New-York tribune., 1918-07-06
Cost of Foods
Here and Abroad
Buy Your Peas in Paris but Your Beef
steak Here
Let The Tribune Institute Consumers Clubs Help to Fill
Your Thrift Stamp Book
MEATS AND FISH AND FOWL

poorer going into the can better meats
pay fer Round steak has capped the record BY
selling for 4s cents pound when srlon and rib only 4
and buyers and the absence of bone the round!
The butcher has no confidence in his ability to dispose
en meat prices and there waste both retailer and
consumer on the round and he buys and sells and
rump steak selling for ss pound et for
l The Partisan be ahead of and string BEANS
sonabe Stewng beef for the poaueu may had for 40
cents aooad and the best price quoted here 81
cost anywhere from $2.4o to $500
The fall in price Of lamb which, according to the wholesalers
hod nave taken place. not registered in the retail
ket where inquiry made Lamb chops still SO to S
cents pound leg 80 and stew go Lamb whoesang 6
pound for the whole carcass the wholesale prices
have dropped to pound per hundredwegh We still
tnk ha TINS drop ought to be reflected in the retail market
The only meat approaching anything reasonable in price the
stewlng veal at % cents and the shoulder at %. y
lhough hsh not amazingly cheap decidedly cheaper
than meat with mackere % Is cents founder 12 to IT,
whiting at R sea bass at 5 cents and porgs butter
pound higher than those suggested by the Federal Food Board
as a fair retail price for these fish at this time
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS
The only real sensation in the vegetable market created
by the potato This heavily respectable vegetable has
given to trouble making this year When potatoes got
the market to themselves they proceedeo up price
barrel l80 pounds) and then with falling off in demand
to fall to 81 within two days time market quotation
however shows cents pound which has been regulation
Paris market report for June 16 that new potatoes
are abundant but the official price remains at pound
though they be bought the and cents
The amazing statement is made that although green vegetables
are dear in full be for cents
pound costs 20 cents pound here peas though
they in the height Of the though we
should be able do little better this in comparison with
war-strcken France.
Complaint registered the other hand that string beans
which nave been plentiful and cheap would sell all here
Beans bought wholesale for 80 cents bush the
were sold at 80 cents dispose them String down
to 10 cents pound the retail market old charge
brought that when vegetable gets cheap bought and
the wholesalers plight who lost 80 bushel on his pu
chase of beans quoted it. These were of the
finest grade The haricos verts of Paris bringing from
20 cents to "a cents pound according quality but the t
string bean OF the French restaurant as delicious as are
the larger beans generally offered the markets here
The bes5 OF New Jersey cabbage selling wholesale fer
3 cents pound while the Long Island brings cents
head (weighing to pounds) The downtown retail market
price is cents which about what should be- but
Der OF places the charge has been high as cents Spring
cabbages in Paris selling for II apiece if that is n
consolation. ~
All berries and small fruits high in price regardless
the tact that the height of the upon u.s. The high
price OF labor for harvesting packing is given
We quote again from Paris report to the effect
that only the nouveaurche and the munon workers can
afford hothouse peaches at 40 apece While it is not
bad as this here still peaches high despite the fact that the
receipts very large for this time of year
TWO MENIrS