Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-25

| SO per cent to prevent serious loss
of gold to New York.
| More recently. the New York pulling
/ power on funds began TO affect Ger
stantially the same as prices quoted
yesterday.
! Today's Wholesale Prices-Jobbers'
Prices Slightly Higher.
Butter-One- pound prints, 44a45; tub
/ 43a44! store packed. 30a3l.
! Eggs-Hennery, 32a33: fresh selected
| 31a32; current receipts, 30a3l.
Poultry. alive-Turkeys. hens, 30a32
toms. 25a26; Spring chickens, small
roosters. 20; ducks, 20: keats young
60a6S; old, ISAAC. Dressed-Turkeys
ISAAC; Spring chickens, 50a55; Leg
| horns, 40a45: fowls. 3Sa40; Leg
| small, 45a47; ducks. 32a35; keats, a0a
| 100.
Meats. fresh kilIed-Beef 22a24: veal
23a26; lamb, 30a32: pork loins, 32a33
| fresh hams, 26a27: fresh shoulders
| 1920 smoked hams. 27a26; Smoked
shoulders. 17a1s; bacon. 20; lard, ir
! bulk, 1879: in package. 1877.
Live stock-Calves. IA; Spring lambs
Is.
MuI11ClpHl FISH mdIhSb lAilS WCCh
| proved especially attractive. Marine
weather made it possible for shippers
to get supplies here in splendid con-
dition. Use of smaller quantities of
ice enabled dealers to make their dis
plays much more attractive than dur
ing hot weather when fish have to be
covered with ice.
June 30 brings the shad and herring
season to a close, but dealers Ne
given several days in which to get
rid Of stock on hand. 1t is always re-
GREETED by dealers that the shad sea =
son has to come to close so early,
shad being a fish that always is in de-
mand during the season and a fish
that is easy to handle.
Not only is there demand for the
fish throughout the season. but the roe
of the fish also is in demand, the roe
selling at prices high enough to en-
able the dealers to dispose of the cut
fish at greatly reduced prices. Buck
shad, much smaller than the roes. are
much cheaper. Roe shad for the week
end trade sold around Is and 20 cents
pound, the bucks selling for IA and
Is cents.
Herring. not so plentiful earlier in
the season, were fairly plentiful and
cheaper tIllS week, O6dl0TS DQSTI1R lfleIIl
s1,25 and $3.50 per 100. Big seines
operating along the lower Potomac
chiefly for the catching of shad and
herring soon will be taken from the
river and put aside until next season.
Other Fish Prices
Potomac meters did not make espe-
cially big hauls of rockfish this week.
dealers learned, and prices were not
cheap. They were quoted at 20 and
Is cents a pound the past few days,
some exceptionally fine specimens
bringing as much as 30 cents. Rock
fish, according to dealers. always prove
good seller, being in demand at all
times.
Salt water trout continued plentiful
throughout the week, dealers getting
them from the lower Potomac, vicinity
OF Norfolk, Va, and also from Wacha =
preague, east coast of Virginia, where
Washington sportsmen have enjoyed
such phenomenal luck this season
Prices, as to size ranged from to
Is cents.
Prom Exmore, also on the east coast
Of Virginia, dealers received quantities
of butterfish, a fish that always is in
demand. The fish received from Ex-
more this week. it Is stated, have been
of good size and in splendid condition
when received. They sold around IL
and IL cents pound for the Friday
| and week end trade.
Boston mackerel and seabass from
nets in the vicinity of Wildwood, N. j..
have been received by local dealers
this week in fairly large quantities and
| both are favorites with great many
customers. The mackerel for the week
end trade brought 1872 and Is cents
! the bass selling at 1872 cents a pound
! Cod. haddock and fllet of haddock were
received from Boston shippers, the
haddock selling at 8, the cod at and
! the filet Of haddock at II cents a
pound.
Much attention was attracted by the
| vast quantities of hard and soft crabs
received this week, coming from points
on the lower Potomac, Chesapeake Bay
and vicinity of Hampton and Norfolk
| Va. Soft crabs were so plentiful thai
they were offered as low as so cents
the large ones bringing as much as 81
Hard crabs brought Sc and 81 barrel
while crabmeat sold from so to Is
cents a pound.
Frogs, swapping turtles and HOLSTERS
we're among the delicacies offered by
dealers In marine products. Frogs from
nearby sold at $3.50 and SO dozen
the Jumbo frogs from Louisiana, chiefly
! lEOIIl CItS NlClIllIJ OIL NEW OIlCdILo, ocAl'
ing at 81 a dozen. Swapping turtles
alive, brought 10 and Is cents a pounc
and Holsters around so cents.
California cantaloupes, of the usua
good quality of the fruit from tina
State, appeared in the local marke
yesterday. The fruit came only If
small quantities, coming direct from
New York dealers to retailers, and founC
ready sale at comparatively high prices
Florida cantaloupes. not so good. accord
ing to merchants, are coming in large
quantities, the demand being slow q
$3.50 and $3.50 a crate.
Additional receipts of watermelon
from Florida we're among the offering
of fruit throughout the week and, &C
cording to dealers, the melons cut abou
as good as any ever received from tina
State. Prices ranged from 80 cent
for the smallest melons to around ST.
for the choicest ones. They have be
come so plentiful that huckster
started offering them for sale from
their wagons.
Receipts of Strawberries have no.
been so heavy the past two days. bu
receipts were heavy enough to NOR
than supply the demands. The berries
chiefly homegrown and from the East
ern Shore of Maryland, have been o.
exceptionally good quality this season
and dealers are sorry the season Soor
is to draw to close.