The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-15
BRIDGEPORT MARKET
 REPORT
Bridgeport, Conn.,, Oct. 15, 1918 SS6 Main Street. Tel. Noble z5v.
 Market Guide for Bridgeport
COnSuIl1erS

Market Guide for Bridgeport Consumers Prepared by the Local City Mar keting Agent of the Bureau of Mar kets U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1 Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce | and Bridgeport Fruit and Vegetables Growers Association, Cooperating.
 ABUNDANT - Grapes, Peppers, Sweet Corn, Apples, Onions, Sweet Potatoes, Green Tomatoes.
 NORMAL-Pears, Cabbage, Beets, Carrots, Parsnips, Quinces.
 SCARCE-Lima Beans, String Beans, Squash, Tomatoes.
 Don't Neglect Vegetable Bargains.
 Although physicians recommend a more general consumption of fruits during the present epidemic of in= | fluenza it. does not necessarily mean to the exclusion of vegetables and housewives should watch for vegeta- ble bargains now just as much as | they have done in the past.
 This discontinuing of the use of vegetables in favor of fruits which has apparently been done to quite an eX- for vegetables and increased demand
 
 a loss. It is, therefore, the duty of the housewife to serve well balanc- ed meals of fruits and vegetables and prevent such a loss from occurring. Farmers can not be persuaded to raise more food if they can not sell it and be paid fair returns for their .. labor A good old fashioned New , England boiled dinner can be cheaply prepared and will use vegetables which are now in season and reason able in price. These prices represent the approx innate cost to the retailer when buy ing in unbroken packages. Con-
 sumers should expect to pay, on the average, an advance over these prices of from 20 to 40 per cent. to cover the retailers costs of doing business and his legitimate profits: Apples-good, 5Oc-$15O basket, A. 1oc quart; $4.5O-600 barrel, 5-7c qt.; local, $1-2.25 basket, 7-Sc quart Bananas---South America, s3-3 50 nine hands, 25-30c dozen. Beans---green. s1.75-200 bushel, g. 1-4c quart; wax, $1.75-2.0o bushel 14-6 14c quart; lima, $2.50-S.0C fushel, 7-9c quart. Beets- bunch, 2o-24 punches fo, s1.00, 5c bunch. Cabbage, $1.5O-$2 bushel, 1 1-2-2c pound.
 Cantaloupes-Honey Dew, $2.25 I 2.75 crate, 40-45c each. Carrots bunch, SO-5Oc bunch, 212 s 4c bunch.
 Corn-local, s1.5o-2.oo bushel, 12 4 24c dozen; No. ?, s1-1.25, 12-24c dog Cucumbers---York State, $1s0-2.Ot , bushel, 1-2-2c each. Picking s 100 hundred, 1c each. Grapes-Malaga, $2.50-275 bushel N 10 1-4-11 1-4c lb.; Tokay, $2.65-27I A flat; 12-13c pound; local, $1.50-17 a bushel, ' 1-2-13c pound. z Lettuce-head, $125 crate, Sc head Onions-Conn. Valley, $2.0O-s3O a sack, 2-sc pound; local, s15o-17 x bushel, 3-3 1-4c pound. S Pears-D'Anjou, s4.25-5OO box
 1-4-3c pound. g Oranges-Cal. Valley, s12.5o box 4 6o-90c dozen. ! Lemons-Cal ss.5O-7.5o box, 2 4 1-2c each.
 Parsley-local. S0-4oc, 9 1-2-s 1-3 z tunch
 ? Peaches -Elbertas. s2 basket, 14
 quart; S4-1.25 bushel, 3-4c quart.
 Peppers-local, s1.O0-1.25 bushe
 3-4c quart.
 = Potatoes-local, s2.oo bushel, 50 le peck; Maine, $1.75-s2 bushel, 14-40
 peck; sweet, 4.25-5.50 barrel, IA d Sc pound.
 ly Quinces. $1,25-1.65 basket, 7o-so le peck.
 1e Endive---local, $1.0o barrel 1oc peck a Squash, &O55c dozen, ? 1-2-3c eacf CT Tomatoee--ripe. 75-90c crate, 4 is 34c quart; green, 40-50c baske
 3 1-2-4c quart.
 United States Department of
 Agriculture,
 H. S. SCHWENK, e. In charge