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Newspaper
Chicago Packer
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1917
Page
2
Chicago vegetable market news reports high prices despite ample stock early in the week. Severe Southern frost damaged stock, reducing supply and keeping demand strong across items like cucumbers lettuce mushrooms tomatoes peppers and celery with varied quality and regional prices.
The Chicago Butter and Egg Board announces its annual banquet will be held February 27 in the Red Room at Hotel La Salle. Dinner price remains $3 per plate. A high quality program is planned with professional acts and local talent contributions from the board.
Chicago on February 9 saw prices for strawberries little changed as buyers hesitated to absorb offerings. Demand moved slowly with fair arrivals and some carried over stock. Demerator berries sold between 25 and 27 1/2 cents per quart. two refrigerators delivered 32 crates each for Galloway and Fila, with the best at 27 cents while much fruit was poor or frost damaged and hard to move at lower prices.
John G Garibaldi a Chicago produce dealer formerly with Garibaldi Cuneo and longtime South Water Street merchant died after an appendicitis operation. The sudden passing shocks friends in the trade across the country where he was well known for over forty years of service.
A three member Chicago Butter and Egg Board committee will go to New York next week to join similar groups from New York Boston and Philadelphia to discuss a national uniform grading system for butter and eggs. EE McNeill chairs the local panel with He Morin and Burt Cromer as the other two appointees. Dasheen shipment from Monte Verde noted as a new vegetable entering northern markets described in The Packer earlier.
The Chicago Packer lists poultry butter egg and cree business at Address A-1 care with services showcased from 192 N. Clark St Chicago.
Dallas reports seven inches of snow and record cold in northern Texas, crippling egg deliveries to Dallas and causing scarce supplies. Prices rose to about $10.50 per case, with last year’s volumes and shipments not matched. A shift to live poultry shipments has grown, with 2 million hens moved statewide, threatening spring egg production. experts expect a price decline if warm weather returns. Columbia Produce Co. plant burns in Columbia, Tennessee.
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