Evening star., 1927-09-12
PRICES ARE STEADY
IN MARKET TODAY.
Some Vegetables Are Cheap
er. With Lima Beans Higher.
Egg Prices Firm.

Prices in the local wholesale mar
kets are the same generally as those
quoted Saturday, with a slightly lower
trend i'm the prices of vegetables, al
ready considered by dealers to be far
below the normal price for this time
of the year.
Shelled lima beans proved to be an
exception to the general tendency,
selling, today at 25a30 a quart, the
top price being cents above Satur-
day's top price and the minimum
price 10 cents above the low price OF
Saturday Lima beans in the POD,
however. We're going today at Sl5o
hushel against $500 bushel Satur'
day.
"A fair supply of pumpkins is on the
market this week, selling at 1.aoa2.O0
O barrel. Carrots are reported selling
at 55 cents a bushel, or about 20 cents
cheaper than last weeks prices.
Other prices are ge Herally the same,
with quotations as fo ows:
Apples, 100 and l.25 bushel;
string beans. 50a75 bushel; eggplant.
so cents a crate; Irish potatoes, pest
grade, grown on nearby farms. Lava
lis bushel, second grade, 100 bushel;
radishes, 100 hundred punches.
Wholesale Prices Today.
Veal dressed, a2a24 a pound: lamb,
73ae7: fresh hams 23a25; live lambs,
1sa14: live calves. Il: smoked shoulder.
Is: pork loan. 35aS6; fresh hams, 2laZ2;
and smoked hams, &c; fresh-kllled peer.
1Sa20.
Butter-Fresh. / pound prints, 44a
46: tubs, 43a44: store packed, -.
Eggs-Fresh, selected, SSaS9; hen
merry. 4oa42.~current receipts, 3oa36.
hens.
toms. 25; hens, small to medium, 2Sa
"a: large. 25a26; Spring chickens. ~;
roosters. 15a16; ducks, 1Sa2o; keats
young. 65: old, 35.
Dressed fowl-Turkeys, 3Sa40; Spring
chickens. 32a33; capons, fancy, heavy
39a4O: smaller, 35; ducks, 20; Keats,
S0a90.
Fruit and Vegetable Review.
Todav's market report on fruits and
vegetables, compiled by the Market
News Service Bureau of Agricultural
Economics. says:
Apples-Supplies moderate: demand
slow. market dull: bushel baskets, Nlf-
pinia. Northwestern Greenlngs, Z2
inches up. United States No. l, l.1ea>
200: Maryland. Grimes. United States
No. l. 2la inches up mostly go: Nlr-
Yinia Delaware and Maryland. various
Washington, combination extra fancy
and fancy Winter Bananas, large size.
400. ~,
Cabba age-Homegrown supplies ilb-
eral: homegrowns supplying the mar
ket.
Green Peas-Supplies light; demand
light. market dull; Colorado. 4o-pound
crates, fair to ordinary quality ana
condition, S.00a3.50; few fancy, high
as 500.
ntaloupes-Supplies moderate: de-
mand fair, market about steady; Coio-
RADIO. Jumbo flats, 9s and rs, salmon
tints. ! GOAL Is; standards. 36s, salmon
tints. 1.75a225. mostly 1.75a2.O0; Junl-
no fats. 9s and 12s, pink meats, l.0oa
1.15: standard flats. rs and los, 9ua
! 90: Jumbo flats, 12s. Hearts OF Goid,
mostly 90; standard flats. 12s. Soal.oo;
ponv flats. 15s and 1Ss, 20; Honey
Dews, supplies moderate, demand good
for good stock, market steady; Can.
fornia, Turlock section, standard ano
Jumbo crates, 6s and SIS, 2.00a2.2o.
Lettuce-Supplies liberal; demand
slow, market slightly weaker; Colo
RADIO. crates, Iceberg type. 40 dozen'
hest. 3.25a350; fair quality, poor con-
dition, some dirty, mostly around 2.5o;
New York. 2-dozen crates, Big Boston
type. best 65a70: ordinary quality ana
condition, low as so.
Celery Supplies liberal; demard
moderate, market about STEADY; New
York. % crates in the rough, 2.25a
$50; full crates washed, 400.
Onion Market Dull.
Onions-Supplies moderate; demand
and trading rather slow, market duii,
Ohio and New York, 100-pound sacks.
Yellows, United States No. /, 2;ooa
2.25; Indiana. 100-pound sacks, Yel-
lows, United States No. /, mostly 2.2o;
New York, 100-pound sacks, WHITES
United States No. /. mostly around
2.75: Ohio, 100-pound sacks, Whites.
United States No. /, 2.75a3.0O.
Peaches-Supplies heavy; demand
good, market steady; Pennsylvania,
hushel baskets, Elbertas. large size,
mostly 2.25, few $50: medium size and
not we'll colored, 1.75a2.00; bushei
baskets, Bellies, medium to large size,
1.75a2 90: Is, Elbertas, large size,
mostly 2.25: New Jersey. bushel
baskets, Elbertas, medium to large
size, wide range quality and condition,
best, 150a1.75: fair quality, 100: 6s,
Elbertas. medium to large size, 1.75a
200.
Pears-Supplies light; demand light;
market steady; California, boxes. Bart
let's, green, 3.00a3.50; ripes, 2.00a2.5o.
Potatoes-Supplies fairly liberal; de-
mand good, market firm; United States
No. /. New Jersey, 150-pound sacks,
Cobblers and Pennsylvania, 15O-pound
sacks, Round Whites, 400; East Shore
Maryland and East Shore Virginia.
cloth-top stave barrel Cobblers, 4.O0a
425. mostly 400.
Sweet potatoes-Supplies moderate;
demand rather slow, no sales reported.
Grapes-Eastern supplies light; de-
mand light, market steady: Delaware,
Maryland and Virginia, 12-quart climax
baskets, Concords, 65a75; ordinary
condition. SOC; California, lugs, Ma
lagas, 1.50a1.75. mostly $50.
Tomatoes-Supplies moderate; ~
bushel hampers, 35a50; few higher.
Lima beans-Supplies light; East
Shore, Maryland. market dull; bushel
hampers, 1.25a1.50.
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