The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-12
MARKET REVIEW
 MAY 1 TO MAY 8

New potatoes: In spite of contin- ued heavy shipments of new potatoes from Florida. potato prices have re- nained at about the same level as last week.
 Shipments of new potatoes from Florida by rail during the week May 1-7, 1917, inclusive, were S3f cars' whereas shipments during the com parable week of 1918 were only zzf cars. Total shipments of Florida po- tatoes by rail to May this season have been 2,198 cars, as compareo with 582 cars shipped by rail TO Lne same date in 1916. In addition toi cars of new potatoes have been re- ported shipped from Florida by boat to date this season.
 F O. B. prices on carloads or new ,,otatoes as reported to the office or markets from Hastings. Florida have remained firm at $7.75 to $8 per par rel. and s6.75 to $f per 15O-pound sack.
 Jobbing prices in the larger mar wets for first grade new potatoes have fIuctuated but slightly from gener- al average of $e-$9.25 per barrel d,arine the last week, or about $5 per harrel higher than the jobbing prices which prevailed during the cores bonding period of the 1916 season. Onions: Shipments of Bermuda on- ions from Texas have averaged near ly 100 cars per day during the week of April 80 to May 2, 1sl7' as com nared with an average of about oo cars per day during the comparable perfod of 19i6 Total shipments or | onions from Texas to May [, 1917, have been 3,312 cars, or only 377 cars ] less than were shipped to the same | date in 1916, notwithstanding the i lateness of the present season
 Nevertheless, prices for carloads as reported telegraphically to the of i, flee of markets from Laredo, Texas, < have showed an upward tendency or from $1.s0-$1.40 per crate to $l.4o- sI.50y per crate for first grade yellow ] onions. or about soc per crate higner I than the qi6taions during the com { parable period of 1916.
 i .Jobbing prices for yellow Texas on !. ions, firsts, averaged $1.s0 to $2.1O in most of the larger markets during the past week, or 10 to 40 cents per crate lower than the prevailing job ping prices of the previous week, but f about 50 cents per crate higher than 1 the average pobbing prices which prevailed during the comparable per iod of. 1916.
 Tomatoes: Tomato shipments from Florida during the week April 30 to May ', 1917. were 563 cars, whereas 1 only 825 cars were shipped during the corresponding week of lslo. TO 1 date, 1,293 cars of tomatoes nave been shipped from the East Coast oi ! Florida by rail.
 < Nrrix.cr fha mast l week have averaged about the same as during the comparable period o1 i last year. F.. o. B. prices on carloads as reported from Miami and Palmet- [ to. Florida, averaged $1.50 to $1.6C per 24-pint crate on May z. During cents from the opening prices of last week. Some growers are shipping their tomatoes unsold, expecting higher prices when their cars arrive in the Northern markets.
 On May 8, 1s17., fancy Floyida to natoes were selling for $2-2b to $2.5' lper carrier in the New York whole
 sale market, about 7b cents less tnaI a week ago. In Chicago the prevail
 ing tobbing price was $2.60 to $2.7I
 per carrier The average range O 1obbing prices on Florida tomatoes
 during the comparable period ot
 1sle was from $2.25 to ;s2.5o per 6 basket carrier.
 Strawberries: Strawberry ship ments for the week May IT, 1917, in
 elusive, were Ss9 cars. an increase ! 3SS cars over the previous week this year, but 362 cars less than wer
 shipped during the correspondin ! week last year. Shipments have beel increasing heavily from Tennessee North and South Carolina, and Ar kansas. but are decreasing from Lou U isiana, whereas during the week o
 May 1-7, 1917, inclusive. only 1s
 cars were shipped from Louisiana
 Strawberry shipments will probabl
 be at their height during the nez two weeks-
 During the past week. quotation on carloads of strawberries. as re ported from Hammond, Louisiana decreased from $1-60-$1.65 per "A pint crate on May l, to $1.20-s1-S 8 per 24-pintc rate on May '. Durin the same time 24-quart crates de creased from S3.25-$3.40 to SAC
 SAYS per cate. There was a propol
 tionatts decrease in the f. o. b. pric
 of strawberries shipped from Tennes
 see and Arkansas. Strawberries shiI ped from the Carolinas showed
 wide range of quality and condition .fPrfces on 32-quart crates of Carolin
 strawberries as reported from Chad bourn, North Carolina ranged frol i$1.15 to $3.20 per 32-quart crate fs wagonload, cash track. In most ( the larger markets, there was df
 crease of about cents per quart
 the wholesale price of strawberr1'
 shipped from the Carolinas, and a d. J. crease of 50 cents to q per 24-qua-
 shipped from Louisiana
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