The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-08
GRAPES In MARKET
DeIawareS Grown in Texas
Sell for IL IL CTS. Per LID.
ALL FRUITS ARE SCARCE
California Product Is Offered
Almost Exclusively Here.

The newest things on the market are
early Delaware grapes. They come from
Texas and it costs a pretty penny TO
be able to eat them but Wichita people
buy anything in the vegetable or fruit
line and they do not bother about the
price. The grapes are of the earliest
variety, they are small but the punches
are large and very sold. The grapes are
very sweet, the kind that many buy in
preference to the Concord and the price
is twelve and one-haIf cents per pound.
The grape crop in this locality is very
light this year. Last year the commits
sion houses who handle grapes bought
sixty thousand baskets TO be filled, this
year ten thousand have been ordered.
Another vegetable for Sunday dinner
appeared yesterday in the shape of egg
plants. They are large and abundant
and sell from eight TO ten cents each,
The smaller ones two for fifteen cents.
Caulinower is also on the market today,
shipped in and the price is from ten TO
twelve and a half cents per pound.
Wichita and southern Kansas people
will have to use a great deal of Cali
fornia fruit this year as the local crop in
everything but apples is very short
Nearly three cars have been disposed of
by firm within the past week. Burt
McCausland of the Ross Bros. commission
house stated yesterday that his firm tried
shipping California peaches, plums and
pears as an experiment. They got one
car and have since had trouble in supply
ing the demand. Wichita people want
fruit, they do not care about the cost
if ii is reasonable if they can get the
choice fruit California peaches, nice ones
sell for twenty cents dozen, black juicy
and sweet plums sell for ten cents a
dozen and the marketeer this morning
will be required to put up thirty cents
for a dozen pears
The supply of tomatoes is about the
lightest of any vegetable at present. Early
in the week commission men shipped out
large quantities of home grown tomatoes
but today it is expected that there will
hardly be enough TO supply the demand.
Those that are on the market will cost
five cents pound for choice ones. There
will be plenty of home grown tomatoes
by the middle of next week as the late
rains have helped the plants a great
deal.
Apples are in good supply except the
best of eating varieties. First class cook
ing apples sell from forty to seventy
five cents per bushel. Those who like
apple sauce or pies will find the apples
now on the market about the best that
can be procured. Potatoes are rather
scarce and sell at half dollar a bushel
and up. Sweet potatoes will be coming
in within the next few weeks.
Sweet corn costs ten cents a dozen but
the ears are large and solid. The late
rains have helped the corn a great deal
and those who relish roasting ears viii
find them at their best now as hard grains
are hard to find.
Watermelons are still coming from Tex
as. The Indian territory growers want
about three prices for their melons and
the commission men are afraid to handle
them The Texas melons are good ones
and come in almost any weight. The
price is one and a quarter cents per
pound for nice melons which makes
melon cost from twenty five cents to
six bits each.
Cantaloupes of the Rocky Ford variety
but grown in Texas and the Indian ter
ritory are plentiful and they can be pur-
chased at two for fifteen cents up to
twenty cents each according to size and
quality.
There is almost an endless variety Of
good things on the market at present and
the quality is very good This hot
weather people eat more fruit and vege-
tables than anything else and the de-
mand is great even if the price on some
lines is rather steep because the fruit
has to be shipped in.