Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-08
PRICES AT MARKET
CHANGE BUT LITTLE
Rates and Products This Week
Vary Only Slightly from
Last.

The Sunday dinner this week win
cost the marketing housewife about
the same as it did last week, and
there will be no new dishes added to
the menu, either. Prices at Center
Market continue to remain steady,
while the products bide their time
awaiting the earnest debut of Spring.
Most of the produce used in Wash
ington is still coming in from the far
South chiefly from Florida, though
shipments from the Carolinas and
Ifdewater Virginia, through Norfolk,
are coming in gradually.
Asparagus is one Of the few fresh
vegetables to move on the price scale.
and while it can be had at a higher
price this week. the lower priced va
rieties. register an actual decrease
over last week. Most dealers are
quoting the grass at 40 to 90 cents
against the so to rs cent quotation
last week
Peas are unchanged, 90 cents a
pound being the price of the Norfolk
variety and 25 cents for the Florida
green's. String beans also are the
same as a. week ago-25 cents Il
pound. Spinach remains at it's same
level Of two pounds for % cents, and
rhubarb holds al that price.
Potatoes are as steady as time it.
SELF holding quotation of more than
two months standing-six pounds for
Is cents for the old variety and 25
cents box. Cabbage, too will cost
the same tomorrow as it has for many
weeks cents pound for the old
and 10 cents for the new.
Lima beans are doing the feature
performance of the week by dropping
from the neighborhood of 81 a quart
to 81. The reduction represents merely
a gesture return to the levels of sew.
eral weeks ago, when they were as
low as rs cents a quart.
Strawberries, another featured actor
of the price drama in recent weeks,
failed to entertain" this week by re.
naming at their Week-ago levels Of
about SIS cents quart Honeydew
melons are steady at 90 cents apiece
Mushrooms are so cents a pound
again this week, and tomatoes are
holding their own at 25 cents a pound
Norfolk cucumbers at 10 and Is cents
and caulifiower, which. by the way, is
quite scarce, at Is to 80 cents, are the
same.
Oranges. which have been quoted
at so to 80 cents since Christmas, are
to be had this week for as low as so
cents, but with the same top price of
80 cents. Argentine grapes are so
cents a pound for the black and white
varieties. Apples are unchanged at
5, and 10 cents a pound.
Lamb gives to the meat market its
only change. and most dealers have
increased their place on only one cut,
the shoulder, to care for the whole
sale increase on the entire animal
The shoulder is selling at 80 and IS
cents a pound, against Is and 35 cents
OF last week.
Beef is steady, with the various cuts
selling at the same prices that have
maintained for a month. Pork, too,
is unchanged. Legs Of lamb, despite
the wholesale rise, are selling again
at IS cents, while the chops remain
at so and SIS cents a pound. The
breast out holds at 20 cents a pound.
Dairy products are without
change. The best creamery butter
brings so and So cents a pound, and
hennery eggs 40 and As cents a dozen.
American cheese remains at as cents
a pound. while the imported cheeses
are unchanged. demanding anywhere
from 20 cents to 81 TO pound,
Poultry, too is stepped in the inertia
which has grasped the market. Tur-
keys are so cents a pound. while
chickens remain at 40 to so cents
stewers bringing the lowest price and
the flyers demanding the highest.