Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-22
AUGUSTA MARKET.
The Surprising Rise in the Price Of
Olives.
The Condition Of Various Commodities in Wat.
er Street Stores.

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learn to eat olives. 1t is frequently re-
marked that a person never likes olives
| at the first trial of them. but has to
| learn to like them. This is refuted by
many yet with others il is agreed to-
Just at present though. there is some
thing that would keep many from lik-
ing them. That is the price. The plain
| little olive that cost 50 cents quart
less than d year ago. has now been add
vanced so that As cents is charged and
the dealer makes less on them than be-
fore at that price. They are nice and
they are medicinal. so some say. but
/ they will do less good now that the
price has advanced so.
The reason for this change is the CON
ditlon of the olive crop. The Spanish
crop is very small and has been hard
to obtain. At the same time the Cali
| fornia crop is not large enough to sup
ply the demand. The California goods
are rot equal to those of our Spanish
earth. SO it is said, produces olives
equal to those of Spain. They also
know how to cure them better than We
| Americans do. a dainty thing in olives
is the Pimoia which is an olive with the
stones removed. the space being filed
with fiery mixture,
al, Jias l1c ol, ,,,ipr
have gone from 10 to l. cents at retail.
SQUASH is another commodity that has
taken a jump and though all other
vegetables are plenty and cheap. it isl
breaking the general rule.
| Then there are the apples, that fruit
we all love So we'll. They have takea
IN upward shoot within a few weeks
aud NOW the good apples, what few
there are of them in the market. arc
selling for 40 cents a peck.
Eggs are climbing down that tail lad
der they climbed few weeks ago. Now
even the very freshest and brownest
can be bought at retail for IS cents a
dozen. Another article that is going
down until it seems as though the bot
| tom would drop out is butter of the
dairy variety. The farmers can secure
but u or IS cents for it. Creamery
butter though low. is of course higher
than the dairy.
There is green stuff in plenty on the
market. though some of it is there on
ly for the purpose of being looked at,
so it would seem. Spinach is 40 cents
a peck. Dandelion greens are still too
flighty to come to this section to do
any good to the human race, so the
dealers are letting it alone. Lettuce
will tickle the palate at the rate of Il
cents a head. Radishes those great in
somnia curers. are 10 cents bunch. |
Celery is looking on bitterly at % and
80 cents Il bunch. Tomatoes of the
round. rosy and ripe variety, are selling
at the rate of 80 cents a pound in small
quantities. Cucumbers will cause any
| amount of stomachache to the person !
/ fortunate enough to possess the cash
| 20 buy them at 20 cents each. all war
| ranted to be as fresh as it is possible
| to have them at this time of the year.
! Phubarb is as sour looking now at 10
| cents a pound, as it will be later at
one-tifth that price.
The fruit is OF The very best quality
specially the oranges; there being an
abundance of them at all prices from
| % cents up to so
The beef trust still has the beef we'll
| in hand and if they keep it there. they
| will win the gratitude of the farmers OF
| this state. though the meat dealers are
uttering strange remarks concerning
! their luck. This beef is no higher to
/ he consumer than ever. though the
retailer is having 10 pay more for it. II
continues as stiff as in the weeks past.
| Veal has made its appearance in the
market and the man of the family can
obtain any kind of q cut at any kind
of Il price he wishes to pay. If the
| farmer has II veal that he wishes to
dispose Of. he can get from to cents
4 pound by selling it To the Augusta
dealers Sheep Cor rather lamb is
bringing the same prices with no per
ceptihlc change The same is true of
pork
The poultry market is not very firm