Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-17
OLD POTATOES
FAST GOING
STOCK ON HAND IS NOW LESS
THAN USUAL
EGGS ARE WELL SUPPORTED
Butter Rules Active and Coast Makes
Are Scarce-Fish Glut the Mar
ket-Fresh Cherries Limited.
Northern Apricots Come
EGGS ARE WELL SUPPORTED

Statistics from the northern potato cen.
ters show that not over $4,000 sacks remain
of available goods, and that of these the
majority are only common. Prices there
are relatively as high as in this market
The old crop Is almost an article of tho
past, and as the new crop, both north and
south, Is fast maturing the end Of the
present scramble for spuds should come
about the first week in June More cars
from Wisconsin arrived yesterday and
jobbed at $165@1.75. New crop are go
12 c pound.
The onion situation has been relieved. as
silvers{ins are plentiful at 21ac a pound
and while soft and hardly well matured,
they serve good purpose The Texas Ber-
mudas are in stock and move well at san
4. SO full crate of 100 pounds These arc
popular because we'll matured. The local
reds and Danvers are reported thriving, and
abundant.
BUTTER IN DEMAND-All coast butter
is reported cleaned up and the trade await
ing more by the steamer that is due today.
This on grade sells at 4OQ42lac a roll Re
ceipts of valley creamery are not over large,
just about reaching the normal point Stor-
Is not as large even dates in last
year. The outlook for the butter market
is improved, the dealers say, and this warm
weather may have an appreciable effect.
EGGS WERE FTRM.-As a rule dealers
reported a firmer feeling in the egg market
yesterday, and the egg quotation commit
tee on the Produce exchange again fixed the
selling price at 21c for southern ranch
cendled. Receipts are lighter, and soon
as tnlS market reaches a higher level the
eastern goods Will be hauled from storage
Shipping is reported improving, and many
sections are calling for eggs.
VEGETABLES PLENTI TIFUL.-The market
is well supplied with all kinds of fresh
vegetables, and the demand is active both
for local use and on shipping account Cab
bage is a drug still at 356 4Oc "A sack.
Tomatoes are too plentiful for comfort.
and gradual decline is in evidence Flor
ida tomatoes are $2m2.5O for a six-basket
crate, and MeXicans $1.5OD1.75 for the
same sized package. Locals are S101.25
box and not over choice
Rhubarb has weakened to 65Q 75c box
and while some fresh is in the market is
oversuppied and the season and popular
ity are fast passing.
of Cuban pineapples is in, of the Spanish red
thirty-two thirty-six a3c fortytwo pines.
according to size. Demand is good and
prices are steady at $3.S5Q4.25, according
to crates.
Cherry receipts yesterday were light. and
by rain and some showed effects
of heat. Royal AIMS came in the first of
the year, but were poor and jobbed low at
4Oc a box. Blacks ruled 75c6S1 box and
were higher and scarcer, and in bulk S@ 10c.
Whites were limited at 546c in bulk and
30 a 6Oc in boxes. Demand was active, and
strawberry receipts we're 500 boxes from
Tropico and these Were. &c Nat Monetas
numbered $50 trays and were 6@7c An
active demand took offerings, and few wele
carried over.
In bananas the market is full up on ripe
stock. and peddlers are reaping the real
harvest. The market is admirably steady
at 3 a 4c, but the latter figure is not COM
mon.
Blackberries are &c, loganberries 6@7c
1Sc for Tropico and 25c for
Orange The gooseberry season is later than
ever known before.
The first aprcots from the north in
from Portervile, and in twenty pound boxes
sold at S125 a $50 a box. Yumas in four
basket crates tobbed at s1.25@1.5O. De-
mand takes all
FISH AND POULTRY.-In FISH barra-
cuda is a glut, owing to remarkable catches
on the southern coast. Yellowtail and
bonita are so plentiful that they are being
earted to the waste heaps. Demand is good,
but the surplus Is too great to be moved.
In poultry, old hens are being freely Of
fered, and this shows that the active egg
aging season is going. Demand for poultry
IS steady, and young broilers and fryers find
l steady market,