Evening star., 1927-03-05
BUSINESS IS BRISK
IN CENTER MARKET
Cold Weather Increases the
Demand for Turkeys-BroiI.
ers Are Wanted.

An increase demand for turkeys
was evidenced during the cold snap
the past few days, according to poul-
try dealers. and the supplies, chiefly
from nearby Maryland and Virginia,
| were sufficiently large to enable deal
ers to meet demands. While there
are some exceptionally good stock
coming to the local market, it is
stated. many crooked breasted and
poor turkeys also have appeared the
past two or three weeks.
| 1t is simply a case of poultry rails
ers getting rid of the stock they do
not want to carry over for next sea-
son, dealers state. realizing it Is more
| profitable to sell now than to feed un-
promising turkeys until the next
Christmas or Thanksgiving season.
Raisers have started setting turkey
| hens in order to have the young ones
Matched out in time for them to be-
come marketable next Fall and Win
| ter.
A slight increase In receipts of young
broilers is reported by dealers. There
| are so many Fall chickens coming to
| market, however, it is stated. that
| prices Of hroilers have been lowered
| this season than usual, many of the
Fall chickens, according to dealers, be-
| ing used for broiling.
Fall Chickens i'm Demand.
Fall chickens this morning were in
demand at the prevailing price of 3s
and 90 cents. Broilers were quoted
| at As and 4S cents, according to size
| and quality. the price for live and
| dressed stock being about the same.
Ducks. geese and keats also are
| claiming attention of buyers in the
| poultry market.
Dealers expressed no surprise when
change to higher prices came in the
egg market yesterday. 1t has been a
| number of years since eggs reached
the low mark of % cents, a mark
| reached here this week, and in some
quarters surprise was shown that the
price remained so low as long as 1t
did. Whether the increase Is tempo
rary or permanent is question
dealers admitted they were unable to
answer.
In some quarters, 1t Is stated, the
| opinion Is that the increase Is only
temporary, due to lower temperature.
| while on the other hand it is said to
| be the belief that the price this season
will not again hit the 22-cent mark.
Fairly large quantities of eggs con.
| tinue to reach the local market, and
yesterday afternoons report was that
dealers had fairly we'll cleaned up the
market.
Butter Market Firm.
A continued firm condition of the
butter market is reported. Only slight
| changes in butter prices have been
recorded during the past few weeks
| according to dealers, and prices are
not expected to drop to any consider
able extent before the opening of
Spring and appearance of grass upon
which cows may feed.
| The weeks trade at Municipal Fish
Market was hard hit as result of the
| stormy weather on Chesapeake Bay
| and along the Atlantic Coast. Before
| the middle of the week receipts OF
fresh caught fish dropped off to sucn
| an extent that dealers were com
PEELED to rely almost wholly upon
frozen fish and oysters to supply their
trade.
Stormy weather in Florida was re
f1ected in the local market by light
supplies Of Strawberries and vege
| tables, and the storm in Virginia
North Carolina and South Carolina
affected supplies of spinach. Straw
berries, shipped from Florida in pony
refrigerators, came in light supplies