Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19
EGG PRICE SLUMP
MARKET FEATURE
Butter Values Hold Firm.
Limited Quantities of Spring
BroiIers Are Reported.

aSting feature OF the market this week
While a low price of % cents for cur
rent receipts was quoted, certain deal
erS reported there We're many offer
ings at ~. Just where the decline
in egg prices will stop, dealers state
Is predetermined
It is generally believed chat the open
weather is the principal reason for
the low prices so early in the season
warm weather putting the hens in
the humor of laying. Dealers this
morning said they would not be sur
prised il the price takes a drop to -
cents.
There is still ii quantity of storage
eggs to be had, but local dealers are
not taking hold of many of them.
They were offered as low as II cents
this week. according to dealers, but
with fresh eggs only n few cents
higher. it is stated. dealers held off
from the storage product as not being
a good buy.
Butter Prices Firm
A very firm condition of the butter
market is reported to have continued
throughout the week. Butter always
Is in demand, no matter what the
price may he. dealers say, although
sales are rot quite so large when top
themselves as seeing no hope for
lower prices until there is plenty grass
for cattle.
Limited quantities of Spring broilers
from nearby Maryland and Virginia
memories are being received. They
are being received alive and this
mornings quotation had them selling
at from As to AZ cents a pound. The
demand for the brOilers is expected
TO Increase as the chickens get larger
Receipts of poultry during the week
have been active, dealers report, and
prices have fluctuated very little. The
demand for all kinds OF poultry has
been fair. Young keats. said to be
served in place of pheasants. are in
good demand at prevailing prices.
Turkeys are still in fairly good de-
mand. and is thought by dealers
that the demand would he greater if
prices were lower. Frying and stew
ing chickens, ducks and geese are
among other offerings in the poultry
market to claim the attention of
buyers
Meat Market Draggy.
a draggy condition of the meat
market continues, the market possibly
being affected by heavy receipts and
cheap prices quoted for fish. The
shad and herring season is fairly on,
although supplies are coming mainly
from North Carolina. Herring are
particularly cheap.
Strawberries, product of Florida
growers, were much cheaper this
morning than they were a week ago.
Last week they were quoted as high
az Sl.30 a quart, while 60 cents was
the highest price quoted today. Other
prices were so and SIS cents
Apples continue in liberal supply.
Virginia StaymanS and Yorks sell
ing at $3.50 and SO, some higher.
Nearby ungraded apples are quoted
at 60 and 10 cents a basket.
Moderate supplies of cabbage, po-
tatoes and celery were reported this
morning, while spinach and onions
were received in liberal quantities.
Only light receipts of string beans
and peas were reported today.
Early morning buying was about
what wholesalers had anticipated.
The market was not especially active,
dealers reported, but supplies of prac-
tically all foodstuffs were more than
equal to fill all demands
TOday's Wholesale Prices.
Butter-Fresh, 1-pound print, 55a
50: tub, 53a54; store packed, 80.
Eggs-Fresh, selected, 80; hennery,
30: current receipts. 2S
Poultry. alive Turkeys. 40a42;
chickens. 32a35: white Leghorns, 24a
25; fowls. 27a2S; ROSTERS, 90 ducks,
2Oa25; keats, young, 65; old, 30a35.
Dressed-Turkeys 46a4S; old toms, 40;
fowls, 2Sa30; canons, fancy. heavy, 80:
smaller, 30a32; fowls. 2sa30; keats.
young, 60a70; old. 25a30; ducks, 2Sa30;
chickens, 32a35.
Meats-Beef, 15a17: veal, 23a26:
lambs, 80; fresh hams. 26a2S; shout
ders. 21a22: loins. 25a26: smoked hams,
2Sa30; smoked shoulders. 1Sa20.
Live stock-Calves. choice, 15 me-
dunn, 1lal3; thin 7aS; lambs, 10.