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Show 1 1 SPRING VEGETABLES GRACE MARKET Green Peas Are Crowding the Market Stall Emperor for 9 First Place in Price Lists; Beans, Too' Among Those I Worth Their Weight in Silver; Sugar, Goes Kiting I and the Sky Has Been Removed to Give Price a f Chance to Soar. i s For several weeks now the well " i, ,; known vegetable used as the basis ? for all kinds of pickles has held the j lofty and exalted position of the 'i top notcher In the local markets so far as price per each was con. a cerned and the stock on hand has S been Included In the merchant's (j statements of "other valuable as-3 as-3 sets." The kingly place, however, Is I now being crowded with newcom- I ers and fresh pale pink tomatoes a grown beneath the glass of a hot- I house have arrived to take a seat I along with the heretofore Icing and bid for first honors In the line of valuable things. There also has ar. rived other members of the royal family of vegetables, out of season, I. e., green peas and green beans. r Now there are times during the year when beans are just beana I and run along in the same class . with turnips and onions and po-i po-i tatoes, but not so now. The pres-' pres-' ent day bean found in small quantities quan-tities in the local markets is from the far away land of California, and can bo purchased for 30 cents a pound, which is almost the same as 30 cents a bean, as the pods are i somewhat skimpy and thin and the bean is a rather weak and undeveloped unde-veloped baby which cannot by any chance be put in the running with the later in the season fat ones. But anyhow they are new and novel and the people who In other times of the twelve months look down on the lowly bean now seek it ij out and fight to squander their I money for the weaklings. -. Peas Are Real Luxury. The peas are in about the same class, although somewhat lower in j price. But then one cannot eat the !j pods, so about 70 per cent of the i, gross weight goes to the garbage f can, so instead of paying 20 cents ? a pound the housekeepers In fact pay about 65 cents a pound for the S actual amount of foodstuff obtaln-u obtaln-u ed. This Is about the price per ", wagonload whloh the farmers of Davis county and Weber county re-Si re-Si ceive for their pods at the canning S factory. However, the present day pea was raised beneath a glass 9 cover and watched over day and J night. 7 The tomatoes are selling at 25 t cents a pound, which means about 25 cents each, as they are rather c large of size and weigh heavy. This I Is the price asked for cucumbers. m The market, too, has a goodly sup- I ply of green onions, radishes, I brussels sprouts, green turnips and I beets, lettuce and watercress. I Vegetables of thjsjatter class sell I at prices wlthinThe reach of most t; anyone and one need not fear an awful jolt on the purse, airings k when asking the prices. Unless one has been fortunate In the "war j brides." however, the first group, cucumbers, tomatoes, peas and beans, are not for them. Celery has departed hence for another r season. i As a whole, though, the market I still Is up in the air and instead " or prices dropping as has been the I f custom with the coming of spring. I I prices are remaining firm at top ' prices or going up. Upward seems I 1 to be the only change it is pos- sible for the market master to r make. j Meats Are Stationary. There is practically no change in price in meats, Tmeat products, poultry, poul-try, b'utter and eggs. .The supply of fresh eggs right from the hen is somewhat more plentiful, but there is little possibility, of the price going any lower for a long time at least. The fruit market remains re-mains unchanged excepting in qual-ity qual-ity of goods. First class apples are hard to get and only little scrubby ones are to be found in the market, except in some rare instances. Prices are about the same as during dur-ing the winter, although the quality qual-ity of fruit is far inferior. Flour, potatoes and other staples are unchanged. un-changed. There are no new offerings offer-ings on the fish market. Sugar Is Rampant. Sugar has gone on a rampage, or, rather, continues on the rampage begun several weeks ago with the1 heavy buying in American markets ' by European nations. The retail ' price for cane sugar has reached $8 a hundredweight, and for beet sugar su-gar $7 80, which is the top price reached at the opening of the European Euro-pean war. Although the beet sugar now on the market was made to sell at $G or thereabouts and the Utah-Idaho Sugar company has declared de-clared It Is holding its supply for its regular customers at home, the local companj has taken advantage of the jumping up in the East and adding about $2 a sack profits to the price at which the product was manufactured. This added profit will go a long way toward helping the company build Its new factories fac-tories now under construction. It is said that this increase in price Is brought about by a shortage short-age In the cane sugar crops from the Southern states and Cuba, although al-though It was announced last year that the Cuban sugar crop was exceedingly ex-ceedingly heavy and beet sugar manufacturers feared a severe break In the market if this foreign made sugar was permitted to enter the United States free of duty. The announcement of the secretary of the treasury in advocating the retention of the duty on sugar and tho subsequent action of congress in retaining this tariff in effect injected in-jected new life Into the sugar industry in-dustry of tho West, at least, and retail prices began going up in keeping with the steady advance in price of sugar stocks. There is no telling when or where the price of sugar will reach its maximum. Country shippers of eggs who are not exactly sure about the freshness of their product should exercise a little more caution than has been in vogue in the past, es. pecially If these eggs arc Intended for Interstate trade, for the United States department of agriculture is after shippers of bad eggs. The department de-partment of agriculture has had under consideration for some time the application of the federal food and drugs act to the shipment in interstate commerce of eggs in the shell, especially the two classes of eggs known in the trade as "current "cur-rent receipts" and as "rejects" from candling rooms. "Current receipts" re-ceipts" contain at different seasons of the year varying proportions of eggs which are filthy, decomposed, or putrid. "Rejects" from candling rooms, as a rule, contain large pro. portions of eggs which are filthy, decomposed, or putrid, and very small proportions of eggs suitable for consumption Under the federal food and drugs act, eggs, in common with other ar tides of food, are adulterated it they consist wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid substance. sub-stance. Section 2 of the act prohibits pro-hibits the shipment in interstate commerce of foods which are adul terated and it is plain that this prohibition pro-hibition applies to the shipments in interstate commorce of "current receipts" or of "rejects" from candling rooms or of any other grade of eggs in the shell unless the filthy, decomposed, or putrid eggs have been removed. In the opinion of the department, eggs which contain yolks stuck to the shell, moldy eggs, black spots, mixer rot, addled eggs, black rots, and any other eggs which consists whoIV or in part of a filthy, decomposed, de-composed, or putrid substance, are adulterated. The investigations of the department depart-ment have shown that it is commercially com-mercially practicable, by the methods meth-ods of candling, to eliminate from any given shipment most of the eggs of the kinds which the department depart-ment regards as adulterated. It is not the .-"nclice of the department, however, to base proceedings under the food and drugs act on shipments ship-ments unless there are present larger percentages of bad eggs than are ordinarily present in recognized recog-nized commercial grades of candled eggs. The department is informed that cases of eggs are not allowed to receive even the lowest candled egg grades if the cases contain more than one and one-half dozen, or 5 per cent, of bad eggs. Country Coun-try shippers who are not certain of the freshness of their eggs should candle them before shipping ship-ping them in interstate commerce. oo |