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Show SPRIG CHICKEN II LOCJSLJBUIOIGE Nevertheless, the Price Holds to Fifty Cents Per Pound. With the local market actually flooded with spring "fry" chickens, the coat pel"' pound to the ultimate consumer is 50 cents. Local retailers admit that the supply at this time of the year has never been greater nor the prospects for future supply sup-ply so gratifying. They offer no reason, however, for the exceptionally high retail price. Even old hens and roosters are bringing bring-ing exorbitant prices just now, roosters being quoted at 3" cents per pound, while hens fetch from 37 to 39 cents. Moat vendors are marking-time. They expect to be able to announce another raise in meat quotations before July 1, but do not intimate how much of a boost is oomiii?. All are confident, however, that before the July rimh of grass feds is inaugurated the householder will have to pay more for his beef cuts and steaks than he Is doing at present. Dealers announce the hifth wave Of the strawberry past. They attribute the alleged al-leged shortness of the season to the excessively ex-cessively hot weather of the past week, which ripened berries more rapidly than they could be gathered and cared for. Yesterdav strawberries sold at from two boxes for 25 cents to 20 cents per box. Dewberries are selling at 15 cents per cup, fresh figs, 60 cents per pound; peaches.' 20 cents per pound; cantaloupes, 10 and 15 cents each; cherries, 20 and 25 cents per pound; gooseberries, 10 cents per pound; rhubarb, 1 to 2 cents per pound; tomatoes; 25 cents per pound; cucumbers. cu-cumbers. 5 to 10 cents each; new potatoes, pota-toes, IHahs 10, Califomias 5 cents pound. Utah green peas are two pounds for 15 cents, or 10 cents per pound. Eggs are displaying a tendency to move up and are being quoted at 40 cents a dozen on the open market. Small greenstuff Is held at normal figures. New potatoes are graduallv getting down to the "salary man's level." and are selling at seven pounds for 23 cents. |