Car Shortage Slows Northwestern Potato Movement
Minneapolis February 1 The potato market remains firm but hauling is nearly stopped by severe cold and a car shortage. Receipts from farmers are light as railway embargoes block shipments, delaying movement of Southern seed and Red River Ohios. Prices steady through the week with Triumphs 3.50 to 3.75 per cwt and early Ohios 2.15 to 2.25, white stock 1.95 to 2.10, f.o.b. valley 1.90 to 2.10.
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Minneapolis
Ohios
Red River Ohios
Record cheese prices surge in Wisconsin markets
In Sheboygan on February 1 prices for Twins and Cheddars rose sharply as demand for home consumption styles outpaced supply. The Plymouth Dairy Board reports sales of 48 Twins at 26 cents, 800 Daisies at 27.5 cents, 89 Longhorns at 27.5 cents, and six Young Americas at 27 cents. Appleton mørn price for Twins at 25.25 cents and double Daisies at 27 cents.
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Sheboygan
Wis
Plymouth Board
Appleton
Evans Named Manager of American Fruit Shippers' Assn
Chicago February report announces R L Evans named manager for the American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers' Association. Evans previously worked with Chicago Food Administration traffic affairs and led committees shaping revised rules. He will organize shipping interests nationwide, meet in Chicago within 30 days, and seek by law changes including a tonnage based dues scale.
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Chicago
R. L. Means
American fFruit and Vegetable Shippers’ Association
Ttep
Evans
United States Food Administration
Trade and the Food Administration
American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers’ Association
New Orleans
Western Fruit Jobbers’ Association
E. Percy Miller
Albert Miller &O
Washington
Hoover
Hoe
Washington, D. C
E. P. Miller
A. A. Chaney
Charles BE. Virden
California Bean Dealers Say Bean Market Improves
San Francisco, Feb 1. H Clary Miller, president of the California Bean Dealers Association and bean sub committee member of the War Industries Board, states the California bean grower situation is not as bad as reports. Miller and three other committeemen active in securing beans for government needs report market conditions have improved.
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San Francisco
H. Clary Miller
California Bean Dealers’ Association
War Industries Board
California
Evans Named Business Manager of Fruit Shippers Group
Mr. Evans becomes the new business manager and active secretary of the American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers' Association formed at the New Orleans convention of the Western Fruit Jobbers' Association.
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Eee
Edd Dee Il. Evans
Evans
American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers’ Association
New Orleans
Western Fruit Jobbers’ Association
Chicago vegetable trade more normal and firmer prices
Chicago February 1 report shows a shade firmer market with nearer normal buying after freeze effects. Tomatoes and cucumbers varied by grade and origin. Florida and California stock moved moderately. Prices for peppers, lettuce, celery, spinach and beans held firm or eased slightly amid light supplies and repacking needs.
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Chicago
Florida
California
Michigan
Hudsonville
Zealand
Olden Heart
Evans to Head Food Administration Trade Group
Mr. Evans, 42, born in Cincinnati and Yale graduate, is named business manager of the food administration trade association. His career spans grain, lumber, steel, and securities with recent work on traffic and demurrage, and he notes steady, quiet buying and favorable prices for farmers while government purchases aim for mutual concessions rather than further commandeering supplies. The embargo lift on colored beans to Cuba may ease stock movements.
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Evans
Food Administration
Chicago
Washington
Mr. Evans
Cincinnati
Yale University
Minneapolis
New York
New Haven
Hartford
Cuba
Navy Department
California
Minneapolis Street Notes Visit by Jack Sisler in Twin Cities
Jack Sisler of Dominion Brokers Calgary Alberts has been visiting the Twin Cities trade in the last ten days. He based his activities at the Pacific Brokerage Company office in Minneapolis.
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Jack Sisler
Dominion Brokers
Calgary
Alberts
Twin Cities
Pacific Brokerage Company
Warm Weather Hurts Apples on Western Cascades
Warm winter weather has caused apples in common storage on the Western slope of the Cascades to ripen earlier than usual. Depreciation is noted, while shrinkage in Eastern Washington is only slightly above normal. arrivals from Eastern Washington are mainly small sized fruit.
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Seattle
Cascades
Washington
Good Supply Ice At Brawley Cal
In Brawley California on February 1 the Imperial Ice and Development Company reports 5000 tons of ice stored ready for the lettuce season and expects output to meet a surge as over 1000 carloads of vegetables will soon require ice. In Los Angeles on February 1 J M Davidson of Riverside was elected president of the Poultry Producers Inc of Southern California with W L Grubb of Santa Ana as vice president and E B Steinhauser of Los Angeles as secretary treasurer. The group last year moved eggs worth 881000 through its central warehouse.
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Brawley
Calif
Imperial Ice & Development Company
Davidson
Los Angeles
J. M. Davidson
Riverside
South
Poultry ‘Producers, Inc
Southern California
W. L. , Grubb
Santa Ana
E.B. Steinhauser
Profitable Tomato Crop Near Whittier
John Niemeyer, a walnut grower near Whittier California, received a check for 1080 dollars from Whittier Canning Company for 90 tons of tomatoes harvested from four and a half acres planted last summer between the rows of his walnut trees.
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Whittier
Calif
John Niemeyer
Whittier Canning Company
Poultry Car Frozen on Side Track in Selma Blizzard
During a February blizzard a carload of poultry was left on a side track in Selma Indiana after the regular livestock express failed to pick it up. The poultry was en route from Indianapolis to New York and was found frozen.
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Selma
Ind
Indianapolis
New York
Livestock Express
Milwaukee Market Report on Fruits and Vegetables
Milwaukee fruit and vegetable market shows firm apple prices with Jonathans at 6 to 6.50 per barrel and Baldwins at 5.50 to 6. Oranges and Navels command strong demand with prices around 5 to 6 per box. grapefruit range 4.25 to 5.50 per box. Cabbage and celery rise in value. California cabbage at 4.15 to 5 per crate. potatoes light with White stock 2.05 to 2.10 per cwt. First California Telephone peas arrive in Chicago with early shipments at about 10 to 12 per drum and strong demand.
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Milwaukee
Seb
Jonathans
I Walenerogy
Florida
California
Idaho
Chicago
Cohen
Mann & Kahn
Prices Rise as Cold Weather Hits Eggs and Poultry
Milwaukee February reports show cold weather reduces egg output to a minimum with fresh eggs at 50 cents, firsts 52 to 53 cents, and refrigerator eggs steady at 44 to 44 1/2. Butter remains high with scarce supply. some storage eggs held back. Live fowls average 22 to 23 1/2 cents, spring chicks 23 to 24, ducks 20 cents.
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Milwaukee
Delivery charges imposed on fruit and produce to retailers
Wholesale fruit and produce dealers announce a new delivery charge of 5c per cwt for all products delivered to retail stores in Peoria effective today. No delivery is to be made for less than 16c, the announcement said.
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Peoria
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Produce Bank
Wisconsin
RL Evans
American Fruit & Veg. Shippers’ Assn
Carlot Shippers
Kenner
Walla Walla
Wash
Wm. L. McCmullan & CO
Universal Bag & Burlap CO
N. Clark St
C. H. Weaver & CO
Texas Shippers
Vith Arlot
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Hall, Wedge & Carter W
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Reuis Ettae le Grocers
National Produce ‘ ‘Bank
John W. Low
J.C. Mittelstadt
R. B-Heston Wayne & Low, Inc
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Corn Exchange
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National Produce Bank
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