The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-30
BRIDGEPORT MARKET
 REPORT
Bridgeport, Conn. Oct. 30, 1918. SS6 Main Street. Tel. Noble zbU.
 Market Guide for Bridgeport


 SS6 Main Street. Tel. Noble zbU.
 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, Apples, Onions. Sweet Potatoes, Potatoes, Spinach, Cabbage.
 NORMAL-Pears. Beets. Carrots, Parsnips, Peppers, Green Tomatoes.
 SCARCE-Lima Beans, String Beans, Squash, Tomatoes, Oranges, Lemons, Grapefruit, Quinces. . Onions, the Best Buy on the Market.
 It seems this year as though all forces are working from a patriotic standpoint for the conservation of food. Even Jack Frost has held off so that perishable crops such as lima beans, green and wax beans, sweet corn and tomatoes are still available in the markets. With such co-opera- ton of the elements, housewives should emphatically demopstrate their own brand of patriotism by closely studying this market report and buying the seasonable products, listed as abundant, and avoiding those listed as scarce. Monotony should not be an opposing factor since there are innumerable ways of preparing different dishes. The housewife should not only take into consideration immediate consumption but should now consider winter sup plies. Now is the time to buy | onions if you haven't already done so." The extremely low prices of a week ago are thing of the past but the slight increase in price should not prevent housewives from acting. Onions represent one of the best values for money today. At present, | prices are hardly sufficient to pay 1 the producer for his work and house. wives will be rendering a patriotic i duty by helping to move this bumper crop. Retailers are paying but 2c to 2Ac a pound and consumers should be able to buy 100 pound sack at a very reasonable price.
 These prices represent the approxi- mate cost to the retailer when buying In unbroken packages. On account of the variable costs of retailing the consumer should expect to pay, O. the average, from 20 to 40 per cent above these prices to cover the re- tailer's costs of doing business ant his legitimate profits: Apples-good, 50-$150 basket, At cents quart; $4.50-$6 barrel, 5-7c at local, $1-2.25 basket, 7-8c quart. Bananas-South America, S3.25 $50 nine hands, 25-3Oc dozen.
 Beans-green, $1.75-S2 bushel, 5 6 1-4c quart; wax, $1.75-$2 bushel 1-4-6 1-4c quart; lima, $2.50-S; bushel, 7-9c quart.
 Beets-bunch, 20-24 punches fo $1, Sc bunch. II Cabbage, $1.5O-$2 barrel, 1 1-2-2 pound.
 Cantaloupes-Honey Dew, $2.25 275 crate, 4O-45c each.
 Carrots-cut, 75c basket.
 Corn-local, $2 hundred, 1924 dozen.
 Celery, s1.75 dozen punches, IS | bunch.
 Cucumbers- State, $4 crate Sc each.
 Grapes Malaga, s3 flat, 12 1-2 pound; Tokay, $3-8.25 flat, 12 1-2 14c pound. Lettuce-head, s2.25 barrel, head.
 Onions-Conn. Valley, $1.75-$ cwt., 2-2 1-4c pound; local, $1.25-1.7 f bushel 3-3 1-4c pound. Pears-D'Anjou, $4.25-$5 box, 2 l. l and Sc pound.
 oranges-Ca1., $1o-14OO box, 53c
 $1.50 dozen.
 Lemors-caL, ss.5O-s1O box; 2K } 3ceach.
 I Parsnips-local, s2 bushel, 50 l peck.
 | Peppers-local, s2-$275 bushel, 3 . 4c quart.
 l. Potatoes-local. $2-2.1O bushel, 50 = peck; Maine, $150-1.S0 busheI, 37 l 45c peck; sweet, $4.255.50 barre f 2 1-4-4c pound. :. ouinces, s1.25-$2 basket. 7O-sO f peck. |, Endive, s1 barrel, 1Oc peck. d Tomatoes-ripe, $1,25-$1.3O barre : 4-4%c quart. ,l United States Department of
 Agriculture, Il H. S. sCHwENK, o Tn chare,