Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-28
AUGUSTA MARKETS.
Beet Is Steadily Advancing in Whole
sale Price.
6u"er and Eggs Decreasing slowIy-Good
Eating Apples Scarce.

pearlng in the markets of Augusta
just now. though there will be MANY
before many days. Just at present the
prices on some of the Injuries are so
very nigh that even the Augusta
epicures would hesitate about going
DOWN into their pockets for them
| suppose l ought to have brought
nome some Strawberries with me-" re-
marked a returned market man to the
Journal, Tuesday, but / thought the
people would rather hesitate about
buying them"
| How much would they have cost a
poX: queried the Journal man. with
an idea of about 40 cents a box in
mind
Il think l can buy all l want for
about 60 cents box replied the
| grocer.
II anyone wants the grocers to do it
they can send and get all the cucum-
bers one wants for 80 cents apiece
The tomatoes that can be brought here
for 80 cents pound. can not be pur-
chased at that price in Boston, as those
we get here are raised in the local ho--
| houses.
"All who wish to buy spinach at it's
present price which is so cents a peck
will have to be doing so. for it is about
to rise remarked the grocer This is
also true of Boston celery which is 20
cents a bunch, and of lettuce, which is
10 cents u head
Do the people of Augusta know that
they are eating beef that is costing the
dealer 80 cents "a hundred more than it
has before? This is the case even
though the prices on the retail end Of
the trade have not been changed. The
farmers of the State are in luck VINO
have any beef to sell, as the outlook is
that it will go higher than ever before
| it drops again.
The lamb is no higher, though hog IS
a trifle stronger and lard is steadily
advancing in price.
There is d good amount of poultry in
the local markets, and it brings high
er price than in the Boston markets.
There the Western products glut the
market at times, and makes it low,
While up this way the prices stay up to
good figure. The best of chicken ana
turkeys are selling for Is and 20 cents.
cents peck. The good eating apples
are rather scarce and demand a good
price when found. The farmers have
shipped a greater part of their apples
to foreign markets, SO it is said, but
| the demand now is rather dull, and this
goes a long way toward making fruit
| well, this winter, rotting badly in the
cellars.
| Potatoes are working up somewhat
as the season advances, and the
chances look as though they would be
higher. They are about 10 cents a
peck. Sweet potatoes are not so plenty
! quently working up somewhat. Cab
bage. turnips. beets and carrots arc
worth two cents Il pound. and there
seems to be Il plenty of the vegetables
to be found. Squash also brings two
cents a pound; parsnips are three cents
pound. Onions are three cents
pound.
The scarcity of eggs seems to be
over, for the present, at least and the
retail price, is now only 80 cents
dozen They are coming in in good
numbers. While the cold storage egg is
used but little.
The supply of dairy butter is rather
| in excess OF the demand. The cream
cry butter is also less than formerly,
and some of the. very best of biscuit
lubricator can be bought for "A cents.
Flour always remains about the
same in the Augusta markets, as there
is always a slight difference in the
prices by the different merchants due
to the different patent brands they
carry. and often buy in lots so that
special prices can be offered. The fiouf
market is very firm and has tendency
in favor of the consumer.
The California Navel oranges are the
best that are in the market now at 70
| cents a dozen. JamaicaS bring the
same price. While the Nalencias are 10
be bought for 20 cents dozen. Tan
gerines are going out of the market
though limited number can be bought
when the merchant has them in stock
for p cents a dozen. The grape fruit
season is about half over. Lemons are
in good condition At 20 cents. Bananas
are plenty at 50 cents.
The prices on the grain and the other
articles OF that nature are given III an
other column. There seems to be d
tendency 50 the dealers say towards
triGe rise in the prices OF the grain