Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-11
STRAWBERRIES HOLD
MARKET SPOTLIGHT
Price of $1.40 a Quart Likely To-
morrow, With Quantity Uncer-
tain--Eggs Are Easy.

| Strawberries are holding the Cen
| ter Market spotlight this week by
| their hide-and-seek and price-quiver-
| ing antics while hotels. clubs and
| Washington housewives bid for the
uncertain quantities on the stalls.
While no definite prediction could be
made on strawberry prices for to-
morrow, several dealers say they will
bring about $1.40 II quart. Buyers
Of large quantities Of the fruit have
paid as high as So quart for them
during the past week and were then
unable to get as many as they needed.
A series of freezes in Florida, it Is
said, Is responsible for the fiuctua-
tons.
Eggs and butter. however. are more
friendly to the average housewife.
Prices on both these products have
taken another drop during the week.
so that tomorrow the best day-old
eggs on the market will be sold at
SIS cents a dozen, while other good
quality grades will bring so cents.
Storage eggs will sell somewhere in
the 40s. The best pale creamery
butter will he 60 cents at most places
and the lesser grades will sell tat So
cents.
Staple produce prices remain at
practically the same levels as last
week. Tomatoes, one Of the few
vegetables to change, are 5 cents
cheaper. selling at IS cents a. pound.
String beans also dropped and they
are 40 cents a pound, 10 cents below
their price a week ago.
Brussels Sprouts Scarce.
Brussels sprouts have practically
disappeared again and the few that
will be on the market will bring
around SO cents a quart. Lima beans.
which have appeared and disappeared
during the past two months. have
returned in small quantities this
week to demand So quart.
New potatoes remain steady at %
cents q box. old potatoes hold at
cents a pound, or six pounds for %
cents. and sweet potatoes are selling
at four pounds for quarter. the same
price they have brought for several
weeks. French artichokes are rs cents
each and the Jerusalem variety is rs
cents quart. Spinach holds at Is
| cents pound. while old cabbage re.
mains at cents pound and the new
variety stays at 10 cents a pound.
Mushrooms are SO cents a pound.
Beets are 10 cents a bunch, while tur.
nips and parsnips sell at the rate of
three pounds for quarter. Celery is
10 TO % cents a bunch and peas are
40 cents pound. Rhubarb is 20 cents
bunch, and eggplant and caulifiower
cost 20 TO so cents each, depending
upon size. Cucumbers of the hot
house variety are % and 35 cents
apiece, but the out-ofdoors grown kind
are 10 cents. Lettuce is 10 and Is
cents bunch. All these price quota
lions are the same as were given last
week.
Fruit Prices Unchanged.
M rrioA ol,a1n1 t.
and oranges remain at 60 to 90
cents dozen and tangerines at the
one price of so cents. Eating apples
hold steady at their regular prices Of
8, s and 10 cents each. Tokay grapes
are selling at SO cents a pound. alli-
| gator pears, or. as the California
Avocado Growers Exchange would
have them called-avocadas-a still
60 cents apiece, and pineapples run
about 30 or 40 cents each
Meats have shown no price activity
during the week, porterhouse being
quoted at 60 cents for the top grades
and others running as low as 40 cents
Tor the same cut. Sirloin is so cents
and round steak 40 cents. Veal cut.
| lets cost so and so cents, veal chops,
45 and 90 cents, and veal roasts, %
to 40 cents, depending upon cut and
grade. Lamb chops hold high at so
| cents, with lower grades at so cents,
and nice legs of lamb sell at 80 and
40 cents. with the breast cut at Is
and 20 cents. Beef liver is 20 cents
while calf liver runs upward of 20
cents. Western home.dressed pork
chops bring 40 cents and some at
IS, and the roasts bring 80 and 35
cents pound. All-pork sausage is
80 and 40 cents. Corned beef brings
anywhere from Is to 80 cents a pound,
depending upon the cut and grade of
meat corned.