pineapples, crate, 4.00a8.00; native
| per basket. 40a75; do. Bartletts. pei
basket, LOCALES; plums. per h.. 3a5
| damsons, per h., 6.
| CHICAGO. August 14.-Reports tina,
| a rmistice negotiations had begun be-
| tween Russia and Poland at Minsk
| today caused the wheat market to be
unsettled December started 4 to
higher at 2.41 to 2.42, while March
| was down Ia at 2.42A. Trading was
light and soon quoted down. the De-
cember option dropping below yes
terday's finish.
Corn displayed some activity at the
start. but was easier. opening quota
lions ranging from II to l lower, witt
I September 14S to 1887 and Deem
Der l.25 to 1859 Selling was mostly
by commission houses. The drop was
checked by house with western con
nections, which bought on the break
| Weather conditions was construed a.:
unfavorable
| Trade in oats was light. an eleva'
tor interest being a fair seller at the
opening, when prices ranged from v
to g lower. with September at Tx t.
I71A and December 10 to ION
| Provisions were quiet and trade wa.
small
| Potatoes-Receipts. 81 cars: weak
eastern cobblers. 5.75a6.0o per barrel
Minnesota. early Ohios, 2.65a2.75; Jer
bsey cobhlers. 2-25a4.50.