Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-29
LARGER SUPPLIES
Of FOODSTUFFS
Wider Variety and Lower
Prices Mark Washing
ton Markets.

Larger supplies. wider variety and
lower prices marked the vegetable and
fruit market in Washington today, and
dealers anticipate big shipments and fur
Their slight reductions in prices for to-
morrow's market Fish prices. however,
are trife higher than last week, but
retail prices Of meats of all kinds. fresh
as well as cured, remain at exactly the
ago. when the last change in prices was
noted. Eggs are going soaring. the
supply of strictly fresh eggs-the kind
you can feel safe in serving soft-boiled-
being unusually short. Butter and cheese
prices remain unchanged, while poultry
is slightly lower in all lines.
Prices Of Vegetables.
Prices of vegetables at Center market
stands today were as follows:
Potatoes, 80 cents a peck; sweet pota-
toes, extra fine quality and size, 10 cents
a quarter peck; beets. 5 cents bunch;
turnips, cents a bunch; cabbage, III
cents a head; carrots, cents bunch;
roasting ears, IS cents dozen; white
onions, Is cents q quarter peck; yellow
onions, Is cents a half pack; Bermuda
onions, cents each: radishes. three
punches for 5 cents; celery, cents
stalk egg plants, 5 to cents each; let
tuce, 10 cents head; cymlings, three Tor
cents; okra, Is cents quart box; black
eyed beans, 10 cents box; bullnose pep.
pers, 10 cents a dozen; string beans, ~
cents q quarter peck; lima beans. % cents
q quart box; summer squash-crooknecks--
Is cents basket: cucumbers. two for
cents; tomatoes, Is cents quarter peck !;
kale, 10 cents a half peck; spinach, III
cents a half peck.
Fine Peaches Offered.
Washington markets have not for sew
eral years afforded SO many fine peaches
as are offered for sale at the present
time The fruit is uniformly large
sound, full favored and high colored'
and prices are remarkably low, quallty
considered. Magnificent peaches retained
today at $3.50 a half-bushel, or $40
bushel. and at some stands prices are
even lower. The varieties range from
| the big, red-cheeked yellow Elbertas u
the firm-feshed white clings. Dealers say
this is the best peach year Washihs 'oi
marketers have had for several seasons
and it is expected that by the middle y.
| September prices will be as low as liie'
, have been here for number OF y years;
Watermelons, big, luscious ~
| fellows. retailed today at 80 Genus and
cantaloupes sold at 3 for % cen,s' n n
on down to 5 cents each for small onon
Fancy California grapes were ~ nala-
| a pound: Concords. Ntagaras anu Fancy
wares were 25 cents a basket TX
pears were 80 cents a pan; apII ea 20
cents quarter peck; crao.app cents a
cents a basket; plums, 40 10 s - and
| basket; oranges. 80 cents . dozen;
scarce at that; lemons, ~ cents n1as TX
| lines, 15 cents a dozen; pine pcents a
/ cents each; huckleberries, ~
box; bananas, Is cents a dozen.
Fish Supply Rather Short
Supplies of fresh fish were ra.nei 80, 49,
today, and prices ruled a triho
than last week. Following are 'oA'
quotations.: bass
| Weakfsh, Is cents a pound &c go, OK
1914 cents a pound; Spanish mo ...
cents a pound; Norfolk spots. :. no,,nd
pound; rockfish, 20 to 25 cents q p
according to size; blueish' 10 cen.. =
pound; Small trout 10 cen tresh cod. 20
halibut. 20 cents pound 1e1s cents a
cents a pound; butternsh'
pound. . remained at
80 cents a pound, the ptS butter still
| three weeks ago; renosa strictly fresh
brings SO cents a pounoac; CENTS dozen.
nearby eggs are up 10 oSI.cted for size.
tN1th the same SORT