New-York tribune., 1907-10-26
NEWS OF THE MARKETS.
Financial Scare Makes Suburbanites Forget
to Patronize the Stalls

Things are uncommonly quiet about the markets
these days at the time the suburbanites going
home They so excited about the financial
situation that they cannot stop 10 think of such
trivialities food At least that is the way mar
ket people interpret the falling off of their accus-
toned trade at this time. This Is pity, for the
stalls overfowing with the choicest of the
earth's fruits and crying out against neglect
Everything in the way Of fruits ana vegetables
is at its best Poultry is good. though not
equal TO what 1t will be later. and every kind OF
game is in except quail, which does not come until
November l. Everything is high. OF course, but
reasonable prices coming to be memory or
the past, and expects them any more
One Of the attractive things in the vegetable
line is Caulihower, large. white and beautiful; II
retails for from 10 TO S5 cents a head. Brussels
sprouts large and fine at IS cents quart. Ber-
muda onions have assumed mammoth proportions;
and sell at 10 cents apiece for the large ones and
cents for the small ones. Little white onions
for picking are 10 cents q quart Elephants are
20 to 50 cents apiece Tomatoes are % cents q
basket containing twelve good sized specimens
Nice yellow chiccory Is lO cents head ana Boston
lettuce is 10 to Is cents ROmaine is 10 cents, and
celery is 10 to IS cents for bunch OF three stalks
Lima beans. which their end, % cents
a quart, sheled, and wax beans are the same
price.
Apples look beautiful but are unpleasantly high.
They retail by the barrel at from 50 20 TO Sc. while
the best could be bought for about 81 last year.
Table apples by the dozen are 30 TO 60 cents, and
cooking apples 30 cents half peck. Tokay
grapes delightful TO behold, and 75 cents for
! basket containing seven seven and halr
pounds is not too much for them. Both Malaga
! and Concord grapes 20 cents basket ami
| Niagara are 30 cents Cranberries are 10 cents a
quart.
Turkeys are improving in both price and quality.
| They quoted at % cents pound in Wash
| ington Market yesterday and very good They
| promise TO be in fine condition by Thanksgiving
and fairly plentiful, but. of course, dealer
remarked, long will eat anything but
| a turkey Thanksgiving, no matter how good
the other poultry is. the supply is never likely 20
exceed the demand at that time. Boiling turkeys
are 81 50 apiece. Boston geese good at 25 cents
| pound and Long Island ducks make one OF the
/ cheapest and best roasts available at % cents a
| pound Philadelphia roasting chickens are p TO
/ Is cents pound.
| Venison is much more plentiful in the markets
| than It was last year. when 1t conspicuous
chiefly by its absence II is selling at 20 cents
pound for saddle and 40 cents for legs. Canvas
| back ducks sell according 20 weight. II over six
| pounds they 81 10 $ a pair. Below that they
are not worth anything. Redhead ducks are s. 80
q pair, and blue wing teals are IS cents TO 81 a
pair English snipe 50 a dozen and railbirds g.
/ Bluefsh getting very scarce, and those that
| do come I'm are small weighing from one pound TO
| one and half pounds apiece. There not many
| in storage, either. and il is doubtful If they will
| last out the winter. They are selling at IS cents
! q pound in Fulton Market Weakash is good at
| 7 and cents pound and bass and
| perch. at Is and IS cents Live cod is coming in
| at u cents a pound, and smelts at s5 cents
pound running ont. The summer fish, such
as porgies and butterlsh still hold out, both at
! fret cold snap. Frogs legs are go cents pound
/ and getting scarce, for the frogs hide in the
bottom of the ponds when the cold weather comes
| Chicken halibut is q cents a pound and fresh
| mackerel IS cents apiece.
Tub butter is quoted at IS cents a pound; the
| prints bring cents more. This is much higher
than butter ought to be at this time OF the year
! and it is expected to go higher. Fresh eggs are
! % 10 35 cents a dozen, and in the uptown shops
new laid ones sell at cents apiece.