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Show PRICES OF VEGETABLES DECLINE, AT CHICAGO CHICAGO, May 26. Prices of alii vegetables dropped from five to 35 per cent on tho Chicago market in the last ten days, according to commission com-mission merchants who stated today that cabbages were selling at $3.50 a crate where they were at $4.50 last week. Onions, they said, had scored a 30 per cent decrease, and oranges havo dropped 15 per cent. New .potatoes .po-tatoes sold for $1.50 less than a week ago. Other slumps reported were rhubarb rhu-barb from $3.50 to S2.50 a case; strawberries from $7.50 to $6.50; tomatoes to-matoes from $S to $6; asparagus from $2 to $1.50; spinach from $1.50 to $1.25; market exports at tho local bureau bu-reau of markets of tho United States department of agriculture, said that the declino in prices was due to tho Increase in receipts at tho terminals. oo |