New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Food Prices and Conditions
Dealers Claim That Only Fancy Quality"
:. Foods Sell
Peaches Must Be Large and Red, Tomatoes All
One Size and Meats of the Highest Grade-ls
This to Meet the Consumers Demand
or the Jobbers' Convenience?
Edited by ANNE LEWIS PIERCE In.tu.
FOOD BARCAINS-RELATIVELY SPEAKING

Cantaloupes


Cantaloupes
NE million and half cantaloupes came to town yeste,
" day. enough to give everybody in greater New York Of
went om age Ana the price actually
sold for So last week they could be had for So this and
IN washington Market they reached the at cents
apiece 1t is certainly the time to serve cantaloupes
Peaches and Tomatoes-Graded
AS to peaches-this year is the New York crop that
failed Georgia and New Jersey having pulled theirs through
Whether talking peaches beefseaks, tomatoes Or
panfsh all wholesalers are unanimous in the opinion that &
public will buy only the best least that is all obbe
will buy and presumably they catering the public de-
mand
Is it true that the public demands that all its tomatoes be
OF awess complexion and the sze That peaches be-
large and rosy for the preserving kette) That ali
meat be from heavyweight steers fed? Or possible
that the dealers prefer money on fewer sa
Is the obber the retailer the public blame for the fact
tat any but the best quality food begging New
when we asked, but heard smile at the other end
the line.
To go to the peaches Many women are complaining
that there at the prices that preserving and
canning The is true of tomatoes get good
At small downtown stores the street they be had
TOR 70 to 30 CENTS and still cheaper bought in large qun
o ap Sam pay sd IS Size cents It's to s 81 for two % but
hgure 90 looks cut in the preserving kettle?
Buying Our Food for Its Looks
And yet one dealer who graded his select peaches
charged "a cents for two quarts wholesale sold them RAPIDLY
put his second grade perfectly good went begging
half the price!
Whose fault? The consumers the iobbers' or the re-
tailer Tomatoes plentiful and relatively cheap not
cheap they should be- Wholesang 50 to 60 cents
bushel for No grade they still retail for Is pound
Far too high price But stepped of market into
small shop Vesey Street and bought two pounds half
tor the same price They delicious flavor, but all
sizes large and snaa right for stewng scng but not
good to stuff so beautiful oook upon want hand
painted fruit and vegetables to please the eye as the
palate, we must pay the price,
Huckeberres Unpicked
The woods are full of huckleberres, but there
bend to the owly task of picking them Result we have
few on the market wholesang at IS to u quart
makers will 1S cents quart for them Wholesale they
need not be in their prime for pie making!
Other vegetables that really cheap and abundant
the crooknec squash plentifu, with almost no demand
them and selling for 10 cents) These delicious properly
cooked Lettuce is abundant but not No. quality heads
for Is cents celery 10 cents bunch eggplant at 20
Apples plentiful but not cheap for the quality Again
the plant heard Good demand for fancy stock but small
sized stock selling slowly Windfas good for cooking
they charge Is cents quart for large cooking apples the
market