The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09
BRIDGEPORT MARKET
 REPORT
Bridgeport, Conn.,, Oct g, 1918. 886 Main Street. Tel. Noble 250. Market Guide for Bridgeport
 Consumers

Market Guide for Bridgeport
 Consumers
 Prepared by the Local City Mar keting Agent of the Bureau of Mar kets, U. s. Department of Agriculture, 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.
 SCARCE-Lima Beans, String Beans, Squash, Tomatoes, Quinces.
 Apples Are Abundant.
 From now on, apples will be "king of the fruit field" and supplies are pouring in from all quarters. All grades of apples are represented with a good demand on f1ret class fruit Poorer grades can be converted very easily into apple butter and canned apples and in this manner prevent considerable loss of highly perisha- ble food products. The following recipe gives full information for the preparation of Apple Butter:
 Use well ripened fruit, wash thor oughly and remove blossom end and all rotten or wormy portions. Cut into siXths or eights. Place in a copper, aluminium, or enamel lined vessel and cover with sweet cider. Cook at boil ing point until fruit falls to pieces. Pour the cooked fruit into a sieve or collander and force pulp through. D RyA I,5 cider, two quarts to the bushel of ap pies. Cook until thick and stir con- stantIy. If sweet butter is desired, add six to ten pounds of corn syrup or molasses. If spices are desired add two or three tablespoonful of ground cinnamon and one-half as much of ground cloves just before re- moving from the fire. Stir thor oughly. Pour the boiling butter into hot sterilized glass jars and seal once. It is finished when spoon lifted from the boiling mass comes up heaping full.
 These prices represent the approxi- mate cost to the retailer when buying 1 in unbroken packages. Consumers should expect to pay, on the average, an advance over these prices of from 20 to 40 per cent. to cover the retail ers' costs of doing business and his legitimate profit.
 Apples, 50c-S15O basket, 4-1oc at. s4.5O-S6 barrel, 5-7o quart; local 1 $1-$2.25 basket, 7-Sc quart. l Bananas-South American, $3-3.50 nine hands, 25-30c dozen. Beans-green, $1.75-2 bushel, g. | 6 1-4c quart; wax, $1.75-2 bushel l5A-6Ac qt,.; Lima, $S-S.5o bushel, 10k -12hc at.
 Beets-bunch, 2o-24 punches for $1, Sc bunch.
 Cabbage, s1.5o-s2 barrel, 1-2-2e pound.
 Cantaloupes-Honey Dew. s2.25 crate, 40c each.
 Carrots-bunch, 3o-5Oc dozen, 2 If and 4c bunch.
 corn-local, s1.5o-2.oo, 1s-24c dog; No. 2, s1-s1.25, 12-1Sc dozen. Cucumbers - York State, $1.90-$2 bushel, 1 1s Pc each; pickling $1 per 100; 1c each.
 Grapes - Malaga, $2.50-2.75 fiat; 10 1-4-11 1-4c pound: Tokay, $2,65- 2.75 flat; 12-13c pound; local, $1-1.25 basket, 1-2-9c pound.
 Lettuce-head, s125 crate, 5c head Onions-Conn. Valley, $2.25-ss sack. 2 1-4-9c pound; local $1.5o' s1.75 bushel, 3-3 1-4c pound.
 Pears-D'Anjou, s4.25-5.oo box 1-4-3c each.
 oranges-CaL. Valley, s1O-s14 box 60-90c dozen.
 Lemons-Cal, $5.5o-$6.5o box; 1-2-2c each.
 Parsley, 3o-40c, 1-2-3 1-Sc bunch
 Peaches-Elbertas s2.o0 basket 14c quart; S4.OO-4.25 bushel, 12 12- 13 1-4c quart
 Peppers s1.Oo-1.25 bushel 3-4c quart.
 Potatoes-Local, s2 bushel, 5oc pck; Maine, $1.75-2.0o bushel, 44-4se peck; sweet. s425.s.Oo barrel, 2A Sc pound.