Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-20
IN THE LOCAL MARKETS
FISH CoNsTI-
TUTE ONE OF THE FEATURES.
A Few Young Chickens Available
Butter and Eggs-Fine Tomatoes
From Florida.

Shoppers in the markets are interested ir
the display of fish. Instead of the huge
piles of frozen fish from the north the
benches are filed with the fresh-caugh'
product of the waters of the Potomac
Chesapeake bay and other streams. Al
this season shad and herring are always IL
demand, and they find ready sale before
weather turns so warm that Ice is neces-
sary TO preserve them. Roe shad are re-
falling at 80 cents each and buck shad are
70 cents. Herring are selling at 1 cent
apiece, and while they are not exceedingly
plentiful, they are sufficiently numerous to
supply the demand. Both shad and herring
are being put away for the winter, many
people from the surrounding country pa
tronizing local dealers
II is an easy matter to corn shad or
herring" local dealer said, and it is a
nice thing to have them in the house in
the winter. Many people pack them in
earthen crooks with salt, and others go to
more trouble. Residents of Virginia, who
ENJOY about as good salt fish as are to be
round anywhere, soak their fish in q
strong brine three or four days and then
pack them away, covered with brine that
is strong enough to float potato. In this
prime they put sugar or molasses. red pep
per ana small quantity of saltpeter. The
COMBINATION gives the fish delicious flavor,
and when cooked no trace of the sugar or
molasses is to be detected"
Rock and Perch Plentiful.
Rock and perch are plentiful and cheap.
the former selling at from 121s to 20 cents
and the latter at 1914 cents pound. Blue
fish ad speckied trout are also selling at
l21z cents and brook trout are IS cents a.
pound Soft crabs are becoming more pIen-
tlful and larger and there has been a de-
cided decrease in the prices since last week.
When they were quoted at from 30 cents to
700 a dozen. This week they are to be
had at 40 and 80 cents. Crab meat from
oxford, Md. has appeared In the market
and is considered superior to the meat from
other places Today dealers were selling
TINS meat for 30 cents a quart and were
asking 40 cents for the crab flake River
frogs are TO be found upon the benches of
the local dealers and they are selling at 25
cents each.
few young chickens have reached the
local markets, and the "sprngers" as the
dealers call them, are quoted at 40 cents a
pound There is no longer much demand
Tor turkeys for the family trade the BUYERS
being confined almost wholly to the hotel
and restaurant keepers Turkeys are selling
at Y cents pound, and there Is hardly any
nkei1hood that the price will show any in
crease this season. 1t is stated that some of
the local dealers put many fowls away in
the cold storage plants, and that some OF
them VIII lose money upon their ventures.
Long Island ducks and capons find ready
sale at 70 cents a pound, and the common
DUCKS are selling at 20 cents Roasting
chickens are quoted at 20 cents and fowls at
10 cents pound.
Butter and Eggs.
The butter and egg market deyeloped a
weakness recently and now that the Eas-
ter demand is over eggs are much chea per.
Twenty cents a dozen was the price this
morning, and. 1t is thought, they Will be
even cheaper tomorrow. Some of the coun-
try people We're retailing them as low as two
dozen for 80 cents today II Is stated that
some local dealers have begun putting away
eggs for next winter, although there are
still large quantities of them in storage that
were put away last year Butter is more
plentiful than. 1t has been for several
months, but dealers say that there is not
much of the higher grades to be obtained
Retail prices of good grades of butter are
about the same as they were last week
Vegetable dealers are receiving some OF
the finest tomatoes that have ever been Sc
cured from Florida, and the largest of them
are selling at the rate of two for % cents
Others are selling at from 10 to Is cents q
pound. Asparagus is being received from
Florida and North Carolina and is put up
In punches to sell from 10 to so cents New
potatoes from Bermuda and Florida are
more plentiful, and the best of them are
selling at 20 cents a quarter peck New
peas and string beans are finding ready
sale at 20 cents quarter peck. Lettuce
cress, radishes and spring onions are plenti-
full and cheap. There is nothing new in
the fruit line, strawberries being about the
only fruit that is to be had, with the ex-
ception of apples, oranges, grapes and ba-
QanaS.