Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-10
MARKET AFFORDS
hLNY GOOD THINGS
POTATOES BEING shlPPED IN ro
RETAIL At g AND 90
CENTS.
sRRiNoERs ARE LOWER,
FOWLS HOLD sTRotto
No Line 40 Vet on Prospsets for Tur.
keys-Many Choice Fruits in Market
-Psars For Canning, and Ounces
and TaIIman swssts For Prsssrvss to
Be Had.

The housewife who is not compelled
to worry over the purse strings and
who buys what she wants. regardless
Of price, need have no trouble over
furnishing her table these days.
The more provident provider Of the
family table Is also able to furnish a
good table, altho some of the luxuriea
afforded in market she would do with
out.
=, Imported Potatoes Here.
This week will see the importation
of Minnesota and Wisconsin Burbank
potatoes. The Wisconsin will retail at
IS cents, the Minnesota at 90 cents.
sixty pounds to the bushel net. Home
growers are Offering potatoes to the
dealers at IS cents. and some have re-
fused to buy because the dealers did
not consider them good enough for
their trade after q profit was added.
Best potatoes now are selling at 80
cents the peck.
sprinasrs Are Cheaper.
The housewife who is unable to go
to the back yard when she wants a
chicken, Is pleased with the fact that
springers have fallen cents, and are
now commanding 25' cents pound
dressed Fowls still hold up to the
price maintained all season, 20 cents a
pound. A fowl. for stew. with dump
lings, Is therefore no more expensive
than most kinds of meat. and not as
high as many OF the choicer cuts.
Dealers look for springers to show an
advance later. as they do not appear to
be plentiful.
In the meat line round steaks are
commanding % cents. sirloins, short
cuts and porter houses "a; pork chops.
pot roasts Of beef. out of the fore
quarters, Is cents; beef for boiling
irom the rib and flank . 12h cents;
veal steak. rs cents; veal stewing
pieces, IS cents: mutton steak. 25
cents; steaks from fore shoulder. 20
cents: mutton for boiling. Is to 1S
cents; ham, Is to IS cents; bacon. %
70 80 cents in the chunk.
Oysters have not begun to be brisk
As yet owing to the warm weather.
Theyyare selling at so cents . quart,
solid meats.
Early Vet For Turkeys.
As yet 1t In early to get line on
turkeys for the Thanksgiving season.
1t ssbaid that turkeys are more plen-
tifuL4fis season. owing to the dry
weather. However, they are not plen-
tiful any season in this immediate ter
ritory. and what the price will be re-
mains to be seen. AS yet no one is
offering turkeys. 1t is also too early
for prices on ducks and geese.
Vegetable Prices.
Sweet potatoes are averaging good
this year, and are a nice change for
Sunday dinners. Jerseys are selling
six pounds for Is cents and Virginias
seven. CabbaSes are still high, and
sell from to s cents the pound. Cab
bages will soon be shipped in. and the
price may go lower. altho likely not
much. 1t is believed, however. that
the quality will run better. Michigan
celery is on the market and is selling
at 12h cents stripped, or 10 cents a
pound unstripped. Tomatoes that have
ripened since the frost in September.
are retailing at Is cents q bushel. The
quality is not Of the best, however.
Egg plant sells from 10 to Is cents, ac-
.ording to size In the squash line only
The Hubbards are plentiful. They are
selling from 10 to 20 cents. according
to size. Pie pumpkins, small this year,
are selling for cents each.
In the Fruit Line.
The fruit market holds strong. but
there Is a fine variety Of stun OF good
quality generally.
Apples are going to be high. the not
weather having affected the crops in
other states as it did here. Apples are
costing dealers $40 per barrel laid
down here, and that means IS apples
for the consumer. Baldwins, Greetings,
ana similar varieties will be on the
market within the next two or three
weeks.
Missouri Jonathans are in the mar
ket, but they are high. No. Is are SELL
ing at 60 cents the peck. and unsortel
mr. orchard run, are retailing at 40.
washington Jonathans. very fancy, the
kind that you may eat the core II you
desire; are retailing at 80 cents dozen.
Gr.mess. Goldens also from Washington,
are commanding the same figure.
In the grape line there is scarcely
a,vthirp TO be had now in the native
line. They come too high for the aver
age buyer. The eastern grape Market
,s high. New York asks Il cents
basket and with cents basket ADDED
FOR freight wholesalers have 70 nave
S2 cents to-show q profit. That orlnes
the grapes to consumers mere at ~
cents. which Is more than most peopie
will pay. The grapes are now too ripe
Ia keep very long, and unless they are
disposed Of at once there Is a chance
COR a heavy loss.
california Tokays are on the markse
IN abundance and are selling at 10
cents g pound or two pounds for %
cents. Malaga grapes are beginning TO
arrive and within a week or ten days
will be plentiful. Between $4,000 ana
10000 kegs were unloaded In New York
this week.
Michigan Kiefers, for canning, are
attracting the attention of housewives
who ike canned pears. They are not
high. $3.50 per bushel. and the quality
is good.
Peaches are practically over. and are
getting pretty ripe. Utahs are selling
at 81 per box.
Florida grape fruit has appeared and
IS very good, altfo not what 1t will be
little later This popular breakfast
fruit Is retailing at Is cents straight
for the larger ones and two for 2S
cents for the smaller ones.
Late yalencias are the only thing in
oranges now on the market. and are
selling from 80 to so cents a dozen.
Lemons are still high and poor in
o,,aiity. They are selling from 50 to
50 cents . dozen.
ca.A COD cranberEies are In market
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