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Newspaper
Chicago Packer
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1920
Page
1
Laredo, March 19. The season’s first Texas Bermuda onions began loading from Raymondville with 100 acres under cultivation. Crops moved by rail to the East and by boat to New York from Galveston. Plantings delayed by cold weather mean April to June maturation. Buyers show renewed interest as traders, growers, and brokers from Laredo, Dallas, Chicago, and Detroit converge for the season.
Castleberry Alabama March 19 The strawberry outlook here is very encouraging with good quality fruit and a bountiful potential yield. The season is later due to February and early March freezes that damaged early blossoms and slowed growth. Acreage has risen about 25 percent to over 700 acres with a possible total exceeding 500 to 700 acres once older fields are accounted for. The Klondyke remains the main variety with Missionaries for early express movement starting late March. Barricaded crates pack the fruit in 24 full quart ventilated boxes. Last year’s strong prices revived interest, and expansion continues. Castleberry hosts one of the nation’s largest strawberry growing and shipping sites, with about 136 cars shipped last year and roughly 200 expected this season if favorable weather holds. The Castleberry Strawberry Association, active since the industry began here, has 175 members. George W. Martin serves as president, L. A. Kirkland as secretary, and G. G. Kramp as sales manager. The association grades and inspects fruit before loading for distribution nationwide.
Colorado Potato Shippers Association held a Denver meeting to appoint a bureau that will gather information on receivers who turn down cars without cause. The bureau aims to protect credit and strengthen shipments within the state. A standardized vegetable crate was adopted for use by most shippers, with another meeting scheduled for Saturday March 27 in Denver.
Chicago reports Florida tomatoes arriving in unsatisfactory condition due to recent weather. Many fruit are hard green and badly spotted after shipping. Demand remains for sound ripe stock, but availability is limited. A large repacker says he must reject 600 to 1,000 cases daily as prices range from $2.75 to $6.50 per crate depending on quality.
Chicago reports a Cedar Rapids man Geo G Grupe Jr sparked a weekend stir by obtaining a marriage license, opening shops, and seeking blessings before returning home with oranges. In Kansas City Scott Produce, not a KC Mercantile member, doubts payments and claims not to guarantee prices while offering top market quotes for eggs poultry and produce with shipments paid by market rate.
Spanish onion cargo on the Armenia showed very poor quality and slow movement after a long transit via the Azores. Some stock condemned by the Board of Health. Auction prices ranged from 1.50 to 2.85 per four-tier case, down to 1.25 for best car. Azpeitia arrived with 30,000 crates and 20,990 cases. outlook cites few light cargoes remaining. Domestic supply strengthens, yellows up to 7.15 per 100 pounds, whites to 7.50, Egyptian outlook bullish with plans for five cargoes and currencies quoted in pounds. shipments to New York via Anasis to Boston and City of Alton to U.S. stockholders.
New York dispatch reports heavier medales receipts in California causing a market drop this week. Several straight cars were on sale with prices from zero to ten dollars per dozen bunches. Some small stock arriving by express sold as low as five dollars.
In Sanford Florida markets on March 19 celery prices show gains with strong demand. Golden celery sales run around 3.25 per crate with most crates priced near 32.00.
A section Al vice, stationed at Hillington Field Texas, on furlough, met Mies Brown. Mrs Grape is daughter of Mrs Frank. Townley Brown 426 Surf Street, this city, and until young Geo stormed the city Sunday, had been attending a private school in the Nast. Good luck Geo and Mrs Geo.
Chicago March 19 The carrot potato market steadied after a weak start to the week as bad roads in nearby states limited shipments. Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota prices ranged from about 4.95 to 5.60 per cwt for No 1 Round White and Russets, with carlot markets firm and receipts heavy. Cabbage remained active with Texas stock near 80 to 85 a ton fob and Florida crates around 4.9 to 5.
Report from Los Angeles on March 19 lists vegetable shipments by date. March 10 67 cars, March 11 153 cars, March 12 179 cars, March 12 and 14 136 cars, March 15 70 cars, March 16 70 cars, totaling 7 267 cars year to date.
New York March 19. Lawmakers introduced a flood of bills regulating produce shippers and receivers in Albany. Measures seek hoarding penalties, reporting perishables, licensing dealers, labeling, unfair competition controls, and grading rules. Several bills target food storage and market integrity amid election-time rhetoric on high living costs.
Dammoné Louisiana reports that frequent rains worry growers yet the Louisiana strawberry belt shows a healthy recovery from recent freezes. Plants are in full bloom with a strong yield expected assuming normal weather ahead. Some crates were picked last week, with express shipments likely by March 25 and carrot shipments by April 3. Mid-West Prod. Co. in Tulsa faces bankruptcy. no hearing held yet as L. R. Van Sant, former poultry and egg operator, heads the firm’s past year in business.
Reports from Los Angeles dated March 19 indicate widespread rainfall across Southern California with amounts from four halves to one and a half inches. The season’s totals in much of the southern region are above normal and surpass last year, promising ample water, better crops, and economic optimism for the upcoming season.
New York March 10 Apple market reports dull and lower prices for barreled and boxed apples amid heavy arrivals. 95 cars came in Monday with bar reled grades showing declines and limited demand. Greenings $6.10 per barrel, Baldwins $6.40-9, Pippins $5-9, Yorks $5-7, Ben Davis $5-6.50, Spys $6-10, Winesaps $7-10 per barrel. boxed fruit averaged lower than last week with some outside prices for high quality lots.
The American Railway Express Company asks the Interstate Commerce Commission for substantial rate hikes. The request calls for a 26 percent district wide increase in the East of the Mississippi and North of the Ohio, with 10 percent rises elsewhere. Maximum increases reach 75 percent for actual transportation in the Eastern district and 60 percent elsewhere. Additional charges cover terminal handling and haulage, with milk and cream rates largely unchanged. The company cites higher operating costs and need for better facilities as justification.
James Bozzi & Co. won a Municipal Court judgment against Salvatore Buoncore for failing to accept goods after purchase. Buoncore bought 40 crates of tomatoes, returned 30 crates the next day, and later claimed poor quality. Judge Caffery ruled the buyer had opportunity to inspect on the dock and cannot claim nonconforming tomatoes after examination. Tozzi & Co. awarded full amount plus costs.
Hilton New York March 15 The reports that California onions stored here were bad are false California stock never stored better Abe Rosenblum Brooklyn NY a major onion dealer had about 35000 bags of California browns and yellows here The stock was packed under his Diamond R brand In the past ten days he sold almost all and the remaining 25 cars came out solid in splendid condition and topped the market.
The joint meeting of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois fruit jobbers associations will be held Friday and Saturday, April 9 and 10, at the Baltimore hotel in Kansas City. Delays focus on two days due to rising business, with a big attendance expected. Florida Cabbage Movement shows generally light activity in Jacksonville with firm markets and higher prices, cash sales about 3.50 to 4 per crate for Wakefield cabbage.
Federal agents arrested G Brown of Georgetown Ky on suspicion he is Joseph R Batten the infamous produce crook. Batten, wanted in Boston and San Francisco, swindled shippers across states by inflated prices for eggs and poultry, often using out‑of‑town calls and fake transfers while moving goods to Louisville Cincinnati and Charleston. He has prior federal sentences and may have operated under several aliases in Denver New Orleans St Paul and other cities.
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