Government to Probe Raisin Price Advance Season
Fresno Oct 31 government to probe raisin prices fixed by California Associated Raisin Company for this season. President Giffen and other executives will testify in Washington after hearings in September. Proponents say costs justify higher prices while critics accuse profiteering. a Nov 11 hearing is scheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fresno
Calif
Governfe
California Associated Raisin Company
Wiley M. Giffen
Isin Commission
Department of Justice
Washington
Giffen
W. A. Sutherland
Wilson
California
Raisin Company
Fremo
Roisin Company
Federal Trade Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Dinuba
Commission
Evant Leral
Byttorney
Palmer
Masan
Raisin Association
Tne
Java
Therrien Browsrs
Final Cranberry Yield Report Across States
Final report from Field Agent Sanders in Wakefield New York estimates the cranberry crop at 840000 barrels this season. Compared with 195000 last year and 290960 as the ten year average, the season shows little frost damage. Span worm damage was heavy but fruit worm injury was small with New Jersey reporting 165000 barrels, Wisconsin 45000 and prior years cited for comparison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sanders
Department of Agricultre
Wakefield
Mays
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Warm Weather Slows Onion Market Trade
New York report dated Oct 31 notes very warm weather and heavier receipts dampened onion trading. Western New York New England and Midwestern red and yellow onions moved mostly from 3 to 4 dollars per 100 pound bag, common 2.50 to 3, while Orange county stock, largely poor quality, ranged up to 3 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York State
New England
Middle West
Orange County
Railroad Brotherhood Chief Proposes Middleman Elimination
Grand Chief Warren 8. Stone of the Brotherhood of Railway Engineers announced a December 13 Washington meeting to pursue a cooperative plan linking producers with city workers to cut out middlemen. He has worked on the idea for weeks. In California, Los Angeles vegetable shipments for the week ended October 29 show varied car counts including Buat East and local, with dozens of cars noted on several dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Warren
Stone
The
Brotherhood of Railway Engineers
Sbargh
Labor and Farmers’ Organization
Washington
California
Los Angeles
A&h
New York Mercantile Exchange to Stage New Year Show
New York Mercantile Exchange members plan a minstrel show on the exchange floor for New Year’s Eve 1919. After wartime restraint, veterans Gus Ludwig, Bert Butts, and James F. Convery organize the effort with George Green of Cudahy Packing sponsoring, aiming to revive the popular annual event with many returning performers and a crowded, early soldout crowd anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York Mercantile Exchange
Exchange
Stars and Stripes
Mercantile Exchange
Gus Ludwig
Bert Butts
James F. Convery
Reversale
George, Green
Cudahy Packing Company
Boehm Sees War Affected European Food Trade
Daniel P. Boehm of New York, head of Boehm Poultry, returns from Europe aboard the Cedric, reporting Western Europe’s trade conditions similar to the United States aside from a war affected France. He urges higher European egg quality and notes Denmark and Scotland are strong producers. He also discusses refrigerator stock limits in France and German market prospects, with ongoing Food Administration ties and talks in England and France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel P. Boem
New York
United States
France
Daniel P. Boehm
pouKtry
Daniel P. Boehm, Inc
Liverpool
Cedric
England
Europe
Denmark
Scotland
Germany
Chicago Trade Considers Move From South Water Street
A Chicago Mercantile Exchange meeting on October 31 discussed a bond issue to boulevard South Water Street and force a possible move of the fruit and produce trade. Proposals include new markets at Jefferson, Van Buren, Polk and Desplaines, with a potential relocation if the bond wins. Plans were presented by the Welfare Committee and Booster Club to house the trade and counter the bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Water Street
Jefferson, van Buren, Polk and
Desplaines Streets
Chicago
Trust and Produce Trade
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Water Street
Frank Heilman
W. L. Wagner
Wagner
Apples for Sick Soldiers Campaign Aids Hospitals
New York headlines report a campaign to provide apples to wounded soldiers and sailors. The International Apple Shippers Association raised about 1500 dollars for purchases. Wayne M. French and Joseph Sicker led committees. French is sick in East Orange, delaying work, while Sicker completes distribution plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Milwaukee
Army
Navy
New Yo
Brooklyn
Staten Island
Wayne M. French
International Apple Shippers’ Association
East Orange
Joseph Sicker
French
Imperial Valley Winter Vegetables Deal Poised to Break Records
Imperial Valley expects a record winter vegetable season with 28 distributors in the deal. Acreage totals show 9,390 acres contracted for lettuce, spinach, peas, cabbage and tomatoes, surpassing last year’s figures and forecasting around 3,300 cars from lettuce alone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imperial Valley
San Francisco
Portjana
Seattle
Oregon
Portland
R. M. Weber
Whittier
Calif
Grants Pass
Poland
Philippine Islands
FB. B. Ingels
Topeka poultry dealer overquotes market causing package backlog
In Topeka on October 31 Joe Newman & Co, poultry, eggs and butter dealers, overquoted live fowls and other items to attract shipments. Seventeen coops of poultry and eleven cases of eggs were received C. O. D. with unpaid bills as Newman planned three trucks to distribute goods from Stewart Poultry Co. The man, about 42, with a mustache, offered prices far above New York values and pledged quick profits for his buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
Joe H. Newman & Co
Newman
Stewart Poultry Company
Stewart
New York
George Harrington
Kansas City
Harrington
Northwestern apple freeze and market notes update
A listings style summary notes various market items across sections A and 3 including the Northwestern apple freeze, New York onion and egg reports, California vegetable shipments, Chicago cabbage and potato movements, Oklahoma pecan and Wisconsin potato themes, and several notices from New York, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Denver related to crops, prices, and freight. The index also mentions personnel moves, forthcoming reports, and public notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
N. Y
California
Chicago
Oklahoma
Northinster Apples Suffer From Freeze and Car Shortage
Hood River Oregon reports a severe freeze causing unpicked apples to face estimated losses up to 200 000 boxes while a car and packing box shortage limits shipments. Lower fruit areas escaped major damage due to snow and brief frost, with Wenatchee seeing minimal impact. potatoes also suffer slight losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood River
Wenatchee
Yakima
Wenatchee District
Ore
Mid Columbia
Mid-Columbia
Active cabbage trade in Chicago market gains pace
Chicago Oct 31 The cabbage market is active with prices higher than a week ago. The tone eased early in the week after ten days of strength but operators hold firm ideas as Minnesota stock is nearly sold out. Wisconsin fields are nearly cleaned up and future sales will be warehouse driven. Holland seed stock quoted at 22 30 a ton and domestic at 20 22 a hundredweight shipping point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Holland
Oklahoma Pecan Crop Bigger Than Normal in Stephens County
Duncan Oct 21 pecan crop in Stephens county is the largest to date with dealers paying 12 to 15 cents per pound. Nut quality is good and average size exceeds prior years. One dealer plans to ship several carloads from the county during the harvest season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duncan
Oklo
Stephens County
Butter Exports Surge As Foreign Buyers Hold Stocks
New York October 31 heavy butter exports attract buyers from England Belgium France Scotland and Holland. Foreign agents pay cash against warehouse receipts purchasing butter at 60 to 61 cents per pound while holdings reach 30,000,000 pounds in U S cold storage. Britain’s 3 to 4 million pounds are warehoused in New York and Jersey City. Longshoremen’s strike delays shipments though 3,000,000 pounds are ready to go. Italian buyers reportedly active later in the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
England
Belgium
France
Scotland
Holland
Chicago
Buffalo
Boston
Kansas City
Jersey City
Mar
Buyers Taking Oranges in Porterville Section
Independent buyers and speculators surge through Tulare county citrus belt seeking control of early Navel oranges. Cash buyers offer up to 2.80 per box at packing houses for new crop Navels, while 2,000 cars of Valencia remain unshipped, shaping holiday supply. The Valencia season extends as car shortages test the industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imperial Valley
E. &. Coons
Pacific Fruit Express
Southern District
American Fruit Distributors Division
American Fruit Growers
Alamo Packing Company
California Vegetable Union
C. H
Porterville
Calif
Tulare County
Valencia
Edgar O. Oetgen Arrested on Shippers' Charge in Atlanta
Edgar O. Oetgen of Atlanta, linked to the Gossett concern and Tennessee Produce Company, and operating as E. O. Oetgen & Co., was arrested on charges filed by EB. Ford of Arlington. He is bail-bound with a hearing set for November 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Edgar O. Oetgen
Gossett Concern
Tennessee Produce Company
E. O. Oetgen & Co
EB. E. Ford
Arlington
Oetgen
Nave
Late Nationwide Market Notes and Potatoes Across Regions
Editorial and market notes cover price movements in onions and citrus, potato and egg markets in Chicago and New York, butter and poultry trends, sugar shortages, and Florida to California farm updates. Mentions of deaths, new companies, and government actions frame a broad trend snapshot across markets and regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Potato Movement
Chicago
Memphis
Texas
Calif
Colorado
San
Dallas Street
Memphia
Arkansas
Cleveland
Louisiana
New York
Bogtos
Aroostook County
New Orleans
Edward R. Hurst
Kathryn Oyler
Cincinnati
Florida
Norfolk
General Eastern News
California Citrus Fruit Movement
Los Angeles
Walnut Grove
E. Urick
E. EB
Emery Farm New Firm
California
Pioneer Vegetable Co
Sqobel & Day
Kugelman
Also Mentioned on This Page
Girten
Associated Raisin ‘Company
Federal Trade Commissie
ofJustice
Railroad Brotherhood
New York Mercantile ‘Exchange
Nashville
Berkeley County
Columbus
Irvington
Neahville
R. G. Phillips
Apple Shippers’ Convention
Grand Bay
Ala
Phillips
St. Louis
Ft. Worth
Poultry Workers Union
St Louis
Tato
Kangasey
N. W. Ark
Bentonie
Kansas City Street
Don Cipolla
B. B. Connery & Co
Minneapolia
Jefferson, van’ Buren, Desplains
Polk Streets
Mitchell
Newman & Co
Oklahoma City
Houston
Tex
O. B
D. E. Ryan
Detroit
Mr. Seibels
Louis Shamie
Porto Rico
A. J. Evang
Bureau of Markets
F. Byrd
State Senate
Indianapolis
Bartels
Ferguson Bros
Des Moines
Stanley
Eau Claire
Rise, Lake and Thorp
Wis
E. E. Connery
Co. P. Tatem & Co
Baltimore
Potato Machinery Company
New Plant
Minneapolis Street Notes
Louisville
Tacoma
Page
Maine
Wenatchee, Wash
Wenatchee Ap
Butter and Eye
A. H.rahal
H. Badson
Packing House
Annou
Newt of
the Packer
Load River
Vancouver
Bureau of Chemistry
Charles Simons
Tulare
British Columbia
Bermuda
Spokane
Reedley
E. T. Wall
Brawley
Oregon Apple Movement
Fruit Browers
Okanagan Valley
Yuba
Sutter
Pry
John
Walnut Association
Fiss
Sunmaid
Mary River
Lane
Paradise
San Diego
New
Fred Green
Denver
White City
Fla
Boston Fruit and Vegetable Market
Boston Street
I, Co. C
Baltimore Market News
Pittsburgh
Eges
Associated Fruit Co
H. B. Watson
L. H. Wilson
Louis Justice
J. le Debenetti
Florida Citrus Fruit Movement
Victor Nettles
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