Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-20
Local Produce Notes.


The recent cold wave. which threat
ened to hurt all vegetable crops, has
passed without doing any damage OF
consequence, and the movement is now
plant snap beans and new crop Irish
potatoes. However. there is no scarcity,
arrivals being sufficient to meet the de-
mand, but prices are still steep.
]. @. Bell says he certainly wishes
something would happen to the cab
bage crop to curtail receipts, because
they are glut on the local market.
Prices have dropped about 20 cents
crate within the past two days and are
lowest price OF the season.
]. T. Elder. of Fidelity. says: THE
pretty weather the past few days has
put new life In the produce business.
especially In fruits and vegetables Our
market is In fine shape. There seems
to be no surplus of anything in the line
and everything is meeting with a ready
demand on arrival at good prices. Let.
tuce has become scarce and the market
is showing an advance. Lettuce brought
s1.75 to 81 per drum Thursday"
The strawberry market is uncertain.
Some days fifty crates are received on
the market while on other DAYS re-
ceipts are comparatively nothing. Prices
Thursday ranged from % cents to 27h
cents quart.
Egg Receipts on the local market con-
tinue heavy. with no Increase In de-
mand Local jobbers reduced prices
Thursday to 20 cents and 221a cents
a dozen, A fairly active consumption
prevails, but dealers claim that receipts
are not cleaning up as they should. Ar
rivals are beginning to show noticea-
BILE increase over those OF few days
ago. Explanation for the falling on in
demand is easy. Farmers are peddling
them out from house to house for about
20 cents, and the housewife takes all she
can get at that price, because retail
ers continue to hold prices considerably
higher than they can buy them for. IL
is said that retailers have lost money
on eggs since the reaction set In and are
Inclined to keep prices up and recover
get their prices lower the quicker local
consumption will increase.
Live and dressed poultry continues
scarce, with prices advancing. Dressed
hens are selling at II cents a pound.
while live stock brings so cents, ac-
cording to size. Live and dressed friers
are selling at 30 cents a pound, while
cents on live stock. The scarcity in
this important article of food is said to
be due 20 heavy shipments going East,
where the weather Is cool and 1obbers
stock Local receipts are not half
enough to supply the demand.
According TO Turner Bros, the fish
market Is almost bare of receipts, be-
cause of more trouble on the coast.
which has delayed shipments consider
ably, cutting their supply by half.
Shad. trout, mackerel black bass, perch,
water fish and mullets are exceedingly
scarce and selling at the highest price
of the year. Mullets advanced So a bar
rel to $1S Thursday, while other stock
advanced accordingly. Receipts are ex-
day and Saturday, on account of im-
proved weather conditions on the east
and west coasts. Last Saturday Turner
sold something more than $4,000 pounds
of fish,
Apples broke into new high ground
Thursday, when the best fruit sold for
81 barrel, the highest price paid in
ten years or more. Some Of the largest
holders Of fancy stock in the apple sec
ton are refusing to price their goods
yet, claiming there VIII be further adj
vance In the near future. and. IN, the
oranges, which are in liberal supply,
very fine quality and selling at low
prices as compared to other fruit. Flor
ida raised a bumper" crop this year
and has fine weather to gather and ship.
New York Baldwin apples remain un
changed al Sc and $3.50 per barrel. while
oranges bring 81 10 s2,25 per box.
Grapefruit receipts are fairly liberal
considering the small holding still "a
be shipped from Florida. The market,
however. is very firm. and dealers ex-
pect a further advance soon. The pres
ent price is SO to $3.50 per box.
Pineapples are very scarce and high.
There is only small section along the
Indian River I'm Florida where they
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deity that. owing to the enormous in
crease in the demand for grapefruit the
past few years and the fact that the
land used in growing pines is espe-
cially fine for grapefruit, growers have
set their land in grapefruit and quit
growing the other fruit. According 10
this. they expect pines" to sell at very
much higher brices the next few wears
than they have been in the past five or
six years.