New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-05
PRICES IN THE MARKETS.
FEWER PEACHES ARRIvING-oYsTERs IN GREAT
DEMAND-GAME IN SEASON.

DEMAND-GAME IN SEASON.
The arrivals of peaches in this city this week have
fallen away below the figures for last week. Ihen
over $50 cars day being received and the fut
was not only glut in the market but made every
else in the fruit and vegetable lines cheap and there
was no profit in the business either for the growers
or the receivers in this city, Now the daily arrivals
are under fifty cars day at Jersey City, and while
the fruit is stl remarkably cheap yet the prices OBJ
tanned higher. OF the daily arrivals about twenty
cars are from Delaware, showing Enthusiastically that
the orchards of the Peninsula about exhausted for
this seasor SmOcRs coming in, but the quality
of the fruit is poor and it sells at wholesale for only
80 and 40 cents basket while the grOcerymcn retail
them at so and GO cents. The rain this week was
bad for the fruit much Of it is specklcd and dam
aged. The choicest variety 10 be found are the Craw
fords which fetch from IS cents TO 81 so basket
wholesale, and from 81 to s. at retail There is a
good demand for all the yellow fruit. Rareripes arc
worth from so cents 10 ~ basket at retail. The
best fruit is coming in from New-Jersey.
All other fruit sympathzes with the peach trade
and the slight revival shown in the latter has its
fecion in the prices Of apples pears, prunes and
grapes. All of these somewhat dearer than last
week. All varieties of red apples sell well at the
fruit stores and groceries, but more especially the
Gravensteins, which bring the top price, So 80 to
$50 so a barrel Bartlett pears are worth 81 and SO
a barrel and 40 and so cents halfbushel basket.
Green gage plums cost from % TO 80 cents for ten
pound basket and the German pTune plums from so TO
75 cents Concord grapes worth from TO cents
pound and Deawares and Niagaras from TO IL
cents.
Poultry and game dealers are rejoicing that the
summer stagnatOn is giving place to life in their
business both TO the cooler weather that ushers in
the fall months and the expiration Of the law against
the sale of partridgeS vOOdcOck grouse and venisOn
All Of these tempting birds can now be found In
ket Partridge cost 81 80, wOOdcock So and chicken
grouse 81 70 pair. In Fulton Market 80 cents a
pound is asked for vensOn lons and 25 cents for
legs English snipe can be had for 81 a dozen,
golden plover for $50 so dozen, pigeons SO so a
dOzer squads "a dozen, and reedblrds 81 80 Dozen
Frozen doebirds from storage warehouses cost SO q
Dozen Sweetbreads, which are as much a part Of
the stock in trade Of city dealer In game and poultry
as Of a butcher, sell for 81 so to SO a dozen.
Vermont mutton turkeys selling for % cents
pound. Fowls cost IS cents, and ducklings % cents
a pound. state spring chickens, plump and tender
sell 25 cents pound, while Philadelphia roasting
chickens cost 80 cents pound.
All the city dealers in oysters report a tremendous
demand for their supplies In fact the Oystemen
not been able to furnish them fast as needed
1t is a satisfaction TO know that under these crcum
stances the dealers have not seen fit to put up the
price but sell their stock the former fg1lres Mr.
Blackford, In Fulton Market reports that Compo mill
ponds sell for 81 In the she'll 81 so and 90 opened
hundred according to SIZE bluepoints cost 60 cents
hundred in the shell, ana 40 cents opened saddle
rocks, So 80 in the shell, aud % opened Oysters
and clans are usually associated in the public mind
When the price of one is UP the price Of the other is
down. Large hard clans Ia the she'll can be had now
for rs cents hundred when opened they cost so
cents Little Neck clans sell for 80 cents q hundred
In the shells, and 90 cents opened
The stormy weather Of the early part OF the week
cut on the supplies Of fish, for the fishermen could
not 20 to sea. Consequently there was a rise all
around for all kinds Of lsh. Market cod yesterday
cost cents pound cod steaks sold for 1s IL cents
White habut was worth 10 cents a pound haddocl
7 cents large striped bass sold fOr 80 cents "a pound
and medium sizes 90 cents; dressed cells cost
Is cents live HOLSTERS, Ii cents: fresh
caught salmon 40 cents; founders, 1919 cents
fresh macerei % cents spanish mackerel from Long
10 cents weakhsh, II - cents sheepshead IS cents
pOFges, 10 cents; white perch II = cents. smelts
% cents red snapper, Is cents bass, ~ - cents
bluesh, cents southern black bass, IL cents; fresh
caught salmon trout, Is cents, and green turtle, Ia
cents Frogs legs are worth 80 cents pound. soft
crabs from Cisned, Maryland. where nearly all the
soft crabs consumed In this country from, are
worth 81 20 "A dozen. Snit and smoked mackerel can
be had for % cents pound, smoked salmon for ~
cents and blOateFs for cents each
some striking changes are IN progress among the
business men I'm Fulton Market. Among them may
De noted the retirement of the Old nrm OF \. a =.
DOrOn who have kept an oyster establishment ~ the
market for nearly half a century Eugene G.. Black
ford who has likewise been fish merchant In Fulton
Market for almost equal period, VIII occupy the
larger space In the building vacated by the DOTOns.
whom he has bought out IN addition to tho space now
Field mushrooms. gathered from old pasture lands
Long Island and New Jersey, selling In Fulton
Market for % and IS cents hound.