Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-19
WUXTRY! WUXTRY!
N|NETY-CENT EGGS
King Street Farmers Long Quies-
cence Ends With New
Offensive.

lkttitBOiN WY w. S''N'
chief brewing not unlikely to attention
from the maternal slipper And hy the
Same token every Wilmington housewife
knows that when Hing street curb market
prices stay stationary for 2 time they
never 20 downlthc markcteers are plan
ning to put a new one over
lnd things have been 20 quiet, - nice
50 pleasant, 81 uIlful and soothing. in
Ming street 50 far Is the farmers have
been concerned, that the wise haSkctecrs
have had their suspicious that something
would he doing soon.
Md today its been done
of CouRsU IT EG,s.
Its eggs Wednesday they We're rs
cents dozen, where they had been
for virtually month Today l"t Of
stall holders we're asking ninety cents.
some eight-hvc j few eighty and still
fewer -, the latter that tIthc of men
and women who cunScIcnccS arc still
their n stcrs, Heaven bless them
What suddenly boosted the price
from sevcntX-fivc cents 20 ninety the
public IS mt allowed to know. SMaybe
ii was the Elder Statesmen of whom We
haven't heard much Of late, maybe IT
was the influenza attacking the henncrlcs,
although we didn't know hens got In
fluenza, or maybe 1t was the near APP
proach Of Christmas and the necessity Of
filling up the old sock against the buvlng
of gifts A any rate, the egg sltuatlun
stands At ninety cents
II looks verv much a. if the farmer
marketeers intended to 60 after the
dollar mark by Thanksgiving and purely
on the basis OF war prices" at that
The eggs that farmers sell in King street
are no better than the fresh candLed
extras" Of ordinary trade. \ faIr price
for these has been fixed by the food adj
ministration in Philadelphia At 66 70 40
cents, and that just what the farmer :
strictly fresh country eggs IN hing
street should be
Opinion X hv no means scantN that the
Food Administrator here might give
soIre attention to the prizes q staples
and ther things in the curb market
Eggs would seem 10 offer quite ~ good
3 neld Tor investigation and the tlNng
of !, pyicc hevond which hes proLteerlng
as oranges which have formed the
subject Of comment from Official sources
this week Oi course the housewife
doeen need to pay the farmer prices.
because eggs can = gotten at reasonable
figures lust SIS good elsewhere. But none
the less the farmer does business, and 7
there is 4 way to stop prohteerlng IN
oranges there ought 10 be the same way
t. stop proIteering IN eggs.
sPEA ING OF ORANGES.
Incidentally, the Food Administrator 5
remarks concerning oranges has had
considerable good effect. The fruit was
plainly marked with cards today and was
graded. price ranging from 90 cents q
dozen to $50 Furthermore. the specl-
mems themselves were better-looklng.
None the less. prices were still Just as
much as posi- ~ could be charged,
although goodness only knows where
they would have been had not the public
made its outcry.
Other prices continued about the same
As they have been. although lima beans
showed q slight tendency to fall
Good news come from the butchers.
The downward tendency noted III the
PhIiadelphia market last week IS reach
ing Wilmington and prices 70 the butcher
from the wholesaler are going down
Mex, week. il was said b.. one prominent
dealer. they will have reached point
where tie consumer will feel them.
pricc- promising TO be some cents lower
This i. of course OF the higher grades
and cuts
And 81 yol see. Old King street II
living up to It's reputation Of being .ht
place where its just one thing after another