The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-11-15
MARKET: NOW
ON THE RISE
Tendency in Prices, Especially in
Food Supplies, Appears to
Be Upward
BUTTER TAKES A JUMP
GOING UP FIVE POINTS
County Is This Year Producing a
Larger Quantity of Poultry
Than Ever Before in Its History
Potato Prospects

Potatoes, butter, eggs, cranberries.
turkeys are among the valley products
which are advancing in price. The
tendency is upward This morning
the housekeeper who buys butter will
have to pay As cents straight for
one pound roll and So cents for a two
pound roll. Eggs are gradually stiff
fleming and as previously stated, the
strictly fresh article, recommended
and labeled is hard to procure and
ranchers are doing considerable bus
mess with private customers, getting
some advance on the quotations be-
cause of the quality of the goods. In
cidentally it may be said that none but
the wise rancher has fresh eggs at
this time.
Potatoes Are Stronger
Potatoes are becoming a little
stronger and the quotations Monday
were about $3.50 per ton to the grow
ers. There are a great many pota-
toes in the county this year. probably
a few tons more than last season. The
acreage is much larger than that
planted last year and the yield is al
most as good per acre. Some spuds
were killed by the cold weather of a
few days ago but the aggregate of the
county may not materially affect the
supply. Many farmers are holding in
the expectation that there will be a
heavy advance in price next spring.
Question of Selling
The determination to hold is a per-
sonal matter but there are those who
think the fall good time to sell.
They say that hotel people and others
have stocked up or are now doing it,
the price at present offered gives a
good margin of profit, and with so
many holding there is bound to be a
| big supply in the spring when the pits
are opened all of which must find
some kind of a market And against
all of this is the fact that the crop
elsewhere is showing up larger than
was counted on some time ago.
Little Stock Interest
So far as the hay men are concerned
the winter will govern the conditions.
Just at this time it seems evident that
the meat purveyors do not intend to
| winter many sheep or cattle in this
valley this year and consequently the
demand for hay from that source will
be lighter than for several previous
seasons. Stock to be wtntered, so far
as it has been placed, is this season
in Oregon and Idaho and not in the
Yakima country. A continuation of
such weather conditions as have ex-
listed will speedily react on the hay
market.
Good Poultry Supply
One thing that has become appar-
ent this year is that there has been a
larger county production of turkeys,
geese, ducks and chickens than ever
before and these birds have been COM
ing in to the local markets in greater
supply than ever before at this sea-
son of the year. The chickens appear
to be ample in number to take care of
the home demand but there are indi-
cations that ducks, geese and turkeys
will advance in price as the holiday
season approaches. Meats of other
kinds are stacking off a little so far
as the price paid the producer is con-
cerned.
The general market is as follows:
Falispell hard wheat flour, sack $1.65
Dulch mill '........ .........$ l.25
Yakima Best flour, per sack ...$1.30
Prosser flour, per sack ........$1.35
Alfalfa, per ton, wholesale 80. $40. 90
Potatoes, per ton $3.50
onions, pen ton SIS a SIG
Fruits, Vegetables, Groceries
Creamery butter. pound, 45;c for S5c
Ranch butter, pound ......2 for Csc
Fresh ranch eggs, dozen ........5 soc
Cheese, Wisconsin, pound .......25c
Brick cheese, pound .25c
Imported Swiss cheese, found ..40c
Limburger cheese pound ..25c
! Dill pickles, per dozen zoe
Bananas, dozen So
! Lemons, dozen IS
Oranges, dozen 80. S5c, Ace and 60c
Florida grape fruit, each .......1 0c
Tomatoes, pound Toe; 2 for 15c
Apples for table use. pound -. 5 to &c
Sauerkraut per pound ......5c
| DRIED onions, .........1O pounds 25c
Beets, bunch sc
Carrots, bunch sc
Turnips, bunch &c
Parsaips, bunch ................ SC
Summer squash. pound ......... 4c
Caulifiower, head ....,.. ..15c @20c
Il Green pepper, pound 15c
; California grapes, basket .40c
Celery, bunch ................. 10c
Sweet potatoes, 7 pounds for 80. .25c
Grapes, local, pound SC
Egg plant, each loo
Lettuce, per head ...............5c
IuHis' pouIG ......s.. &c
; Potatoes, per pound .,..........11 u c
Green onions, 2 punches .........5 Sc
: Radishes, punches .............5c
: Nalnuts, (new) per pound .2Jc
Almonds (new), per pound ......25c
} Ounce, pounds for Use
HuckleberSies . pounds for .....25c
Cranberries, pound $50. zoe; 2 for Soc
lSugar, IS pounds Tor ..........sl.00