New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-12
PRICES AND NOTES IN THE MARKETS.
CHASING DAYS OF THE PEACH sEAsoN-PouITKY'
GAME AND FISH


mi. ,,, % roachos from Delaware is practically
or but about forty carloads reach Jersey Ci1y uaiS
- ,ro o,chards In New,Jersey and from the cehVrai
ut ~ This state There Is o marked change III INC
looks of the fruit also. At tile period Wneh 'o SUI
80 to,ie,,Ia peacles was the greatest, the hplt was
msclous large ovcrripe, green and nlucll Vi " ~ o."
s+oges Of decay This was due TO the heSVy Ansu'U
rains and the necessity Of hurrying the run 10
.tbout proper preparation. But the fruit DrougV III
- 4, s1nolcr firmer not so muddy looking and there
arc few baskets that are spoiled by having any specfeo
er,,+ in them The supply Of fruit this season mas
been unprecedentedly large and even as IdVo 10 P
toher 10 seems 20 be for canning peaches tIst ue
ucions frut is still cheap that hOuseheepore "'O
arried long In the country still do their preserving
without mourning much greater expense ulah Is III
| curred I'm August. Rarerpes the prnclpal run
coon IN market for preserves. They sell from % 10
~ cents a basket Late Crawfords can be had LOT
a and So q basket. Plums are also TO De louhu
I'm great quantity, and green Cages sell at eiHl o'
80 cents hve-pound basket. Apples and pears arc
so abundant that the farmers gather them with SINKING
! hearts knowing that the prices they VIII se' wiz
! scarcely pay for their trouble. ~
ain canning fruit" an expert housekeeper says IL
is wise TO use a great deal of sugar, and as
sugar is 80 cheap this year everybody can
have it, Plain canned fruit Is apt 10
turn aud does not retain It's flavor as well as "hen
made a little rich If our housekeepers would take
rs much pains in making preserves as the Frehch
do they would find themselves amply rewarded when
in the winter they turn out the clear beautiful
fruit always in perfect shape. To preserve fruit In
tho French method IL is necessary TO make a clear
svr1,n first which can be done by melting two pounds
of the best sugar with a pint Of water using WHO
porceain kettle; add the slightly beaten white Oh
one egg before the syrup becomes hot let IL DOLL ana
skim it until the ceases TO appear. Then put
in carefully selected fruit peaches pears, green
fatU al a
fully that they do not break and removing them
| carefully MISC one at a time, soon as they become
soft When these are put in glass Jars and the syrup
poured over the result will gladden. the heart oi tho
stOlidcst Of cooks
The best creamery butter is 80 cents pound in
the downtown markets. 1t cannot be had uptown.
however for less than 81 and 50 cents. Eggs cost
% and 25 cents a dozen.
! Poultry and game in markets run as follows: Coed
chickens cost 20 and - cents pound; choice Plla-
delnba dry plcked chickens "a cents fowls sell for
~ cents downtown and IS and 20 cents uptown
turkeys 20 and % cents; squads, "a dozen grouse.
~ rs and 81 so pair; woOdcoch 81 and II 49, anu
partridges - 80 pair; mallard ducks cost al 20 d
par, and teal IL.
owing to the cool weather. the demand for oysters Oh
Tho mart of the public does not slacken The dedgeri
are scarcely able 10 fill all the requirements, but as
vet there has been rise In the price. Blnepohts
cost 70 cents hundred, opened Rockaways cuttings
IS cents and Rockaway boxes ~ %, while sadueroeAs
| sell for 81 so There is large supply Of striped bass
In market, caught on Guilty hunh, that famous Me-"
| England fishing ground. They sell for 30 cents
mound. Smells are worth 80 cents pound, bluehsl
~ cents salmon 80 10 40 cents, mackerel 10 cents
veakfsh IL cents white perch 10 cents, spanish mack
erel natlves 80 cents, green turtle Is cents, halbu
Is cents haddocI Z cents, kngish 40 cents, goldfish
cents blacknsh II II cents, Founders 10 cents sea
bass IL IL cents eels cents, Holsters il l2 cents
salmon trout 10 cents, black bass 20 cents, red snap
per 20 cents pOnpano 30 cents and dy cod 10 cents
ScalOps are worth 80 cents a quart soft clans OC
cents 70 hundred prawns 30 cents quart, hard crabs
3 cents each and soft crabs 81 % dozen.
fHrs of corn cost - cents dozen, celery 10 ana IL
cents q bunch tomatoes 90 cents a crate or cents
quart cauinowcr IS cents head, spanish onions 10
cents q pound, lettuce cents head or 20 cents q
Dozen radlshes II cents dozen punches, potatoes
II 20 and " barrel.
There Is great quantity OF grapes % be had now
and they are extremely cheap. GOOD COne'iius aIt
3 and cents a pound. ana extra ones ana cents
fine Delawnrcs are 10 II cents. hVe.p0nnl basket
Of crab apples costs so cents Choice Bartlett pears
! are 10 cents quart. or 10 cents 10 81 basket.