Evening star., 1925-06-09
SHARP ADVANCES
IN BUTTER PRICES
Country Product Fine; Firm
Demand Here - Meat
Prices Unchanged.

Country butter prices are trying to
keep pace with creamery stock, the
price having materially advanced the
past few days until a top price of 30
cents has been reached Only a few
DAYS ago the country product, termed
store packed by shippers, was as low
as % cents.
Dealers say there has been a big
improvement in the making of coun-
try butter the past few years, and
some consumers prefer it to the
creamery stock. The trouble with
country butter years ago, according
TO dealers, was the failure of the dairy
maids to work the water out of their
butter. Now, it is stated. the law re-
quires that only a small amount of
water may be in the butter that is
offered for sale. with the result that
better product is being offered.
The butter and egg markets con-
tinue firm. Eggs were quoted as high
as 33 cents on the country line to-
day. Prices of most commodities re-
mained about what they were last
week
Today's Wholesale Prices.
Butter-Fancy, tub, 81; prints, So;
store packed, 90.
Eggs-Fancy, selected, candled. 33a
30: average receipts, 31a3112
Poultry Alive Broilers, 4oa4S;
white Leghorns. 35; heavy fowls, 26a
q; keats, 40a75; geese, 12a15; ducks,
%; turkeys, 2Sa25. Dressed-Fowls.
30: turkeys, 2Sa32; ducks, 20.
Live stock-Calves. choice, 101a: me-
dunn, 10a11: lean. Sag. Lambs, Spring.
13 Live hogs, 70
Meats-Beef, 17a1S; veal. IS: Spring
lambs, 30; hogs, 211.a22; loins, 51a32;
hams, 26a2S; shoulders, 1Sa20.
Fruit and Vegetable Review.
Today's market report on fruits
and vegetables, furnished by the
Market News Service Bureau of
Agricultural Economics, says:
Cantaloupes-Supplie moderate: de-
mand good. market firm; California,
Imperial Valley, salmon tints, jumbos,
36s, 7.00a7.50: jumbos, ASS, 7.50aS.0O;
standards. Sos. 6.O0a6.5o; few 100:
Ass, 700a7.50; standard flats, 9s and
12s, 2.00a2.50; Mexico, salmon tints.
'jumbos. 36s, 6.00a6.50.
>. ucumbers-Supplies light; demand
moderate, market fairly steady; Vir-
ginia. Norfolk section. hotbed stock.
choice, 2.25a2. so; South Carolina,
bushel hampers and square bushel
crates, 2.75a3.00.
LettuCe-Home grown, receipts
moderate and practically supplying
the market
Onions-Supplies light; demand linn
tied, market steady; new stock: Texas,
standard crates, yellow Bermudas,
Y. s. No. /, mostly 4.25. Old stock:
Egypt, approximately 100-pound sacks,
yellows, 6.25a6.50.
Potato Market Steady.
Potatoes-Supplies liberal: demand
moderate, market fairly steady: North
Carolina, cloth-top stave barrels Irish
cobblers, L. s., No. l, 4.00a4.50; Vir-
ginia, Norfolk section, cloth-top stave
barrels. Irish cobblers. medium size
some 400.
awberrieS-Home-gr receipts
very light and supplying the market.
Tomatoes-Supplies liberal; demand
good. market steady: Mississippi. As,
ripes and turning, wrapped. No. l.
mostly 200; No. 2. It's; Florida. 6s.
ripes and turning wrapped fancy quail
ity. fancy count, 3.75a4.0O; choice
count. 2.75a3.00.
ermelons-Supplies moderate;
demand good. market steady; sales di-
rect to retailers: Florida, Tom Wat
sons, 28-30-pound average. 1.15a1.25:
24-26-pound average, 90a1.00; 2224-
pound average, mostly around rs cents
each; no carlot sales reported.
String Beans Slow Sale
String beans-Supplies moderate; de-
mand light, market dull; North and
South l. Carolina, bushel hampers,
green, 1.50a2.o0, few higher. some or
dinary condition low as 100; North
Carolina, 5-peck hampers, green, best
mostly $50.
Eggplant-Supplies light; demand
moderate, market steady; Florida pep
per crates, large size, 2.50a300
Squash-Supplies moderate; dema nd
moderate, market steady; South Caro-
line, bushel hampers and square bush
el crates, white, 1.50a175.
Dewberries-Supplies liberal: de-
mand moderate, market steady: North
Carolina: 32-quart crates. 4.OOa5. 90:
poor condition, some soft. wide range
in prices, 1.75a3.0O.