The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-19
WEEKLY REVIEW
 OF THE MARKET
Fruits and Vegetables, Week of May
 S-15. 1917.

SIS, 1917.
 The most noticeable feature of the market on potatoes, onions, straw berries, and tomatoes during the week of May ;s~l5, 1917., was the up- ward tendency of prices of all or these commodities, both at shipping points and in the larger cities, In sznjte of shipments from Florida, more than twice as heavy as last year to the same date, new potatoes shoWeu the most marked upward tendency or any of these four crops during the past week. New Potatoes $2 per barrel Higher
 Than oh May 3, 1917
 At the opening of the season in F1orida. about April 20, first grade new potatoes were selling in carload lots. f. O. b., at S9 per double headed harrel. according to anformatlon re- ported at that time to the Depart
 nent of Agriculture frQn Hastlngs' E,lorida. On May the lowest quota lion of the. season was reached, name- lly s7.5e-$7.75 per barrel Since May &, despite unusually heavy snlpments the f, O. b. prices on new potatoes has continued to climb until this morn .inxs report shwoed f.fo> b. sales maoe yesterday for first grade potatoes as : 1 ss. 5v1s9.75 per. barrel, an increase or 1 a per barrel within twelve days anu anu i at a time of the year when prices on ro+atoes normally tend downward.
 Every large city in the country re- 1, r.nrts an unusually strong demand TOT new potatoes, even at the very hign ( nrices which now prevail. On May $, '; iobhdng prices on Florida new pota- | toas in the larger cities averaged | ss. 0o-S9.5O per barrel In New York { on May Is, Florida potatoes were ; ouoted in iobbing lots at $11.00-$1l l.oo sper barrel The average jobbing price renorted from other markets was {, SIG. 50 to s11 per barrel At the com parable time last year, new potatoes were .jobbing for ,$5-75-S6.00 per par rel, about s5 less per barrel than present jobbing prices
 Shipments of new potatoes rom Florida for the season to May ii 1917, as reported telegrapnlca1y ps Itr-ansDortation companies, to the U- s Office of Markets were equivalent te i 3zs5 cars, or over twice as many as f were shipped up to the corresponding ! date last year. During the week May :, s-14 1917, inclusive, s36 cars of new {; potatoes were shipped from Florida l as compared with 89s cars shipped
 during the previous week of this veal and approximately 366 cars shipped during thee corresponding week las year.
 During the week Of May s-14, in cl1,sive. PA cars were shipped Iron South Carolina, and S1 cars iron Texas. Shipments are increasing rap [idfy from both of these states Our1ne | the corresponding week of 1916, cnH one car of potatoes was reported ou 2 .of Snrth Carolina It Is expected tha' the new potato season m the aasllnns, a n'
 district of Florida will be prachcalr over by the end of the present week
 Texas Onions Also HighT
 ss To May IA, 1917, 3,S4S cars of on ions had been shipped from Texas To the same date last year 4,z5S car of Texas onions had been sh1ppeo During the week of May S-l4, ls11 fractusive. 526 cars were shipped iron Texas as compared with S7S car during the previous week this yea
 and 544 CATS during the correspond ing week Last year.
 s.As a result of the ccmpara1ver
 rnoderafe shipments of onions nov being made there has been a connn Arted strong demard in all markets Ol May IA. first grade yellow onion were uuoted in carloads, o. D. Texa
 nnants. at $175es1S0 per crate O
 a,bont 5p cents per crate higher tha1 the rrfes at which Ea1es were mad on May 1, 1917, and also 5D cents pc
 crate higher than at the compaTaoi
 time last year.
 Jox%ang prices on first grade vel
 low Texas onions ranged from $19O l e1 .25 per crate in most of the large
 markets during the past week o
 about the same as opening prices I; the preceding week and aPprox1mafe
 Iy 50 cents per crate higher than dun l ing, the comparable week last yea