Evening star., 1926-10-15
fine CRAB APPLES
AT CENTER MARKET
Damson Plums Also Appear in
Quantity-S.Quart Pan Sells
for 25 Cents.

of a quality fine for making tart Jelly.
They are fairly plentiful and retail for
35 cents @ 3-Quart box.
/. Another article now available for
housewives looking for materials to
put up for Winter use Is the damson
plum, which would make delicious
preserves or plum butter. The plums
are offered at 25 cents 3-quart pan.
The damsons are plentiful.
Other products on the market re-
main at prices. qualities and quanti-
ties noted last week. A large variety
of fruits, vegetables, pastries, breads,
salads. dried fruits, nuts. dairy prod
ucts, fish, meats and flowers are on
display.
Butter and eggs cling to the high
levels struck last week, with hennery
eggs at 70 cents a dozen, candled eggs
at 60 and commons at lower prices,
and with top.grade creamery butter
of 1.pound prints at IS and 60 cents.
Some dealers sell tub butter at the
same price as creamery prints, while
others offer it at slightly lower levels.
Milk Is Cents a Quart.
Milk is Is cents a quart, or cents
a pint, and buttermilk Is IA cents a
quart. or 8 cents a pint. Single cream
is 36 cents q pint and double or whip
ping cream Is 76 cents a pint. Cot
tage cheese is offered at Is cents for
12-ounce packs.
Chickens, ducks, turkeys and keats
are coming into the meat markets in
greater numbers, and Lrices are be-
lieved reasonable for this season Of
the year.
Turkeys are quoted at 65 cents
pound, dressed: ducks are IS, keats 30
cents, squads Is cents to 81; fowl are
40 cents a pound, roaSters and frys as
cents, and capons 30 cents.
A good allotment Of the birds now
on the market are fresh-killed, but
some are storage.
Fish remain steady at last weeks
levels in price and quantity. Meats
also are steady in retail quotations.
though in some instances, particularly
in lamb. there has been considerable
f1uctuation in wholesale quotations.
Alligator pears now are selling at
so and so cents generally through
the market. Bartlett pears, the COM
mon variety, are so cents for pan
Of 10 and seckel pears are 80 cents
for a pan of "a.
Eating Apples Plentiful.
Eating apples are and 8 cents
pounds for 25 cents.
A few allotments of peaches still
are available at 35 cents for a pan
of 10.
GRAPEFRUIT, now much more plen-
tiful than in the past few months,
sell for 10. Is and 20 cents each, and
oranges are retailed at 60 and IS
cents a dozen, depending on the size
and grade. Lemons are 30 cents a
dozen.
Potatoes are steady at pounds for
25 cents and sweets are three pounds
for 25 cents.
Peas and string beans are offered
at 20 cents a pound and cauliflower,
which recently came into the mar
ket in large quantities, sells at 35
and 40 cents each.
Beets and carrots are 10 cents a
pound each and artichOkeS are Is
cents each.
Tomatoes are 20 cents a pound.
Mushrooms, which began to come
into market last week. are offered
at rs cents a pound, which is rs
cent reduction from the original re-
tail quotation this Fall.
Onions S to 10 Cents.
Spanish onions are s, 8 and 10
cents each and yellow onions, or
cookers, are three pounds for 25
cents.
Honeydew melons are so and so
cents each and cantelOupes. now
about at the end of their season, are
90 cents each.
Celery is 25 cents a bunch and let
tuce Is Is and 20 cents a head. Spin
ach is Is cents a pound.
Cabbage sells for cents a pound,
eggplant is Is and 20 cents each;
peppers are two for 5 cents, sweet
corn, now past season, is cents an
ear and lima beans are .75 cents a
quart.
Grapes are quoted at the follow
ing prices: 10 cents d pound for
white seedless brands, Is cents
pound for Tokays and 35 cents two
quart basket for Concords. Niagaras
and DelawareS.