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Newspaper
Chicago Packer
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1912
Page
2
The cabbage crop here is of very good quality this season and has drawn favorable comment from buyers who have visited other sections. Low prices may push much of the crop into storage. Strong winds recently shook many apples from trees, increasing bulk apples expected. About half the potato crop remains to be dug and some reports say stock is rotting.
Trading in green vegetables remained active with ample offerings and steady prices. Homegrown beans are exhausted, peppers and cucumbers show firmer demand, ship ins from east Arkansas and Louisiana abound, while wax beans and certain perishables vary in supply and price.
Butter receipts rise as harvest slows. Creamery grades steady with firm demand from local and out of town buyers. Eggs move actively with strong demand and a local operator cleared out May and June stock. Wisconsin cranberries selling well at 6.50 fob for Bell and Cherry brands as crop moves quickly to avoid frost. Late east berries expected for Thanksgiving trade. Cape Cod and New Jersey shipments quoted at 6 to 6.50 fob.
Potato crop in Decatur county will be large while tomato crop is half normal in Connersville. Black walnuts are unusually abundant and hickory nuts small in Clay City. South Bend growers report 2000 bushels of onions with no local market at 40 cents a bushel. Indiana poultry men prepare for the South Central Poultry Show in Louisville December 23 to 28, with J C Dinsmore, A E Martz, Theodore Hewes and H C Dippel on the executive committee.
Whitewater Wisconsin report says W C Wrinkle of Delaven has acquired the controlling interest in Union Produce Co and taken active management. In Texas, J B Webb of Mexico plans tropical vegetable experiments at Westmoreland farms near Houston and at Hampshire. Shinnston Orchard Co. Incorporation filed in Shinnston West Virginia with $25000 capital by FP Sturm C P Hood H C Hood Ralph Sturm and P D West.
Chicago grape market remained active with firm tone and strong demand last week. Unlabeled arrivals were light, Michigan stock steady, New York varieties plentiful. Wine grapes held firm with prices from 25 to 35 dollars per ton. overall market expected to stay healthy for the season.
A Chicago Association of Commerce report to Mayor Harrison urges moving the main produce handling away from the South Water Street Dearborn corner to relieve chronic congestion. The committee notes street narrowness and heavy traffic in the loop, with ten firms causing most jams while wagons idle long due to peddler and expressman practices. No action decided yet. Elgin Butter Market Unchanged. No change in creamery extras price, stay at 38c. favorable weather but Elgin district output weaker than expected.
Purdue University will run a short course in fruit growing starting Monday December 2. The program targets orchard owners and operators with practical outdoor laboratories on thirty acres, where nearly 1,000 fruit varieties are cultivated for instruction in pruning top grafting spraying and planting.
Prof. C. G. Woodbury, secretary of the Indiana Apple Show, urges immediate pruning of dead wood and sanitation to protect orchards. He notes blight and winter injury damage and stresses science based pest control to ensure merchantable fruit for the 1913 show and future crops.
In Indianapolis on October 18 egg prices held at 26 cents with some dealers paying 27 cents to secure stock. Turkeys ducks and geese rose slightly. hens dropped to 15? a pound. Chickens remained plentiful at 15 cents. Scarcity of storage stock and late hatching due to cold weather temper Thanksgiving supplies, with Indiana crops below average and nearby states Tennessee Missouri and Kentucky expected to fill gaps.
In Vincennes Indiana on October 18 the Southern Indiana Poultry and Egg Dealers Association gathered at the Collins Produce Co plant for a discussion of trade conditions. Between twenty and thirty members attended. J Cyril Begg serves as manager of Collins Produce Co.
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