Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-04

| noon and this morning retailers were
| out in large numbers looking for sup
| plies of best quality products. Prices
! this morning continuing at about the
same as prices quoted yesterday.
Today's Wholesale Prices-JObbcrs'
Prices Slightly Higher.
Butter-One-pound prints. 46a47; tub,
4512a46; store packed, 30a3l.
Eggs-Hennery, 32a33; fresh selected,
3la32: current receipts, 30.
Poultry, alive-Turkeys, toms, %;
hens. 35 Winter chickens. 42a45:
Spring chickens, 40a45; fowls, 32a34;
Leghorns 30a32; roosters, 20; ducks,
20: keats young, 60a75; old 35a40.
DresSed-Turkeys, 35a40: Winter chick
ems. 45a48: Spring chickens, 50a55;
fowls, 36a33: Leghorns IS; capons.
large. Sua52; small, 45a47 ducks, ga
80; keats, o0ai.0G.
Meats. fresh killed-Beef. 22a24: veal.
23a26; lamb, SoaS2; pork loips, 33aS4;
fresh hams, 26 fresh shoulders. 90;
smoked hams. %; smoked shoulders, II;
bacon. %; lard. in bulk, 13al3l2; in
packages, l4a14l2.
Live stock-Calves, Is; Spring lambs,
10.
Strawberries continue to lead the
fruit market. The berries are being
transported here from North Carolina
principally in motor trucks, small guam
titles OF them coming in express cars,
and the Norfolk berries are coming
by boat and truck. 1t is said that most
growers in the Norfolk, Va. section are
reported selling most OF their berries
on the vines, the buyers having to do
the shipping.
Thousands of crates OF the fruit have
reached here in motor vehicles the past
week, coming in quantities that practl-
cally glutted the market, prices dropping
as low as So a crate of 80 quarts. One
truckload of the berries came from
North Carolina through a driving rain
without any covering to protect the
fruit from the water, a local dealer
reported, lowering the price of the fruit
to the amount of approximately $3.50.
The berries were so plentiful and
cheap that certain retailers sold them
at retail as low as Is cents for two
boxes, some of the best stock retailing
as high as 20 cents quart box. Deal
ers say the berries this week were about
as cheap as they probably will be at any
time during the season.
Blackberrics also reached the local
market this week. being in splendid
and finding ready sale. First
of the fruit readily sold at 80 cents
quart box, prices dropping Letter in the
week. Today's prices depended entirely
upon condition of the fruit.
Other Fruit Receipts.
Oranges and grapefruit are being re-
ceived in moderate quantities, Florida
oranges being of particularly fine quail
ity and large size. Prices ranged from
$50 to S4.25 a box. Grapefruit sold at
So and $3.50 a box
Heavy receipts of bananas, quoted at
$500 per 100 pounds, this week met
dull market. Some of the fruit was
large and of first quality, and retailers
sold them all the way from 10 to 40
cents a dozen. Honeydews, pineapples,
grapes, alligator pears, apples and pears
were among the other fruits dealers had
TO offer the retail trade.
There has been no scarcity of COM
noditieS in the vegetable market this
week, vegetables of all varieties having
been received in fairly large quantities
from nearby and distant places. Be-
cause OF the lateneSS of the season and
heavy demands from various parts of
The country, Florida potatoes are not
so plentiful, and higher prices have
ruled the past few days. This morning
The best stock brought So barrel.
1t is expected that the first Georgia
DOGdJOSS OF the season VIII appear IN
Ihe local market the coming week. Re
ceipts soon will become heavier. ac-
cording to calculations of local dealers.
and prices probably will decrease Old
crop potatoes were not. so plentiful this
dealers reported, and they
we're offered on the country line at rs
cents and 81 bushel
Lima beans, string and stringleSs
beans and peas have been more plenti-
full and cheaper this week, Florida and
South Carolina growers furnishing most
Of the vegetables, California and other
States sending fairly liberal quantities.
Liberal supplies of cucumbers received
this week, chiefly from Florida, re-
suited in lower prices, selling around So
and $3.50 hamper
increased supplies of caulihower this
week met a light demand and steady
market, California stock, pony crates,
selling at from 50 to $3.50 Eggplant
receipts, California stock, have been
light the past few days. meeting
light demand and steady market They
sold from So to 81 a crate.
Egg Prices Higher.
Dealers had some choice tomatoes to
offer the retail trade this week. some
originals and some repacks, all Florida
stock. Prices ranged from $3.50 to SIS.
Liberal supplies of green corn from
Texas did not meet heavy demand,