The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-07-24
Bartlett Season Is Expected Il
Clean Up At Date Much
Earlier Than Last
MEAT FOOD ARTICLES
ARE EXPECTED TO RISE
Visible Beef Supply Both IN Num-
Der and Average Weight Of
Animals Is Restricted Compared
With Other Years

That a carload i0f pears Viii move
from the lower valley this week is a
certainty and the likelihood is that
there will be several carloads. The
pear growers OF the North Yakima
section are looking at their trees AS
if they would like to relieve them of
some of the load and inquiries have
already been made of the buyers as
to the probable price to be paid. No
price has been announced as yet.
There is every prospect that the pear
deal will be earlier than last year.
taken as an entirety and some few
expect to see the end of the Bartlett
crop reached about the time It be-.
gan last season.
The local markets, from Seattle to
Dakota, are absorbing the fruits
which are now seasonable and doing
it freely, according to all reports. The
carlot business Is steady, mixed fruits
being shipped while the express BUS
mess is unusually heavy as it has
been ever since the inception of the
fruit business OF the year.
Meat Food Supplies
The impression continues to grow
that the meat food articles are t.
come In for a period of high prices,
beef in particular. This is one Of
those things that time alone will
demonstrate. but IT appears to be the
,opinion which at present Is being re-
lceived+ Conditions in the west have
ltsirned many carloads of sheep to the
east from Washington, Oregon and
JdA, bo nj otho~ 49, tae nh. u,Ac< No..
always gone east for its hogs and
must continue to do 50 for some time
to come GO % lffg
A Word About Beef
Regarding beef, the National Pro-
visioner, official organ Of the Amer
lean Meat Packers Association, says:
Receipts OF cattle at Chicago.
Kansas City, St. Louis, Omaha. ST.
Joseph and Sioux City during the first
half of 1912 were about 5000, 900
head. which compares with more than
$500, 900 head for the like time in
1911. Figures for smaller centers
throughout the country would show
even more proportionate loss than at
the big points k
During the spring buyers at the
smaller points, particularly in the
east, had to 60 to the big centers for
their supplies. A further indication
of the beef shortage is in average
weights. Take Chicago. for instance.
Reports show that for June the aver
age weight of cattle marketed there
was 81 pounds less than a year ago.
AS there were l,250,000 head of cat
tie marketed at Chicago during the
six months, the shortage in pounds of
shortage in numbers
AT Chicago, in June, the average
steer price was So per hundred, COM
pared to 1895 in May, 1905 in June,
1911, $3.50 in 1910, and s6.45 in June,
1909"
Eggs are . Surprise
One of the local surprises is the
manner in which eggs hang along at
25 cents a dozen. They have been at
that notch for weeks, making the
longest run at the price that has OBJ
tanned in recent years. One result.
of this is that an unusually large
number, according to report. have
gone into storage which will be re-
leased later in the year when better
figures are being demanded for the
strictly fresh article. The only ex-
plantation of the prolonged period Of
cal production has been materially
anger the past year than ever before
in the history of the county. That
such a change should come about in
one season is a surprise, Promises
continue to come in that 60c eggs and
butter may be expected to go forward
at any time.
Fresh Corn Dorps
Fresh corn has taken the biggest
drop of amy food article. going down
in a couple of weeks from fifty 70
fifteen cents a dozen, and is proving
popular with housekeepers at the lat
est quotation. Summer squash Is in
evidence and is selling at from ten to
fifteen cents. Yakima blackberries
have been offered and are nice APP
pearing fruit. canteloupes from CAL
ifornia somewhat superior than the
average seen here are selling at three
for twenty-five.
No hay market is as yet reported
General Quotations
he StIltldi lfldfkel Is as IOllOWS.
Kalispell hard wheat -four, sack. .sI65
Dutch mill ...S1.3O
Yakima Best per sack ... S145
Minnesota Blend. hard wheat. .sI.5o
Prosser flour, per sack . 81 so
Washington hard wheat flour .S1.45
Kennewick Best. paint bour .$145
Alfalfa ton, wholesale. $3.50 a Z. 90
Wheat hay. per ton. -. .ss.00@S10.0o
Fruits, Vegetables, Groceries, Retail
Creamery butter, Id ...35c, for CSC
Ranch butter pound. use
Eggs, per dozen .25c
Cheese, Wisconsin. pound. -. .35c
Brick cheese, pound. .35c
Imported Swiss cheese, pound. 40c
Limburger cheese, pound ..25c
Oiesoh cheese .....,.- zoe
Dill pickles, dozen. .2pc
DeaNhNdps '''....,. ..... DC
taspberries .............. Toe
Lemons dozen soc
Bananas. dozen. ...... soc and35c
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