Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-23
Receipts From West.

Current receipts have been running
along at about "a cents the past two
or three weeks, and dealers say they
probably would be bringing 80 or 81
cents We're it not for the heavy re.
ceipts from the West. 1t is the be.
lief of certain dealers that egg prices
will not go exceptionally high until
Winter weather sets in. A. few stor-
age eggs probably will be let out in
september, but probably will not be
released in large quantities until DC.
tober.
Butter prices have remained the
same throughout the week. The mar.
ket continues steady, with no sug.
gestion as to changes in the near fu-
ture. Country, or store packed, as
the butter from the farms is termed.
has been fairly plentiful the past
month or more, and wholesalers this
morning quoted it at 26 cents.
very few changes in prices Of meats
nave been reported during the week.
There has been an unusual demand
Tor pork loinS, according to reports.
and smoked meats have been in fairly
good demand. Choice cuts and
roasts are always in fairly good de.
mand, but the demand this week has
not Deen great enough to change q
slightly draggy condition of the mar.
ket.
A matter of more than ordinary In.
terest to dealers at Municipal Fish
Market. as well as to others who deal
IN marine products, is that which has
10 deal with crabs, both hard and
SOFT, and crab meat. 1t is doubted nv
dealers that crabs will ever be as
cheap as they were before the World
war, when hard crabs were SO cheap
they were given away in large ouan.
titles at free lunch counters.
Dredging Practice.
Dealers realize that high prices of
crabs in recent years was partly due
70 their scarcity. They favored a
law prohibiting the taking of the
snelinsh from Chesapeake Bay and
trlputarles out OF the regular Summer
Grabbing season and attention was
frequently called to the dredging of
them during the Winter seasons tn
furnish the demand for the meat for
salads and the preparation of deviled
crabs
Maryland and Virginia authorities
nave not been able to get together,
however, but dealers hope something
VIII be done in the near future to
save the crabs from onslaughts of
dredgers during Winter seasons.
another thing that Is having an
important bearing upon the market
at this time, 1t is stated is the refusal
or crabbers to work unless thew get
big prices for their catches. Only a
snort While ago the crabbers got as
nigh as $12 and $13 a barrel for their
eatches. Then the price dropped
from time to time until they received
only 81 or SO a barrel for them, when
many or the crabbers abandoned
their efforts, declaring they were I'M
able TO earn a livelihood at such
prices. Today's price in the Iocal
market was S. a barrel.
Reports from several points on the
chesapeake Bay and tributaries re-
ceived the past few days told of the
increased catches Of both hard and
soft crabs and of decreased prices,
Soft crabs, quoted as high at $3.50
a dozen earlier in the season. sold
as low as 81 a dozen today. Crab
meat prices were correspondingly
| low.
Fish Prices Are Low.
| Dealers at Municipal Fish Market
this week had many attractive offer
ings for the trade, prices being as
cheap as they We're high only a
couple Of weeks ago. Rockfish and
| butterffsh, two varieties in demand,
were not so plentiful, but dealers
had large quantities of most other
| varieties. and this morning some of
| them were offered as low as S and s
cents a pound.
A firm condition Of the banana
| market was reported this morning
| due, it is stated, to the heavy demands
| for the fruit. Dealers say the demand
| for them has been made much greater
| by publicity given the numerous ways
of serving them. Years ago, said a
| dealer, very little was known about
the various ways of preparing them
| but now they are cooked and other.
wise prepared in so many ways that
| demands are much hea.'er.
| Oranges are anything but plentiful
High prices, a dealer said, are partly
due to the fact that physicians are
prescribing orange juice and recon,
mending it's use by persons both well
and sick. The dealer said he thought
| a low price of $3.50 or SO a box for
the popular fruit is a thing Of the
| past.
Lemons went to Sass box in the
| Baltimore market early in the week
| due to heavy consumption and slow
receipts. The price dropped us low
as $3.50 Wednesday. Yesterday the
| price again increased. In the local
market this morning dealers quoted
them at So and $40.
Melons I'm Favor.
| Watermelons. cantaioupes, honey
dews and honeyballs continue in IA.
vor. and demands for the four fruits