The Washington herald., 1912-11-23
TURKEY PLENTIFUL;
PRICES NO HIGHER
twenty-five Cents a Pound Prevail.
ing Price-other Fowl Also
in Good Supply.

Turkeys. dressed. % cents the pound
that was the price yesterday. and mos
of the men who deal in the Thanksgiving
bird said that price would probably main.
tain until after THANKSGIVING.
There is plenty Of turkey in town. and
market men said that of all kinds OF
poultry there are unusually plentiful sup
plies. Besides turkeys, chickens and
ducks were imported by thousands yes.
terday. and there is big supply of game
of all kinds and OF beef, lamb, pork, and
other meats.
Altogether, the outlook for Thanksgiv.
ing dinner is encouraging. Whether
prices will be satisfactory is not so GER
tain as the present abundance of food
stufs. Retail meat dealers yesterday
complained that prices asked by the
packers were too high, and it was noted
also that butter and eggs are on the
upward march. Specially selected eggs
retailed at So cents a dozen yesterday,
strictly fresh at from IS to 50, and the
ordinary egg of commerce at IS, 40 and
a cents dozen. Butter, classed as EIgin
tub. was sold at IS to IS cents a pound.
with print buffers higher
Smoked meats were lower in price yes
terday
Some prices yesterday were: Smoked
meats, breakfast bacon, sliced, 25 cents
pound; smoked ham, sliced, 2S cents
a pound; fancy home-dressed fowls re-
tailed at 20 cents a pound; young chick
ems. p cents; broilers. % cents; geese,
- cents; ducks, % cents: guinea keats.
Sl-25 rair: squads. 81 and 10 cents each
These prices are retail. for home-dressed
goods.
Trout reta.Is at I2h cents a pound: sea
bass, - cents; Potomac bass. 10 to %
cents 4 pound, according to size; hall
but steak, 20 cents; fresh cod, 121E cents;
rocknsh, 12I3 to % cents per pound, ac-
cording to size; founders. 12Ih cents: but
terfsh, l212 cents: salmon, . cents;
Spanish mackerel 5 cents: bluehsh, 20
cents. Oysters. standards. so cents; Sc
leCts, 80 cents. CLAIMS are so cents
quart, and Holsters retail at 35 cents
a pound.
Quail retails at 40 cents each to s425
a dozen. Rabbits, 80 cents each; pleas
ants, $50 each: woodcock are $3.50 a
pair. Mallard ducks, retail. 20 cents to
81 each; redheads. 81 to $50: blackheads.
10 cents to 81 a pair. White potatoes
are p cents a peck or 90 cents a bushel,
and sweets were retailing for the same
price. Cabbage, 5. S to 10 cents a head;
red cabbage. Is cents.
Carrots. 10 cents a quarter peck;
turnps, cents a quarter peck: satisfy,
or oyster plant. cents a bunch; beets
cents a bunch; parsnips. 10 cents
quarter peck; dry onions. yellow, 10
cents 4 quarter; dry onions, white, Is
cents quarter; celery. ) to s cents a
bunch; lettuce cents head: Cauli-
flower. l5 to 20 cents each: spinach, s.
cents quarter or p cents a peck; pars-
ley. cents a bunch; string beans, -
cents quarter: brussels sprouts, 20
cents a box; Cucumbers, and 10 cents
each; sweet peppers, . cents a basket
of ten; Ieeks, cents a bunch: Spanish
onions 3 for 10 cents: tomatoes, 10 cents
a pound: okra Is cents a box.
Apples, ordinary sorts. sell at 10 to Il
cents quarter peck Fancy Jonathans,
Spitzcnbergs Grimes golden. winesaps,
York imperials. greetings, and other
Western apples range from 30 to so cents
a peck, some OF the extra grades be-
ng as high as IS cents a peck.