Evening star., 1925-06-26
PORK GOES HIGHER
/ |NLOCAk MARKET
Best Smoked and Fresh
Hams Advanced-Butter
/ and Eggs Unchanged.

Slow receipts and slightly increased
prices have served to make the mar
ket on pork products much frmer.
Smoked hams are much in demand at
this season. hot weather always in
creaSing the demand.
Best smoked hams were quoted to-
day at 80 and 80 cents this morning,
while fresh hams sold at % and 80.
Fresh shoulders were quoted at Is and
20. only slightly lower than the
smoked product. Loins were 80
and 80.
Additional encouraging reports have
been received from nearby truckers
and farmers. All tell of the vast
amount of good from recent rains.
many crops being saved from total
rum.
Today's Wholesale Prices.
Butter-Fancy, tub. 81; prints, So:
store packed, 2Sa30.
Eggs-Fancy, selected, candled. 33;
average receipts, 81.
Poultry-Aive: Spring chickens.
large, As: small 40; Leghorns. 35;
heavy fowls, 27; ducks, 15; keats. 40
to rs; turkeys, 25; geese, 12al5.
Dressed: Spring chickens, large, 55;
medium. 4Sa50 small, 45; turkeys. 80;
ducks. 20; geese. Is.
Live stock-Calves. SIG; lambs,
Spring. 1914; hogs, IL.
Meats-Beef, 17a1s; veal. Is: Spring
lambs. 30a32; hogs, 211ka22; loins. 3la
80; hams. 2sa30; shoulders, 1Sa2o;
smoked hams. 3oa32; smoked shoul.
ders, 1Sa20.
Today's market report on fruits
and vegeta bles, furnished by the
Market News Service Bureau of
Agricultural Economics. says:
Cantaloupes-Supplies liberal; de-
mand moderate, market steady;
California. Imperial Valley, salmon
tints, standards, as best. 4.5o; some
soft. overripe, 3.ooa400; 36s, 4.25a4.50;
some soft, overripe 30oa4.oo: jumbo
S6s. 4.25a4.50; mostly. 4.50; some soft.
400; Nat lis and 12s, 1.5oa1-75'
some soft, overripe. 100.
Cucumbers-Supplies liberal; de-
mand light, market steady: Vir-
ginia, Norfolk section. hotbed stock,
holdovers, bushel hampers. fancy,
200a2.5o; choice 1.0oal.50; North and
South Carolina, bushel hampers, No.
], 150a2.00
Lettuce-Supplies moderate; de.
mand light, market dull: New York.
2 dozen crates. big Boston type, wide
range quality and condition. best.
1.60; poorer, al.00.
Peach Demand Moderate.
Peaches-Supplies moderate; de-
mand moderate, market steady;
Georgia, IS, Hileys. small size. 800
as.25; medium. s;54; Early Rose;
small sizes. s;5oas.oo; North
Fair quality. small size. best.
2.00a2.50; poorer. 1.500a1.50; bushel
baskets, Hileys, 30oa350
Potatoes-Supplies moderate: de-
mand light, market steady: new
stock, North Carolina and Virginia.
Norfolk section, cloth-top stave bar
rels. Irish cobblers, U. S. No. l, most
ly. 500.
Tomatoes-Supplies moderate: de.
mand light, market steady; Missis.
sippi, as, turning, wrapped, No. l,
1.7sa2 90: Florida. 6s. turning, wrap
ped, fancy count, 4.00a4.25; choice
count, 3.ooa350.
Watermelons-Supp liberal; de-
mand moderate. market steady; sales
direct to retailers. Florida, Tom Wat
sons. 32pound average, GOAL 90; 26 to
% pound average. 60a75: Georgia. Tom
Natsons, 34-pound average, labeled,
1.o0al.l5 each.
String Beans Steady.
String beans-Supplies light; de.
mand moderate. market steady; Vir.
ginia, Norfolk section, 5-peck ham.
pers, green. 2.50a3.0O, few high as
$50; North Carolina, 7 .bushel ham.
pers, green. best, 200a2.50; ordinary
condition low as 1.50.
Dewberries-Supplies light; demand
light, market steady; North Carolina
32-quart crates. wide range quality
and condition, best, 5.0oa6 90; poorer,
3.0oa4 90.
Green corn-Supplies liberal; de-
mand slow, market dull; Louisiana
and Texas, bushel baskets. 2.O0a2. SO;
North Carolina. crates. some ordinary
quality, 1.50a2 90, some refused.