Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-28
FRUIT PLENTY AND CHEAP
The Market OverstocKed With Berries and
Prices Very Low.

The Market OverstocKed with berries and
Prices Very Low.
From the New York Times.
IL has been several years since fruit sold at
so low prices as last week. The market was
completely overstocked with fruit of fair
quality, although there was but very linn
ited supply of really fine stock. The rasp-
berry growers were sadly disappointed by
the results of last week, rs this fruit had sold
during the earlier part OF the season at very
profitable prices, and they anticipated little
orno change from previous prices. But no
people are more easily satisfied at rasp-
berry feast than New Workers, and the sea
son lasted too long and they became surfeited.
Thousands of cups of good raspberries of all
the varieties from Antwerps to Natives were
sold to licensed vendors, jam and syrup
makers, or to whomsoever would buy at a
cent per cup, or cents per quart and in
many cases for even less price. Thousands
of quarts were thrown away. Anticipating
smaller crop and shorter season than usual,
nearly every one engaged in preserving can
ming, or making syrup bought their supply
before last week, and no one wanted any
and only bought because they were so very
cheap.
Blackberries were cheap, and thousands of
quarts of perfectly sound berries were whole
sailed on each day of last week Tor as low as 4
cents per quart, and very few could be sold
at above cents per quart There were large
shipments of these berries from Delaware,
Maryland, and New Jersey during all of last
week, and they all arrived in good condi-
ton, but the dry weather has caused them to
be small and present dried appearance, and
there were very few really nice blackbe
to be had. There will be good many rasp-
berries here this week, and it is not likely
that any will be wholesaled at over cents
per cup, and only very fine ones at that,
while the greater portion will be wholesaled
al about cents per cup. 1he blackberrles
that will be here this week will mostly come
from Monmouth county, n. j., and 1t is eX
pected that they will be of better quality
than any that have been here far this
season. There will, however, be quite a
good many from Upper Delaware and Vine
land and Hammonton, n. j. The Delaware
berries will be of fair quality, but the Vine
land and IIammonton berries will be very
small and shriveled, aud good berries can be
had all this week at from to cents per
quart.
Currants have been scarcer this season than
i'm five years, and have been sold at much
higher prices. Especially has this been the
case with the small currants, such As are gen
orally used for making jelly. The currants
are very ripe now, and those housekeepers
who intend making their own supply of Jelly
should not defer in getting them, as they are
fast being picked, and after this week it is
doubted If any can be obtained. They have
been wholesaled all the season at about
cents per pound, and will he wholesaled at
about that figure this week.
There will be some very nice Hale's Early
peaches here this week. There are few
growers in Delaware and Maryland who
know how to cultivate this variety, aud
where properly reared and all theconditions
are suitable to ripen them they sometimes
mature perfectly, and then they are a very
nice peach. This season has been most favor
able so far, hence some fines ones are eN-
pected. Toward the last of the week there
may be few Troth's Early from Lower
Maryland, and by the first of next week the
regular Peninsula peach trains will COM
mence to run. That portion of the Peninsula
where peaches are the most abundant this
season is the lower counties. Consequently
the early peaches will be as cheap as any to
be had this season. Peaches will be sold
during the first two weeks in August at mod
erately low prices but in the latter part of
August and the first week of September they
will he scarce and hign.
The outlook for fruit this week is favorable
for consumers. There will be an abundance,
and ripe pears peaches and apples will be
cheap, while raspberries and blackberries
will be within the reach of almost every one.