Potatoes Cabbage and Onions Markets in Chicago Report
Chicago markets show ample potatoes with steady to slow trading. Colorado Red McClures No 1 sell around 1.40 to 1.50, Idaho Russets 1.40 to 1.45, various implied prices for cabbage and onions across Illinois Wisconsin California Oregon and other regions, with crates and sacks priced from about 35 cents to 2.60 per unit depending on item and origin.
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Chicago
Colorado
Red McClures
Idaho
North Dakota
Michigan
Green Mountains
Minnesota
California
Arizona
Texas
South Carolina
Oregon
Wisconsin
Indiana
Washington
Chicago Street Notes Recognize Trade Visits and Tomato Shipment
Agricultural agent J Carmen Thomas promoted vegetable plantings in Louisiana while trade visitors from Minnesota New York California and Florida toured Chicago. The first Mexican tomato car reached LaMantia Arrigo with good quality as industry figures discussed upcoming meetings in New Orleans and terminal markets in the east.
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Richard
Dick) Bush
Northwest
California
Chicago
West
LaMantia Bros.-Arrigo Company
Future Trading Sets Four Year High on Mercantile Exchange
Chicago reports four commodities egg butter potato and cheese futures reach a four year high in the first 11 months of the year. Lloyd S. Tenny notes total contracts 61 834 carlots vs 66 677 in 1936 and 62 503 in 1934 while shell eggs traded 481 428 000 dozen up 126 372 000 or 35 percent from 1936. Butter and potato activity trails 1936 by 28 and 1 873 car lots respectively.
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Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Lloyd S. Tenny
Michigan peach growers urged to stay with orchard business
Grand Rapids December meeting hears Stanley Johnston of South Haven station urge farmers to stick to peaches as profits persist. He notes 11.6 million fewer bearing and 8.6 million fewer non bearing peach trees since 1920, while Lake Michigan protection favors Michigan. Robert Anderson of Covert reports a cure for cankers with kolotog paste, and stresses early spray programs to combat brown rot, claiming 16 years without trouble.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Stanley
Johnston
South Haven
United States
Middle Western
Lake Michigan
Northwest
Michigan
Robert Anderson
Covert
Anderson
Earl Humphrey Now Employed in Galveston and Chicago
Earl Humphrey, former head of the H and H Produce Company of Paducah, denies reports of his disappearance and confirms he left Paducah around November 1. He says he went to Florida, then Galveston, where he is employed by a large wholesale grocery firm, and he has returned to Paducah briefly to rectify the false impressions.
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Earl Humphrey
Galveston
Chicago
Harl Humphrey
H. &H. Produce Company
Paducah
Packer
Humphrey
H. & H. Produce Company
California
Paduch
Florida
Tam
Florida vegetable shippers prep 1938 deal in coast
W C Carter of Black-Carter Marketing in Pompano arrives as the firm plans a 1938 vegetable deal. Johnny Wellbrook of Wellbrook O Neal Delray Beach is expected later this month to handle his firm’s share. A R Gilmore of Atlantic Commission arrives as regional representative after earlier posts in Plant City and River ton New Jersey.
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W. C. Carter
Black- Carter Marketing Company
Johnny Wellbrook
Wellbrook & O'Neal
Delray Beach
Florida East Coast
Florida
A. R. Gilmore
Atlantic Commission Company
Mr. Gilmore
Plant City
Fla
Riverton
N. J
Fox & Godding Co hears good holly and mistletoe quality
Chicago dispatch reports Fox & Godding Co noting holly arriving from eastern points and Tennessee is good and well berried. Mistletoe is in good shape, waxy and heavily berried. The firm, a major natural Christmas greenery handler, lists holly wreaths evergreen boughs and mistletoe among its offerings. In Michigan, potato growers Robert and Florent Pelletier plan to move from Aroostook Maine to the Upper Peninsula, buying 5000 acres to grow potatoes with yields of 300 to 600 bushels per acre and a 60 day longer season.
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Fox & Godding Co
Chicago
Tennessee
Fox & Godding Company
Michigan
Houghton
Mich
Robert
Florent Pelletier
Aroostook
Maine
Upper Peninsula
Robert Pelletier
Zeeland night school opens for farmers in 1930s Zeeland area
Zeeland Michigan opens its seventh annual night school for truck gardeners dairymen and poultrymen in the Zeeland Jamestown Vriesland Burculo area at Zeeland High School with Otto Pino as instructor. Classes every Tuesday night run to March 22 with Michigan State College professors assisting in lectures.
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Zeeland
Mich
Zeeland-Jamestown-Vriesland
Idaho Growers Struggle to Sell Potatoes in Idaho Falls
Idaho Falls on December 10 reports buyers facing difficulty securing stock from growers to replenish loads. Prices showed slight gains with No 1 at about 66 0c and No 2s near 40c to 42c. Cold weather dropped to five degrees hindering hauling. About 2,800 growers applied for feed diversion program authorization before the deadline, which has been extended indefinitely to allow more producers to apply.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
Free Service to Growers and Shippers in The Packer
A promotional note offers The Packer subscribers a free service department to assist growers and shippers. It invites details on crops, quantities, shipping methods, markets, connections, and marketing preferences, promising national coverage and guidance through reliable trade networks. Contact details cite the Free Service Department in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Packer
United States
Free Service Department
Second
Delaware
Kansas City
Michigan Editor Honored by Horticultural Society
Grand Rapids Dec 10 Edwy C Reid 85 editor of the Allegan Gazette and dean of Michigan journalists becomes the first news paperman admitted to Michigan Hort iculture Hall of Fame. He served as secretary and wrote on fruit and floristry tying life philosophy to his words.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Edwy C. Reid
Allegan
Allegan Gazette
Michigan
Michigan Horticulture
Michigan State Horticultural Society
Pra
Reid
Held
Horticultural Society
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Root Realty CO
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Chicago Street Notes
J. Carmen Thomas
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Canada
Henry Bacon
Bacon Brothers, Inc
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Nate Allen
American National Cooperative Exchange, Inc
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Walter Renner
Oakland
Northern Pacific Railroad
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George Navy
Navy-Hart Company
H. M. Proctor
Kimberly
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United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association
New Orleans
Phillip Horvitz
Horvitz
M. M. Minkler
C. H. Robinson Company
Peoria
Perrin C. Miller
Albert Miller & Co
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Meyer Schuman
Meyer Schuman Company
William Giddings
Snively Groves, Inc
Winter Haven
Fresh Foods, Inc
Fort Wayne
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Bursley & Co
J. H. Fish
George F. Fish, Inc
Florida News Notes
Oceano
Brands
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Rolling Daily
Imperial Valley Peas
Phoenix Lettuce Salinas Carrots
Tony Oddo
Cnicaco Produce Exchange
South Racine
Haymarket
Caruso Fruit Distributors, Inc
Chicago, Ill
Casal
Caruso Produce Co., Inc
Syracuse
Caruso & Cohn, Inc
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