The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-02
MATERIAL FOR THE
TABLE ON SUNDAY
What Shall We Buy for the
Dinner on That Day Is a
Live Question.
VEGETABLES QUITE SCARCE
NEW SUGAR CORN is OF DELI.
CiOuS QUALITY AND WATER
MELONS ARE GooD-AoME
GROWN TOMATOES.

What shall we get for Sunday
dinnery" This is the question that
viii be revolved. and then revolved
some more in the minds of many
Richmond housewives. Saturday. The
scarcity of seasonable vegetables and
fruits makes il very severe task To-
arrange a dainty meal from such pros
ducts. Potatoes. which furnish a large
per cent of the food in Richmond. ara
scarce. and old potatoes especially so.
The new tubers are hard To find on
the local market in good quantities.
These new potatoes are not of superior
quality either. although retailing at "a
cents per peck.
The crop of cultivated blackberries Is
now reaching the 'frazxle" end and In
the course of the next three days they
will be very scarce. The Wild berries,
however. are now ripening. and will
prolong the blackberry market a week
or more.
New sugar corn is selling for IL
cents per dozen and is of delicious
variety. The sale OF young and lus-
and many of these will undoubtedly
Ilnu themselves on the SUNDAY tHule.
WatermeIons Good.
The water melon crop was never bets
ter. the melons being shipped TO Richs
mond being of unusual sweetness. In.
diana grown watermelons will appear
In Richmond in about ten days. Indi-
ana grown nutmegs or muskmelona
will make their appearance In about
three days. These will come from
the southern part OF the state.
Home grown tomatoes are now be-
ing sold. This crop is about three
weeks later than is ordinarily the case.
The lateness OF the crop this year. M.
fords food for much speculation in the
weather line and the retailers and
commission men of this city have
been up in the air. during the larger
part OF the summer. simply because
il has been very difficult task for
them to plan and make arrangements
for the incoming vegetables and other
provision stuffs.
Live Stock Strong.
The live stock market is strong al
the present time. Hogs are not being
shipped in any large numbers, and az
the result, prices are gradually rising.
The same circumstances. which were
attributed as the cause for the prevail.
ing high prices OF hogs last year. II ID
said. will again this year influence thu
quotations. Last year hog prices be-
gan To rise about this season OF the
year and the quotations kept on until
hogs had far passed the seven cent fig.
ure. Cholera. too, made the animals
scarce. Cholera this year IL killing
off large numbers OF the animals In
this county and over the state.
Notwithstanding the cooler days of
the past week. local meat dealers
state that the sale OF fresh meats has
not increased to any extent over the
warmer weather sales, the demand re.
naming very slow.
Grain Market Quiet.
The grain and wagon markets ara
affording but little excitement to the
Richmond market situation. Wheat
is holding it's own at eighty-five cents.
corn, fifty-five, and oats. forty-fivc
cents per bushel. Ii is said that not
there will be large guam
titles of grain sold in Richmond, IL will
not materially affect the grain quota
tons The inferior quality of wheat IL
given as the reason the quotations on
that cereal will remain in the direc.
ton OF the deep blue sky.
The wagon market is very quiet.
The farmers are in the midst OF their
harvest and but little will be hauled
to Richmond until the larger part OF
the harvest is completed Early
threshing is now well under way. Lo-
cal wagon market men expect good
influx of feed materials In about ten
favg