The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-04-12
FEW POTATOES
ARE AVAILABLE
Price Is Raising and Because of
Rains in California Something
of a Famine Is Expected
RANCHERS ARE AFRAID To-
PLANT HEAVY ACREAGE
Yakima Asparagus Has Made Its
Appearance and Strawberries
From Southern States Are Ex-
pected This Week

Potatoes are the interesting thing
in the local market at this time
Buyers are paving 1872 and S33 a ton
and there are few potatoes in sight.
There are, however, plenty of seeu
potatoes and they are selling q third
less than the others, except for rte
special lots which in some instances
are selling as high as $40 per ten.
Those who have spuds are themselves
up in the air as to the price they
should ask, for the figures are charg
ing daily and, naturally, they want
to make the best returns possible.
Retailers are asking two and two and
a quarter cents a pound but accord
ing to the wholesalers the price can
not go much higher as it is possible
to place eastern spuds in Seattle ana
Tacoma at $3.50 per hundred pounds.
Many Fear to Plant
AS potatoes have been an every
other year proposition there is con-
siderable dread on the part of a num-
Der of people against planting. the
feeling being that every other person
is looking to it as a revenue making
crop. This has had it's effect upon
the seed potato prices. Because Of
heavy rains in California new pota-
toes from that state will be late in
coming in. West siders think there
may be something Qf potato
famine.
Eggs are about as low at North
Yakima for the fresh ranch stock as
they have been for a great many
moons and the grocers are retailing
them at 20 cents a dozen, which is
less than third of what they were
bringing three months ago.
Yakima Asparagus
Yakima asparagus has already
made its appearance in small guam
titles, but the California stock is still
holdisg the market and is bringing
six cents a pound wholesale. Kenne-
wick and White Bluffs asparagus is
bringing 20 to % cents pound on
the Seattle market.
carload of oranges was received
Tuesday by the Pacific Fruit & Pro-
duca company for local consumption
and distribution. California straw
berries are expected to arrive this
week
General quotations are as follows:
Yakima Best flour, per sack ...$1.35
Prosser flour, per sack .$1.35
Kalispel hard wheat flour, sack $3.50
Alfalfa hay, per ton $3.50
oats, per ton .............. $3.50
Rolled barley, per ton ...... $3.50
Fruits, Vegetables. Groceries
Creamery butter, pound ..... Acc
Ranch butter, pound soc
Fresh ranch eggs dozen zoe
sugar, Is pounds .............s1.0 90
Cheese, Wisconsin. pound zoe
Brick cheese, pound Csc
Imported Swiss cheese, pound Acc
Limburger chees, pound Csc
Bananas. dozen ............... 35c
Lemons, dozen 25c
Oranges, dozen ..25, IS. 40 and soc
Florida grape fruit each ..... 15c
California tomatoes, pound .....15c
Apples for table use, pound .... sc
Cooking apples. box 5c@$1.09
Beets, pound ...... sc
Carrots, pound OVERWHELMINGLY. &c
Turnips, pound ............... &c
Parsnips, pound ..............21s
Celery, bunch 10c; three for -. Csc
Cucumbers, each .............. Csc
Potatoes, per 100 pounds, $1.75;
per pound ...........2 and 2Ac
Rhubarb, two pounds ..15c
Spinach, pound 80. 10c, for Csc
Asparagus, pound ..17Rc
Meats
Live hogs, pound ........ .SA a SC
Dressed hogs, pound ....12@121Ac
Calves, pound .7c a SC
Dressed veal, pound ........ &C a 12c
Mutton sheep, pound ...... 3 Y a sc
Dressed mutton, pound SC "a &c
Beef cows, pound ....... sc q 5 n G
Steers, pound ...........6c o. "a C
Dressed cows, pound ,.... &C a loo
Dressed steers, pound ..... loo a lie
Live chickens, pound ........ 15c
Lard, 10-pound can ...... $1.5o
Dried Fruits
Raisins, pound ...............6 Il G.
Prunes pound .......... 10c q IL " C
Peaches, pound $500. .loc
Apricots, pound .............2 zoe