Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-10-04

Milwaukee Sentinel
Potatoes, former price 4OG16O a bushel. present
price, $l5O a bushel.
Iurnips, beets, carrots, former price 25c a
Dnshel; present price. SOC a bushel.
Lettuce, former price, 1O625c a Dozen pres.
ent price, SOC dozen.
CauliflOwer, former price, 81 a dozen; pres.
cnt price. $3.50 dozen.
sweet corn. former price, 4056 dozen; pres
cnt price, l5c a dozen.
Apples, former price, $3.50 a barrel present
price $3.50 barrel.
Cabbages, former price, 25ta5Oc dozen; pres
ent price. 81. so O dozen.
Beans, former price, Csc a bushel: present
price. 81 40 bushel.
Tomatoes, iO@25c bushel: present price,
$3.0O(GSi00a y bushel.
Onions farmer price. 35c bushel; present
price, 90c q bushel.
Housewives have troubles all their
own just now, for along with the rise
in the price of milk comes also a re-
markable advance in all market pro-
duce from potatoes to steaks. Econ
omy in all luxuries and staple articles
for the table is the watchword among
housekeepers rich and poor. Young
couples contemplating marriage this
fall stand aghast at the great advance
in the prices OF the necessities OF life,
and in one way boarding-house mis-
tresses are jubilant, for many boarders
who were contemplating setting up
household gods OF their own will re.
main with them another year.
Love in a cottage is all right under
some circumstances, but when pota-
toes 90 to $l.5O bushel and other
vegetables rise to two and three times
their usual price, the cottage dream is
dispelled, to become a reality only
under more favorable circumstances.
Keepers OF boarding houses and the
smaller hotels are all contemplating
raising the price Of meals, and some
have already done so. Hitherto table
board ranged from So to $3.50 week
in the ordinary boarding places, but
under the increased prices in all table
necessities an advance will be gener-
ally asked for, according to the state
ments of several landlords seen this
week. Board that was So will bring
$3.50 a week, and the $3.50 rates will
be raised to $4. while in places where
board could formerly be had for 81 all
the way from $4.25 to IS will be asked.
The increased prices in vegetable
products has hit the working classes
hardest. Potatoes and similar vege-
tables are the staple foods among the
laboring classes, and when these sta
Piles double, treble and in some cases
quadruple in price the workingman on
small pay feels it keenest.
Oscar Machholz, Superintendent OF
tho German market, said he had fol-
lowed market gardening for the last
twenty years in and about Milwaukee,
but he had never seen prices so high
as they are now. He said:
"The drouth has been terribly severe
on all kinds of vegetables and produce.
The scarcity of some vegetables is so
great that they have risen to four
times their usual prices, while toma-
toes are away out of sight; We arc
glad to get good ones at almost any
price. Some years have seen toma.
toes as low as 10 cents bushel; good
tomatoes are now selling at 81.
Potatoes, which are really the staff
of life Of the working classes, have
reached the top.notch figure of $1.5O a
bushel. AS rule, if potatoes 60 to SO
cents, the price is called high, and in
many years back potatoes could be
bought at 25 cents bushel in any
quantity desired. How can a man
earning $1.50 a day and supporting a
family afford to pay $l.5O a bushel for
potatoes?
81 think potatoes will come down
some in price later on, as there are
big fields north from which crops will
be shipped soon. think it is myth
that Texas dealers have bought up all
the potato crop in Wisconsin. as I
know the farmers too we'll and know
that hardly any of them will sell crops
in the ground, as they usually want to
know what they are selling.
"Turnips, beets and carrots, which
are now twice their usual price, will
come down some, as there are plenty
in the ground which have not been
hurt to any great extent by the drouth.
All the root crops have Jared better
in the dry season we have had than
other crops, because they were planted
early as usual and had their roots deep
in the ground before the dry spell
came on. A little rain will bring
forth big crop of all root vegetables.
"The apple crop is failure, SO far
as Wisconsin is concerned, and little
or no apples will come from the vicin-
ity of Milwaukee. The price will
probably remain high all winter, al
though it may not stay at $3.50 bar
rel.
"Beans, both yellow and green, un-
til to-day we're selling at $3.50 a bush.
! el. Owing to large shipments to-day