Charlottetown Market Prices 
     
    
   
   
    
     Apples BC to 20c per dozen, and 30c to $1.00 per bushel ; 
     
     Barley 50c to 65 cents per bushel ; Brant 75c to $1.00 a pair ; 
     
     beef live weight, 4c t0 6c per lb. ; Beef. small, 7c to 12¢ per 
     
     lb. ; Butter, fresh, from 17c in summer, to 25c in winter; 
     
     Butter, tub, 150 to 20¢ per lb. ; Beans, green, 4c per 1b. ; 
     
     Blueberries 3c to 7c per quart ; Black Currants SC to 15c per 
     
     quart ; Beets, 25c t0 40c per bushel ; Cabbages 12c to 30c a 
     
     dozen ; Celery 3c to 7c per head ; Cheese 12c to 160 per lb. ; 
     
     Codfish, fresh, so to 15c each according to size; Codfish, 
     
     corned, 3c to 12c each ; Corn, green, 12c for a dozen ears; 
     
     Cranberries. SC to 14c per quart: Carrots, 25c to 50c per 
     
     bushel; Ducks 60c to 80C a pair ; Fresh Eggs IOC to 25c a 
     
     dozen according to the season; Fowls 50c to 80C 3 pair; 
     
     Flour, Island made, $1.75 to $2.00 per cw’c; Gooseberries, 
     
     SC to 15¢: per quart ; Hides 50 to 7c per lb. ; Hay 50c to 70c 
     
     per cwt. ; Hake 4c to 12c each ; Herring 50 to 10c per 
     
     dozen ; Huckleberries, 8c to 12C per quart ; Lamb 45c to 90c 
     
     per quarter carcass; Lobsters SC to 20¢ each; Mackerel, 
     
     fresh. 8c to 15c each according to supply; Oats 25c to 35c 
     
     per bushel ; Oatmeal, $2.00 to $2.40 per cwt. ; Onions 2c to 
     
     5c per lb. ; Green Peas 10c to 15c per quart ; Potatoes 16 to 
     
     30c per bushel ; Pork so to 8c per 1b. ; Young Pigs, $1.00 to 
     
     $3.00 each ; Parsnips, 20c t0 30c per bushel ; Partridges 50c 
     
     to 65c a pair; Radishes 3c a bunch; Raspberries 5c to 10c 
     
     per quart ; Red Currants, 10c to 20¢ per quart ; Sheep pelts 
     
     40c to 60¢ each ; Straw $1.2 5 to $3.00 per load ; Strawberries 
     
     IOC to 20c per quart ; Smelts 3c to 50 per doz ; Sausages 12c 
     
     per 1b.; Turkeys 75c to $1.50; Turnips 16c to 20¢ per 
     
     bushel ; Tomatoes, green 10c per peck ; Veal 80 per 1b ; Wild 
     
     Geese 50c to 80c each. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Fisheries—Value of the yield since 1873 
     
    
   
   
    
     1873, $ 207,595 1888, $ 876,862 
     
     1874, 288,863 1889, 886,431 
     
     1875, 298,927 1890, 1,041,109 
     
     1876, 494,967 1891, - 1,238,734 
     
     1877, 763.036 1892, 1,179,857 
     
     1878, 840,344 1893, 1,133,368 
     
     1879, 1,402,301 1894. 1,119,738 
     
     1880, 1,675.089 1895, 976.836 
     
     1881, 1,955,290 1896, 976,126 
     
    
   
   
    
     [109]