Evening star., 1913-05-23
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES
ARE ON THE DECLINE
Dealers Believe Lower Prices
Are Likely to Be Per-
manent.

A general downward tendency in prices
of vegetables and fruits was manifest
today. Strawberries selling at all the way
from . cents quart for small, soft ber-
ries up to 25 cents for fine ones. Sweet
corn dropped from 81 a dozen to 80 cents
green peas and string beans showed de-
cline In price, and dealers stated that the
reductions are probably permanent, as the
season is well enough advanced to make
supplies of all kinds of green stuff large
Peaches from Florida were newcomers
on the market today. the fruit selling at
30 cents a small basket. Cherries of all
kinds, sour as well as sweet, were also
on hand in abundance, prices being 10 to
10 cents a box.
Quotations on Vegetables.
Old potatoes today sold for o5 cents a
peck. the new ones bringing just double
that price. Old carrots were Is cents a
quarter peck; sweet potatoes so cents a
peck. yams 40 cents a peck and old onions
Is cents a quarter peck. New carrots
were cents bunch: beets. cents
bunch: cabbage, 5 and cents a head !;
leeks, cents bunch; turnips, cents
bunch; spring onions. three punches for
> cents: lettuce, and 10 cents a head: j:
radtshes, three punches for 5 cents; as
paragus. 30 cents large bunch: egg
plant. 10 cents each: kale, 25 cents a
peck: spinach 30 cents a peck: poke
salad, cents a bunch; wax beans, 10
cents quarter peck; string beans, 10
cents quarter peck; cucumbers, and
10 cents each; tomatoes, Is cents
pound. or two pounds for ..5 cents; peas,
fancy telephones. Is cents quarter peck;
sweet peppers. three for cents; GYM
Inns, cents each: okra. ID cents
quart; caulifiower. 10 and ID cents each; ;
rhubarb, three punches for 10 cents
Oranges retailed today at all the way
from 40 to ~ cents a dozen. Grapefruit.
which is growing scarce. brought from 10
to ID cents each. the latter size SELL
ing at two for % cents. Lemons
We're 20 to 80 cents a dozen; lines, 20 to
30 cents a dozen; pineapples 10 to p
cents each: bananas. Is to % cents a
dozen; cooking apples, 80 cents a peck:
eating apples, ) cents each.
Fish a Little Lower.
In the fish markets prices also ranged
a little lower than week ago. Fancy sal
mon sold at % cents pound: halibut,
p cents pound; fresh cod. 1Hs cents;
haddock. 10 cents; Boston mackerel, so
cents each; Spanish mackerel, - cents
pound; smelts, 10 cents a pound; brook
trout, 70 cents pound: crab meat, 81
gallon; crab flakes. $1.5O gallon; stur-
geon. y cents a pound; roe shad. which
is growing scarce, Is cents each; buck
shad, 40 cents each; shad roe, 10 cents
each; sea bass, 12,z cents a pound; sea
trout. 10 cents a pound; perch I5 cents
pound; rockfish, 70 cents a pound; |;
croakers, 10 cents a pound: bluefish, 15
cents a pound; red snappers, ID cents a
pound.
No change is noted in butter prices,
best Elgln creamery retailing at 40 cents
a pounu Other grades are So cents, 3.
cents. 30 cents and 70 cents with cOun-
try butter, strongly favored with the
Wild garlic that grows thick in the
neIus oI virginia and Maryland at this
season. selling as low as lS cents a
pound. Fancy eggs are now bringing
% and 80 cents a dozen, other grades
retaining down as low as ~ cents.
Prime roasts of all sorts Of meats
except pork retailed today at 25 cents
pound, this being the price for beef.
veal lamb and mutton. Pork Ioin
roasts sold at 20 cents a pound. No
changes were noted in other meat prices.
except in pork chops, which today re-
tailed at % cents a pound.
Suuab broilers retailed at SO cents
eacn today, tryers bringing 80 to 35
cents a pound. Roasting fowls We're
Is cents pound, stewing fowls. -
cents: ducklings, Is cents: squads. 40
to so cents each, and turkeys, 25 cents
a pound.