Fruit Freight Rates Cut Boosts California Fruit Shipments
W A Adams, traffic manager for Pioneer Fruit Co of Sacramento, secured a 5 cent per hundredweight cut on California deciduous fruits and a special 1.25 per hundredweight rate on grapes and peaches to the Atlantic seaboard at a Chicago freight bureau meeting. Savings amount to about 250000 a year, with 48000 per car on grapes and peaches and overall yearly gains projected as shipments rise. Adams, a veteran railroad man, pursued the concession for California growers, with eight decades of experience behind him.
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New York
W. A. Adams
Pioneer Fruit Co
Sacramento
Cal
California Fruit Distributors
Transcontinental Freight Bureau
Chicago
Adams
Bureau
California
Atlantic Seaboard
Inc
Dams
Rairoad
Short Weight Potatoes Spark Memphis Protest
Memphis dealers protest excess shrinkage from Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan shipments. Local resolution condemns shippers who underfill sacks from 150 pounds to about 145 147 pounds prompting unfair losses. Preference is urged for shippers who maintain even weight and full measure. Potatoes from shore states arrive. current price 65 to 8c. freight rate $2c.
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Memphis
Tenn
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Sbore
Green vegetables market trims supply despite weak demand
Kansas City December 3 The green vegetable market shows little change from last week with higher receipts of small vegetables like radishes and shallots. Demand remains limited with only best quality stock moving at quotations. prices vary across Texas and Florida crates, with weak overall activity and frequent declines amid ample supply of lettuce peppers and tomatoes.
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Kansas City
Texas
Florida
Louisiana
Vaney
Onions Freight Rates Protest Leads to Harmony Meeting
At Laredo Texas a mass meeting protested a proposed onion rate increase to 65c amid reports of further rises. A telegram from a Northern rail official canceled the advance, and Texas growers formed the Texas Truck Growers' Traffic Association to seek lower rates. A harmonizing Elks Hall session elected officials and appointed a committee to file with the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 40c rate during 1910. The gathering included leaders from the Southern Texas Truck Growers Association and the Texas Bermuda Onion Association as they plan to coordinate marketing while preserving price levels.
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Bermuda
Laredo Board of Trade
R Ore Northern Railroad
General Freight
Texas Truck Growers
August Richter
E. Burr
Texas
C. A. Albrecht
T. A. Austin
Roy Campbell
Interstate Commerce Commission
F. E. Scovell
Laredo
Southern Texas Truck Growers’ Assn
Albrecht
Elk’s Hall & Messing
Southern Texas
Alan
Texas Bermuda Union Assa
Carl A. Albrecht
IL. Alexander
J. H.davis
Southern Texas Truck Growers’ Asen
Carl A. Alprecht
National Produce Distributing Co
Laredo Truck Growers’ Assn
Heavy orange receipts show improved quality in Cincinnati
Cincinnati arrivals bring better quality Florida oranges this week with strong demand for desirable sizes. Carlot prices range from $1.70 to $2.60 for smaller sizes and up to $3 for Navels, Creoles, and other brands as out-of-town trade buys eagerly. Louisiana and California arrivals appear with steady prices. Florida grapefruit and tangerines supply remains fair with steady jobbing prices.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnat
Toussetts
Louisiana
New Orleans
Hesperides Grove
California
California Citrus Union
M. Fugazzi & Co
Arizona
Florida
Saved Packer Ad A Year Ralph H Ravy Letter
In Cincinnati on December 4. Ralph H. Ravy of Millersburg O asks BH Wright & Co what price they pay per pound for walnuts or per bushel and whether they handle on commission and at what prices. He recalls seeing their ad in The Packer a year ago and saved it.
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Theo
Ohio
Advertiser
Cincinnati
BH. B. Wright & Co
Ralph H. Ravy
Millersburg
Packer
Fresh Eggs Scarce With Storage Stocks Free
The Kansas City market shows little change as fresh receipts stay light. Storage eggs are offered on change at 23 to 24c for April, with May slightly lower. current receipts quoted at 26c. Weekly sale values ranged from 3.10 to 5.19 per case, waning late week. Some May stock arrived from Chicago and was offered at 21/2 to 2? per dozen.
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Kansas City
Chicago
Packer issues and market reports across fruits and vegetables
A wide scan of market conditions from California deciduous fruits and Texas onions to Chicago trade in oranges apples and butter. Reports cover California citrus movement rail rate disputes New Orleans vegetables and New York apple trade with notable notes on shipments, prices, and industry developments.
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Stevens Point
Scandinavia
Weyauwega
Wis
New Orleans
Nashville
Indianapolis
Michigan
Chicago
Louisiana
Iola
California
Long Beach
Miss
Mobile
Ala
Columbia
Migs
R. G. Murdoch
Waterways
Magnolias, le
Emerson
Traverse City
Mich
Creamery News
Kansas City
Boston
General State
Ponte Gorda
Fia
Dade City
New York
Florida
Porto Rico
New
Mercantile Exchange
Cleveland
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Montrose County
Colorado
Market News Digest Across Regions Shifts in Produce Trade
The page reports weekly fruit and vegetable market activity from Philadelphia to Portland, noting non-payment complaints against a Philadelphia firm, trade in butter eggs poultry and game, pest bulletins affecting sweet potato crops, pear and apple shipments, and regional price and storage issues. It notes an injunction restricting Pennsylvania RR storage charges on produce in Pittsburg and Tennessee seed potato crop shortfalls, with citrus shifts and car-door sales prompting dealer protests.
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Texas
New York
Texas News
I. W. Ashner
Memphis
Indiana
Cincinnati
Bowling Green
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Louisiana
Port Clinton
Oregon
Illinois
Boston
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Weyauwega
Nashville, Tenn
Grand Jury Probes Butter and Egg Prices Trust Link
Kansas City December 3 The grand jury opened an inquiry into produce dealers methods with focus on the Fruit and Produce exchange amid high butter and egg prices. Local newsboys have spread misinformation, dealers expect to be exonerated after the probe.
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Kansas City
Grand Jury
Fruit & Produce Exchange
Storage eggs weaken as week opens in Chicago market
Weekly egg market notes show a softer trend with storage eggs offered in large blocks. Monarch storage offered April extras at 43 1⁄2 cents with 22 cents bid. many lots of June and firsts posted with bids below asking prices. Receipts totals range around 4,800 to 4,500 cases per day, with quotations largely unchanged.
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Chicago
Southern
Northwestern
Monarch
Dame
2Ic
Booth's
Zic
Trucking Notes From Louisiana Vegetables and Berries
A collection of reports from Louisiana trucking areas detailing increases in winter vegetable plantings, areas devoted to lettuce cucumbers and potatoes, the expected six month shipping season beginning late March, and notes on grower associations and key growers. Indicated regions include Tesult Bend Denham Springs Watson Independence Ponchatoula and surrounding parishes with figures on acres and shipments and organizational changes within local farmers associations.
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Tesult Bend
Dcember
A. L. Paolini
Ponchatoula
Packer
Farmers’ Assn
W. E. Hicks
W. S. Keaghy
Hammond
Express
Triumph
Tennessee
Louisvilte
Drott & Muller
Drott
Independence, la
iWm
P. Ripp
Independence Farmers’ Assn
Fair Trade in Poultry in Chicago Market Report
In Chicago the poultry market shows supply and demand nearly balanced after Thanksgiving week. Prices for live and dressed poultry fluctuated through the week with small changes, while no major shifts in quotations occurred beyond occasional gains for certain live birds. A council committee discussed coop size and style requirements with South Water street dealers. Continued update promised on Page Sixteen.
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Chicago
Express
South Water Street
Judiciary Committee
Packer
Palacios Acreage Plans For Melons And Truck Crops
Palacios Texas resident Crain says on the coast he can grow many crops but will dedicate about 1 acre to beets spinach turnips kale and lettuce and 20 acres to watermelons. He expects to market all melons through the melon association and notes shipments ready for spinach kale lettuce by Feb 15 turnips by Feb 1 and Leeds in March. He aims to learn from buyers in Dallas Fort Worth Waco Brownsville Oklahoma City Kansas City Pueblo Omaha.
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Palacios
Tex
Packer
Palacios Bay
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Eye Board
Poultry
Hood
Norfolk
Pennsylvania
York State
Charles Clark
Tatoes
National League
Fort Ogden
Owens
Lee County
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Wash
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Reed
Elgin Butter Advances i
St. Louis
Oklahoma
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Mexico
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Columbus
THE
Grand Jury Investig
Bertrandville
Afton
H. P. Purnell
Independence
C. L. Campbell
Coop
Large Palacios, Tex
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