The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-15
TIMETABLES AND
 FRUIT ABUNDANT Peach and Apple Crops OnuSu- ally Large This Year PRICES RATHER MODERATE Irish Potatoes Not as High as Last Year-An Immense Crop Seems
 Now to Be In
 Slght.
PRICES RATHER MODERATE

The outlook for fruit and vegetaple crops is unusually good. At this season when business is comparatively dull ana the cost of living is said to generally be unusually high. 1t is interesting to compare the produce market quotations today with those of last year, and the crop prospects for the next few months. If is conceded by commission merchants along Morris avenue that prices are not higher on any staple produce, and that in many instances the market is lower than last year.
 Peaches and Apples.
 Just at this time the peach crop is at its best. This is an exceptionally good year for peaches. The crop is unpreced- entedly large, and the fruit is of first quality. The Birmingham market is sup piled from the orchards of Alabama and Georgia growers. Peaches can be bought cheaper now than last year and the com ing week will be the best time for the housekeeper to replendish depleted sup plies of pickles and preserves.
 The season has been favorable to the apple orchards, as we'll as to other fruits and those offered now are reasonable in price, and of nice quality. New York raises, perhaps, the finest apples of any section of the country and the Birming ham winter market is largely supplied by this growth. Moderate prices are looked for and the supply will be bounuful.
 Irish Potatoes.
 Irish potatoes are abundant and are offered below last seasons prices. The local crop will be exhausted in few weeks, and the market will be supplied by the growers of the north and west. Minnesota is large producer and pros poets for heavy yield are encouraging. As potatoes are staple article of diet with the American people the outcome of the crop is far-reaching. It is too soon yet to be positive of the result but con- servative opinion is that prices will be lower. Reports on the sweet potato crop is favorable, and prices will be reason able.
 Cabbage, another staple, is abundant now, and is of home production. Virginia furnishes large quantities in August and September. The winter market is largely supplied by the New York and Wisconsin production. Last year prices ranged from s10 to $40 per ton. The outlook is more favorable now, however and calculations are being based on a $10 or $12 market.
 Onions are handled in Birmingham on a large scale. The prices vary little from last years quotations, with prospects fa- vorable for a large crop. The prices will be lower when the new crop Is harvested.
 Poultry and Eggs.
 Poultry, butter and eggs are offered at about the prices prevailing last summer. Eggs are decidedly cheaper now than six months ago. Quotations, of course. fuc- tuate with the supply and demand, and 1t Is hard to predict accurately the future prices, but at present they compare fa- vorably with last summers market.
 On the whole prices fn the staple pro- duce market are not higher than former- ly. The year has been favorable to the farmers and Nature has been generous in her gifts. The prospects now indicate that lower prices will rule next fall and win ter than prevailed in 1903.