The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-11-02
BRIDGEPORT MARKET
REPORT
SS6 Main Street. Tel. Noble ESQ.
Bridgeport, Conn, Nov. 2, 1918.
Market Guide for Rridgenort

SSpoAl' Nonn., NOV. z, 1918.
Market Guide for Bridgeport
Consumers.
Prepared by the local City Market
ing Agent of the Bureau of Markets,
o. S. Department of Agriculture,
Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce
and Bridgeport Fruit and Vegetable
Growers Association, Cooperating.
ABUNDANT - Grapes, Apples,
Onions, Sweet Potatoes, Potatoes,
Spinach, Cabbage.
NORMAL - Pears, Beets, Carrots,
Parsnips, Peppers, Green Tomatoes.
SCARCE - Lima Beans, String
Beans, Squash, Tomatoes, Oranges,
Lemons, Grape Fruit, Ounces.
Have You Stored Your Winter Vege-
tables Yet?
Now Is the time to store a good
supply of root crops and other sea-
sonable products in your cellars for
winters use. A good supply of ap-
pies, cabbages, onions, potatoes, car
rots, beets and parsnips will be of
greatest assistance in completing the
difficult winter menus. Cabbage
should be stored in a cool place with
heads down. Carrots, beets, and
parsnips should remain firm if placed
in a box and packed around with dirt
or sand. Onions, one of the best buys
on the market, should be stored in a
cool, dry place. Even slight freezing
will not injure them provided they
are not handled while frozen. Pota-
toes and apples keep better in cool,
damp place and do not shrivel.
Buy While Prices Are Reasonable.
With the cold weather soon to be
an established fact, the time is ripe
now for purchasing the above men
toned crops. 1t is not likely that
prices will be any lower and there is
a big possibility of higher prices. A
liberal supply purchased now wiz be
the cause of much satisfaction later
and will also be a paying investment
from a money saving standpoint.
These prices represent the approx
innate cost to the retailer when buy
ing in unbroken packages. Consum-
ers should expect to pay, on the aver
age, from 20 to 40 per cent. to cover
the retailers costs of doing business
and his legitimate profits.
Apples-good, 50S1.5O basket, 4-10
cents quart; $4.5O-$6 barrel, sic ct;
local, $1-225 basket, 7-8c quart.
Bananas-South America, $5.25-
$50 nine hands, 253Oc dozen.
Beans-green, 1925 busheI, Sc Il C
quart; wax, $225 bushel, 81 g Il C
quart; lima, $2.5O-$S.OO bushel, 7c-9c
quart.
Beets-bunch, 1924 punches fol
! 81, SC bunch.
cabbage-s1.75-s2 barrel, 1Ac-2c
pound.
Cantaloupes-Honey Dew. $3.25
crate, 40c-45c each.
Carrots-cut, 75c basket
Celery, $1.75 dozen punches, 15c
bunch.
! Cucumbers-York State, 81 crate
sc each.
Grapes Malaga, SO fiat, IL 1-2t
pound; Tokay, $3-3.25 fiat, IL IL
lac pound.
Lettuce-head, $2.25 barrel. Sc
head.
Onions Conn Valley. $1.75-$2OO
crate, 2-2Hc pound; local, $1.25-$1.75
bushel, 1914 C pound.
Pears-DAnjou, $4.25-$5 box, Ia
| and &c pound.
Oranges-CaI., $1O-$14 box, 2k &c
each.
Lemors-cal, ss.5o-$1O box; 2A-
Sc each.
Parsnips-loca1, 50 bushel, soc
peck.
Peppers-local, s1.OO bushel, S-4c
quart.
Potatoes-local $2-21O bushel, 5Oc
peck; Maine, $1.5O-$1.S0 bushel, s.
45c peck; sweet, $4.25-$5.50 barrel,
215 -4c pound.
ounces. s125-s2 basket. 7o-9Oe
peck.
Endive, 81 barrel, 1oc peck.
Tomatoes-ripe, $1.25-1.50 basket,
4c-4Ae quart; green, $1.25 basket,
" &c quart.
United States Department Of
Agriculture,
H. S. SCHWENK,
In charge