Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1902-07-31
AN ABUNDANCE
OF VEGETABLES


The curbstOnc market, which up to
and during harvest was unusually
small, the supply of dairy and garden
products falling short of the demand
has again assumed its Old-timc pro
portions customary at this season. The
market Tuesday i'll size fell only be-
low that of Saturday last when the
long row of heavily laden wagons
extended from the Opera House along
Mill and Bloom streets TO point near
Ferry street.
1t would be hard to name product
of the farm that was not represented
on the wagons. The only commodity
that seemed scarce was butter. This
deficiency extended to the stores and
or no butter except the creamery art
icle to be had anywhere at any price.
There is plenty of good pasture and
the scarcity of good butter can only
be accounted for on the asSump-
tion that the capacity of the local
dairies is inadequate to meet the
home demand during these prosperous
times.
The farmers are very cheerful and
talk hopefully of large crops. Sweet
corn made its advent into market
Tuesday. 1t was eagerly bought up.
One load of 800 ears was disposed of
in less than an hour. Last year and
previously sweet corn upon its appear
ancc commanded fancy prices, the
figure for several market days re-
manning as high as 20 cents per dozen.
Tuesday the rcigning price was ID
cents per dozen, a circumstance that
may be taken to Indicate that corn is
coming on fast and that a plethora is
already in sight which may glut the
market
Tomatoes are another commodity
that have just appeared y very few
were seen in market, Tuesday, sell
ing at 10 cents per box or - cents per
quarter peck. In a couple of weeks
they will be plentiful enough, as the
crop, it is said, will bc an enormous
one.
Cabbage was never finer and could
bc bought at 3 cents per head and up
ward There was scarcely wagon
but had cabbage for sale.
The potato crop i'll its yield promises
to be something unprecedented. Along
with cabbage potatoes were i'll evid-
encc all along the line of wagons,
none of them small and many very
large in size. They retailcd at cents
per quarter peck. Two hundred bushels
per acre is considered good yield for
potatoes but NJ b. Bond, the Chulasky
truckman, has this year broken the
record and raised 215 bushels from an
acre
The farmers say that notwithstand-
ing the prolonged rains the potatoes
as yet show no signs of rot The
critical period. it seems, occurs about
the time the crop natures, just before
digging. Frequent rains with hot sun
shine are then apt to superinduce rot
ting
This seems to be an apple year
and apples are very plentiful i'll mar
ket selling at 3 cents per quarter and
up. They are very fine.
Spring chickens are now one of the
greatest luXurics in market, retailing
ut 80 cents to 60 cents per pair. Eggs
are selling at IS cents per dozen.
There are several new faces seen
among the vcnders of the curb stone
market, mostly farmers from Northum
bcrland county, who until the miners
strike were regular attendants at the
Shamolkin market Danvillc is one of
the best business towns of this section,
fact which the farmers have diScOv-
cred One of them remarked yester-
day that hc had attended the markets
of nearly all the neighboring towns
and that he found Danville to be the
best of them all