The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-30
BRIDGEPORT MARKET REPORT

Bridgeport, Conn.,, Aug. 30, 1918 SS6 Main street, Tel. Noble 25o.
 Abundant - Tomatoes. potatoes grapes, pears, peaches.
 Normal-Cantaloup squash, cab bage, peppers, plums, corn. Scarce-Sweet potatoes, apples lima beans, lettuce, string beans. Market Movement Weak. Dull trading again characterized the Farmers Market at the foot of Wall street today with light receipts and a similar light demand so that produce moved slowly. Can Tomatoes This Wee. Tomatoes continue one of the best buys on the market. At very req sonable prices. Crates weres cling slowly this morning at any price, TO- soc being the average prices received according to the quality of the goods. Extra fancy baskets of graded stock began selling at 75c but final sales were much nearer 65c. Some poorer grades disposed of at 4050c. These prices make it plain that now is the time to get supply canned for win ter. The daily press contains many new receipts furnished by the Home Economics Department and a suffi- cient supply should be put down for winters use.
 Fruits Are Plentiful. Fruits are one of the most eco- nomicaI buys now offered the Bridge rto housewife Graes are coming in It, nr rG costing the retailer $2.00 a box of 24-28 pounds or 7-7 1-3c pound. At this price with the retailers commis- sions for handling added, grapes are one of thee heapest and most nutri- tious fruits on the market. Peaches Are Cheaper. Recent receipts of peaches from | New Jersey hay caused a lowering in | price so that desirable white peaches | for canning can be bought by retailers l at $500 a crate or about 13c a quart Yellow Elbertas are $3.25 crate ot A quarts or 13Ac a quart. Sweet potatoes are high but in- | creasing supplies will probably cause a lowering of price. Retailers are now paying $S.00-8.5O barrel or 72' | TIC a peck.
 Onions are cheap, 100 pound sack of the red varieties selling at $S.0( or Sc a pound.
 Apples, s2.5O-$325 bushel, S-1Oc quart; local, $4-6 barrel; 78c quart. . Bananas, South America, $3$3.5t nine hands, 25-SOc dozen. Beans, green, $2 bushel, 1-4t quart; wax, $2 bushel, 1-4c quart lima, $2-$2.5O bushel 7-Sc quart
 Beets, bunch, 20-26 punches fo $1.O0, 4-5c bunch.
 Cabbage, $1.5O-$1.75 barrel, F ?, pound.
 Cantaloupes, Long Island, s3.5O s5.5O barrel 13-15c each; New Mexico Calstandards,$ $4. ,9-9k kc each Gems and pinks (flats) $2, 14-16t each.
 Carrots, bunch, SO-5Oc dozen. 4, bunch.
 Corn, local, $2-$2.5o hundred, 27 36c dozen. No. 2, $1.00-2.O0 hundred 12-14c dozen.
 Cucumbers, hot house, $4 basket (60s) 3-4c each; local $1.25-1.5 5l crate, 1 1-2-2 1-2c each.
 Grapes, California, $2.Oo fiat, 7- 1-3c pound.
 Lettuce, head, 75c-s1 box, 3-4 head; Boston head, $2.5O$2.75 bo: e doz), 10-11c each.
 Onions, Conn. Valley, $3.00-3.2 $2-2.15 bushel, 7-Sc quart; rareripes 2Oc dozen punches, 1 2-3c bunch. Oranges, Cal. Valley. $9-$9.25 box 4O-75c dozen.
 Lemons, Cal, sS5o-ss box. 2 S-4- Sc each.
 Parsley, 4oc dozen, 1-Sc bunch,
 Peaches. s1.35-s1.65 fiat, 14-16 quart; $25O-S5Oe crate, 14%c quart
 Potatoes, new, $4.25-s6 barrel, 39 65c peck; local, $5-5.25 barrel, AZ 45c peck.
 Endive, s1 barrel.
 Squash. 3o-35c dozen, ? 1-2-St each.
 Swiss Chard. s1 dozen punches. 1-3c bunch.
 Tomaoes, local, 70-9oc crate, 4-4A quart; 50-65c basket, 4-4A quart.
 Egg plant, S5c dozen, 7c each. Cars on track at a. m. (new ar rivals-2 peaches (California); pears; 1 bananas; 1 oranges; l pota toes; 1 grapes; 1 lemons. These prices represent the approxi mate cost the retailer has to pay 1 when buying in the original package On account of the variable cost of re; tailing the consumer should expec to pay from IS to 35 per cent or more above these prices. L. s. Schwenck. in charge.