The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-30

ley costs 80, and green turtle is high
er.
AS to the fish, that is n Of the
cheap things on the menu. A piece /
Of broiled bass costs SO cents, broll-
ed bluefsh the same, mo a portion
Of live lobster broiled is $1.25. En-
trees are dear. / a buy a guinea
hen almost anywhere in Virginia for
half a dollar, but a piece Of the fowl
cut from the breast costs $1.25, n a
half of a spring chicken just the same.
When you come to order special dish
es the prices go up. For a spring
duckling the charge is 81, roa chick
en- 81, and if you want a Philadelphia
capon the price is high. 1t will take
forty minutes to coo a Our-dOllar
capOn. and you may know you are
paying Just ten cents each minute you
wait. You car get a whole spring
turkey for the same sum.
| nave just received an offer Of Z
| cents a pound for some hogs or my
| farm in Virginia. On these bills Of
fare Virginia ham costs 80 cents for
two slices. Two lamb chops, each as
big around as a dollar are served for
! rs cents.
I object also to the prices Of the
vegetables and fruits. I know that
apples are scarce this year and nat
the prices are high. But nevertheless
% cents is too much for a single
baked apple which outside the hotels
on the fruit stand could be bought for
a nickel. Set aside 5 cents for the
cream and the cooking, and the hotel
gets Is cents for the apple alone.
It's apples are bought by the barrel
and at the low estimate of 800 apples
to the barrel makes me pay. at the
rate Of $50 a barrel. This is right
high for apnles.
It is the same with potatoes. Dur
ing this whole trip l have had to pay
20 cents and upward for one or two
baked in the skin, which must be at
the rate Of something like $40 per
bushel. Spinach is sold at about the
same rate, and lima beans and cauli-
flower bring 35 cents for a good
double handful. AS to new corr In
season, the hotels have been selling
that at about 10 cents IN ear. The
average barrel Of field corn will hold
500 ears Of twice the size Of the green
stuff that comes to the table At q
thousand ears to the barrel, they are
now getting about a hundred dollars
a barrel for their corn. And still il
is said there is no money in farm
: ing!
1t used to be that the price for ic<
: cream was 10 or Is cents a dish a
almost any hotel. Now you pay 81
, cents for each portion and the sam
is true of water ice witt
lemon, orange or raspberry. IN
fancy kinds cost more, and II you ar
, SO extravagant as to desire a portion
of charlotte russo as big as you ca
buy almost anywhere in a CONNECTION
q cry store for a nickel, h charge q
S the hotel will be 40 cents. A size
t Of apple pie costs 20 cents, deep-disl
n peach pie costs 25, and a cup custar'
y often costs you a quarter per per
) son.
The rates in the dining cars on tn
railroads are almost as hlgh. nav
a the bills Of fare from which l OF
II dered my meals in the past few day
= They come from the leading railroad
z Of the country and I pick out a fe'
items at
- Two lamb chops. 65 cents; scran
bled eggs with chopped toast,
-, cents: roast beef with Drowned p<
:, tatoes, 70 cents; sphagetti. 25 cent,
"a baby turnips, 25 cents; spring chicl
K en-. a whole one. $50; a sirloin stea
w costs a dollar; bacon and eggs. {
Id cents: and two boiled eggs a quartz
st All soups are rs cents or more, al
L. no orders are taken for less than
ne quarter per person. One must ps
er at least 60 cents before he is allow'
to have bread and butter, witho
charge, on the side.
1t was in refreshing contrast
Ms thoso q Ia carte meals that T fou,
on one of the fast trains from NJ
waukee to St. Paul the old-fashion'
We dollar dinner that we used to ha
everywhere as we rode over the cou
g try. These have been discontinued
=" most of the lines, and as n IA
80 trains do not stop for meals. one
ost ~ paS
In order to show the difference
80 tween the old o~ne-dollar dinner a
NJ the meals OF the present. | have tax
one item from each of he cour:
ost on the dollar menu beginning "!
blue points and ending with coffee a
cheese and added up the prices