Lettuce Market Slips as Shipments Continue in New Orleans
New Orleans reports weaker head lettuce prices at $2 per barrel due to excessive receipts of poor stock, with some good stock entering and endive and escarole in lighter supply at $2 per barrel. Romaine remains firmer at $2.50, while bunch greens, cucumbers, and other vegetables show varied steady or unchanged prices amid ample supplies. Brownsville notes seven points shipping cabbage, lettuce, cauliflower, and turnips with cabbage at $15 per ton and lettuce up to $1.25 per hamper on track.
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New Orleans
Valley Crop News Straight Cars Out of Different Towns
In Harlingen Texas on June 1 crews report straight cars of lettuce shipped to Chicago from Mercedes and San Benito, each around a dollar per crate. Rio Grande & Coast Assn. sells carload cabbage from loading station at 17 a ton. Blizzard lowered temps to 20 F with little winter vegetable damage. A car of mixed cauliflower and new prospects are noted.
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Harlingen
Tex
Philadelphia
Rio Grande & Coast Assn
Frisco Railroad
Corpus Christi
L. E. Snavely
Osco Morris
New Po
Lemon and Orange Prices Jump on Frost Damaged Coast
Chicago market report shows firmer orange prices due to Pacific coast frost damage with Florida stock moderate and in demand. Navels quoted 3.25 to 5.50 per box in carlots, jobbing around 3.75, Florida oranges 3 to 3.25 in carlots, Indian River up to 3.50. grapefruits 2.75 to 3.50. Lemons up sharply due to cold weather slowing shipments, quoted 7 to 7.50 in carlots.
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Chicago
Pacific Coast
Florida
California
Iesened
Chicago Hay Market Steady for High Grades This Week
The Chicago market for good hay grades stayed strong with light supply. Demand remained brisk for high quality timothy and prairie alfalfa, with prices ranging from 13 to 18 dollars per unit depending on grade. Lower grades saw steady receipts and continued active trading as sellers cleared stocks.
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Chicago
Choice Timothy
Kansas
Oklahoma Prairie
Corpus Christi Cabbage Crop Survives Freeze
Corpus Christi Nueces county truck growers report a large cabbage crop saved by irrigation water flooding. Despite temperatures dropping to 26 degrees and ice forming, the crop remains unharmed. About two hundred cars of cabbage likely to be shipped starting next week as sales permit.
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Corpus Christi
Nueces County
Eggs Output Shifts Marked Across Midwest and South
Reports from egg shippers in the middle west and south show output now double last year in several towns. Alton Kansas reports fourfold egg production and 40 cases weekly, while poultry crops vary. Arkadelphia and Ark others show similar patterns with fluctuating egg and poultry totals. Chicago notes car exhausts for kept cold transport and street notes. Onion stock inquiries rise with prices ranging from 1 to 1.50 per bushel.
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Kansas City
Packer
Middle West
Packer Weekly
Alton
Kas
Birminghan
Sici
Auxvasse
Baring
Arkadelphia
Ark
Afton
Ukla
Alva
Okld
Broken Arrow
Okla
R. R
Chicago Street
John M. Shawhan
Merrill & Eldridge
John Sigmund
J. E. O'Brien
West Randolph Street
West Baden
Ind
C. H. Young
Wall Lake
Iowa
J. M. Adams
Boonville
Wm. Hoss
Philadelphia
M. W
Dressing and Marketing Veal and Poultry Bulletin
The University of Minnesota Department of Agriculture has issued a bulletin on veal and poultry dressing and marketing. It details preparation for slaughter and actual killing, with useful guidance for shippers.
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St. Paul
Minn
Department of Agriculture
The
University of Minnesota
Four States Fruit Exchange Marketing Proposition Disputed
Not Marketing Produce. Winnsboro Texas January 14 1913 To The Packer notice says little about the Four States Fruit Exchange entering the marketing proposition of fruit and vegetables This is a mistake Nabors says they will publish news if properly organized to enter the marketing scheme for their products W A Nabors
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Winnsboro
Tex
Packer
Four States Fruit Exchange
W. A. Nabors
Car of cabbage free contest by Piowaty & Sons
M Piowaty Sons of Chicago announce a contest to win a full car of cabbage free. Participants must guess how many pounds of cabbage the firm will move on a specific day, with nearest correct answer or exact match winning. Entries due January 26, winner announced February 8.
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Chicago
M. Piowaty & Sons
Jana
Carlota
M. Pionaty! & Song
Wisconsin
New York
Piowaty & Sons
Carl Piowaty
Wisconsin Cranberry Growers Meet Reports Talks And Progress
The Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association held its twenty sixth annual meeting in Grand Rapids January 14 with strong turnout. President and secretary addresses and an experiment station report by Bupt Malde led to discussions on milling grading nomenclature harvesting and cooperative organization. A A Chaney of American Cranberry Exchange outlined each variety’s market role. Also covered are Indiana poultry shows and storage law debates affecting eggs butter and poultry with legislative action expected.
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Grand Rapids
Wis
Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers’ Assen
Bupt. Malde
A. K E. Bennett
C. G. Malde
Andrew Searle
J. A. Gaynor
A. A. Chaney
American Cranberry Exchange
Indiana
Lafayette
Purdue University
Madison Square Garden
Chicago
Boston
Valparaiso
Porter County
Frank Parks
Charles Bartholomew
Logansport
Starke County
Indianapolis
Stanley Wyckoff
Indianapolis Poultry Co
H. EB. Barnard
Inspection Bureau
Pril
Hoosier Farm 112
Greencastle
Greencastle Creamery Assn
Earl H. Ellis
W. P. Sackett
R. A. Ogg
S. A. Hazlett
John A. Detrick
William Bodwell
Menner Dairy Co
Ernest Mennen
Herman Mennen
O. J. Mennen
Brazil
Apple and cabbage trade trip returns from York state
From New York, Chicago, Jan. 17. Fred Piowaty of M. Plowaty & Sons returned here after visiting York state to oversee the firm's apple and cabbage interests.
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Ack
New York
Chicago
Fred Piowaty
M. Plowaty & Sons
York State
Vegetables at Chicago Show Mixed Quality and Slow Sales
Chicago weekly vegetable trade mixed with good demand for desirable lots and slow sales for poor stock. Florida lettuce rare and pricey, Florida beans and wax beans scarce, California cauliflower steady at $2.75, celery high due to freezes, Michigan celery slow, peppers cheaper, Florida tomatoes varied with repacked Cuban stock at $2 to $3.50 and Mexican stock at $3.50.
Apples steady at Chicago market this week
Chicago reports a steady apple market with firm prices for better stock and free movement of common storage. New York operators hold Ben Davis for up to 3 dollars and Baldwins to 3 to 3 25, while storage varieties show varied barrel prices across Jonathan Grimes Golden Greenings and Russets.
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Chicago
Ommon
Apple
California
New York
Ben Davis
Baldwins
Kings
Jonathans
Grimes
Greenings
Government sells oranges seized for misbranding in Chicago
Eight cars of oranges confiscated by the government on misbranding grounds were auctioned in Chicago at the Monarch warehouse. Shipped from Lindsay, California, the fruit, labeled with sweating, showed pale and sour samples. Prices ranged from $1.50 to $2.45 per box, with several buyers bidding actively. The sale aimed to move the fruit rather than destroy it, despite protests from some orange dealers.
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Chicago
Lindsay
Cal
United States
Marshall Hoy
Monarch Warehouse
Lnhels
Nick Demopulos
South Water Street
Fruit of the Dozen Cars At Auction Draws Buyers
A dealer sold three cars of fruit by the dozen to consumers at an auction. Oranges, deemed sweet by inspectors, sold quickly at 20 to 60 cents per dozen depending on size. A second firm bought four of eight cars but settled for one. three more are expected to be sold under the same arrangement.
Cabbage Prices Rise Again in Chicago Market
The cabbage market advanced further in Chicago with Wisconsin shipments offered at 7 to 7.50 dollars per ton, about a dollar above last week. Demand remained fair, led by the southwest, while growers held back stock awaiting higher prices and shipments moved mainly from warehouses.
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Chicago
Wisconsin
Southwest
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