Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16


ton shippers offered them in that city
at 40 cents a pound yesterday. Elk
press and other handling charges in
creased the price to 90 cents here, q
price considered cheap for the deli
cacy
Rockfish, exceptionally scarce the
past month, were more plentiful to-
Cay, and dealers offered them at 70
cents a pound Perch continue scarce,
receipts being SO small that dealers
were hardly in a position to quote
prices.
Trout and Crackers Abound.
Trout from Chesapeake Bay and
croakers from the lower Potomac
were plentiful and cheap, dealers
quoting them at 8 cents. Fresh had
dock and spots. cheapest fish offered,
brought cents, and cod sold at {
cents n pound. Boston mackerel found
ready sale at cents, and buttertish,
a popular variety, sold at 10 cents.
Halibut and salmon, received from
the Northwest, We're in fairly good de-
mand the former at 20 and % and
the latter at 25 cents a pound. Catfish
were plentiful at z cents and cells at
10 cents, both products of the Poto-
mac, while founders, caught off the
New Jersey Coast, were plentiful at
10 cents.
A price of $3.50 a dozen was quoted
for scallops. Fresh shrimp sold at 25
cents and the cooked shrimp at 50
cents.
Continued cool weather served to
put life into market trade this morn
ing. Buying Of all sorts of foodstuffs
was fairly brisk, dealers reported, and
sales were fairly heavy. Prices We're
,l,s-4a tall LN nc
ed yesterday.
Today's Wholesale Prices.
Butter-Fresh. 1-pound prints, 44a
As: tub, 4212a43; store packed. &c.
Eggs-F'resh selected, 24a25; hen
merry, IS; current receipts, %.
Poultry, alive-Turkeys, hens, IS;
old toms, rs; fowls, 24a25; Spring
chickens. 30a35; ROSTERS. 15a16; ducks,
IS; keats, young, 50; old, 20a2o.
Dressed-Turkeys 2Sa30 Spring
chickens, 35a40; capons, fancy. heavy,
ISAAC; smaller, IS; ducks, 20a35; keats,
young. 60a70; old, 2Sa30.
Meat, fresh killed--Beef, 18a19; veal,
1Sa2O; lamb, 30a32; fresh hams, 23a35;
shoulders, 18a20; loins, 26a23; smoked
hams, %; smoked shoulders, 1Sa20.
Live stock-Calves, choice, IL: me.
dunn, Sa10; thin, 7aS; Spring lambs
14a15.
Fruit and Vegetable Review.
Todays market report on fruits and
vegetables, compiled by the Market
News Service Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, says:
Cantaloupes-Supph moderate; de-
mand good. market steady, California,
Imperial Valley, standards, ass, sal
mon tints and jumbos, 36s, 500; jun
bcs, ASS, $50; standards, 36s, 4.50; jun
hos, flats, IFS, 200; IS and lis, Liza
100; some ripe jumbos, Ass, 5.00a5.25;
jumbos, 36s, ATS; 27s, 400; standards,
Us and I5s, 1.65a1.75.
Lettuce--Supplies light; demand
light, market steady; New York, 2
dozenbunch crates, big Boston type,
2.25; California, crates iceberg type,
As dozen, 700: home-growns. bushel
crates, big Boston type, 75a1.50.
Onions--Supplies light; demand
| moderate; market about steady; Calf
fornia, standard crates yellow Bermu-
das, u. S. No. I, mostly 3.25.
Potatoes-Supplies limited; demand
good, market stronger; North Carolina
and Virginia, Norfolk section, cloth.
top stave and Stat barrel, Cobblers,
u. S. No. 1, 650a7,00.
Peaches-Supplies light; demand
SOOu, market STEADY; North CafOllna
Is, Alexa nders, small size, 2.25; 6s,
Greensboros, considerably spotted, me-
dunn size, IT'S; bushel baskets Early
Rose, large size. 400.
Berry Market Stronger.
| standardization supply
| ing the market; supplies light, demand
good: market slightly stronger; 32-
| quart crates various varieties, 5.00a
| 600.
| Tomatoes-Supplies moderate: de-
mand better, market slightly stronger;
| Mississippi As, ripes and turning,
wrapped, Y. S. No. /. 1.60a1.75; few
| higher; very few sales low as $50.
| termelons-Supplies light; de-
mand fair, market slightly weaker;
Georgia Thurmond Grays, 30-32-pound
average, 1.00a1.15; Tom Watsons, 81
pound average, 90a1,00 each.
String beans-Supplies liberal; de-
mand fair, market slightly weaker;
| North Carolina, bushel hampers,
| green, 1.75a225 few low as 1.50: Vir-
ginia, Norfolk section, practically no
early sales; homegrowns, too few sales
reported to quote.
Peas-Supplies moderate; demand
| good, market steady; East Shore, Vir-
ginia, bushel hampers, 1.75a2 90: home
crowns, bushel baskets. 1.75a2.25; few
higher.