Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-15
EXTRA ELBERTAS
ONLY $1.25 BOX
NOW is THE HARVEST
TIME FOR CANNING.
Cabbage Is the Cheapest Food On the
Market, Quoted at 100 Pounds for
75c; Bulletins Reliable Data
for Housewives.

It's time to roll up your sleeves and
go to it.
Bartlett pears will be gone very
soon. The good solid fruit is now sell
ing at S2.s5 per box, while some very
ripe stock sells as low as $500 per
box.
The big downtown stores are now
putting on their peach sales. Palisade
Extra Elbertas are S1.25 per box.
Dealers say that it is quite possible
that peaches may be few cents per
box lower in price, but only a few
cents and that the difference in quality
justifies one in buying now and not
take any chances of getting left on ac-
count of frost.
The peach movement is now at its
greatest from Palisade and Paonia
starts next week. Eastern buyers are
bidding strong for the fruit so far.
The growers and dealers agree that
tomatoes are now at their best and
that those who wait for a possible
lower price are apt to get left two
ways. Prices show no sign of weaken
ing and frost may get them sooner
than you expect. The best selected
tomatoes now sell at soc to 65c per
peach box, rough stock and overripes
selling at lower prices according to
value.
Wild plums are Csc per basket
Crabapples SOC to 65c per basket, yel
low preserving tomatoes Csc per
basket.
grape that used to be popular for max
ing wines and very rich preserves are
very cheap according to dealers,
large basket for 40c, lugg box of
about 25 pounds net for S1.45. Malaga
grapes, large basket SOC, Tokay
grapes, large basket Csc, Concord
grapes, basket 40c Dealers say the
time for making jelly from concords
will be best about the Goth of Septem-
Der to 5th of October. They expect
prices to be some lower.
Rocky Ford cantaloupes are cheap.
Flat crate of ~ to Is melons are SELL
ing for 75c. Pony crate $3.50. stand
ard crate $2.75, Honeydew melons 25c
to 40c each, watermelons each soc to
S1.0O. Wealthy apples are pounds
25c; box from S1.15 to S1.50. Maiden
blush and other similar varieties, five
pounds 25c; box s2.25. Bellefleur ap-
pies, four pounds 25c; box $500. Crab
apples for jelly are SOC to Csc per
basket, box S1.50.
Flour holds at last weeks prices ex-
ket again. The Longmont Special and
Legal Tender, whole sack S5.45. the
Hungarian Patent and Pride of the
Rockies $5.55.
Sugar has made no change, 10 and
IL pounds for S1.00; $500 and $3.50
per 100 pounds. There seems to be no
likelihood of any change in sugar be-
fore Oct. 18th, at which time Colorado
beet sugar will be on the market
again. Owing to dealers ordering light
so as not to have any sugar on hands
when the drop comes, there is some
danger of temporary sugar shortage
from Oct. 1st to 18th.
Butter holds high, Columbine,
Orange Creamery and Brookside are
45c per pound and the other Denver
brands creamery butter are 4Sc per
pound, two pounds 95c. Tub butter,
per pound, 43c; two pounds 85c. Eggs
are 4Oc, 45c and SOC per dozen.
Cabbage is the cheapest food on the
market, 25 pounds 25c, 100 pounds 75c.
Potatoes took slight lift on account
of the government doing little potato
shopping for the soldiers. They are
now selling at S245 per 100 pounds
for the best Greeleys, 10 pounds 25c.
Cauliflower is &c per pound. Green
onions and radishes, three lunches &c.
Large punches beets, carrots and tur-
nips are &c. Picking cucumbers are
scarce and prices have advanced to Soc
per 100 for the medium and small
sizes, the dill size is $1.00 per 100.
Picking onions 10c per pound, garlic
20c per pound, horseradish root zoe
per pound. Large green peppers are
three dozen for 25c. Green corn zoe