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Newspaper
Chicago Packer
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1921
Page
2
Fennville Michigan reports the Fruit Exchange completes its seventh season with over 1 000 000 dollars in fruit sold since formation. Membership grew from 14 to about 60 farmers. Losses over seven years are stated not to exceed one tenth of one percent by J A Barron local manager secretary and treasurer.
Grand Rapids Michigan December 9 Demonstration showed how Michigan apples meet the Braman grading law with state inspectors Taft and White guiding growers. The fifty first annual Michigan State Horticultural Society convention featured fertilizer studies orchard management and pruning and a call to unite marketing efforts at a December 28 Farm Bureau Benton Harbor meeting.
Report from Denver indicates modest improvement in fruit offerings with demand generally steady. Prices listed include Northwestern Jonathan $3.56 fancy $3.25 choice $3, Colorado Jonathans $2.25-$2.75, Best Northwestern Delicious $4.50 fancy $4.25, Rome Beauties $2.75-$3.25, Naves and Negotiate pricing for various varieties. Navels around steady, Satsumas slow, lemons down 50 cents to $1, grapefruit fair with good quality, Isle of Pines in very weak demand.
The report notes weak demand with prices shown for fruit: Piorida grapefruit quoted at 5.50 to 6 a box and Isle of Pines stock offered at 4 a box, indicating buyer reluctance at current levels.
Minneapolis market remained quiet this week post Thanksgiving with fruit trading subdued though apples showed some improvement as poor stock cleared. Grapefruit quality rose and demand strengthened, cranberries stayed strong with higher prices, Wisconsin Jumbos and Cape Cod Howes quoted around 24 a barrel. Vegetables moved slightly better with two car shipment of stomatos arriving and California celery lettuce and cauliflower in heavy supply.
A meeting in Boise December 3 gathers lettuce growers from Buhl Twin Falls Nampa Caldwell Parma Payette Fruitland and Boise to form a permanent Southern Idaho lettuce growers organization. A committee is chosen to organize and another to study cooperative marketing, with talks on fertilization and irrigation.
In St. Paul during the week trade in all fruit and vegetable lines was quiet with light winter demand. California oranges moved well on a firm market while Florida grapefruit stayed steady as shipments arrived. Cranberries and Emperor grapes began to clear out, hot house items like lettuce and cucumbers saw lighter receipts, and celery and cauliflower remained plentiful with prices steady to unchanged.
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