Evening journal., 1894-12-18
THE CHRISTMAS FEAST
Preparations for a Busy Week
in the Markets.
PRODUCE Is MUCH CHEAPER

w holtsaie and Retail Quotations OF the
Fowl, Fruits and Vegetables to Aid In
Making Glad the Yule-tide- oth0r
Points Of Interest in Busy Portions OF
the City.
This week will be the harvest Of the
produce dealers and they expect to
flourish during the coming fortnight.
The holiday rush began In dead earnest
this morning, but as tomorrow Is the
regular mid-week market day, the
country people and commission mer.
chants are getting buster every hour OF
daylight.
Everybody is anxious 20 get In at the
FIRST of the feast and this causes more
jostling on the sidewalks OF King aud
Madison streets and in the city market
houses.
Since Clerk OF the Market Feaster has
secured the support OF the Street and
Sewer Commissioners, 1t Is believed that
he can have no difficulty In making the
market people understand their position.
The commissioners have resolved that
mo person or persons or corporations
shall occupy or use for any purpose
whatsoever any sidewalk or street bed Of
any street or streets dedicated and set
apart for market purposes without first
obtaining law permission so to do from
the clerk OF the market"
Prices Are stin Lower.
Nearly everything is lower In price
than has been known during any Christ
mas market for many years. Turkeys,
however, can carry on business at the
same old stand, while there will be no
marked reduction In butter and eggs
while the cows and hens have 10 be
housed and tenderly fed on corn meal
and bran. Butter sells from 30 so 3Sc.
per pound; eggs aS to SOC. per dozen;
cottage cheese, 1Oc per quart; mush, DC.
per pound
The Prioes of Best Poultry.
On the subject of poultry 1t win be Of
interest for farmers and dealers TO know
the prevailing wholesale prices. Here
they are, corrected by one OF the best
known esmmission merchants In the
state:
Chickens, alive, 8 cents; dressed, o to
10 cents. Turkeys, alive, to 10 cents I;
dressed, 10 to 18 cents. Ducks, alive, s
cents; dressed, 10 to II cents. Geese,
alive, 5 cents; dressed, 10 to 10 cents.
This is for poultry raised in Delaware and
Maryland.
Now for the retail prices. Here they
are: Chickens, 10 to los. per pound !;
ducks, 14c per pound; turkeys, ito loo.
per pouDd guineas, 13c. per pound I;
squads, 85c. per pair geese, 12c. per
pound.
A King street game dealer also gives
the blowing quotations: Quail, (Sussex
county, 81 to 81 so a dozen; rabbits. 90
to coo. a pair; prairie chickens, rs TO 81 a
pair.
The Christmas supper Table
sdornneuts, which are ususlly foreign
and domestic fruits, crowd the market
this year. There is plenty Of nns fruit
In TIE markets and II is cheap.
First comes the wholesale prices. East
ern apples sell at lively rate for 90 TO
SO barrel; oranges, 81 to 81 30 box /;
lemons, (MsssinAs, only) &3 to SO 80 q
cratsi bananas, 81 to 81 90 bunch of
about 1907; ersnberries, $3 20 to 50 30 3
crate, e12 TO elS barrel.
Az retail, citrons, for the English plum
pudding, sell for 10 cents apiece; lemons,
10 to 25e. per dozen; coeoanuts. Sc.
apiece; bananas, 12 TO loo per dozen /;
canned fruit. zoe. per quart; oranges, 20
10 QUO. per ooleni apples, 10 10 quo. per
half psck grapes, 25o. per basket; pine
apples, 16 10 25e. apiece; cranbsrrlss, 1Sc.
per quart; two quarts for 300.
| Vegetables, ts make Out the Dinner.
Wholesale prices on. vegetable prod
uots are surprising. White potatoes
are now down 10 so and 05 cents bushsl I;
onions, 50 TO 81 20; sweet potatoes,
| 81 80 to So 90 barrel.
At retail, white potatoes bring 10 cents
q half peck parsnips, 10 cents dozen I;
soup herbs, 2 cents per bunch bests, 8
90 cents q half peck; sweet
potatoes, 10 TO 90 cents: celery, 8 cents
a stalk; lima beans, 12 cents quart
turnips, 10 cents a half peck; pie
pumpkins. s to 10 cents; oyster plant, 10
cents q bunch; lettuce, cents head,