Potato Market Rebounds Yet Stock Accumulation Persists
The potato market steadied by midweek after a late week decline, with prices firming to around 50c f o b as quality issues such as field frost and dry rot influenced sorting. With near 600 carloads around Chicago, buyers favored Ohio, Minnesota, and Dakota stocks, while Wisconsin and Michigan offerings lagged. Receipts daily ranged from 80 to 135 cars, and overall activity picked up toward week’s end as dealers aimed to move stored stock for winter storage.
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Chicago
Ohios
Minnesota
Dakota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Chicago Butter Market Faces Easy Week With Mixed Demand
Chicago butter markets softened for undergrades while fine grades saw steadier to higher activity. Extra fancy stock and 60 pound tubs moved at limited demand as refrigeration shifts and port shipments constrained supply. Fresh creamery extras plentiful with strong street presence but slow sales. receipts rose Tuesday to 10 371 tubs amid gloom in held stock and weak eastern demand.
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Chicago
Canadian
California Navell Soon Shipments and New Crop Prep
Los Angeles reports total cit rus shipments from Southern California by Santa Fe and Southern Pacific lines for the week ending October 20 totaling 280 cars, with season totals near 28,331 cars on Santa Fe and 19,484 on Southern Pacific. Northern district lemon shipments and Tulare County standards influence next month’s movement as growers push to meet eight to one and seven to one tests.
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Los Angeles
Southern California
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Tulare County
Butte County
Sacramento County
New York Egg Market Reports Mixed Demand and Firm Prices
Receipts from March 1 to last Saturday totaled 3,728,720 cases, down from 3,848,425 a year earlier, with week ending last Saturday at 51,132 cases and 61,943 a year ago. Prices for firsts range 24.4 to 25.4 cents, seconds 23 to 24, while fresh eggs climb with near-term demand. Northern Indiana extra firsts sold at 36 cents on call, and overall stock remains tight with a generally firm market.
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New York
Ses
Indiana
Potato Shipper Backs Fair Play In Market Refusals
A Minnesota potato shipper writes The Packer praising the effort to expose crooks in the trade. He suggests dedicating a page to firms that order stock and refuse it due to market declines, offering $50 annually, $100 if needed, to hire a watcher and advertise refusals to stock buyers while seeking fair play.
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Chicago
Minnesota
Packer
Bananas Dumped At Sea Over Decay By Health Dept
A cargo of bananas valued at 75000 dollars from the steamer Baranica was dumped beyond the three mile limit by order of the Health Department after arriving in a decayed condition. The Baranica docked at Pier 15 East River last Friday. Seattle Grapes From East Trade Focus Of Western Avenue Market With Concords At 36c A Basket And Michigan Carloads Mentioned.
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New York
United Fruit Company
Health Department
Baranica
Pier 15
East River
RROWERS LORE AT DILLON Peach shipments amid New York auction confusion
Albion producer L R Rogers protests Dillon Department of Food and Markets actions after a car of Elberta peaches sold at auction in New York for 57 4c per bushel basket, while other lots fetched higher prices. The Packer notes varied results across shipments, with brokers reporting sound fruit and some buyers missing expected bids as sellers blame state guidance for supposed patriotic motives.
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L. R. Rogers
Dillon
Department of Food and Markets
Fruit Auction Company
New York
Rogers
New York City
State Auction Department
Mr. Rogers
Commissioner Dillon
Department of God and Markets
New York Commission
Philadelphia
State Department of Food and Markets
Elbertas
Medina
Goodsell
Fitzgerald
Dillon's
Packer
Baldwins
Market woes and apple trade notes in 1920s report
Fragmented market chatter covers New York and West Virginia apple shipments, auctions, and grower reactions. It mentions Dillon store sales, various apple varieties, and grower prospects, plus a lengthy report on a 1920s Interstate Commerce Commission hearing about refrigeration charges for butter eggs cheese and poultry, with centralizers vs smaller shippers debates and bids to adjust carlot rates.
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Chicago
A. G. Guthelm
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal
National Poultry, Butter and Egg Association
New York
M. S. Hartman
Fairmont-Creamery Company of
Omaha
W. B. Quarton
Algona
National Creamery Butter Makers’ Association
Iowa State Dairy Association
Judge Quarton
Swift & Co
Beatrice Creamery Company
Beatrice, Neb
Fairmont Creamery Company
Ohio
Potomac
Towa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
St. Joe
Short-Weight Grape Pack Sparks Shipping Troubles
Westfield New York farmers face losses as grapes packed in short weights are held by US inspectors. Four quart baskets and eight pound baskets misweighed. inspectors report numerous violations across markets. Federal probe planned into local packing amid Brest fruit shipments. Prices listed at 14 cents per eight pound basket, 30 1/2 dollars per ton for 20 pound baskets, and 25 29 per ton for trays.
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New York
Westfield
N. Y
Brest
Chautauqua Belt
Tramp Cars Threaten Apples Market in Northwest
Cash apple buyers with New York ties appeal to W. H. Paulhamus to curb tramp cars entering New York from non members of the Growers' Council. Wenatchee Delicious and Rome Beauty sold at 2.04 and 1.45, while the Council quotes 1.85 for Delicious. Tramp cars auctioned in New York at 50 to 75 cents cheaper. Unattached organized growers may drive relief as 40 to 60 percent of growers on the list are not tied to marketing agencies.
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Northwest
Seattle
New York
W. H. Paulhamus
Growers’ Council
Rome
Automobile crash narrowly misses death in Packard ride
New York October 22 Arthur Miller of the Miller Cummings Company escaped serious injury after a Packard demonstration car traveling about 65 miles an hour skidded and struck a telegraph pole. Miller was thrown from the car but survived with only soreness and shock, reporting he never wishes to come so near death again.
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New York
Arthur Miller
Miller-Cummings Company
Miller
T. Miller
Contortion of Dealers Over Egg Inspection Rules Denied
The Interstate Commerce Commission denied the New York Mercantile Exchange petition for stricter egg inspection rules, upholding railroad positions. The decision cites uniform tariff rules across defendants and notes full inspection at arrival is impractical, with joint inspection allowed only for damaged cases. The ruling impacts loss and damage claims and carriers’ filing requirements, highlighting six New York stations handling most egg shipments.
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Washington, D. C
Thtterstate ‘Commerce Commission
Mercantile Exchange
Exchange
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
New -York Mercantile Exchange
New York City
New York
Oh Ree
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Gen Company of
New Jersey
Brooklyn
Trunk Line Association
Present. Org
Trunk Tine Association
Chicago
Buffalo
Albany
Boston
Providence
Philadelphia
Poughkeepsie
New Haven
Baltimore
City of
Lamport steamer carries 60,000 boxes fruit to Buenos Aires
New York October 22 South America is importing much fruit from the northern states led by apples and pears. The Lamport and Holt steamer Vestrie sailed last Sunday with under refrigeration 45,000 boxes of apples and 15,000 boxes of pears, all Northwestern fruit, the largest cargo of its kind ever sent from New York to Buenos Aires.
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New York
South
Shake Up at Albany in Cole Law Enforcement Bureau
Albany October 22. There has been a shake up in the Agriculture Department branch enforcing the Cole Law. W J Pat Maloney, superintendent of the Bureau of Licenses, severed ties this week. Clarence A Phelan, former deputy commissioner, has not been with the department months. E S Flanders, counsel, now in charge of the Licenses Bureau. Governor Whitman is reported to be taking charge and an investigation into enforcement and the law’s coverage is planned.
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Cole Law Enforcement
Albany
Department of Agriculture
W. Ji
Pat Maloney
Department
Clarence A. Phelan
Buggary Place
New York
E. S. Flanders
Whitman
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