Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-16
CURB MARKETEERS
MUCH AT VARIANCE
Eggs Run From Seventy to Eighty
Cents While Butter Shows
Divergence on Figures.

We arc pleased TO announce TIL at some
thing must have gone wrong with the
Elder Ststesm en- thus morning IN hing
street market. These genial gentlemen
seemed not to have been on the Job.
because there was q great variance OF
prices for butter and eggs, the chief
articles for sale by the curb markctcers
these DAYS.
Prices for eggs ran all the way from 65
cents dozen, the figures asked by p few
of the curb men, TO so cents. Most Of
the farmers were selling at IS, but when
they were asked what the price WAS there
was a furtivc look in their ewes that show
ed we'll and truly that they were not salts
fed IN their own minds rs TO what they
ought to charge
whats the natter" asked Every
Evenings market reporter Don't you
folks know where YOU standf You are
asking so cents a dozen for eggs and here
there is man only hundred feet away
asking 20 cents. while down the street
in the same block with you another fellow
is asking IS.
PRICES CHANGE SUDDE My.
The marketeer gave the reporter ono
good look and the next instant replied TO
a woman who asked the price Of eggs
that they were IS cents. thus splitting the
difference between the prices o. his neigh
bors.
Assurcdly something must have hap
pened to the Elder Statesmen today
But while the curb markctccrs could
not agree on prices for eggs that doubtless
wHc only hauled out Of cold storage
within the past 4S hours the dealers
in stores and market houses had eggs
Just as good 10 sell at very much lower
prices. One man in Second street market
house was able to sell strictly fresh coun-
try eggs at 90 cents o dozen.
Where do ! get them3'' he said In
answer To a question. why. ! can buy
thousands of them at so cents q dozen
down the stste and IL ten cents q dozen
isn't profit enough why then Ill quit
Its good enough for me and it ought to
be good enough for the farmer"
Chickens and other fowls were some
what scarce owing to the Food Admin
istration's S order concerning the killing Of
hens and pullets. In the markethouses
prices were As 10 As cents pound, but
out on the curb prices by the fowl were
proportionately four 10 six cents more a
pound, Turkeys were very few and far
between and prices were 55 70 go cents
according to the quality of the bird.
Guineas were $3.50 to s. a pair IN the
markethouses and in the shops and geese
AS $50 cents a pound, Meats showed no
change and were being bought by careful
housewives TO the exclusion of poultry,
the Sunday dinner being a very much
better proposition In the form of roast
of beef, lamb or pork than the chicken or
goose.
Winter vegetables were to be seen in
plenty, in the stores and markcthouses,
although the farmers stands were rather
bare There was virtually no change in
price.
Below is today's price list:
Onions, 10 TO 15 cents a quart; white
potatoes, Is cents a quarter peck, IS cents
to 81 a basket, Sl50 to 81 a bushel;
sweets, Is cents quarter; turnlps, Is
cents quarter peck; cranberries, 20
cents a quart; chickens, As to 81 cents
a pound, dressed, but not drawn; turkeys,
60 cents a pound; fresh country eggs,
90 to so cents a dozen; apples, Is to 20
cents a quarter peck; peppers, Is cents
dozen; caulifower, Is to so cents a head;
cabbage, cents pound or 5 to Is cents
head; celery, S. s and 10 cents stalk;
beets, 6 to 10 cents d bunch; sauer kraut,
II to Is cents quart lettuce, 10 70 20
cents head; butter, 65 cents a pound
on curb, rs TO 90 cents In stores; ducks,
45 to so cents 3 pound.