Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-10
EGGS TO ADVANCE,
TRADERS PREDICT:
Butter Unchanged-Heavy
Sea Food Sales Reported
Today in Center Market.

A further stiffening in the wholesale
price of eggs was in the offlng Wneh
! local commission men opened To-Day
Local retailers said they momentarlly
expected to have to raise their whole
sale offerings from 80 cents TO 40 cents
or more in order to attract the pest
quality OF the product.
Fresh selected or candled eggs to-
day brought from So to IS cents
dozen and top grade hennery eggs.
40 and az cents.
Butter remained firm at 40 cents for
the best creamery brands.
TIL usually heavy Friday fish buying
was evident today. with wholesale
prices as follows: Soft crabs. plentiful
and large size, ST dozen: hard crabs.
also plentiful. so cents a dozen: crab
meat fakes, 40 cents a pound: salmon,
20 cents pound; halibut, 25; bass.
Is: croakers, 10; trout. $6 barrel
of 200 small fish and Is cents a pound
ere1, 3. and cod, 10.
Potatoes went up 25 cents whole
sale, selling today at 500 sack for
white potatoes, but sweets came down
| from 5.5Oa6.0O to 500 straight. To
matoes went up TO 100 half buShel,
whereas yesterday they sold for as
! low as so cents.
Today's Wholesale Prices.
Butter-Fancy. 1,pound prints. 40;
| tub. A.; store packed. 33a35.
| Eggs-Fresh selected, 36a3S: hen
merry. 40a42: current receipts. 34a36.
| Poultry. alive-Turkeys. IS: Spring
| brolers, 2Sa3O: white Leghorns. "a
| AIS; fowls. 26a27: ROSTERS, 20; ducks.
| young, 20; old. Is; keats, young, 60
. a7O; old, 35a4O. Dressed-Turkeys.
| 40a42; broilers. 33a3S; keats, young,
| 8Oa90; old, 40a50.
/ Live stock-Calves, choice, IA; me-
dunn, l1a12; thin. 7as: lambs. IA.
Todav's market report on fruits and
vegetables, compiled by the Market
News Service Bureau of Agricultural
| Economics. says:
! Apples-supplies liberal; dema nd
! slow, market dull: bushe baskets.
Maryland and Virginia. various vari-
eties large size. 7aa1 90. mostly 90:
| few Wolf Rivers and Fall Pippins.
| .25a1.35.
Cantaloupes-Supplie liberal: de-
mand slow, market slightly weaker:
Colorado, pink meats. jumbo flats SIS.
60a65; IS, IS: jumbo flats 90 and l2s.
| 100; standard flats Us and IS, 15a
| IS; Salmon tints. standards 36s and
| Ass, 800; jumbos 36s. 3.25: standard
!
| GOA rs. Honeydews Colorado,
standard crates IS and SIS. 1.75a2.00.
| Grapes Homegrowns practically
supplying the market for Eastern
! stock.
! Lettuce-Supplies moderate: dema nd
! light. market dull: New York, 2-dozen
crates. big Boston type. ordinary quail
/ ity and condition, GOAL so. Colorado,
crates Iceberg type, AS dozen, mostly
| 100.
Onions-S Supplies moderate; demand
light, market slightly weaker: New
! York. 100-pound sacks, yellows. u. S.,
| No. /. 1.50a2.OO. most 200: Massachu
sets, 1OO-pound sacks. yellows, Z. S.
| No. i, 210a2.25.
Peach Market Weak.
| Peaches-Supplies\ heavy: demand
slow. market weak; Maryland. Vir-
ginia, New Jersey and Pennsylva MIA +.
bushe baskets. Elbertas. very large
size. best. 1.50a1.75: fair condition,
1.25: medium to large size. 1.00a1 .25,
few 1.50: New Jersey, bushel baskets.
| Hales. very large size, 2.00a2.25; Mary
I land, bushel baskets. Hales, ripe,
medium to large size, 100.
| PotatOes-Supplies moderate; de-
mand light, market firm; New Jersey,
| 15O-pound sacks, Cobblers, u. S. No. | 4,
| 4.5Oa4.75.
Sweet potatoes-Supplies liberal; de-
mand slow. market dull: Virginia and
| North Carolina. clothIop stave barrels
| yelloWS. No. l. some medium size, $50
! a4.00; ungraded. some small size. 800.
| Pears---No early sales reported.
! Corn-Supplies light; demand light,
market dull: homegrown, sacked, per
dozen, sugar corn, 15a25.
! Cucumbers-Supplies liberal: dema nd
| light. market dull: New York, bushel
| baskets, fancy, 1.00a1.25.
! Peas-Supplies moderate: dema nd
| light. market dull: Colorado. 50pound
! crates, Telephones, 7.00a 80.