New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-13
NEWS OF THE MARKETS.
Cold in South Injurious to Strawberries
and Vegetables

Prices remain high in almost every line Of
market produce. EGGS however. are fairly rea-
sonable and plenty. The white Leghorns sell at
p cents dozen. and the brown eggs. strictly
fresh. at % cents. Goose and duck eggs are in
season now, but those who like them had better
make haste TO enjoy them, for after May Is
they will no longer be very good. Goose eggs
bring cents apiece and duck eggs sell at 35
cents dozen
The best grades OF butter are coming in trlhe
faster than last week. but there is no change in
the prices.
FISH.
A well kept fish market is an inviting place
Just now, with many OF the varieties newly
come in arranged in rows on beds Of wet moss.
Cultivated brook trout sell at 81 pound. Epi-
cures. however are looking forward to May 10.
when the season for wild trout opens. The first
OF the week there were few fresh mackerel in
market. the large ones costing 20 cents each,
Yesterday none were 10 be had. but the be-
ginning Of next week win probably fresh
shipment. Shad roe are 40 cents pair and roe
shad from North Carolina 81 each. Storms
around Baltimore and in the Carolnas have
lessened the supply Of these fish, and also of
crabs and crab meat However, the small, new.
soft shell crabs are beginning to come in, and
may be enjoyed at the rate Of 50 30 dozen.
Prawns with the shells So 30 gallon.
Prawns with the shells off have gone out as
Goldfish steak is 1215 cents a pound. Western
salmon Is 40 cents green turtle Is 70 cents
pound and large live Holsters are 3S cents The
small Holsters are % cents.
VEGETABLES.
New in the way OF vegetables are the butter
beans just arrived from the South and selling
at 80 cents quart. New Bermuda onions are
in the market. at 50 cents a quart. Fine. large
Bermuda potatoes are 80 cents. Green peas in
the she'll bring 20 cents a quart. but by next
month. when they will be coming IN from Long
Island. they will be cheap enough for anybody
and everybody TO revel in them.
Market men complain bitterly Of the scarcity
and high prices of green stuff and fruit AS
paragus. coming from California and from
around Charleston. retails at 40 cents a bunch.
The asparagus grown in this region should be
ready for eating now, but owing to the lateness
OF the season II Is not. Lettuce Is anywhere
from cents TO % cents bunch but 1t is hard
20 find perfect bunch. Pieplant is scarce and
dear, but in some shops small bunch may be
had at 10 cents.
why. common thing like mint" market
woman said yesterday, "is 81 so a dozen lunches
at wholesale. and parsley 81. It's the storms in
the South that did II. The rains have hurt the
strawberries. too They sell here at from
20 to 30 cents box. according TO quality, but
they haven't the favor they had last year It
is said there won't be any berries from around
Charleston this year.
Tomatoes sell at 10 cents pound this week.
They are sound and good. would be If people
who come marketing wouldn't keep squeezing
them 70 see II they're ripe. 1 had to say to-
day to one woman-Please don't squeeze the
tomatoes Why. what they here for?' she
said Not TO squeeze and spoil, said, for I
was angry. Squeeze the price. If you must, but
don't squeeze my tomatoes"
POULTRY.
Though 1t was said fortnight ago that the
chicken season was near its end. fine arrays of
fowls are 10 be seen az the poulterers' Roast
ing chickens, plump and juicy. sell at % cents
pound Western broilers are the same as
roasting chickens Philadelphia broilers are
q - a pound. Squads for broilIng are from
"a 20 TO 50 30 n dozen Ordinary ducks NAV be
had at y cents pound, and Long Island spring
ducks. very nice. at 80 cents. Incubator chick
ems for broiling 81 10 pair
one poulterer in Washington Market yester-
Gay displayed for sale a number OF chicken
Feet. neatly fastened in rows 20 a large card
Are you wondering what they're for?" he said
70 woman who stopped to look az them
They're TO make jelly Of and good jelly they
make too. A man who bought some this morn
ing told me that last winter he had sick child
ana the doctor advised him 10 feed II iely,
made from chickens feet He did so. he said
and the child got Well"