New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-13
PRICES IN THE MARKETS.
LEMON sALE-RUDDY DUcKs-NEw VEGETABLES
MEATS

LEMON sALE-RUDDY DCCRs-NEw VEGETABLES
MEATS.
The varieties Of fish to he had now are many. ono
kind especially which has attracted attention is the
lemon SOLE a new thing for Fulton Market, thonen
1t has long been counted among the choicest OF hsu
caught I'm English waters. They are fat hsh, re-
sembling founder. though larger, weighing some
times as high rs five pounds and averaging thce
mounds fishing vessel brought 900 pounds 10
Futon Market this week. consigned to f. q. BACK
ford They rapidly disappeared, being sold 10 hotels
eli the way from Albany to Washington AS there IS
only this one vessel engaged In catching them, the
supply Is far from being equal to the demand. Ex'
pers pronounce the lemon sole far superior % me
aounder being tendcrer sweeter and less bony, and
being useful in making fets from The vessel that
catches them carries the English device known as the
beam trawl Like all Hat fish, the sole burrows IN
the sand at the bottom Of the sea- with It's nose SUCK
ing out As the beam tr,Wl is dragged over te
bottom the fish rises and is caught In the net They
retail at 10 cents pound.
Among the fresh fish, large bass costs 30 cents.
medium 40 cents and pan size 20 to % cents pound
large bluefsh are cents market cod cod steaks
IL IL TO IA and live cod cents, dressed GELS, 10
cents founders 10 cents fukes. l. IL cents; fresh
mackcrel 30 cents; paddock cents Fnnan haddie or
imported haddOck, - cents; chicken hahbut 10 ana
large hallbut 16 to Is cents southern kihgns' ~
cents large live Holsters IA and small ones 10 cents
IS cents and red snapper, IL IL to Is cents. CUTS
of Kennebec salmon sell for 80 cents pound, and
whole fish for 30 cents; Southern spanish mackcTci
are 90 cents; spot bass are II IL cents southern
sheepshead. Is cents; green smelts, 10 cents ana
large smet 20 to % cents large sea bass, 10 cehts
Southern shad 70 cents and bucks 40 cents skas
or rayfsh, 10 cents frozen salmon trout, Is cents
tOmcods, 10 cents; weakhsh, Ia cents, ana WHO
perch 10 and Is cents
Among the sundries IA the ish market may be men,
toned cod tongues at 30 cents pound crab meat al
40 cents, crawfsh at s. hundred, hard CRABS ~
hundred oyster crabs 81 so quart prawns 40 to %
cents quart according to SIZE shad roe W cents
paig and green turtle % cents pound.
IL is said that the call for dlamondbac terrapn
has been unprecedented this winter. The hest ones
called commercially counts and short counts come
from the Chesapeake Bay and Long Island, where they
are dug out of the mud In which they have gone 10
hibernate. These counts bring S4o dozen, ana short
counts S24 Large numbers OF these damond-back
terrapin are shipped North from the terapin farms
on the Gulf where they do not hibernate, but are
kept through the winter In artifclaly constructed
crawls and fed on fish. These fetch 81 80 each IN
Fulton Market. south Carolina counts cost ga
Dozen and short counts Sl5 AT one time this winter
the price OF the high class backs touched %"
Game dealers express surprise at the high place
that rudy ducks have taken IN ae popn , i ,sr
years have they so be looked upon as valuahle.
To the late August Belmont and the knicberbocker
Club. it is said Is due the credit OF bringing them into
popular notice. They are beautiful birds, back on
feathers Of gray touched with the reddish line which
gives them their name. This reddish tinge Is much
n In the feed PP hse rnddy the ducks @
also be found. Their mesh is sweet 10 the taste and
They fetch 81 so and 81 IS pair in Fulton Market
dollhouse Strawberries fetch - box. or about 30
hohoase 9 are wo 50
Mushrooms cost ~ pound