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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1926
Page
8
The May U S Department of Agriculture weekly review shows eastern barrel holdings at 619 000 barrels up 23 percent from a year ago and 6 percent above five year average. Boxed fruit stock at 2 779 000 boxes up 54 percent from 1925 with May readings 35 percent above average for boxes.
Cold storage holdings reached 328000 bushel baskets, up 180 percent from a year ago and 115 percent above April. May 1 total supplies were 45 percent over last season and 30 percent above seasonal average. Eastern and midwest fruit prices climbed while boxed apple markets remained dull. Mid May top quotations for barreled varieties ranged 2.50 to 4.25 dollars. Virginia Yellow Newtowns sold 8 to 9 dollars, Northwestern Winesaps 2 to 2.75 dollars.
Virginia Farm Statistics 1925, a 92 page booklet with text tables maps and illustrations, is off the presses. Compiled by federal and state agriculture departments it will be distributed to crop reporters county agents and agricultural high schools in Virginia and to banks chambers of commerce and about 1000 external business firms upon request to the State Department of Agriculture Richmond Va.
The Department of Agriculture estimates that eighty percent of chestnut trees in nine tenths of the Southern Appalachian forests will die of blight within ten years. The blight was introduced to the U S from nursery stock and threatens the remaining important stands.
The Standard Oil Co increases gasoline by 1 cent in Virginia effective immediately and in New Jersey Maryland and the District of Columbia. The new price falls to 19 cents plus a 4 3 cent Virginia road tax and a typical 3 cent station profit, totaling about 25 1 2 cents per gallon.
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