Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-13
BUTTER IS HIGHER
IN CENTER MARKET
Vegetables Are Cheaper.
Other Prices Wholesalers
Quote Are Unchanged.

old style spinach is selling generally
at so cents a crate, or about half
the usual price. while New Zealand
spilach is quoted at only 25 cents a
crate. Good tomatoes are to be had at
25 cents to Is cents a half bushel.
Lima beans in the pod are selling at
from 90 to 1.50 a bushel.
Other vegetable prices remain the
same generally as they were yester-
day, with quotations as follows:
Apples, 100 and 1.25 a bushel;
string beans, so and IS a bushel; egg
plant, so a crate; radishes,' LOO a hun
bred punches.
Fresh butter, one-pound prints, are
bringing 46ha47, in place Of yester-
days price of 44a46; tubs. 45a46, in
place of yesterdays price of 43a44.
while store packed is selling at 80.
cents higher than yesterdays prices.
Today's Wholesale Prices.
Other prices are quoted generally
the same as they were yesterday:
Eggs-Fresh, selected, 38a39; hen
merry, 40a42; current receipts, 35a36.
Poultry, alive-Turkeys, hens, 30;
toms. %; hens, small to medium, 23a
"a; large, 25a2G; Spring chickens, 2S;
ROSTERS, 15a16, ducks, 1Sa2O; keats,
young, 65; old, So.
Dressed fowl-Turkeys, 38a40; Spring
chickens, 32a33; capons, fancy, heavy,
39a4O; smaller, 80; ducks, 20; keats,
S0a9O.
Veal dressed, 22a24 a pound; lamb,
24a27; fresh hams, 23a25; live lambs,
13a14; live calves, II; smoked shoulder,
1S; pork loins, 35a36; fresh hams, 24a
25; smoked hams, &c; fresh-killed beef,
18a20.
Today'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,
Virginia. U. S. No. /, Northwestern
Greetings, 2R inches up, mostly LIS;
Delaware and Maryland, U. S. No. l,
Grimes, 21a inches up, 2.00a2.25, most
ly 200; Virginia, Delaware and Mary
land, various varieties, ungraded, LOO
al. so: boxes, Washington, combination
extra fancy and fancy, Winter Ba-
nanas, large size. 3.75.
Cabbage supplies lib
eral and supplying the market.
Catalogues - Supplies moderate;
demand moderate, market about
steady; Colorado. salmon tints. jum-
hos. 36s, 2.25a2.50; standards, 36s and
II
flats. 9s and IFS, LOCALS; standard
flats, rs and 15s, 90a1.00 pink meats,
iumbos. 36s, mostly 2.25; standard. 36s.
200; jumbo flats, Us, 85a1 90; stand
ard flats. 12s. 75aS5; Hearts Of Cold
standard flats. 12s and ISIS. 75aS5;
honey dews, supplies moderate. de-
mand good for good stock. market
steady; California. Turlock section,
standard and jumbo crates, 6s and IS.
2.00a2.25.
Celery-Supplies LIBERAL; demand
moderate. market steady; New York,
2-3 crates, in the rough, 2.25a2.5O; full
crates. washed, 4.00a450.
Green peas-Supplies moderate; de
mand light, market dull: Colorado, As
pound crates, fair to ordinary quality
and condition, 30Oa3.50; few fancy
high as 500.
Lettuce Market Weaker.
Lettuce-Supplies liberal; demand
slow, market weaker; Colorado, crates,
Iceberg type, 4-5 dozen, best, mostly
around 800; generally good quality,
fair condition, some dirty, 2.00a2.50;
New York, 2-dozen crates, big Boston
type. best, 60a75; ordinary quality and
condition low as 25.
Onions-Supplies moderate; demand
slow, market dull; Ohio, Indiana and
New York, 100-pound sacks, yellows.
u. S. No. /, 2.00a225; Ohio, 100-pound
sacks, whites, U. S. No. l, mostly 2.75.
Peaches-Supplies heavy; demand
slow, market slightly weaker; Pennsyl-
vania, bushel baskets, Elbertas, large
size, 2.00a2.25; medium size, 1.50a1.75:
New Jersey. bushel baskets, Elbertas,
medium to large size, 1.50a1.75; fair to
ordinary condition, low as 100; bushel
boy On1I f4 lor Ciun
1.50a1.75.
Pears-Supplies light; demand light,
market slightly stronger; California,
boxes. Bartletts, No. /, green, 35Oa
3.75; few fancy, 400; ripes, 3.00a3.50;
Eastern, no sales reported.
Potatoes-Supplies liberal: demand
moderate. market steady; U. S.
No. /. New Jersey, 150-pound
sacks. Cobblers, mostly 400; Pennsyl-
vania, 150-pound sacks. round whites,
3.75a4.0O; 12O-pound sacks, round
whites, 800; East Shore Virginia and
East Shore Maryland, cloth-top stave
barrel, Cobblers, few sales, mostly 400.
Sweet pOtatoes-Supplies moderate;
demand slow, market dull; Virginia,
cloth-top barrel, yellows, No. 1, 250a
800; New Jersey. bushel hampers, big
stem Jerseys, No. l, 1.25a1.5O; mostly
$50.
Grapes-Supplies of Western stock
moderate; demand moderate, market
about steady; California, Tugs, Thomp-
son Seedless, 1.50a1.75; Malagas, LISA
200; Flame Tokays, 225a2.75; Eastern
supplies light; demand slow, market
dull; Delaware and Maryland, 12-quart
climax baskets, Concords, 5Oa64; Vir-
ginia, 6-basket crates, Concords, $50
ATS.
Tomatoes-Supplies liberal; u -bushel
hampers, 25a4O.
Corn-Supplies moderate; sacks, s.