New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-31
PRICES IN The MARRETS.
FOOD SUPPLIES SOMEWHAT DEARER ALL AROUND
BUTTER AND EGGS

BUTTER AND EGGS
With the approach Of the holidays and the return Of
people 20 the city, the business Of the marketmen
continues to increase and each week sees also a
little added to the cost Of what housewives have 10
buy This is transition time twiXt summer and
winter In the fish, the vegetable and the game Market
Each week sees sumner food disappear ahc
winter stock take It's place, while cent is tackled on
by the marketmen with every change Of their supplies
This is true also OF the butter and egg trade, where
the difference really is felt more sharply by mouse
Keepers then in any other thing The best creamery
butter is selling for SO cents pound Far taoe
butter can be had for 30 and 33 cents pound, while
cooking butter .ells for 20 and % cents NeW-ald
Long Island eggs cost 81 and 80 cents Dozen fresh
state eggs p and 80 csrts and Western lined eggs
oo TO % cents There IS reason TO believe that eggs
Will be dearer yet. Domestic cream cheese Is IA
cents pound, and swiss cheese, made IN America
20 cents pound and made in switzerland, 80 GEMS
some fresh wild mushrooms were still to be found
in Fulton Market this week, coming from NewJersey'
They sold for 10 cents quart. Mushrooms grown III
dark cellars cost 81 a pound.
delaware sweet potatoes can be had for 80 cents
neck. green corn is almost OFT Of season, but Is stu
to be found at a few places, selling aJ 81 cents d
dozen ears. 1t is tough and woody, however 'nVH
io.lu celery sells cents for twelve roots Rochester
celery at so cents oyster plant, fresh ana sea'Ouo'e
costs 10 cents bunch Southern green peas, 80 cents
nr,its IS cents quart NcwOrleans okra OF
,nubo. 80 cents a hundred; parsnips, 20 cents a
dozen caulfowers 10 to 20 cents each Boston mar
row souasbe, Is cents each; spanish onions, to
csnts each. and white onions, Is cents quart rel
and green peppers for picking, cents each ho'ousc
cucumbers 10 cents each; Early Rose potatoes, r
barrel common white turnps, - cents hau peek
raet uuu,pkins 80 cents each and cheese pumpkins
N 20 a5 cents: Jerusalem articlokes, 10 cehts i
nuart. Lima beans. % cents haI-Pe0A'
paspbcrres appeared at tn fancy fruit stores this
vveel, and sold readily at 20 cents cup
ColuD.biu River salmon can be had cheapy A'V'
,,,hoIe fsh cost IS and 20 cents pound and 4iddi
ont sr,l.s % cents spanish mackcreI OF the native
variety that is, hose caught oil Long Island 500 1is
el, for = cents pound southern Spanish macAere
could be had for % cents pound Large res
r,acxerel from Cape Cod are worth 30 cents eic"-
smaller rackerel are IS cents and thinkers cents
,,n,oro costs IS cents pound Duttchish' 10 cents
,reakdsh y IL cents; White perch, 10 and 10 GEMS
el, d. cents red snapper Is cents sea bass IL u
90 l. cent. salmon trout 16 cents, and frsh whlte-
fsb "a cents . pound. The staple i0odhsh coo sells
for cent, pofad for the Whole hsh, and 10 cents i'f
steaks Crab meat is worth 40 cents pound oJst-r
.,ab. ~ a quart; frog leg 90 cents pound, and
,callops 40 cents a quart
Among the odd things to be found IN marSe' L
German honey cake at % cents Il pound.
TN. fall abundance Of mt, = see" Dci1f, al the
sr,,it stores Hazel nut sell . ~ G. ' q po4l
and foreign nlbcrts for - u.s. nc almonds eos -
ems a pound hickory sheilbarAa, j cents
Quart: French chestnuts, - cents pound and
American ches.nuts 10 cents quart Isnglls1 wal
nuts Il cents pound
New Jamaica oranges selling for 10 and - cents
dozen sorrento orang ,, "a 80 10 IS box, tldrlda
40 ceuts a dozen. New prunes from Cd-4iofna cost
- and . cents pound CataWba grapes are worm -
rts a five pound basket Concogds, 30 cents baSh-t
and DeIawarcs, 40 ceato spanish Malaga grapes coll
Or 10 and Is cents pound California sHnces oct
- - bafbusEel BASKET Alligator pears al NOith -
-. act Fine California tccslOne P-t-hca dit ~
- al CENTS a dozen. some Mary lAud y aches so.d
sIis week Tor 81 basket, but a. may 1t sdI-7ei
Iev are OF Inferior quality. some state petch we're
- I'D IN, week Tor a. q basket. ms hlc!tt ? ;F
r~a and yellow lis f0r - cents h3Ihushcl basket
80. parfletts and seckel, are 10 cent quart
litttntasn. may be had at 90 and - cents dozen
r.osras for - and 20 cents dozen. Apples bF the
D. Az. arge from al 30 u 80 Good cooking apples
can he mad for 81 - banel while spies and Apiz
L ergen- cost r. a9d -. -,
fLiafciphlt Will sgusb- sell for g IS dozen dark
h-.,.tsd .elab, fo- s. 80 Nerison costs - cents
D,r1d q Low legged suipe from >Cuth Carolina
inar.hes 70 50 q dozen, tame pigeons - dozen,
l-ip chickens and grouse IS cents each, nnTtgldges
o cents each w1otc0cd 81 30 pair. English s0pe,
IN 20 a dozen AID gold plOyor the same black
ind. 90 cents DOZEN ranvasbdck ducks, 80 par
malarIs, - 90 pair; bme-wlng teal Il a pair and
/ rant III - pair.
outs Of meat are somewhat dearer than they were