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Newspaper
Chicago Packer
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1925
Page
1
New York reports a softer market with California Valencia oranges easing about a dollar a box though demand remains active. Lemons from Florida and Sicily show irregular quality and wide price swings amid decay and weak condition, while Havana pineapples face strong demand but high decay.
The market showed overall strength with good prices for Porto Rican grapefruit and oranges. Fancy fruit sold higher while ordinary fruit declined. weekly range for fruit was 2.50 to 8.60, oranges 6.50 to 6.37, with light receipts and good fruit condition for the season.
Fort Valley Georgia June 9 Georgia this season will ship just over 9000 cars of peaches says J W Woolfolk heavy grower and operator here Estimates by variety Early 900 cars Car man 450 Hiley Bella 2500 Georgia Belle 1500 Elberta 3800 total 9150 The fruit shipped already was of fine quality and outlook is for unsurpassed quality with sizes 50 percent to two one and two two pack.
Kansas City June 19. The National F O B Auction Company facing dispute over when a sale is final. Shippers claim sales end at auction closure and payment is prompt, while the company argues finality depends on inspection and destination acceptance. Case centers on spinach car rejected in Chicago and resold to Detroit with disputed commissions.
El Centro California June 19. Buyers and shippers rallied in a canteen cantaloupe deal as crop prospects dimmed. Prices held high with standard cars reaching 3.00 to 3.25 while total shipments lagged 12,000 car year forecast. Analysts like Woolfolk Brown project a much smaller final movement.
Apple growers in Rogers Arkansas report a crop that will exceed the ten year average. The town will ship at least 25 percent more apples than 1924 when over 800 cars left the area. Quality is up, packing improved by new graders, with Malden Blush and other varieties to move in late summer and fall.
Buyers push to grab available stock and boost shipments, with forecasts showing daily carriage under 300 cars. Yet demand remains active and the market strong as July prices hover around 2.75 to 3 dollars for cantaloupe. Eastern heat, higher consumer demand, good quality, and a long season are cited as factors boosting profits.
Oregon agricultural statisticians forecast a large apple crop for the state based on conditions through late May. The bulletin cites ample moisture and light fruit set, noting reports of unusually large fruit size but weather last season may have reduced overall yields.
Carload shipments discussed for 1922 1923 and 1924 on apples and pears with estimated 1925 production by districts. Apples at 756 boxes per car and pears at 618 boxes per car.
Bananas arriving at New Orleans and Mobile ports exceed 1 million bunches in 2 weeks and push prices to their lowest level in years. Distributors move cars on consignment in markets unused to commission fruit in 20 years, with prices ranging from 2.30 to 2.80 per six to nine bunches.
Chicago June 19 at a recent meeting of the directors of the American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers Association plans for the 1926 gathering were discussed. The agenda included potential locations and topics for the annual event.
Estimates cover apples pears and cherries with shipments and conditions. Hood River expected crop growth contrasts with Rogue River lower outlook and Dalles Milton Freewater near last year. Idaho forecast cites strong apple crop prospects but peach and prune declines. convention plans shift to Sherman Hotel in Chicago with early reservations urged.
Jacksonville Texas June 13 The green tomato deal ends this week in East Texas with pinks dragging along until about July 1 Elberta peaches start around July 1 to 6. The crop is cut from 1200 to 1400 cars and will not exceed 900 cars due to hot dry weather. Stock is smooth but small and improved rainfall soon would aid quality and tonnage.
Tennessee reports early apples being shipped from Central Tennessee to markets in the North and East. Fruit is packed mainly in bushel baskets and moved from various early apple sections with June in Nashville as a reference point.
New York creditors demand explanation from Charles Braunstein of Braunstein Mednick Inc as the fruit and vegetable jobbers firm closed its store on June last week and Braunstein has vanished. The firm owed around 10000 to creditors and Mednick says Braunstein swindled him of 8000 to 10000. A bankruptcy petition was filed Wednesday by John Nix Co and Cochran Co with Thomas P. Wallace listed.
Canteloupes in New York showed strength late in the week after midweek declines. Monday receipts included 85 cars from California and one from Georgia, with California jumbo at 4.25 to 4.50 per crate and other grades varying. by Thursday prices firmed about 26 cents and volume stayed active as weather remained favorable and melons cleared steadily.
Cooler weather and frequent rains in Norfolk Virginia this week improved the potato outlook despite prior heat and drought damage. Potatoes moved in large quantities at prices around 42 dollars per barrel while cucumber quality was noted as very good and next week is expected to bring the heaviest potato movement of the season.
Albany Ga June 19 The Georgia watermelon deal will get under way June 22, per Shackelford-Brown Co. The Florida deal continues strong with large volume. early fruit from the melon belts of Georgia and Florida is now shipping. E W Urbanneck says the South tier counties show vigorous vines and normal fruit set. a few cars move this week.
The Produce Packer section explains it is a separate weekly paper focused on market and trade news for shippers and distributors of eggs poultry butter hides wool and furs. A free sample copy can be mailed upon request.
Joseph Reiter general manager of the Federal Food Stores Inc faces conviction for grand larceny after a five minute jury deliberation in New York. Sentencing set for Monday. brothers Samuel and Louis Reiter to be tried separately starting Thursday. The case centers on fraud involving duplicate and triplicate warehouse receipts and a multi million dollar swindle that left creditors owed tens of thousands.
Market activity remains strong this week with peach arrivals from Georgia South Carolina and North Carolina. Early Rose prices climb from 2 to 6 per crate with top rates reaching 6 6 50 for Hiley Belles and up to 6 for larger Early Rose fruit, as receipts vary daily from nine to thirty cars.
Albany Ga June 19 The Hiley Belle peach movement began this week with the first car moving out on Wednesday followed by others Thursday and Friday. Dave Brown of Shackelford Brown Co said the general situation is ideal and rains have filled out the fruit improving quality. The rains after a long dry spell benefit Georgia Belles and Elbertas with strong demand likely to absorb good prices.
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