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Newspaper
Chicago Packer
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1917
Page
2
Chicago wholesale market shows slower demand for vegetables with light supply. Celery and cucumbers remain steady. Cuban tomatoes mid quality and prices mixed. Florida and California produce move slowly. greens and peppers soft but some items demand steady in fair quality markets.
William Barker, veteran Tennessee egg and poultry shippers advocate hiring experts to boost poultry production across counties. He proposes using county tax funds to hire instructors for growers on poultry farming and egg production and marketing.
Chicago news notes steady to dull apple quotes with light receipts across barrel varieties. Frozen stock helped ease prices and two Elgin butter sales set a weekly average near 39 cents per pound.
In Chicago on January 5 a liberal quantity of holiday strawberries remained unsold. Demand was light and many berries were poor in quality as prices fell to 15 2 1 cents per quart.
George J. Lace Jr of Lace Mall Co visited the Chicago office on Tuesday while en route to Des Moines after holidays in Pittsburgh. Robert T. Cochran of New York spent Wednesday and Thursday on the Chicago market, staying with M. Pio waty & Sons. The death of R. R. Price at 86 ends a pioneer South Water Street produce firm once part of Price & Keith, ended about 14 years ago.
A Mikana farmers institute reported that 400 bushels of potatoes per acre is not unusual in northern Wisconsin. The remark highlights potato yields as a strong crop potential in the region.
Active demand keeps prices firm for endive escarol anise curly parsley and greens. Prices for carrots lettuce romaine cucumbers and root vegetables are listed with barrels hampers and dozens, amid scarce turnips beets spinach and white tip radishes.
New Orleans Jan 5 Receipts of poultry were light and prices firmer Hens in active demand at 19 19½¢ large young chickens steady at 19 19½¢ small to medium young chickens firmer at 20 22¢ Turkeys steady at 21/2 to 25¢ per pound for hens and gobblers Ducks in good demand at 18¢ Geese at 9 0 per dozen Old cocks 4 50 5 per dozen Guineas 3 60 Rabbit market weak best stock 1 25 1 50 per dozen Eggs easier fresh candled Louisiana and southern eggs 36c per dozen cold storage stock 29 30c
Detroit market reports a solid post holiday start with brisk demand for fresh fruits and vegetables. Poultry and eggs show price and demand gains as supplies lag. butter tones up and cabbage remains scarce. Seasonal shifts point to broader increases in potatoes and oranges as the Detroit Butter and Egg Board holds its annual meeting.
A meeting at the Hotel Statler discusses government investigations into high prices. Elected officers include President J Schaffer and VP A F Thibodeau with Adolph Padett as secretary and John Huetteman as treasurer. Directors named are J Uller, J Hurley, W Lotz, F Johnson and H Schiller. Talks note rising home trading and easing receipts amid price pressures.
At the Sheboygan Call Board Tuesday there were 522 cows offered with 485 sold at 23 cents and 37 passed. Spring Green Dairy Board set 22 cents to Ye. Trading has been light but firm, with higher inquiry and gradual bid increases. Exporters remain in market with New York delayed by steamship space. Montreal and St Johns trade activity cooler.
Cotter Brothers unveil a firesproof produce house in Cairo Illinois described as one of the region’s best equipped. The building spans 500 feet by 180 feet with about 18 000 square feet of floor space and includes a private cold storage plant of roughly 14 000 cubic feet and a large banana ripening room located near the M and O Railroad and the Big Four switches.
The National Fruit Exchange in Los Angeles will handle the citrus pack of the Rialto Orange Company, a charter member of Mutual Orange Distributors. It will also handle fruit packed by Worthley and Strong of Riverside, California.
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