The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-04-03
NEW POTATOES
IN THE MARKET
More of General Disposition to
Sell Than Was the Case
Week Ago
PRODUCER GETS LITTLE
FOR HIS LIVE CHICKENS
But Small Fraction of the Total
Wool Clip Has Been Contract
ed for and Public Sales Are
Probable

New potatoes are in the market and
are retailing at two pounds for the
quarter. This is a pretty stiff figure
and not many people will pay It, On
the other hand the potatoes are not
numerous and would not suffice for II
popular demand. They will be nll-
merous enough in another two weeks,
however, to seriously influence the
price OF the home grown spuds of last
season which remain unsold here. AT
present potatoes are quoted at from
s32 to $40 a ton, according to quality.
The market has eased off somewhat.
due. 1t is said, to the fact that south
ward shipments, which were heavy,
were in excess Of the demand.
What Oregon Says
OF the situation the Portland Tele-
gram says:
Buyers, nevertheless. are not at all
inclined to bank on the extreme prices
that some of the producers have pre-
dicted and are holding for They look
for a measurably satisfactory market
during the next two months. but hold
that there is nothing in the general
tude of some of the growers. At ship
ping points in this state good to fancy
Burbanks are held to be worth Sl.5O
to So a hundred, but at these figures
the demand. temporarily at least is
limited, because of the present con-
gestion at some of the southern cen
ters.
although many of the Oregon
growers are holding stiffly for better
prices than are now available there is
said to be more general disposition
to sell than was the case a few weeks
ago, the producers realizing that the
end of the season is not very far
away
Green StuFs
There is no other phase of the
Yakima market at the present time
that is even interesting beyond the
fact that the people here are consum-
ing lettuce and celery and cabbage
and rhubarb and spinach and such
stuff as That, nearly all of which is
shipped in from outside points. The
tomatoes are coming from Mexico and
the new potatoes from California,
while the celery and such stuff comes
also from the south or the west side
of the state.
There Is remarkable difference
I, right now with regard to chickens as
compared with the corresponding
period a year ago. Chickens are now
worth, to the producer, 13 cents a
pound and they are plentiful at that.
Last year at this season IS cents was
offered and birds were hard to obtain.
A great many more birds have been
produced here the past year, more
people have been eating chickens of
their own raising and still further the
price of eggs now is very low and Of
fers no inducement to hold the
chickens while there is a chance to
get eggs from them. Eggs last year
averaged higher and the birds were
held as long as they would lay.
In a general way producers of
meat are getting more for their goods,
there being slow but steady prog
ress, There is nothing new at all in
the hay situation.
Sure Sign of Spring
AS sign of spring 1t may be said
that the first carload of bananas is
expected on Thursday from the east
over the Northern Pacific. When
| bananas can be brought here across
the top tier of states the weather is
certainly improving.
! With reference to wool an Oregon
report says;
/ I'm the west generally and in Ore
son In particular, contract business in