Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-26
SUMNER FRUIT GOING FAST
Strawberries Scarce and High and Not
Very Coed to Look Upon
FLORIDA ORANGES OUT OF LOCAL MARKET
Nther Fruits Are Plentiful and Tempt
inE and the Green Vegetables
Hold Their own rs Items
for Housekeepers.

Excepting the remnant OF few local
sbinments-a very few-there we're no
stravberriea in market Friday morning.
These few were not very nice and cost 80
cents a pint There was little OF anything
else new in the way Of fruit. but some OF
the things looked little better than they
did last week. Florida oranges are prac-
tcaliy cut Of the local market. Their sea
son has been on the decline since the holl-
days in fact. and their demand has been
confined chiefly to those who have been
willing 20 forego looks for favor They
are sweeter than the California fruit, but
more rusty looking. They sell from 2 to
40 cents n dozen according TO size The
California navels are growing better all the
time and range from IS TO 80 cents dozen
in price. Some Of the finest looking grape
fruit of the season was in market Friday
morning from 121z cents each to 10 cents
and two for Is cents. Fine large pine
apnles sold for 20 cents each and malaga
grapes from 20 to 10 cents a pound,
Bananas of all sorts are to be had at
dozen prices. but the grocers sell the best
from % to Is cents dozen. Lemons are
from is to 30 cents a dozen.
Head lettuce was among the scarce
things Friday morning, selling for 10 ano
Is cents head according to quality. The
leaf lettuce Is nice just now, and sells at .
cents a head New radishes, onions, beets
turnlps carrots, and parsley sell at b cents
a head, a slight reduction. Celery Is D
cents a bunch and looks whittier and fresher
than Il has for while Cucumbers are
20 and rs cents each. ripe tomatoes 20 ana
Ok cents a pound; spinach. 80 cents peck
cabbage. cents pound or from to 10
cents a head: caullhower. Is and 30 cents
head: green peppers, s cents each and two
for Is cents New potatoes are 10 cents
pound or three pounds for 70 cents; ola
potatoes from 70 cents 10 81 bushel; sweet
potatoes from 30 to 50 cents a peck
DRY vegetables, psrsnips, turnips car
rots and beets are 30 cents peck.
CranberrIes are 121k cents quart; mush-
rooms from Is cents to 30 cents pouno
Maple sugar is Is cents a pound. Nebraska
honey. selected. is Is cents a pound i'm the
comb. Cider IL 20 cents a quart. All sorts
~ dried fish is TO be had and a good variety
of fresh FISH Chickens sold at 1871 cents
a pound Friday morning Duck at Il cents,
the best turkey at % cents and geese at
is cents a pound.
Eggs. butter and sugar have been Sc
iected as leaders" by most of the mer-
chants and are selling for all sorts OF
prices. The cold weather has sent the price
of eggs up again to % cents but some OF
the grocers still offer them as special for
25 cents. These eggs are all clsssed strictly
fresh" but the name is very misleading
for there are plenty of eggs sold under that
head that are worse than stale. Good eggs
are to be had. however. and at q cents
dozen, too.
The best brands of package creamery
butter-ali OF them-are still being sod from
30 to 80 cents a pound and fine country
creamery for q cents. There are half
dozen brands of butter below this.
formulated sugar sells from seventeen to
nineteen and twenty pounds for 81 accord
ing TO the notion OF the dealer and &c
sugar from seventeen to nineteen pounds
for 81.