Evening star., 1929-06-27
MARINE PRODUCTS
IN LARGE SUPPLY
Prices Reasonable at D. c.
Market-Crab Shipments
Increase

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While the variety of offerings at
Municipal Fish Market this morning
were not very numerous, dealers had
| the few varieties in such large Quanti-
ties that cheap prices were urged as
relief from high price of meats.
Potomac River fishermen are not
contributing any great quantities OF
supplies, according to reports, but fSh
from distant points are so carefully
packed in ice that they are arriving
in splendid condition.
Both hard and soft crabs are plenti-
full and in fair demand. Crabmeat also
is plentiful and cheaper than usual, 80
cents pound being the price of the
general run of meat. Lump and fake
meat are little higher.
Crabs Plentiful.
Hard crabs this morning were plenti-
full at $50 a barrel, cheap enough for
crab feaSts, dealers said, and dealers
offered them by the dozen at rs cents.
There are lots of soft crabs coming
from the several shipping points" COM
mented one dealer, many of them be-
ing large and of top quality"
zone dollar a dozen Is the days quo
Some of the smaller crabs sold at a
price slightly lower.
Haddock, the cheapest fish offered
the trade this morning, sold at cents
pound, the fillet of haddock bringing
II cents. low price for the boneless
fish. Trout. butterfish and croakers
were offered as low as cents pound,
cod at 6 and Norfolk spots at cents
a pound.
Boston mackerel, good seller, were
in demand at 10 cents a pound, a low
price, according to dealers. Halibut
/ brought %, and sea bass sold at IL
cents a pound.
Shrimp was more plentiful than dur
ing the past few weeks, dealers re-
ported, quoting green stock at 25 ana
the cooked stock at so cents a pound
Lobsters were plentiful at 45 cents
CLANS we're scarce, as q result OF the
recent hot weather.
Fruit and vegetable supplies contin-
ued heavy this morning, vegetables,
especially the homegrown products, sell
ing at prices termed by dealers as very
cheap.
Spinach, not so plentiful, sold around
81 a crate, while kale was offered at 80
and SO cents. Cabbage sold at 40 cents
the single bushel and Is cents in large
quantities. Beets and carrots were
quoted at $3.50 and 81 per 100 buncnes.
Chickens Higher.
Squash, both white and yellow, found
ready sale at 81 so a bushel. New po-
tatoes were SIPS a bushel. String beans
and peas, not so plentiful as otner
homegrown vegetables, brought higher
prices, the peas selling at $3.50 and So,
and the string beans at $3.50 and So,
Prices of Spring chickens, large, ad-
vanced today, while prices OF the small
chickens declined. Dealers say the mar
ket is getting overstocked with the
smaller chickens, the demand for them
not being great. Shipments OF such
stock are being discouraged.
Business was only fairly brisk this
morning. Wholesalers had supplies OF
all commodities more than sufficient to
meet demands at prevailing prices.
Meat prices continue high, according to
dealers, while the butter market was
unchanged. and further easing OF the
egg market was reported. price of cur
rent receipt stock dropping to 20 cents.
Todays wholesale Prices--Jobbers'
Prices Slightly Higher.
Butter - One-pound prints, 441aa
45la; tub. 43iaa4414; store packed, 80
Eggs-Hennery, 34a35; fresh selected,
34a35; current receipts, 80.
Poultry, alive Turkeys. hens, "a;
toms, 80; Spring chickens. large, 44a
fowls, 28a30: roosters, 81; ducks, Is;
keats, young, 6oas5: old, 35a4O.
Dressed-Turkeys, 38a40; Spring chick
ems, large, 50a52; small, 40a42; Leg
horns, 37a38; fowls, 30a32; ducks, 28
a30; keats. 80a1 90.
Meats, fresh killed-Beef, 22a25;
veal, 23a26; lamb, 25a28; pork loins.
81; fresh shoulders, 19; fresh hams, 26
Smoked hams, 2sa29; smoked shoul-
ders, 18a19; bacon, 2la25; lard, in bulk,
1919; in packages. 1872.
Live Stock-Calves, Is; lambs, IS.
Fruit and Vegetable Review.
The daily market report on fruits and
vegetables, compiled by the Market
News Service Bureau of Agricultural
Economics. says:
Cantaloupes - Supplies moderate;
demand moderate, market slightly
weaker; California Imperial Valley.
jumbos, ASS, salmon tints, mostly 500;
3.50a3.75; standards, 36s, mostly 400,
few higher; jumbos, fats, lis, Its; 9s.
$50.
Lettuce-Western stock; supplies
light, demand moderate; market about
steady: Washington, SO dozen, $50.
Eastern stock, supplies very light; no
sales reported.
Onions-Supplies moderate: demand
light, market steady; California, stand
ard crates Yellow Bermudas and So
pound sacks Yellow Bermudas, U. S.,
No. l, 2.i5a225.
Peaches-Supplies light; demand
moderate, market slightly weaker;
Georgia, bushel baskets, Hileys, U. S.
No. l, 34-inch minimum, mostly $50,
some slightly decayed low as $50; skies,
Hileys, U. s., No. /, small size, $50.
Potatoes-Old stock; supplies light;
demand light, market steady: Maine,
l50-pound sacks Green Mountains and
Cobblers, u. S. No. /, 2.00a215. New
stock; supplies moderate: demand mod
crate, market about steady: Norfolk sec
tion and other Virginia cloth top stave
barrels, Cobblers, u. S. No. /, 3.50a3.75;
Eastern Shore Virginia. Cloth top stave
barrels, Cobblers, u. S. No. /, mostly
400, few low as 3.75.
Tomatoes-Supplies moderate; de-
, mand moderate, market about steady;
Mississippi, As, ripes and turning