The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12
PRODUCE PRICES.
Sights in the Provis-
ion Dealers Estab-
lishments.
GOOD CROPS IN WORCESTER.
A List to Select Your
Sunday Dinner
From.
GOOD CROPS IN WORCESTER.

The time Is about ripe to tell the peo-
pie of Worcester what they have been
eating during the summer. That is.
what they have been eating as COM
pared with what they ate last summer
and the preceding summers. Incident
ally, it may be interesting to know
what the provision dealers made out
of the citizens appetites.
In general, crops have been pretty
good this summer. Vegetables especial
ly have been ambitious and have made
a record for themselves. Green corn
has been the staple, and the ears seem
to have been larger and fuller thar
usual. Green corn has been a com
plete success in the vicinity of Wor-
cester, and the prices have been rea-
sonable throughout the season. New
potatoes have also been plentiful,
though the demand is about over, so
most of the potatoes the dealers have
on hand are called old and are being
sold for old prices. Cucumbers nave
made hit for themselves in quality
ana quantity, and the price Of various
drug store specifics has gone up. Celery
and lettuce have both held their own
throughout all the trials of the sum
mer when the people who like these
vegetables have gone to the mountains
to feed on dock greens and bacon, and
pretend they are having a good time
Beans, string and shell, are still to
be had in good quantities, although the
variety known as wax" reminds one
more of rubber" when found on the
boarding house table. Egg plants and
other poultry have refCEeed in the cit
les until the hot weather is over and
the churches are unlocked for the fall
term.
In the fruit line, things have not
been so rosy. For an ardent swain to
compare his beloved ones cheek with
a peach this year, means more than
mere words. Peaches are scarce. APP
pies are not quite so much so, but there
is room for more, even to the small
boy who has just climbed over the or
chard wall into the road again. Pears
are coming in fairly well now and the
prices are reasonable.
In regard to foreign fruits, the pros
pect is little better. Sweet potatoes
are just beginning to come in from
the south, and the first shipment Of
pineapples has been received. Della
ware and Niagara grapes are begin
ming to make their appearance and are
OF the best quality.
Melons deserve a special paragraph.
The sale of all sorts of melons this
year has been larger than any sum-
mer before in the memory of the prod
uce dealers. Musk melons and cante-
loupes have been of the best quality
and have sold readily. The shipments
OF watermelons have exceeded those OF
past years by a large per cent, and the
quality and price has been perfectly
satisfactory throughout the season.
The supply of watermelons in the
south has exceeded the demand. and
hence the surplus melons have to be
sent north to keep from spelling.
The market continues quiet with
prices firm for choice butter. Creamery.
Northern choice, fresh. 1g1s@20c; good,
lse; western fresh, 19@191a; northern
dairy 17@171sc for best; lower grades,
l4Q16c; imitation creamery, 15@151c;
ladle packed, 1S1a@141S.
Cheese-Market is firm, with quiet
demand. Northern twins, new, 90 010c;
western twins, 9A@94c.
Eggs-Market is quiet, with the tone
steady. Hennery, choice, zee; eastern.
1901; western 14@15. Jobbing prices
1@2c higher.
Beans-Market is quiet, with prices
steady. Pea, small, N Y, per blu.
$1.50@1,55 marrow, $1.30@1.S5; medium
N. Y. and VT, $1.3OQ135; yellow eyes.
$l40@1.50; red kidney, s1.T0@1S5; Lima
dried, per ID, 41Ac.
Potatoes-Prices are quoted steady,
with new native, per Dbl. extra, $500
LEO; Bristol Ferrys, $1.50Q165.
Truek-Market continues steady with
a quiet trade.
Cabbage new, each, 5@6c
onions-Egypt, per bag, $1.75@2; do.
native, per bu., 75@S0c.
Squash-Marrow, per bbl.,. 81.
New turnips-Per bu., 65075c.
Beets-New, per bu., 60c.
Carrots-Per bu., 81.
Cueumbers-Per bu., 40@50c.
Native tomatoes-Per bu., $1@1. 25.
Beans-Per bu., 75c.; shell beans, per
bu., 75c@S1.
Green corn-Per bu., 50@6O.