New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-23
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CHANGES IN THE MARKETS.


INCREASE IN THE PRICE OF WINTER yEGETABLEs-
HOW TO TEST ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF GAME
SATURDAYS PRICES IN THE MARKETS.
The vegetable markets look az though the spring
were near, but to the forlorn customer who has
battled through mud and slush and rivers OF water
to get to them the sight Of spring vegetables seems
something like irony. Spring. indeed, amid such
weather In the middle of January seems Like the
| promised land-a long way off
Crisp heads of lettuce suggest delicious salads,
and sold at 10 cents lie beside delicately tinted
rhubarb. tied in it must be confessed, rather small
punches, at 10 cents per bunch. Rhubarb is the
newest thing in the market. Exceedingly nice Gu
cumbers are sold at 80 cents apiece Cucumbers are
always desirable addition to salad for the flavor
they mpart but from the hygienic point of view,
the consumer is probably better of without them
great many persons who really like salads find 1t
necessary to their health to abandon this dainty
course at dinner. Such persons will DO greatly ln-
debted to Mr.. Murray the caterer, for his sugges-
ton Of the Of chicken pepsin in mayonnaise
dressing. Fresh tomatoes sold in the markets
at 80 cents per quart Mushrooms, fresh, 81 per
pound.
These field mushrooms are much more delicate
than those bought in Many persons. however,
afraid to risk eating them because of the poison
GUS fungi which they 80 closely resemble. Such
given by "a Constant Reader" writing to The
London Times. who says: Il venture to send you
simple test of the mushroom, which have practised
for many years, and for which am indebted to an
old herbalist. Before peelng the mushroom pass
gold ring backwards and forwards on the skin;
should the bruse thus caused turn yellow or orange
gold the mushroom is poisonous, but otherwise it is
quito SAFE" Brussels sprouts are 20 cents per
quart; spinach. 60 cents per peck. As the winter
advances the value of vegetables and winter apples
increases. Potatoes sold two weeks ago at 20 and
80 cents per peck, now selling for 80 and even
40 cents, cent csbbages now sold Mt 10 and 10
cents; sweet potatoes 30 cents per peck onions
go cents; white onions. 70 cents per peck turnps
20 cents; bees. 20 cents oyster plant, 10 and -
cents per bunch; celery 10 cents c:anberries, IL
Basket eggs are 90 cents per dozen; common
lined eggs 80 and 35 cents per dozen fresh eggs
from the West are sold at 40 and 42> cents per
dozen.
Game is becoming scarce and prices are higher.
Yenison is out of market. Grouse is selling from
partridge 81 25 per pair; fine rabhits per pair 40
cents: hares. from 40 to 30 cents; caDvas-back
ducks, from So 20 70 So rs per par; redheads
from 81 to 81 80; mallards. from 80 cents to 81
per pair; teal duck. rs cents common duck, from
80 to Go cents squirrels. per pair Is to 70 cents
pigeons, So per dozen; squads, from $3 80 to 81
wild turkey selling at 10 aud 20 cents per pound
Capons from New-Jersey are fine and plentiful at
25 cents per pound Philadelphia dry picked 70
cents per pound common chickens, from 10 to 10
cents per pound ducks from Is to IS cents por
pound turkeys from IL to Is cents.
There is q very fair fish market. though by no
means full supply. Sea bass is scarce, selling at
20 per pound fresh striped bass IS cents per
pound frozen bass from the north Is and 20
cents green smells from Maine 10 cents per pound
common small fish sold for smells are 10 and II
cents per pound bluetish. refrigerated, ~ cents;
salmon from 30 to 10 cents per pound according to
the cut shad, refrigerated, 30 cents, shad from the
South 80 cents per pound; white perch 10 cents
Spanish mackerel 35 cents per pound; green turtle,
scarce 20 cents; terrapins from $l2 to $38 per
dozen frost-iish 10 cents per pound; hallbut 90
cents; haddock cents per pound; Goldfish cents;
blackfsh 10 cents founders 10 ceuts; ees 20
cents: HOLSTERS 10 cents per pound; shcep'shead
from 40 cents to 81 per hundred. The fresh water
fish in market are pickercl at Is cents per pound;
whitefsh 10 ccnts salmon trout 1G cents black |
bass 18 cents; red-snappers Is cents; hard crabs
So per hundred. Smoked herring are zig cents |
apiece, smoked paddock 12l2 cents; smoked |
salmon 90 cents per pound; dry cod cents. The |
prices Of beef aud other meats in market have |
undergone no change since the last quotations.
Provisions generally sell ut last weeks prices. The
for canned fruits and vegetables have dropped
q tritie. The two pound cans OF marrow-fat peas
sell ut 20 cents per by the Wholesale extra fine
are % cents apiece succOtash 20 cents tomatoes,
In three pound cans, 10 and II cents; best green
Is selling at aud cents; Bartlett 80
cents per can; strawberries, in twO-p0und cans, 20
cents per can; white cherries 10 cents fine egg
plums 20 cents; extra tine peaches three pound
cans, 20 cents. Huckleberries are canned with
great success. and make the most delicious pres.
These are selling at wholesale for Is aud IL cents
per can.
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