Lower Florida citrus prices dampen New York sale
In New York on February 4 officials reported 146 jars of California Navel oranges sold at auction with prices easing from last week as demand steadied. Fancy to choice fruit ranged near 2.25 to 2.90 per box, while Porto Rican fruit saw steady to higher prices for grapefruit and oranges. Florida fruit faced light absorption with 107 cars of grapefruit and 143 Florida oranges sold. overall prices eased, though demand remained active for well colored Indian River fruit and tangerines.
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New York
Zewst
Florida
Indian River
Fraud charge against Florida citrus ad promoter
Charles F Hernandez, posing as treasurer of the Florida Independent Citrus Growers Association with Tampa headquarters, was arrested for using the mails to defraud. He offered 200 fancy oranges at 6.50 per box with freight prepaid within 1000 miles and claimed $100,000 backing and access to $5,000,900 in Polk Pinellas and Hernando counties. investigation found the backing funded only stumps and stationery.
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Tampa
Flo
Charles F. Hernandez
Florida Independent Citrus Growers’ Association
Hernandez
Polk
Pinellas
Eborough
Mobile District Cabbage Crop in Good Shape
Mobile Alabama February 4. Cabbage acreage in Mobile county stands near last year at about 2000 acres. Shippers report about 10 percent damage from a recent freeze but the crop now looks fine and movement will start earlier if weather stays favorable. Some express loads already moving, carload lots not ready until March 1 with light volume, main movement around March 16. Early Fiat Dutch variety planted. last year Mobile produced about 1200 carloads.
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Mobile
Ala
Shippera
Carlotta
Mobile County
Pacific Coast vegetable shipments dip as cauliflowers rise
Pacific Coast weekly veggie shipments show overall slight drop with lettuce up. Carloads include 753 onions and 346 celery among totals. cauliflower regional gains expected in ten days as new crop cuts arrive. Oregon? No. Prices vary with oranges and lemons leading sales from November into February totaling 114,936 cars. Southern California ships most oranges at FOB prices 3.76 to 4.25 per box.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Pacific Coast
California
Central California
Southern California
Northern California
Mexico
Nogeles
United States
Imperial Valley
Arinona
Snigevente
Southern
F.o
Celery Movement Powers Sanford Fla District Trade
Sanford Fla Feb 4 A shift of 700 to 800 cars of celery had moved from Florida by week end. Movement for Feb 6 and 12 could reach 800 cars and over 400 cars respectively. Early varieties cleaned up. the Golden, standard in Sanford, leads. The industry, peaking at a $7,000,000 crop last year, remains large with improved handling, washing, and 10x20x22 inch packs. sidetracks and night work sustain the harvest. Colorado cabbage shipments decline while head lettuce rises from 129 cars in 1920 to 3,096 in 1925, with 2,745 moved in last season amid adverse weather.
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Sanford
Fla
Florida
Wer
Cole
Feb. J
West
Colorado
Kitchen Tenny's Successor in the Economics Bureau
Washington D. C. Feb 4 Clarence W Kitchen named Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics taking over service and regulatory duties from Lloyd Tenny Secretary Jardine announces Kitchen will direct studies on agricultural product marketing market news and supervision of the Cotton Futures Act Grain Standards Act Warehouse Act and related legislation He will handle bureau contracts with state marketing bureaus and other agencies Kitchen a 16 year Agriculture Department veteran previously business manager of the bureau and superintendent of Center Market Elyria Ohio born 1893 Frederick James Hughes named business manager to replace Kitchen and Charles H Walleigh named Center Market superintendent Both men long time Agriculture Department employees.
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Washington,d. C
Clarence W. Kitchen
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Lloyd
Tenny
Jardine
Department of Agriculture
Kitchen
Center Market
Washington
Elyria
Frederick James Hughes
Charles H. Walleigh
Hughes
Mr. Walleigh
Porto Rican Melons Arrive. Second Shipment Bid At $21.50
The Porto Rico Fruit Exchange received a second shipment of watermelons from Porto Rico. The melons were bid in at 21.50 dollars per barrel of eight melons, averaging 18 pounds each.
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New York
Porto Rico
Porto Rico Fruit Exchange
New York Demand For Quality Onions Report
New York on February 4 see little change in the onion market with demand focusing on quality. Yellow onions offered at 2.75 to 3.10 per 100 pound bag, most stock sold 1.50 to 2.60, no fancy whites, best stock 3.60 to 4. Spanish onions on street 2 to 2.25 per case and 1.30 to 1.66 per crate.
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New York
New York League Dinner at the Astor Hotel
The New York Branch of the National League of Commission Merchants will hold its annual dinner Friday evening March 4 in the Hotel Astor grand ballroom. Committee chairman Max Leef oversees arrangements with Paul Whiteman’s orchestra providing music and a notable program planned.
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New York
National League of Commission Merchants
Hotel Astor
Max Leef
Paul Whiteman
Miley Fruit Company Owner Files Bankruptcy Papers
Roxie George, operating Miley Fruit Co. in Fresno, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition listing liabilities of 26500 and assets of 7600. The Schedule of Liabilities shows 12000 owed to California Pine Box Co. The Miley Fruit Company packed and shipped grapes and other fruits from Miley station.
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Roxie George
Miley Fruit Co
Fresno
Calif
Lim
Miley Fruit Company
California Pine Box Company
Foley
The
Miley Station
National City Bank Finds No Cause for Business Pessimism
New York, Feb. 4. The National City Bank of New York says the country has begun 1927 with steadier trade and a good upturn after year end quiet. It notes repeated pessimism since 1922 but cites credit inflows, rising imports in January, and seasonal liquidation as factors keeping the economy on a cautious, improving path.
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National City Bank of New York
New York
Saya
National City Bank
Seazonal
Federal Reserve Credit
Bankruptcy Petition Filed by Local Truck Operator
August M. Quatrock of Chicago filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition. He lists liabilities at 9,880.11 and assets of 1,959.40. Attorneys Wolf & Love of 134 North LaSalle Street represent the bankrupt.
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Chicago
M. Quattrock
South Water Market
Wolf & Love
North LaSalle Street
European market surge for American apples boosts prices
American apples show strength in European markets with light to moderate box and barrel supplies. Berlin London and Liverpool bids rise for Greenings and York Imperials while boxed Newtowns and Oregon Yellow Newtowns reach higher prices. demand remains active as drought affects South African fruit and Spanish oranges.
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New York
Hamburg
York
Imperiale
Ben’ Davis
Greenings
Baldwins
Rome
Liverpool
Newtowns
Delicious
Spiteensbergs
London
Ben Davis
Winesaps
York Imperials
Braymans
Edwin Smith
United States Department of Agriculture
Europe
Rhode Island
Oregon
New Zealand
Notemaker Loses in Old Eastern States Warehouse Case
New York judge rules in favor of Bank of Holyoke Mass against William Menzer over payment on notes of the Old Eastern States Warehouse and Cold Storage Co. Menzer bought 400 cases of eggs already in storage, with debts hypothecated. bank sees loans on additional receipts. Amount involved is 2800 dollars. case to be appealed.
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New York
McCook
Supreme Court
Bank of Holyoke
Mass
William Menzer
Old Eastern States Warehouse & Cold Storage Company
Springfield
Menzer
Coolera
Estimated Truck Crop Acreage in Southern Texas
United States Agriculture Department release from Washington reports potato and other truck crop acreage in South Texas. It details planting progress in Cameron Hidalgo and the lower valley, seed per acre, projected acreages for beans tomatoes and cabbage, and current conditions including rainfall and drought impacts across Robstown Corpus Christi.
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Washington, D. C
South
Texas
United States Department of Agriculture
Apple Market Gains Pace In New York Apple trade improves
New York February 4 The apple market shows modest improvement with demand rising though high quality fruit remains scarce. Baldwins fetch up to 4.60 per barrel, most sales around 2.3. Greenings reach 6.50, bulk 2.26 to 4.60. Ben Davis 1.76 to 3, Kings 2.3 to 3.75, McIntosh 7 to 9 for best, poorer 4 to 6. Western box apples list Delicious 2.25, Jonathans 1.25 to 2, McIntoshes 2.25 to 3, Spitzenbergs 1.75 to 3, Winesaps 1.05 to 3, Rome Beauties 1.50 to 2.85 per box.
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New York
Baldwins
Ben Davis
Kings
McIntosh
Rome
Morrison Heads Philadelphia Carlot Receivers Assn
George L Morrison was elected president of the Philadelphia Perishable Carlot Receivers Association at a special meeting in the Fruit Trade building on Feb 4 The death of former president Thomas J Cancelmo left the office open Three new directors were named E T Butterworth W C Edwards and A E Freeman Other officers remained unchanged and the association discussed upcoming duties as Philadelphia adds two perishable terminals.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Perishable Carlot Receivers Association
Fruit Trade
George L. Morrison
Thomas J. Cancelmo
E. T. Butterworth
W. C. Edwards
A. E. Freeman
C. H. Eberly
C. G. Justice Company
John B. Cancelmo
B. M. Hewitt
The
American Fruit Growers
Russell Wilson
J. P. Wilson
Ralph B. Clayberger
P. 8. Scott & Co
E. S. Woodward
Frank D. Wilson
J. B. Moritz
Norman C. Ives
Max Rothstein
Baltimore & Ohio
Pennsylvania
Carlot Receivers Association
America
New England
Maryland
Virginia
New York
Canada
Peirce
John Cotton Smith
Thomas Robbins
East Windsor Hill
Connecticut
Potatoes in New York Market See Little Change This Week
Telegraphs report steady potato activity across Greater New York. Shippers paid Maine growers about 3 per 165 pound barrel, with Harlem deliveries at 3.90 to 4 per 150 pounds. Long Island buyers offered 1.60 per bushel while grower holdbacks limited sales amid varied bag and bulk prices.
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New York
Aroostook County
Maine
Harlem River
Green Mountains
Long Island
Gammage Produce Co. Closed in Leesburg Florida
Gammage Produce Co of Leesburg operated by D. Gammage has closed amid complaints including unpaid checks and unsatisfied consignments. Shippers report unanswered letters about shipments. Gammage’s home is in Leesburg. Apple exports from US and Canada for week ending Jan 29 rise sharply from last year.
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Gammage Produce Co
Leesburg, Fla
Gammage Produce Company
Co. D. Gammage
Gammage
Leesburg
Apple
New York
United States
Canada
International Apple Shippers Association
The Produce Packer free sample copy offer
The Produce Packer announces a separate weekly newspaper with market and trade news for shippers and distributors of eggs poultry butter hides wool and furs. A free sample copy will be gladly mailed upon request.
Browne Warns Of 1927 Weather Threats To Crops
New York reports Herbert J Browne of Washington forecasts a volatile 1927 weather pattern with intermittent freezes and damaging frosts. He links Europe’s harsher year to an American crop season marked by destructive cold waves, June to August frosts, and potential 1816 style conditions.
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Europe
United States
Gulf of Mexico
North
New York
Herbert Jangrin Browne
Washington, D. C
National League of Commission
Chicago
Browne
Fresta
Bab- Son Park
Mass
Packer
Georgia Peach Shippers Attend Rate Hearing in DC
Lawyers for Georgia peach shippers, railroads, and others left Macon for Washington to attend an Interstate Commerce Commission rate hearing opening today. They challenge Examiner Burton Fuller’s report which proposed a new rate scale and carload weight, with general rate reductions but higher per carload weights. Railroads object to 16 points, claiming revenue losses near 200000 dollars annually, and urge that costs be given proper consideration.
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Georgia
Macon
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Burton Fuller
Examiner Fuller
Fuller
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Sanford, Fla
Golden
Lhat
Kitchen Tenny
Economics Bureau
Astor Hotel
Rhodesland Greeningy
Old Eastern States ’ Warehouse Co
Ratoes
Cameron County
Hidalgo County
Robstown
Corpus Christi
G. L. Morrison
Philadelphia Carlot
ASSN
National League
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