New-York tribune., 1907-11-09
NEWS OF THE MARKETS.
A RumOr That Thanksgiving Turkeys Will
Be Searce-Meat Still High.

We have not done with the late spring yet 1.
is casting its shadow the approaching Thanks
giving, for turkeys are scarce. simply because in
the cold damp weather Of last spring so many
infant turkeys dropped out as one poultry man
put il. However plenty of turkeys appear in
Washington Market, large and rat, at - cents d
pound. Washington Market is melancholy sight
for vegetarians now. Frtnges OF sucking pigs
adorn the stalls; piles of game and poultry are
everywhere Sucking pigs are s. 30 each. Game is
hard to get this year, il is said. Some quail are
in market however. at 60 cents each. or So a
dozen, and partridge. grouse. golden plover rail-
birds. etc. hang in lunches about the stalls
Fat white. ceIery-fed Long Island ducks are p
cents a pound. Roasting chickens. brOllers. fowls
and the like have not changed in price
Meat is no lower in spite OF the prophecies,
Meat is not likely TO be cheaper. said one dealer.
because the population IS increasing so fast that
the meat supply can't keep up with It. The West
can't furnish enough cattle for the people who
want meat. Plenty of land out there, you sayT
Yes but the grazing land is being turned into
farms at such a rate that by and by Wen have
20 find some way of raising cattle by machinery.
guess"
siroin steak brings from % to p cents a pound
now. POrterhouse is from . TO 3 cents. but the
nourshing if humble soup bone is only cents
pound. Lamb chops are . cents pound. leg OF
lamb IS cents. leg OF mutton II cents. and veal
! outlet Is scarce at so cents a pound
Fresh eggs are 30 cents dozen. and meian-
choly egg man said he was afraid they were go
ing To be higher and scarcer. but he secuted the
idea of egg trust. Might we'll say Tiers
was a trust twenty years ago. when people lined
eggs" he said.
There are plenty Of storage eggs; no trouble
about getting those. It's the hen trust that boters
me-
Il beefsteak is costly there is one consolation
mushrooms to so with It plentiful and only So
cents a pound. Long Island tomatoes down
and out, but California tomatoes filing their
place very well. They are 20 cents pound New
celery is 20 cents bunch green peas from Florida
Is cents quart sweet potatoes 10 cents. string
beans 10 cents and spinach % cents a half peck
Chives and chevriI each cents bunch Fine
large pumpkins from Is to % cents each
American melons things Of the past, but
there is novelty I'm market in the way OF musk
melons from Belgium the first 70 be imported from
that country They 81 80 apiece but then they
a AT least twice large the native Fine
big green tinted grapes % cents a pound. The
purple California grapes may be had at go cents
for basket containing five and one-half pounds.
Oranges and grapefruit both scarce, the former
selling 81 - dozen. and the latter at from IS
10 20 each Prize apples, big and red. IS
cents dozen
The fish stalls at Fulton Market have cold look
these DAYS. there is much pale gray about them.
But they very tempting 70 the appetite But
terfsh and porgies nearly over for the season.
and SoftSheu crabs more. but STneltS
coming in we'll 80 cents pound for
large ones and sCallOps are here for the winter.
They So bushel Tn the WY OF larger hsh.
large bass is - pound. ana the medium
sized 30 cents. Carp is IS cents. and live Goldfish
10 cents. Small buefish are 20 cents
Virginia oysters very fine now. They
mostly from LynRlIavcn Bay and have very dis
tinCtive flavor The hSiI Scoffed the idea OF
oysters breeding typhoid fever THAT comes
up every now and then" he said Somebody has
typhoid and tries think how he got il remembers
that ne ate some oysters recently. and SAYS il must
have been those. Few oysters from near
New York; used get oysters from the East
River but these DAYS paSr. The men who
plant oysters not fools, they wouldn't plant
them in contaminated waters. Many OF the oysters
come from the deep waters of Massachusetts I've
been eating oysters for years-Tm constantly
sampling them here. to get the favor OF the diff
ferent ones. and I've never had typhoid fever.