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Newspaper
Chicago Packer
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1909
Page
2
Palisade Colorado reports 1908 sales by the Palisade Fruit Growers Assn. total peach shipments reached 173,417 boxes at 47 cents average price. Pears, apples, grapes and other fruits sold in smaller totals. Total shipments equaled 204 cars as detailed by manager H H Younger and G B Forsman.
The Palisade Peach Growers Assn lists 20,082 packages of extra peaches at 62c, 21,142 fancy peaches at 41c, and 16,855 choice and unwrapped peaches at 38c, totaling 58,109 packages at 46c average. Fancy pears average $1.06, and choice pears 7c per box, while fancy apples average $1.17 and choice apples 71c per box. Shipments totaled 67 cars, with 55 cars of peaches.
Colorado Springs Colo February 18 trade is dull across lines with poor demand. Potatoes higher with expected further rise. apples scarce and firmer. Eggs poultry butter fish handled by local firms. turkey prices show scarcity and varied quotes for dressed and fancy dry picked birds. Notable mentions include The Brown Corn Co and Friedline Taggart associate trips, Ira Maree return from California, and Colorado Com. Co. handling eggs poultry butter and fish.
Severe cold and heavy rains grip New Orleans delaying truck movement and raising supply concerns. Prices rise for table potatoes and onions while cabbage moves slowly from Louisiana stock. Poultry is scarce and overall demand remains steady amid weather damage to radishes lettuce endive and crops.
Spokane report on William Edmunds founder of Wenatchee Fruit Growers Assn returning from Covent Garden London where he exhibited 4 cars of Washington apples. He urged heavier packing, uniform boxes, and high grade fruit to meet European demand. King Edward praised Washington apples enhancing future exports to England, Germany, France, and beyond with first shipments planned via New York and Boston in November.
In Indianapolis February markets show egg prices peaking at 60c a dozen then retreating to 28c as shipments resume. Butter, poultry, and vegetables follow volatile trends due to storms, cold, and limited storage. Beet, carrot, and cabbage supplies tighten while beans, spinach, and onions face mixed availability and price shifts.
From Indianapolis to Alabama reports show growers anxious about crops after a mild winter. Buds swelled then froze in zero weather, damaging peaches and pears. Southern regions expect one third strawberry yields, while melon districts plan larger plantings. Railroads push cantaloupe growth amid farmer meetings and rising organization. Berries expected by May, with early shipping from Hartsells Alabama beginning around May first.
Washington Feb 18 A House agriculture committee approved a bill for government inspection of nursery stock at ports of entry with a 100000 dollar appropriation. The secretary of agriculture may quarantine diseased stock and extend rules to fruits bulbs and other plants. Transport firms must carry compliant certificates from origin inspectors.
A Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station bulletin titled Two Years Work With the Apple Leaf Hopper and With the Cabbage Moth and Other Injurious Insects of 1907 and 1908 is announced. Elgin firm listing and a St Paul market note report no change in creamery butter prices at 30 cents per pound, with prior prices noted from recent years as context.
Prof. L R Taft, state inspector, warns brown tail moth appears in Michigan on nursery stock from France. He urges prompt removal of nests and oil dipping of branches, plus arsenate or lead sprays if moths or eggs persist. International nursery-stock inspection urged as a preventive measure.
M. George and Company, at 95 South Water Street Chicago, handles all kinds of fruits and vegetables to the best advantage. Southern shippers and associations are invited to write us. Once a shipper, always a shipper. Look up our standing and write us.
Chicago reports three key twists in the Booth financial saga including an independent probe by State’s Attorney Wayman into criminal laxity, W Vernon Booth’s public response to Stephen Chase’s disclosures, and lawyer Jacob Newman detailing a 1904 fraud scheme with alleged hidden debts totaling 2.1 million.
Harl J. Stackland reports in Cove Oregon that Grande Ronde valley growers harvested about 300 cars of apples last season with most sold at good prices and only six cars remaining. The 1909 outlook is bright with plans for 35 000 boxes of Bing Lambert Royal Ann and Black Republican cherries and several cars of plums pears prunes and apples.
Kansas City reports Bam Lux of Topeka forecast a robust general Kansas trade for the year. He notes that current indications point to Topeka supplying more than in any past season as merchants anticipate a strong market.
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