Glendale Cantaloupe Deal Sealed With A C Boice Agent
Glendale producers contract A C Boice of Kansas City to handle 1914 cantaloupe crop as sales agent. Growers plant 200 to 350 acres of high grade seed. only fancy stock ships east. crates loaded, flat ship ments start around July 1. Also notes California strawberries in Kansas City and fruit receipts in Cleveland Ohio with price ranges and daily vegetable shipments in Orange County California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Boice
Kansas City
Arizona
Boice
Grocers' Produce Co. Closes Doors In Bankruptcy
Kansas City Kansas firm at 505 North Sixth Street files bankruptcy with assets about $20 and liabilities over $1,500. Lead creditors are commission men in Kansas City Missouri. Founder Albert B. Brougham notes 25 renters affected. tangible assets scarce. no shippers hurt. Apples move freely in Cincinnati markets with active demand for Thanksgiving trade and varied barrel prices across varieties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grocers’ Produce Co
Kansas City
Kan
North Sixth Street
Albert B. Brougham
Evans, Douglas Co
Consumers Eye and Commission Co. to Move to Four-Story Building
The Consumers Eye and Commission Co. a butter eggs poultry and country produce dealer currently at 709 North Third street will relocate next week to a four story building at 816 North Fourth street in St Louis Mo. The move follows rapid growth and will enhance their capability to serve shippers with first class service. J A Stewart president and treasurer has over twenty five years in the market and D O Carson secretary for about fifteen years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Consumers' Eye and Commission Co
North Third Street
North Fourth Street
J. A. Stewart
D. O. Carson
Urge Lifting Embargo On British Potatoes Moves Front
Washington November 28 importers from New York Philadelphia and Baltimore press to lift the embargo on potatoes from the British Isles. Irish Home Secretary T P Gill argues Britain offers bounty and Irish growers face U S certification issues. Trade tensions rise as British and Austrian producers protest and supplies from Holland Belgium and Denmark flow in. Potatoes from last year created a glut with prices too low for marketing while disease fears and seed use spark debate over safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Horticultural Board
Department of Agriculture
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Austria
England
Scotland
Oland
Belgium
Denmark
British Isles
Insolvent Snyder Schutz Co faces $3 500 claims and bank suit
Snyder Schutz Co of Chicago declares insolvency with liabilities near 3 500 for shipper debts and office assets about 150. J Snyder, once head, assumed debts personally after losses, seeks notes payable in two to four years, while Grimm’s Co manages shipments and store. a bank dispute over damages of 25 000 haunts the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder-Schutz Co
Chicago
Snyder- Schutz Co
South Water Street
Tennessee
Michigan
J. Snyder
W. J. Schutz
Snyder, Schutz & Co
Schutz
Snyder
Geo. J. Grimm & Co
Grimms& Co
Chickens Follow Werner and Market Woes in Louisville
President Carter of the National Cartoji Live Poultry Shippers Assn cites telegrams blaming the Live Poultry Auction Co. for price drops while Sam Werner reports chickens following him west. New York receipts surge with little relief likely next week. In Glasgow, Ky poultry shipments rise from mountain districts, eggs production to increase, and a large goose drive centers on a local operator nicknamed the goose Zan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Carter
National
Cartot Live Poultry Shippers’ Assn
Live Poultry Auction Co
New York City
Sam Werner
New York
Glasgow
Cumberland River
Barren River
Citrus fruit movement slows as Florida traffic stalls
Through Ohio river gateways the week saw light orange and grapefruit shipments from Florida while overall volume stayed on par with last year. Delays from diversions to rail agents caused heavy unloading on valley markets and weak pricing for small and low grade fruit. Oranges sold from 60 cents a box up. best carrots 126 to 176s size brought 2.15 to 2.25. 200s to 25s sizes moved at 1.50 to 1.75 per box. Reparation notice: Albert Miller & Co. of Chicago awarded $8.50 against Pere Marquette for excessive potato charges. June 3, 1912 shipment from Mears, Michigan to Harvey, Illinois. Detention demurrage disputed. commission found no detention and granted the reparations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Florida
Cincinnati
Ohio River
Northwest
Albert Miller & Co
Washington, D. C
Chicago
Pere Marquette Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mears
Mich
Harvey, Ll
Harvey
Travy Avenue
First Show a Big Success at Willows Poultry Exhibition
About 460 entries were made in the Glenn County Poultry Breeders Association exhibition at Willows California on November 28. It was the first show held by the group and drew entries from various parts of the state, signaling strong interest in local poultry farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willows
Cal
Glenn County Poultry Breeders’ Assn
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Kerr’s
Wisconsin
C.A. Kerr & CO
eeYy
W. S. Water
SOK
FOX & Godding
W. So. Water St
Manufac
Turers
Potato Belt
Burbanks
Minnesota
Varley-Walter Co
Minneapolis, Minn
California
Orange
Orange County
Ohio Valley
Baldwins
Ohio
Tllinois
New England
York
Ben Davis
Ireland
T. P. Gill
American Aorticultural Board
Grand Junction
Col
Palisad Assns
Grand Valley
Grand Junction Assaff
Grand Junction Assn
Patterson Pope-Taylor Marketing Co
John F. Moore Fruit Co
Werner
Ine
Wire
Ogden Building
Carlots
Holly
G. M. H. Wagner & Sons
P.M. Anderson
Somers, Wisc
Holland
Schemmel
Owen & CO
Nes
Warren S, Wesant & Son
Newark
Henry M. Dunlas
Savoy, Ill
Greenville Lot, & Fuel Co
Greenville, Wi
Francis Goble
Kansas
Excelsior Springs
Goble
Leavenworth
K, C. Fruit & Produce Co
Ronin
A. L. Davis
Gordon
Nebr
Saarkraut
Marrelo
Neussa
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