Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-18
THE MARKETS.
Flour Has Gone Up Fifty Cents
on a Barrel.
Eggs Now Retail for 30 Cents a Dozen
and Chicken 20 Cents Pound. n
ELL;
Fresh Fish a. Wholesale Is High but Retail
Prices Are Unchanged.

The retail price of eggs in this mar
ket is now 30 cents dozen" said an
Augusta merchant yesterday After
the snow storm of Sunday last. when
good sleighing began. eggs were
brought in from the country in large
quantities and the price paid the rails
ers dropped from the former high fig
ure of S5 to IS cents dozen to 25 cents:
and there the price hangs. Although
quite a batch of eggs are now being
brought into market, the price remains
the same as quoted day or two ago.
When the hens get to laying in good
shape, along in February, the retail
price may drop still lower.
Flour, the staff of life, has jumped
50 cents on a barrel recently. About
this time of year one usually expects to
be Obliged to pay more for -four than
at other times. And this year Is no
exception 10 the rule. There have been
seasons when the -four market has
gone kicking into the air, but at pres
ent, there is no indication that a phe-
Eomenal increase will occur this year.
The meat market remains about the
same as for some time. There is really
10 great change in the retail price of
meats usually used in the household
And yet lamb is higher and scarcer.
Lamb costs us from 81 to 81 a hundred
more than it did little while ago;
anG native chicken is high. For the
best quality Of hOme-produced chicken
we have to get 20 cents a pound or
course we have Western birds that we
can sell for II and Is cents, but the
domestic is cheaper in the long run at
20 cents. About all the pork ready for
killing in this section has been brought
in. The last price we paid was ~
cents dressed weight
There are some fine apples over
there" remarked the storekeeper, as he
pointed to several barrels of fruit over
in a corner of the store. They were
really handsome apples. mostly Bell
flowers and Tallman Sweets. The re-
tail price was stated to be $3.50 for a
whole barrel or S5 cents a peck
When questioned about vegetables
the dealer said:
Potatoes are still at 81 a bushel at
retail. Recently the. price dropped off
a little in Boston, but not many have
been coming into our market and so
the price remains as it has been for
some weeks. Beans are still high in
price. Onions, good. domestic onions,
are retailing at cents a pound.
Squash is high in price, as it has been
for some time. Retails for cents a
pound. Lettuce. raised under glass, is
worth II cents a bunch, and celery
brings 90 cents. Spinach retails for IS
to 40 cents a peck. ..s
Canned tomatoes are way up in
price, but canned corn and beans are
about the same as in the fall Evapo-
rated apples are high and gallon ap-
pies are very. very high. The demand
for the latter rs not very brisk, nor will
it be while whole apples may be pur-
chased, Dat cereals Of various brands
are much higher than usual One
brand we sell for 25 cents a package
costs US N cents more than it did a
while ago. Even rolled oats costs US
80 cents barrel more than we for
merly paid. OF course we can't charge
any more for them, and the increase Is
felt by us, you see.
All kinds of fruit remains as it has
been for the past few weeks. Califor-
MIA navels are now sweet and nice"
In the fish markets the dealers state,
that the Wholesale price Of all kinds of
fresh fish has been quite high during
the past week; but the price to- con-
sumers has remained the same as fol
some time. E-.r
CLANS are retailing for 20 to Is cents
a peck" said one dealer. THE quality
has something to do with the price,
same as in every other commodity
HOLSTERS are worth q cents a pound
Last year the price at this time was ur
to 20 cents. Oysters retail for 40 and SC
cents a quart. Goldfish tongues are
worth IL cents a pound and shrimp in
bulk is selling for 25- cents a pint. Tn.