Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-24
WHAT THE MARKET AFFORDS
Reasonable Foods Reinforced BY DeliOaOiea
Not Usually Available.
ENDLESS STORE OF GOOD THINGS ON SALE
Omaha Dealers wen Supplied with All
that Enters Into the Elaborate
or simple Dinner for
Any nay.

Prospects for. the Thanksgiving market
are bright, indeed, this year, for not only
all Of those thingse that tradition has
handed down as staples Of the Thanksgiv-
ing dinner are available, but practically
everything in the way OF fresh garden
vegetables-something the origiuators OF the
great feast never dreamed of at this time
Of year-are in market as well. Fine cab
bage is 2 cents a pound. Radishes cents
bunch spring onions 10 cents a bunch;
cuoumbers Is cents each; wax and string
beans Is cents quart; oyster plant cents
a bunch spinach 30 cents a peck; squash.
tho summer and soft shell, 10 and Is cents
each; leaf lettuce cents a bunch, head
lettuce 10 and 10 cents; parsley cents q
bunch: Hubbard squash 10 and 20 cents
each: pumpkins 10 and 20 cents Brussels
sprouts s5 cents a quart; California tonaa-'
toes 90 20 q cents a pound: beets 20 cents a
peck; sweet potatoes, - cents a peck; irish
potatoes IS cents a bushel. Celery is espe-
cally fine and sells from TO 10 cents a
bunch. Cranberries arc 1216 cents a quart.
Catawba grapes are the newest thing I'm
fruit having come in the middle OF the
week. They come from New York and sell
for . cents a basket. They will be on the
market for two or three weeks. California
grapes are not as nice as they have been.
and cost 30 and 60 cents q basket. Malagas
are 20 cents a pound. Florida oranges will
last nearly a month longer and, in spite
OF their seeds and rusty exterior. they are
better than the new navel oranges recently
I'm from California. The California oranges
sell from 25 to 80 cents a dozen and the
Florida about the same. Lemons are 90. q
and 30 cents a dozen and grape fruit 10 and
126 cents each. There are still few pears
at 10 cents basket, and plenty Of Jonathan
apples at 40 cents peck.
All the new nuts will be in for the
Thanksgiving tah',. Shelled nuts, however.
are very high compared to what they have
been. The pecans are so cents a quart, al
monds 60 and 20 cents and walnuts 50 cents.
Unshelled English walnuts are 20 cents a
pound, mixed nuts 20 cents, almonds Is
cents pecans and butter nuts 20 cents a
pound. The walnuts are not good this year.
but the hickory nuts make up for them and
they sell for so cents a peck. The last
shipment-according to the dealers-of
chestnuts is in and they are especially hne.
selling at 20 cents pound
The cold weather is sending up the price
Of eggs, and the best, which sell just now
for % cents dozen. promise to bring 80
GeIlS-lA NHB weather remains COlu.
Butter is about as it has been. good. sweet
roll and tub butter from % to % cents, and
package creamery from 95 20 80 cents
pound.
All sorts Of fowl is plentiful now and. not
withstanding the demand for the cornfed
Nebraska product, the local market will
not suffer. There are turkeys. chickens,
ducks and geese galore and the wholesale
district resounds with a cheerful chorus
OF gobbles and cackies and squawks ema-
Mating from the crates that are piled high
on the curb and even in the street. There
will be plenty of everything for Thankseiv-
ing.
Turkey is wholesaling at IS and % cents
a pound and viii hardly exceed % or 2215
cents a pound retail. Chickens are unus-
ually fine and retail from 10 to 121k cents a
pound. There is plenty OF duck at Il and
Is cents and goose 121s cents a pound
Although no two dealers seem to assign
the same reason for It, It Is q fact that
oysters are not as plentiful as they have
been. The standards in bulk sell for 40
cents a quart. This is the sort that is used
for stufhng and stew. The Selects in cans
cost 50 cents quart-these for frying and
a quart in cans.
Early winter flowers were never more
beautiful than they are this year and the
woman who cannot find exactly what she
wants for her Thanksgiving table win be
hard to please indeed. There Is an amazing
variety OF ohryssnthemums in every color
and ranging in size from the little buttons
through the shaggy daisy and SNOWFALL
varieties up TO the huge towsley beauties
that cost dollars dozen. The purple or
chids are gone. but the graceful yellow
sprays are stlll to be haG. Vlolets are beau
tiful, but all the florists do not have them.
Carnations, gorgeous colored and spicy, are
plentiful and inexpensive, and all the win
ter varieties of roses are to be had, tho
American beauties being especially fine.
Narcissus and several varieties Of lilies
are also in.