The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-18
BRIDGEPORT MARKET
 REPORT
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 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, ] Apples, Onions, Sweet Potatoes, Green Tomatoes, Potatoes.
 NORMAL-Pears. Cabbage, Beets, Carrots, Parsnips, Quinces. SCARCE-IdmR Beans, String Beans, Squash, Tomatoes, Peaches, Oranges, Lemons, Grapefruit.
 Confine Your Purchases to Vegetables and Fruits Now Abundant! The marked increase in the demand forf ruits in preference to vegetables | continues to exist in the Bridgeport markets even though the influenza | epidemic is reported to be on the wane While the eating of Il variety of fruits is in every way desirable, many vegetables are equally as health | nutritious than the fruits. Unless Bridgeport consumers in- crease their consumption of vegetables there is a great danger of losing large | quantities of perishable vegetables which canot be shipped to other 1 cities. The producer must also be 1 protected and a generous purchasing of vegetables listed as Abundant" by all Bridgeport housewives will reduce this impending danger to a minimum. These prices represent approxi- mattel the cost to the retailer when | buying in the original package. Con- l 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 profit.
 Apples-good, 50c-S1.50 basket, A.
 10c quart; s450-$6 barrel, 5-7c at
 local, $1-2.25 basket, 7-Sc quart Bananas = South America, $3.25-
 S3.50 Chine hands) 25-30c dozen. Beans-green, $1.75$2.OO bushel
 5-6 1-4c quart; wax, $1.75-$2.00 bshl
 bushel, 7-9c quart.
 Beets-bunch, 2O-24 punches fol
 $1, 5c bunch.
 Cabbage: $1.5O-$2 bushel, 1 1-2c-2. pound.
 CantaIoupes-Honey Dew, $2.25
 $2.75 crate, 4O-45c each. Carrots = 30-50c dozen punches
 1-2-4c bunch.
 Corn-local, $1.5O-$2 bushel, 12-24'
 dozen; Mo-. 2, $1.00-$1.25 bushel, 12 18c dozen.
 Cucumbers-York State, $4 bushel
 5c each; picklng $1 per 100, 1c each Grapes-Malaga $2.50-$2.75 fiat 1OA-11Ac c pound; Tokay. $2.65-2.7E fiat, 12-13e pound; local, $1.5O-1.7t } flat, 7-9c pound.
 Lettuce-head, $1.25 crate, 5c head Onions-Conn. Valley, $2.00$3.0t sack, 2-3c: pound; local, $1.50-$1.7j bushel, 3-3Ac pound. Pears-D'Anjou, S4.25-$5.00 box 1-4-3c pound. Oranges - Cal. Valley, $14 box 53c-$1. 40 dozen. Lemons-Cal.. s7.5u box. 2-2Ac each.
 Peaches -Elbertas, $2.OO basket 14c quart; $4.OO-$4.25 bushel, 12 1-2 13 1-4c quart. Parsley-local, SO-4Oc, 2 1-2-S 1-3 s bunch.
 Peppers-local. s1.oO-$1.25 bushe! 3-4c quart.
 Potatoes-local, $2OO bushel, 50 peck; Maine, $1.5O-2.OO bushel, 37-45, peck; sweet, $4.25-5.5O barrel, 2A 3t pound.
 Quinces, $1.25-$1.65. basket, 70
 9Oc peck.
 Endive-iocal, $1.OO barrel, 10 a peck.
 Tomatoes-Ripe, $1.25-1.50 basket 4-4& c quart; green 4O-50c basket q 3 F 4c quart. ] United SteAes Department of Agricu ure, s d S. SCHWENK, In charge