Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-02
With Canning Season on House
wives Find Themselves In
Glover For Economy
PLUms OF A FINE QUALITY
Can Be Purchased From 81 to $3.50
Per Observation-Disclosures Arc Going to
be An immense Crop-Tomatoes of
Excellent Quaity-Everareen Corn in
Market.

blast the prudent housewife is casting
for winter use, and is visiting the mar
kets regularly to see what can be
found. This has been good season
for the economical wife. who is a1lX-
ious to make her money go q long
ways. Everything In the fruit line
is cheap, and vegetables also have been
within the reach Of all. While many
varieties of fruits have already been
put up. the canning season has only
fairly begun. Plums are in the market
are of good quality and cheap. AS
this fruit is coveted by many, because
of the many ways to which it may be
put to palatable dishes. interest natur-
ally centers at the present time in the
plum market.
Grocers say that there are going to be
plenty of plums, and that they are re-
ceiving all they can handle. They are
selling at from % cents to 40 cents per
peck and the best varieties of the culti-
waited wild plums at from $1.40 to $1.5o
per bushel. Little wild plums, of very
fine flavor and good for jellies, are re-
failing at from Is to 35 cents per peck
Peaches Will Be Plentiful.
From all indications peaches for fall
use will be plentiful. They have not
begun to arrive in large quantities as
vet, and the big shipments are never
expected until about the 5th and from
then on to the Goth. The peach crop
in the local market, however, depends
entirely on the consumption in the
cities. II the crop is not large enough
to satisfy the metropolitan demand,
ii is not likely the markets here Will
be overburdened. This situation does
not prevail, as a general rule, however.
Potatoes Big Crop.
If the packers strike will compel
people to do without meat next winter,
they will not have to be without the
potato. The crop is mammoth one.
altho, strange as it may seem, IL -
next to an impossibility, at the pres =
ent time, to get enough to supply the
demand In fact. 1t Is claimed, that
should there be several rainy days IN
succession, it is doubtful II the market
would have any potatoes at all. ms
present supply is dependent altogether
on the gardeners for the farmers pota-
toes are not yet arriving, and are not
expected until next month. AS q usual
rule the farmer does not harvest MS
potatoes until most of his other work
is done. or until he can haul them to
market as soon as they are dug.
Tomatoes Are Fine.
Tomatoes are fine this seas
on, and are better. in fact,
than for several years. They are
large. solid and of fine flavor, and
IS cents a bushe1 will buy an extra
good quality. AS tomatoes can be used
so many different ways, they are a
very good investment. Catsups,
sauces, cold tomato pickles, preserves
and many ways are used by the good
housewife for her winter table. A
good idea when tomatoes are cheap Is
to can them with plenty of Juice for
soups. Cream tomato soup Is deli
cacy, and while the prepared tomato
soups are used by many, they never are
SO good as the genuine article.
Evergreen Sweet Corn.
The Evergreen sweet corn, one of
the best varieties of home grown
corn. has reached the market, and is Of
fine quality. This is the best corn that
can be found at this season OF the
year, altho there are varieties that are
later. The Evergreen, however, beats
anything that has been in the market
in the way of early sweet corn.
Melons Better Than for Years.
Home grown musk melons this year
are of a better quality than for several
years, and are plentiful. Water mel
ons. however. are not plentiful around
Marshalltown. There are plenty In
market, but those that come from near
by are from smaller raisers. The big
melon men of the county are not IN
business this season, and the fact is