The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-04
BRIDGEPORT MARKET
 REPORT

8S6 Main street. Tel Noble 25O.
 Abundant-Grapes, peppers, sweet corn, apples, onions, sweet potatoes
 Normal-Green tomatoes, pears cabbage, cantaloupes
 Scarce - Peaches, Lima beans, string beans, beets, squash, tomatoes.
 Consult Abundant List Daily.
 Consumers should pay special at- tention now to the classification of vegetables into abundant, normal and scarce divisions. With local produce In the transitional stage between early fall and late fall and winter pro- ducts only the vegetables listed as abundant should be purchased. A little care in perusing this list before setting out on a shopping trip may mean quite a saving in the daily budget. At present, sweet pototoes are one of the best buys for the housewife and there are many ways in which this nourishing vegetable can be prepared. According to wholesalers reports the price on sweet potatoes is now on rock bottom and a reaction is expected at most any time. Retailers are paying from $4.25 to $6 barrel containing three bushels or 35 F. to soc peck accord ing to quality. With prices even lower than on the white potatoes and one and a half times as much food value as there Is in the white "spuds," | housewives should awake to the fact that big food bargain is offered in sweet potatoes.
 Frost Winds up Season on Many Veg etables.
 A heavy frost last night finished up | the growing season for many tender summer vegetables, and beans, toma- toes and peppers will soon be off the market. Buy now if you want sup 1 ply of these products as prices will very likely take a sudden jump.
 Glaced Sweet Potatoes.
 Wash and pare six medium sized sweet potatoes. Cook in boiling salt
 ed water lengthwise and put in a but | halves lengthwise and put in a but tered pan. Make a syrup by boiling IF cups of corn syrup and two table
 spoons of water for three minutes. | Add 1 tablespoon of butter. Brush the potatoes with syrup and bake un-
 til brown, basting twice with the re- 1 llldIIlAllS Syl up' Apples, 50c-s1.50 basket, 4-10c at
 $1-S225 basket, 7-Sc quart.
 Bananas-South American, $3-3.5 5(
 nine hands, 25-3Oc dozen.
 Beans-green, $175-2 bushel, 5
 6 1-4c quart; wax, $1.75-2 bushel
 5A-6Ac qt..; Lima, $33.50 bushel
 1Ok -12 F ac at.
 Beets-bunch, 2o-24 punches fo $1, Sc bunch.
 Cabbage, s15o-$2 barrel. 1 1-2-2 pound
 Canta1oupes-L. I. & N. J.; s2.76 s4 crate, 9-10c each; Honey Dew s2.25-25O crate; 4o-5oc each. : Carrots-bunch, 3O-5oc dozen, 2 l. and 4c bunch.
 Corn-local, s1.75-2.25, 21-27c dog : No. 2, $1-1.5O, 12-1Sc dozen. . Cucumbers - York State, $1.90-S! bushel 1 F Pc each; pickling $1 pc s 100; 1c each. Grapes-Ma1aga, s25o-2.75' flat \ 10 1-4-11 1-4c pound; Tokay, s265 : 2.75 flat; 12-13c pound; local, $1-1.2 basket, ' 1-2-9c pound.
 Lettuce-head, $1.25 crate, 5c head OnlOHS- S-SouH. NdlIeyS 9Z'oO-1. ( ! 2A-2Ac pound; local, $1.50-1.7 ], bushel, 3-3Ac pound. l Pears-DAnjou, s4.25-5.00 bo1 5 2 1-4-3c each. : oranges-Cal. Valley, $s.5o-1o.o k box; 40-75c dozen,
 f Lemons-Cal., $5-6.0O box; 1A-2 $ each.
 Parsley, 3O-4Oc, 2 1-2-S 1-sc Nancr
 -E1bertas. $2.00 baske
 14c quart; s4.00-425 bushel, 12 1-1
 13 1-4c quart.
 n Peppers-local, s1.25-1.5O bushe 3-5c quart.
 = Potatoes Maine, s1.75-2.00 bushe : 44-4sc peck; local, $2 bushel, 50 e peck; sweet, $4.25-6.oO barrel, S7-5o peck.
 e Endive, $1 barrel, 10c peck. s Squash, 30-35c dozen, 2 1-23 each.
 : Tomatoes, ripe, N5-soc crate, 4-4%
 qt; 66-S5c basket, 3 # -4c qt.; greer e 45c basket, F -4c at. ! Red raspberries, 15c pint, 15c pint @ Quinces, $7-s.0o barrel, 647Se peek e These prices represent approxi 3 mately the cost to the retailer wke e buying in the original package. O
 account of the variable costs of re s tailing due to rentals. delivery ser . vice, shrinkage, etc, the consumer : should expect to pay from Is to 3 e per cent. or more above the price e quoted in these columns 0 H. s. SCHWENK, s In charg'