Milford chronicle., 1920-10-22
PLENTY OF PRODUCE
SELLING IN MILFORD
OYSTERS, CLANS, FISH, POTATOES, CAB
BAGE AND OTHER THINGS SELLING
AT MODERATE PRICES.
CHICKENS, TURKEYS, DUCKS
ARE HIGH-WOOD SELLING S8 TO $40
LOAD; SAUSAGE 3OC. AND 35C.;
DRESSED HOGS $22 100 LBS.

Oysters fresh from the Mispillion
River retail for forty cents per half
bushel basket for the best quality in
the shell. Opened by the quart for
fifty cents. Milford has the finest
favored oysters along the Atlantic
Coast.
Chickens sell in Milford from twen-
ty-four to twenty-six cents per pound
retail They are quoted at the same
prices in the Philadelphia markets at
wholesale.
Sweet potatoes in Milford sell at re-
tail for fifty cents per basket.
White potatoes are selling from
sixty cents to seventy-five cents for
five-eighth bushel basket in Milford.
Fish is the dearest eating for Mil
ford folks-they sell at twenty-five
cents for o bunch" which may be
three or even two small trout. or
other kind of fish. Fish are beyond
the reach of economical tables.
Turnips are plenty and of a fine
grade-selling at retail from forty to
fifty cents per five-eighth basket.
Late sweet corn was never better
and Milford folks are paying twenty
five cents for a dozen ears.
White broth beans retail for ten
cents per quart for best quality.
New corn on cob retails at the store
for S1.25 per bushel.
Wheat is worth 50 per bushel.
Hay is retailing from $50 to $40
per tOn-according to kind and grade.
Straw is worth from S12 to SIC per
ton-accOrding to quality.
Corn fodder sells according to size
of punches and grade. the price rang
ing from three cents to five.
Turkeys and ducks will command
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Wood cut to stove or fireplace
lengths but not split for small sizes.
is delivered to the yard of the home
buyer, for ten dollars per cord. Split
wood for stoves. etc, sells from
twelve to fifteen dollars per cord
just according to who delivers it.
Most wood is sold from deceptive wag-
on bodies and when measured the
price runs far above the market.
Coal retails for $3.50 and is not in
bountiful supply at that.
Butter-country made retails from
forty to fifty cents per pound; cream
cry made butter retails for 40 cents
a pound.
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the stores; dealers pay 80 cents for
white eggs per dozen.
Milk retails for Ia cents per quart
delivered.
Flour is $500 per barrel.
Fresh pork retails from 80 to So
cents per pound, according to the
cut.
Sausage retails at 80 and S5 cents
per pound-according to make.
Dressed hogs sell for S22 per hun
dred pounds.
Lard retails at 27 cents for best
grades down to % cents per pound
for less quality.
Beef retails for best grades and
cuts from 80 to 40 cents per pound;
second grades and cuts from is to 26
cents per pound.
Veal and lamb bring the highest
prices of all. and only reckless spend .
ers are consumers of this meat in
Milford
Oranges and fruits are moderate
priced, while apples are slow sale at
fifty cents per basket-except the
fancy grades, which bring rs and SO'
cents.
Cabbage is plenty and cheap-fine
large heads retailing from TO
cents each.
This is a brief summary of the mar
kets of Milford during the present
week and they fuctuate but little at
this season.